Archives for 2011

Filed Under: Family

Injury Update on Jerah

As I've mentioned before, my daughter Jerah broke her leg on February 26 in a freak accident during a judo tournament. She had surgery that same day and the surgeon implanted an intramedullary titanium rod in her right femur. But thankfully, although her femur was shattered, her growth plates were unhurt and her prognosis was […]

Filed Under: Our Curriculum · Math

Our Homeschool Math Curriculum, 1st through 12th Grade

In our six years of homeschooling, we've used a number of different math curricula (including Saxon, Math-U-See, Teaching Textbooks, Bob Jones, and even Life of Fred). We loved some and strongly disliked others. But through all of that experimentation, we developed a general curriculum plan for math that we're very satisfied with. In actual practice, my […]

Filed Under: Family

Update on my injured daughter

Here is our current upgrade (we didn't trade her in for a new model) on our daughter and her medical status. Jerah came home from the hospital yesterday. She has no cast since the surgeon put a rod in her femur, so that makes a lot of things easier for her during recovery. Since bathing […]

Filed Under: Family

Advice needed on helping a convalescing child

We are learning together in this new experience and we can use any adive on helping a convalescing child. If you follow Five J's on facebook you probably already know this, but my 11-year-old daughter, Jerah, fractured her femur this last Saturday in a judo tournament. She had surgery later that day during which the […]

Filed Under: Language Arts · Language Arts

BibMe: Online Bibliography and Works Cited Generator

Oh what I wouldn't have done for this free online Bibliographic generator when I was in school. Remember having to write bibliographies for research papers when you were in school? It was fun, wasn't it? Well, it hasn't gotten any easier, especially with the advent of the internet. Writing a research paper is difficult enough […]