Half a Hundred Acre Wood

Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles

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Four Corners Roadtrip Itinerary

Our goal to see all 50 states with our children before they graduate started as just a whimsical thought just over a decade ago. Little did we know that we would actually visit all 50 states with our boys before our eldest son graduated from college! This roadtrip is what we’re calling our final Ferrell […]

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High School Lesson Plans: Truth Trek Four

Intimidated by homeschooling high school? You don’t have to be! We’ve done the planning for you with High School Lesson Plans: Truth Trek series. A few years ago, we started to pursue a long-term vision of developing a complete course of study for Grades 1-12, one in which families can experience many of the benefits […]

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University-Ready Writing

If you’re looking for a resource that teaches note-taking skills, formal writing models, the Five Canons of Rhetoric, and/or the Five Common Topics, we highly recommend IEW’s course, University-Ready Writing. University-Ready Writing is a 12-week video-based course which teaches high school students advanced note-taking skills and writing techniques in preparation for college-level writing. It comes […]

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High School Lesson Plans: Truth Trek Three

Intimidated by homeschooling high school? You don’t have to be! We’ve done the planning for you with High School Lesson Plans: Truth Trek series. A few years ago, we started to pursue a long-term vision of developing a complete course of study for Grades 1-12, one in which families can experience many of the benefits […]

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Tuttle Twins in a Nutshell

Individual liberty. Fair Competition. Entrepreneurship. Civics. Economics. About a year ago, we grabbed some books that simplified these complex ideas so that even our youngest son could understand and engage in meaningful conversation. The series has easily become a favorite in our home. Even our teens have enjoyed the books — and the cartoon! The […]

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Calculus for Everyone

I recently mentioned something I would have done differently if I could turn back time and homeschool our oldest two sons through high school once again. There’s another thing I would have done differently, especially because they both ended up as STEM majors in college. Neither were math whizzes, but surprisingly, one decided to major […]

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Launching Teens into Adulthood

Character building. Vision casting. Goal setting. These are life skills needed to launch successfully into adulthood. As parents, we strive to instill these qualities in our children, and yet, especially in the current economy and culture, we find that many young adults are not launching into adulthood. Although I recognize that college is a time […]

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A Simple Solution for Teaching Writing

Rewind one decade. As we approached the time when our oldest son needed to learn to write paragraphs and essays, I realized I had no idea how to actually teach writing. Although I could write paragraphs and essays myself, I had virtually no recollection of how I learned that skill. At about that time, I […]

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Rock the Rock Cycle Lesson Plans

Now that we’ve had an introduction to minerals, we’re diving into a short study of rocks with our rock cycle lesson plans! For this lesson, students will need a hand lens, some rocks, some minerals, a die, and the Rock Cycle Diagram print-out (included in our Introduction to Rocks and Minerals Lesson Packet). This lesson uses the […]