Half a Hundred Acre Wood

Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles

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Touring the American Southwest

It’s been four years since our trip out to the American Southwest. And now… finally, I’m writing about it! In a nutshell, we caught a flight over to Los Angeles and rented a car to drive back home. Our trip itinerary included: Playing in Pacific Ocean at Manhattan Beach, CA Calico Ghost Town in Yermo, […]

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Homeschooling High School: Scope & Sequence

Homeschooling high school. There’s not much that paralyzes a homeschool parent more than figuring out how to homeschool through high school. Despite our own education, we oftentimes feel inadequate at providing a quality education for our own children even though we have the strongest desire to provide them with a better education than we received. […]

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Updated CC Cycle 2 Planners with Booklists & Correlations!

Due to special requests from Classical Conversations families, we’ve updated our CC Cycle 2 Planners to our new design, which includes reading correlations and a Memory Work Review plan to keep the memory work fresh without it becoming cumbersome and overwhelming. There are two versions of our new planner to choose from: a 4-day-week planner […]

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Equipping Resources for Middle and High School

It’s been a bit of a curriculum frenzy around here as we’ve not only been writing curriculum plans for elementary/middle school but we’ve also been researching curriculum to flesh out our overall plans for middle and high school. We’re still in the midst of reviewing resources to formulate a scope and sequence for our two […]

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Memorization Management with Memory Rings

As we develop the discipline of memory/recall, our family has discovered the value in using a systematic way of cycling through our memory work, whether we’re memorizing scripture, vocabulary, speeches, poetry, facts, or passages of literature. Our Memory Work Review Schedules were designed with the basic idea behind the Scripture Memory System, but because I […]

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Mission Lasting Liberty in Action!

As the year closes and we reflect on the events and experiences of 2020, I’m left with overwhelming gratitude to the One who has held all things together despite the circumstances surrounding us. Not only have I suffered from a strange sort of writer’s block all year long (how can words be so hard to […]

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Mission Faith Forgers in Action!

Choose joy. Learning can be hard, but it’s also exciting and rewarding. If you’re filled with a sense of dread as you enter a new school year, it’s time to change what you’re doing. A few weeks ago, we shared some lessons learned from over a decade of homeschooling, but there’s a particular lesson learned […]

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When Seasons Change

Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. -Isaiah 43:18-19 These are the hardest words I’ve ever written on this […]

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The Reading Program that Works

Our four-year-old bounds out of bed to find me right away. “Can I do my schoolwork now? Can I do my schoolwork?” The only reason he even went to bed last night was so he could wake up first thing this morning to start another reading lesson. As he lugs his “schoolwork” towards me, I […]