Half a Hundred Acre Wood

Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles

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Instead of Worksheets & Tests

A friend recently lamented about her daughter’s struggle with passing history tests. “She’s doing the work, but she’s doing poorly on the exams.” What kind of exams were they? Multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank. While test-taking in itself is a skill to learn simply because of the modern education movement, a more natural mode of assessment has always existed (although it […]

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Devotional Biology: A Different Approach

Although we recently reviewed Experience Biology, we wanted to also share with you another self-paced, video-based course for biology because it is just so unique. In fact, it is so different that it’s been in our queue to review for a couple of years now. Why? Well, even though our second son (who was originally […]

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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 new 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 […]

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High School Science: Experience Biology

Our family has come across some high school-level biology courses that have  prepared our sons well for college. However, we wanted to share a video-based option that helps families in tackling this often challenging subject. We’re excited to share a high school biology course that not only provides quality, self-paced instruction (with labs and dissections!), […]

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Why we do what we do. And an honest update.

We’ve experienced it. We had embraced family-style homeschooling for several years when our eldest son entered high school. Suddenly, our family felt pulled in different directions. A large reason we started homeschooling was for family togetherness, and yet we witnessed unity and connection disintegrating right in front of us. At that time, we re-evaluated our […]

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High School Lesson Plans: Truth Trek Two

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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The Nutcracker – A Mini-Art Tutorial

We’ve enjoyed having our eldest son among us while he’s home from college. This week gave me a glimpse of a life once lived in our home – one where four boys worked together on assignments and projects…. Before this chapter of his life, I knew I would miss this. I just didn’t realize how […]

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Christmas Wrap 2023

Another year down, ’23 in the book. What happened this year? Now let’s take a look! The start of the year is the best to begin. When the boys and their dad finished up at Bag End. (Bag End is the nickname for a tiny home we built for our sons who are going to […]

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Light of the World Candleholder Craft

With a theme this summer of light vs. darkness, our community’s choir camp focused on building crafts related to light. Before tackling this craft, we discussed Matthew 5:16… Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. …and explored ways we can […]