Half a Hundred Acre Wood

Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles

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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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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 […]

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Mineral Identification Stations & Flowchart

Here’s where my love of rocks meets my love of teaching. I keep coming across a recurring question amongst moms when it comes to earth science: What on EARTH do we do with all these rocks? Most of what I’ve found regarding rocks and minerals is complicated to sort through – and a bit complicated to understand. […]

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High School Science: Discover Physics

As our oldest children have progressed through high school, we found that among the homeschooling community, there’s a general lack of interest in pursuing high school physics. This has somewhat shocked me. Not only is physics the most basic of all the science disciplines (due to its practical aspects and the principles of physics that […]

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Framework for a homeschool co-op

The Mission Great Commission curriculum series is a family-style schooling approach built upon a missions-focused, biblical Christian worldview. The program incorporates scriptural truths while teaching world cultures, history, geography, science, art, hymns, and orchestra/composers. While the program has been developed for families that have at least one student in grades 2-8, students older and younger […]

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Hide the Word Scripture Memory Work System

I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Psalm 119:11 (NIV) Scripture Memory Work Of all that we memorize in our family, scripture is the most important. And although we memorize scripture in our home, we often fall short in this area. After all, it’s easy to focus […]

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Toddler – Educational Toys Gift Guide

Over the past few years, we’ve compiled lists of our family favorites for books, studies, toys, and games we’ve used. There’s no doubt we’ve purchased, reviewed, and tested out a TON of various books and resources over the past decade+, some of which were fantastic finds, some of which turned out to be… total flops. Through […]

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Building Work Ethic in Boys (and Girls)

This year we’ve been reading and discussing the book Created for Work as an extra devotional in our home — and I only wish we had found it sooner! Although this resource is recommended for boys in middle school and up, we’ve found that it applies to our whole family — from our 5th grader […]

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High School Chemistry Simplified

For years, our family has used Jay Wile’s Discovering Design with Chemistry, which has prepared our sons well for college-level science. However, we’ve been searching for another option to help families in tackling this often challenging subject with confidence. We’re excited to share that we’ve finally found a high school chemistry course that not only […]