Half a Hundred Acre Wood

Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles

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For those who prefer shopping from home or looking for educational products to use as gifts (ha!), we wanted to share a few FREEBIES and Cyber Weekend Deals from companies whose products we use and recommend. Your purchases through the following affiliate links support our small family-run business and go towards the continuation of this website here at Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood. Thank you so much for supporting us (which in turn supports this website) while you shop this holiday season!

Not Consumed Ministries

Now through Monday, December 3, Not Consumed Ministries is offering 25% off you entire purchase, no coupon code needed. Not Consumed offers great family Bible studies. If you’d like to try one, you can take a look at this free 5-Day Bible Study.

Earlier this year, they added a high school consumer math program and a Health/P.E. curriculum.

AND… their one-day Cyber Monday Sale is 50% off all digital products! (On December 2, this sales page will be updated with the Cyber Monday Sale.)

Be sure to check out these deals under $10. We recommend checking out the Sermon Notebook Bundle, these beautiful Christmas studies, this Books of the Bible Game, Faithipedia (Old Testament & New!), the Siblings Bible Study (if your children argue with each other), To Every Nation missions Workbooks and the Still Singing Hymn study, which uses a tin whistle to teach music theory.

Institute for Excellence in Writing

IEW is having their annual clearance sale from 9:00 AM CST December 2 through 5:00 PM December 7 CST where you can save 50% off select products (while quantities last) using a coupon code that will be listed on this webpage.

Be sure to sign up for email reminders for the annual 12 Days of Christmas Giving Event (Dec. 26 – Jan. 6) where IEW provides free audios and printable resources from their award-winning products. They always offer such fantastic freebies! (They’ve even sent out – absolutely free – physical products that help with grammar and writing. It boggles my mind that we’ve received free portable walls, Grammar-on-the-Go charts, and Fix-It Grammar workbooks!) I always look forward to this event after Christmas!

If you evaluate your writing program at the close of this semester and would like to try something new, don’t forget you can try out three weeks of IEW’s Student Structure and Style for free.

You can also download my favorite webinar/talk, Nurturing Competent Communicators here on IEW’s home page.

Generations God-Centered Curriculum

From December 2nd – 6th, Generations will be offering up to 50% OFF on all their homeschool curriculum, readalouds, and audiobooks. PLUS, they will be offering Cyber-Monday-Only $1 deals on December 2nd. In addition to the Christian (picture-book) biographies and read-alouds, the two resources we personally use and recommend include Kickstart: Launch Your Life and the devotional Created for Work, (read our review here) which we have really enjoyed as a springboard for discussion within our family.

Tuttle Twins

Last year, we gave a Tuttle Twins book to our youngest son, after which he requested the rest of the Tuttle Twins series for Christmas and for his birthday. Now that he has the entire children’s paperback series, he’s requesting the Choose Your Consequences series and Tuttle Twins Guidebook series which teach pre-teens, teens, and adults about economic & political outcomes, logical fallacies, critical thinking, entrepreneurship, and more. For Black Friday, they’re offering a Black Friday Bundle and a Black Friday Mega Bundle where you can grab their books at 76% off.

During Cyber Week, you can also save on annual or lifetime access to the Tuttle Twins Academy. Those who subscribe during Cyber Monday week will also receive free access to Discover by Praxis, a 6-week life & career skills course for teens featuring Foundational Life and Career Skills, Professional Networking, Value Creation, and Planning for Life After High School, along with a copy of the book Don’t Do Stuff You Hate.

Homeschool in the Woods

The history unit studies over at Homeschool in the Woods provide many hours of enjoyment through hands-on learning activities! In fact, if you subscribe to their monthly newsletter, you’ll receive the following Authors Mini-Pak free!

Don’t miss their different Black Friday through Cyber Monday Bundles (Nov. 29 – Dec. 2, 2024). These studies have helped our children to internalize the history their studying and have provided hours of great memories and keepsakes. Here are a four of the ten bundles they’re offering this weekend:

Homeschool in the Woods is truly one of our favorite homeschooling resources. Read more about their timeline resources, or their history studies, or their classical music and composers study.

