Half a Hundred Acre Wood

Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles

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Tabletop Geography

With the purchase of a clear vinyl tablecloth – and the printing, cutting and taping of a few of National Geographic’s Tabletop Maps – we now enjoy extended geography lessons at the dinner table.  I think we are finally able to identify all the countries in Africa now, which is great for having this in […]

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The Ship that Won the War

Three excited boys prepare to tour the LST-325 in the Cumberland River, Clarksville, TN. The LST-325 – a Landing Ship Tank, or amphibious vessel (I knew we’d get our memory work in there somehow! Ha!). This is the largest ship ever designed to place tanks, troops and cargo onto a hostile beach and then retract […]

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Paper Models

For those who remember our days of putting together little bitty paper toys related to world history studies and more days of putting together little bitty paper toys (to build America City)… and more and more days of putting together little bitty paper toys (to make Bethlehem Village for Christmas and the empty tomb for Easter), […]

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Mom-of-the-year… NOT!!!

My apologies to those who follow on Facebook… But some things just have to be said more than once. Like that whole story about how I’m not a perfect mom…  A mom that does NOT strive to win the gourmet-cook-of-the-year award.  It is TRUE.  FOR REAL. So… this week, I recount a few of my best BE […]

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Free Ancient Rome Lapbook with Study Guide

Homeschoolshare is one of our favorite places to find lapbook and unit studies for our homeschool. Check out this Ancient Rome Lapbook with Study Guide!

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Our Essentials Student Notebook

We’ve made a few simple updates to our Essentials student practice notebook, and… it’s working! I thought I’d share what we’re doing in case others may find it useful…  (or muse that it’s taken me this long to figure out something so simple…) All of the reference master charts are in page protectors (for durability) […]

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Ancient Greece, Celery, and Cells!

This week we had a lapbook factory underway as the boys put together an Ancient Greece Lapbook using Homeschoolshare’s Free Ancient Greece Lapbook along with Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool’s Greece Lapbook Pieces.  This dove deeper into details about the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, Famous Greeks, the Trojan Horse, Homer & The Odyssey and Illiad, Alexander the […]

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The Power of Prayer

As our family reads selections from Lisa Whelchel’s Busy Mom’s Guide to Prayer together… we’re learning to: Praise God together Pray for each other Pray for those who impact our lives Pray for those beyond us Though we’ve prayed together in the past, using my handy-dandy prayer journal (which I’ve owned for several years now) […]

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The Breakfast Notebook

The problem: When our fourth grader (a memory master x 2, just to point out the irony here) did not know his address and phone number at a 4-H meeting, I realized I had dropped the ball.  So many times, I’ve said that we’re going to practice and memorize our address and phone number, only to […]