Half a Hundred Acre Wood

Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles

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American History Read Alouds

Of all that I share here on this website, searching through books to develop our reading plans is what I spend the most time doing. My hope is to choose books that our family cherishes reading together (and your family cherishes as well, should you choose to use our reading plans!). Here I share our […]

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American History Picture Books

Welcome to our family’s list of favorite picture books focused on American history and geography, anatomy, chemistry, and fine arts. After investing in many books over the past several years, we’ve decided to let you in on what our favorites have been! After many hours of reading books, we’ve selected the following books as our […]

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Art Appreciation through Art History

Art study is one of those things that often gets shoved to the side in our home. Every semester I set out to do better in my follow-through with our art study plans, only to later find the semester wrapping up with our family having completed only a fraction of what I had intended. (Anyone […]

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Our favorite reading curriculum and why

Flash back six years. In our first years of homeschooling, few things frightened me more than teaching a struggling child to read. (This fear was almost as bad as the thought that maybe our toddlers would never be potty-trained.) Although our first son had picked up on reading quickly, I fought feelings of inadequacy when, […]

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American History Leveled Readers

Welcome to our list of American history leveled readers! This collection includes books related to U.S. history with text and vocabulary that young children can easily read and understand.  Although we own many of the books on this list, we don’t own them all. The links here are affiliate links, which means I earn a […]

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CC Cycle 3 Planners with Booklist & Correlations!

Due to special requests from Classical Conversations families, we’ve updated our CC Cycle 3 Planners to our new design, which includes reading correlations and booklists (updated to Foundations Guide 5th Edition), along with a Memory Work Review plan to keep the memory work fresh without it becoming cumbersome and overwhelming. There are two versions of […]

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Introduction to Cursive Program: The Roller Coaster Writer

“Cursive sounds like it would be hard, but it’s actually easier.”  -Levi, age 8 As a homeschool mom, I think one of the hardest things for me to overcome is my own tendency towards defaulting back to how I was taught. Anything I come across that’s different throws me for a loop. I resist changing […]

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U.S. History Bites & The War Rages On

It’s amazing to consider what children can accomplish. Take Solomon Schmidt, for instance. At age thirteen, Solomon has already written the first two books of an educational history series for young children. His 16-year-old sister, Cecelia, has also published two works of historical fiction set during the American Civil War era. Let’s take a moment […]

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Cultivating Virtue through Poetry

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.  Philippians 4:8 As a child, I did not learn to value poetry, […]