Half a Hundred Acre Wood

Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles

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Christmas Wrap 2025

To sum up this year, Twenty Twenty-Five, We’ll dig through the photos in the old archive… Again we started with subzero temps While Levi & Gary went on a Honduras mission trip. David turned a year older on Valentine’s Day. Homeschool and co-op were full of learning and play. Big Laurel Falls was our spring […]

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New Years Printable: Goals & Reflections

This week is a time of reflection and renewal for us. As we head into each new year, our family enjoys reminiscing and sharing favorite memories while looking ahead to what may be in store for us in the coming year. To capture this moment in time, we’ve created a printable as a sort of […]

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Mid-Year Homeschool Curriculum Discounts

For those who prefer shopping from home or looking for educational products to use as gifts (ha!), we wanted to share a few FREEBIES and Cyber Weekend Deals from companies whose products we use and recommend. Your purchases through the following affiliate links support our small family-run business and go towards the continuation of this […]

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High School Lesson Plans by Subject

Need help (or convenience) with planning for high school?  The planning has already been done for you with High School Lesson Plans! We’re separating each subject/course from our Truth Trek High School Lesson Plans Series to offer one-year, high-school level curriculum schedules so you can choose individual subjects and better customize your student’s course of […]

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How to Teach Public Speaking

Public Speaking. It strikes a fear and dread into the hearts of almost all of us. A quote often attributed to Mark Twain makes the point more bluntly: “There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.” And yet… this is one of the most important skills we […]

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Why Math U See?

In our early years of homeschooling, we tried so many math programs: Saxon, Math Mammoth, A Beka, Christian Light Education (CLE), Master Books, ACE Paces, Life of Fred, Beast Academy, and others I’m probably forgetting.  I kept defaulting back to Saxon (unsuccessfully, I might add) until my husband told me to get rid of it. […]

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Curriculum Picks & Lessons Learned Revisted

When our eldest son graduated from high school four years ago, I had no idea how much it would shift my priorities and our family dynamic. While it’s been a joy to watch him pursue his post-homeschool educational endeavors (and work in scientific research as an adult), the honest truth is that… when he graduated […]

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Learning English Grammar & Editing Skills

Over the past couple of years, our family discovered an English grammar program that not only filled the gaps we had experienced when using another language arts curriculum, but it also emphasized classical and Charlotte Mason principles in design and implementation. That program? Fix It! Grammar from IEW. Fix-It Grammar is a gentle introduction to […]

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Bible Readeez: The Word Set to Music

Here’s a blast from the past – a post written in November 2013. Still… after over a decade, our boys still love Bible Readeez. Our oldest two sons (who are now adults but were 10 and 7 when we first started using this resource) still pop up with little scripture jingles from Bible Readeez. (We […]