Amazon

Amazon has several Black Friday & Cyber Monday deals, and you can support Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood by using our link when you’re shopping! Learning toys are some of our favorites for teaching young children through play, and our family loves playing board games like Ticket to Ride, Catan, and Pandemic which are on sale at a great discount! Check this link for an ongoing list of deals in the Games department.

Check out our gift guides, our favorite Christmas Picture Books & Read Alouds, or our list of read-alouds this year (<– this link also takes you to my personal favorite reads of all time, along with a lot of our other favorites lists.) You just might find one of those glow-in-the-dark periodic tables on the list!

All About Learning Press Free Shipping + Freebies

All About Learning is truly one of our favorite companies for teaching children to read and spell. (You can read our reviews here.) Our high schooler and middle schooler have made me promise to never get rid of the All About Reading books they used years ago to learn to read.

During Black Friday only, enjoy FREE shipping on orders over $50, PLUS receive a FREE Snug as a Bug Review Book with your purchase!

If you’re curious about this program, check it out over the holidays with these reading and spelling activities, snacks, and picture book lists. It’s a great way to try out All About Reading and All About Spelling to see if it’s a good fit for you and your children! You can also download the Penguin Packet. Just click on the images below!

Penguin Pack Activity Download
For a complete list of fabulous free resources you can enjoy from All About Learning Press, click here! Just so much goodness! We love All About Reading & Spelling!

Compass Classroom

We use and highly recommend many of Compass Classroom’s courses for high school and middle school. Over Cyber Weekend (November 27 through December 4), Compass Classroom will have a sale of 25% off of…

Stock up for next year or grab a half-credit elective for the spring semester. Use coupon code THANKS25.

To try out many of these resources for free, be sure to take a look at their free trial of the Compass Classroom Membership. You can also find several free ebooks and audios by searching through their website! You can even try out a couple of lessons of Visual Latin (which we’ve really enjoyed!). They have a new free class, Setting Goals.

 

You can also download sample lessons of Compass Classroom’s resources here. And check out even more resources from around the web.

Notebooking Pages

Notebooking Pages is offering over 50 pages of free Christmas themed holiday notebooking pages, foldable cards, and recipe cards to use as you write your holiday letters. This company offers great free downloads, including notebooking pages for history, scientists, missionaries, geography/maps, and more. You can sign up for a free membership here.

When you sign up for the Free Notebooking Pages Product Sampler, you’ll receive…

  • Access to the free member notebooking resource center.
  • A free Notebooking Tutorial/Quick-Start Guide to help you get started with notebooking pages.

Free Homeschool Resources (Notebooking Pages & More!)

The Black Friday Sale Event is live now and runs through Monday, Dec. 2nd! Nearly everything on the site is 50% off, including individual notebooking products, bundles, and our lifetime membership. The only exclusions are the notebooking app subscriptions.

Coupon code “SAVE50” will automatically be applied during checkout.

Yellow Spot:Sun Art Tutorials

Our children have used Yellow Spot Sun to produce award-winning art for our county fair. These fantastic tutorials introduce you and your family to different mediums and techniques while also learning about great art masters.

You can save 25% on ALL art courses November 29-December 2, including the amazing Trailblazing Transit, Architects of the Ancient World, Winter-Themed Watercolor Lessons, and literature-themed art studies! Use coupon code gratitude2024. (View more about these art project tutorials here.) We’ve also enjoyed The Nutcracker Tutorial. You can buy the art courses now and use them any time from the convenience of your own home, because they never expire!

For a taste of what’s available, be sure to check out the following free tutorials:

With my limited background related to artistic endeavors, this truly is one of the simplest ways for us to embark on art projects as a family.

If I come across additional deals this week that meet our highly sought-after qualification of nerdy-gifts-for-moms-and-dads-to-give-or-receive, I’ll add them to this page. Happy shopping, and thanks so much for supporting Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood with your purchases!

Top Image Attribution: Todd Wilson, Family Man Ministries


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