Half a Hundred Acre Wood

Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles

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CC Cycle 1 Planners

Due to special requests from Classical Conversations families, within our CC Cycle 1 planners, we included reading correlations, book lists, and a Memory Work Review plan to keep the memory work fresh without review becoming cumbersome and overwhelming. Check it out here. For a basic planner without the booklist, reading correlations, and memory work review […]

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An Accordion Timeline Notebook

Throughout our history studies, we’ve enjoyed keeping a timeline – on the wall and in a notebook.  Our first experience with using an accordion-style timeline was when we completed two Homeschool in the Woods Time Travelers History Studies three years ago. Since then, our timeline-and-history-obsessed son has wanted to use an accordion timeline for his entire […]

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Three Weeks in Review and Our Homeschool Q&A

It’s been a slow a-cranking-back-up this month, but January is always kind of like that for us. Even with our slowly cranking-up school days, life still seems to race by. I blink and the weekend is once again upon us. How can time pass so fast?!? Is it really 2015? [And are those really Fruit […]

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America the Beautiful: U.S. History Study (1000 AD to Present)

Every time we cycle back through a year of U.S. History study, I usually piece together an assortment of various books and activities from different curriculum companies and websites based on my children’s interests. This year our family is trying out a one-year study of American history that is chronological, complete, and simple to use. […]

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Hands-on History: 20th Century Study

Last year, our family pieced together a lapbook & unit study covering the events of the 20th century from our favorite unit study company, Homeschool in the Woods.  Now that we are revisiting the 1900s again this semester, we are looking back through our previous work as a review. It’s one reason our family has […]

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Memorize Scripture: Genesis 1, John 1, Exodus 20, and more!

Homeschooling in our home is quite imperfect. There are days when I fail miserably and my character flaws are scattered before me in a scribble-scrabbled mess. Those times I come face-to-face with my selfishness and how much like a two-year-old I can act, I just want to bury myself under the covers instead of seize […]

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Christmas Memories: A Look at Our Life in December

Whew! Has it been a busy December! I had better recap this month while I have a few moments to think! We kicked off the season with our annual trip to Tractor Supply to pick out a tree “before all the good trees are gone,” complete with the subsequent quoting of favorite lines from A […]

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Famous American Artists Art Study & Project Ideas

Here we provide a collection of artwork, lessons, and art project ideas for American artists Grandma Moses, Pablo Picasso, Normal Rockwell, Georgia O’Keeffe, Andrew Wyeth, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jim Davis, along with the link to a notebooking packet we created that includes notebooking pages for each of these artists. Visit this post to grab the notebooking […]

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Our Art Gallery, the Video Game Incentive, and an Onion Bouquet

Although the house is a complete wreck, we have a wall to remind me to count the blessings. Back in early November, we added two sets of Helping Hands Wreaths to our art gallery wall, which appears to have just about wrapped up a little project I started over two years ago. Now that it’s full, […]