Half a Hundred Acre Wood

Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles

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New Testament Hands-On History

Although our original plan for this year was to complete the Homeschool in the Woods Great Empires Project Pak with our ancient history & world empires studies, those plans fell through the cracks due to eye surgery and everything else in the whole wide world that happened this year. And although our history sentence songs […]

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Byzantine Empire & Paul’s Missionary Journeys

For our Geography Fair, David chose to make a pirate map of the Byzantine Empire. We soaked an 11″x17″ piece of paper in tea.  After it dried, we taped the reduced size of Rod & Staff’s Journeys of Paul Markable Map (taken from the Rod & Staff student workbook) to a window and traced it onto the paper. David […]

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Indus River Valley Clay Model

….And for the Geography Fair, Stephen chose to make the Indus River Valley out of Crayola’s Air Dry clay and then paint it with acrylics. A word of warning:  This stuff is fairly easy to mold, but it chips and breaks easily. And it takes a long time for it to dry. I much prefer […]

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Africa Cookie Dough Map

…So we had our Geography Fair this week as part of our End-of-Year festivities.  And Levi chose Africa Waters and wanted to it to be a cookie so he could eat it. I’m not one to make homemade cookies very often, so I naturally pulled out the handy-dandy box cookies: Pillsbury Orange Dreamsicle. I have […]

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World Empires, World Missions, World Wars Review

It certainly has been a time of curriculum review for us as a family. I’m aiming to develop a simple reading plan and select programs and activities my children like. But above all I want to nurture our relationships as a family and show my children the unfailing love of Christ. And I want them […]

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Galveston, Pelican Island, and Mission Control: Texas {50 States}

Texas is a state we return to every couple of years due to our connections with the oilfield. So… as Gary suffered under the stress of Water Survival Training in East Houston (where the astronauts train!), we ventured over to Galveston.  The boys loved walking on board a jack-up oil rig museum and learning a […]

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Georgia’s Stone Mountain { 50 States}

Before Mount Rushmore, there was Stone Mountain.   Located near Atlanta, Georgia, Stone Mountain is the largest exposed granite face in the world and depicts a carving of three Confederate heroes of the Civil War: President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee, and General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. The carved surface measures three acres, larger than a […]

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Making Clouds from Latin

One of the greatest things about classical education is the emphasis on integration and making connections between all the subjects to one another. I try to keep my eyes open for those connections. I don’t know much Latin yet. And I’ve never been able to keep all the different cloud names straight. That is, until […]

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Continental Blob Maps

As a person who never studied world geography (or maybe slept through it?), I find it fascinating with the idea that my children are able to draw maps of the world freehand by the end of 7th grade! Although it seems impossible, taking baby steps to get there certainly has made it possible for us. […]