Half a Hundred Acre Wood

Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles

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Sneak Peek at Six Weeks

I’ve been intending to provide a weekly sneak-peek-at-our-week for about seven weeks now, but… our weeks keep running together! Instead, I’ll provide a six-week snippet of how things have been going in our neck of the woods. Most of our efforts have surrounded the launching of a new family side-business venture: Half-a-Hundred Acre Woodshop. I’m […]

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Loops Schedules: Fine Arts, Hymn Study, and Western Civilization

We wanted to take a moment to share our loop schedules of the past with you, but when our family returns to a study of world empires, we will be using a different reading plan called Mission: World Wonders, a study that incorporates a cohesive, integrated study of missions, geography, hymns, and science, along with […]

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World War I Hero: Alvin York State Park

“I had orders to report to Brigadier General Lindsey, and he said to me, ‘Well, York, I hear you have captured the whole… German army.’ And I told him I only had 132.” – Alvin C. York “On the way back we were constantly under heavy shell fire and I had to double time them […]

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CC Challenge Planner Page {Free Printable}

After observing our oldest son’s efforts at using the planner pages provided in the Classical Conversations Challenge Guide, I’ve finally decided to design a page that’s better-suited to our needs and preferences. Alas! He now has a planner page which provides a place to record family activities and to-do lists, along with assignments for the […]

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A K’nex Birthday Party & Roller Coaster Cake

What to do when he asks for a K’nex birthday party and I just have no idea? When Levi threw me this curve ball (in the form of a birthday party I could not find much for on Pinterest), it left me with a single idea: practicality. What can the boys do to build this birthday […]

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Hands-on History: Industrial Revolution, WWI, and the Great Depression

Our oldest son is now in high school. As the years pass and he takes on more and more responsibility (and as he also surpasses my height), I’m fully aware that his childhood is fading into a collection of memories. Six years ago seems so recent yet so distant. One moment there’s an eight-year-old sitting […]

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Meet the Instruments: Exploring the Orchestra

Here we are, trucking along our homeschool journey when we finally cross that halfway point of the school year. All is well when suddenly it starts raining, the windshield wipers aren’t working, and the road is covered in potholes. Really, this is what happens to us every year. Have you been there? Someone once asked […]

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Say what?!? Revisiting goals, plans, and schedules

Contrary to popular belief, it ain’t all sunshine and roses ’round here. It’s one thing to have a toddler unraveling the toilet paper, scribbling in the teacher’s manual, emptying the wastebasket (which of course is full of pencil shavings and spiral notebook debris), and throwing raw eggs into the laundry room. It’s another thing to have […]

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Science Scripture Connections: Physics

As we focus on making God central to all aspects of our learning, I offer here some simple spiritual applications for science experiments (from Janice VanCleave’s 201 Awesome, Magical, Bizarre, & Incredible Experiments). However, my first encouragement to others is to pray and ask the Lord for how you can see the truth, beauty and […]