During a chilly weekend in November (while I was in my secretive first trimester of pregnancy), we met extended family in northern Alabama for a camping trip at Desoto State Park, located about 8 miles northeast of Fort Payne, Alabama. Excerpts from a mother’s journal… How about a fall camping trip? (Like typical Ferrells, we’ll just ignore […]
Tannehill Ironworks and U.S. Space & Rocket Center: Alabama {50 States}
Welcome to Alabama! Our first stop was the U.S. Space & Rocket Center | Huntsville, AL Levi kept saying, “I want one of those for my birthday – a toy one – but I want a real one when I’m growed up.” Tannehill Ironworks | McCalla, AL: A blower house and steam engine, a cotton gin, […]
Truth Trek One Supplements
This page will be used to provide updates and supplemental resources for Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood’s Truth Trek One High School Lesson Plans. Please check back throughout the year for further updates and resources. High School Lessons – Truth Trek One Errata. Updated 8/29/2023. You’re invited to join the Truth Trekkers Facebook Group, an online community […]
Early America History Trip: Northeastern Loop
We’ve finished 48 of 48. Talk about #scheduleinterrupted! When I started looking at our upcoming summer activities this summer, it dawned on me that we’d have to interrupt the end of our school year to go on the trip we’d been planning for this summer. So… it’s been quiet here for over a month due […]
Ten Thousand Miles?!?
It’s been pretty quiet over here at Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood lately. That’s because we’ve just completed a 38-day road trip with over 150 stops in 20 different states crossing 4 different U.S. time zones and traveling a total of 10,334 miles (all in a minivan). And somehow I thought I was going to continue writing and posting […]
Our Field Trips and Activities {2013-2014 in Review}
I realized I dropped the ball this year on one of my biggest priorities in blogging, which is my family. I did not chronicle our lives to the extent I have in the past, and both my children and husband noticed. So… here’s one last post that covers many of the things I wish I […]
Castle Gwynn and the Tennessee Renaissance Festival
Each weekend during the merry month of May, the Tennessee Renaissance Festival takes place near a castle located along State Route 840 (between I-24 and I-65) just south of Nashville in Arrington, TN. It is the only Renaissance festival held on the grounds of a real castle residence in North America. A few homeschool families […]
Christmas wRap 2013 – Our Year in Rhyme
Recounting the events of Twenty Thirteen January, December, and the months in between. Our year has been full of travel and fun, So let us track back through the things that we’ve done. January marked our first trip to Disney. Levi was enamored with a duck named Daisy. We met our good Florida friends at […]
50 States Before They Graduate
Our family has an exciting goal of experiencing all 50 states together before the boys graduate from high school. We started this adventure (and welcomed other families to join us back in 2011 by using the tag #50statesbeforetheygraduate), and now… in 2019, we’re only one state away from achieving our goal! You can virtually visit […]