Now entering… LEGOLAND FLORIDA! (our boys’ favorite place on earth.) A group of families met us at Legoland! Meeting families in real life is one of my greatest joys when traveling! Now entering… Sea World Now entering Disney World… Levi would have nothing to do with Goofy, but he was in love with Daisy […]
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 […]
Christmas Wrap 2023
Another year down, ’23 in the book. What happened this year? Now let’s take a look! The start of the year is the best to begin. When the boys and their dad finished up at Bag End. (Bag End is the nickname for a tiny home we built for our sons who are going to […]
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 […]
Free Handwriting Resources
For a couple of years, our family used the Prescripts series for penmanship and drawing practice. However, as one of our children progressed from Book 1: Introduction to Cursive Writing & Tracing to Book 2: Writing Cursive Words and Practicing Drawing Skills, we encountered quite a setback. There was such a huge leap from one book to the […]
John 1 Copywork: Print and Cursive Penmanship
As we prepare a bit for next year, we share our John 1 Copywork in print and cursive. Download the files below: John 1 in English Print Copywork John 1 in Latin Print Copywork John 1 in English Cursive Copywork John 1 in Latin Cursive Copywork Note: The English copywork above corresponds to the translation […]
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 […]
Lincoln’s Boyhood Home in Indiana {50 States}
Now entering…. Indiana! State #17 of 50-States-Before-They-Graduate. Stops for this trip were planned solely from the recommendations of Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood readers! For our Mid-Eastern States Itinerary, click here. Our family just barely made it into Indiana on our big Mid-Eastern States trip. Our only stop was Lincoln’s Boyhood Home in Lincoln City, IN. The five […]