How can a 5-year-old learn to identify Chopin, Magellan, Pasteur, Watt, and 48 other notable people in Science and History? By playing the simple game of Go Fish. But let me start at the beginning. Over 10 years ago my husband and I purchased a deck of Composer playing cards from a music store in […]
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How to Incorporate Current Events into your Homeschool Day
Incorporating current events in your homeschool curriculum can be difficult or easy depending on how you go about it. Do you remember Weekly Readers from elementary school? Those age-appropriate newspapers would give us some basic information about current events…albeit not terribly current. In the age of the internet, it's much easier to find up-to-the-minute information […]
How to Save Money When You Buy Homeschool Curriculum
Homeschool curriculum can cost a lot but here are some ways I have discovered to save money when you buy homeschool curriculum. Every year homeschool moms sit down to plan the next year of curriculum. In the process—at least if you're like me—it often becomes painfully obvious that the curriculum is going to cost a […]
Create Your Own Computer Programming Curriculum
My son is very interested in computer programming, so since he started high school this year, we decided to create our own curriculum to help him start learning it. He's specifically interested in programming for Apple devices, so that means learning Objective-C. Based on the recommendation of an Apple programmer, he started off with Beginning […]
Geography A to Z — Free Printable Worksheets
Another great geography worksheet set from Education World that we've been using is Geography A to Z: Places that start with… Here's an example of the Letter A sheet. I love the worksheets, but I was disappointed that the answer key was not available in one place. So to solve that problem, I consolidated the answer key […]
Learn the Months of the Year (& their numbers!), Seasons & Leap Year (Free Worksheet Set)
In 2007, just two months after I started FiveJs.com, I posted my very first worksheet set. It was a very basic black-and-white set of charts and worksheets to help my children learn the months, their corresponding numbers, and their order. Over the years, readers have suggested I add some other topics to that set of […]