Half a Hundred Acre Wood

Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles

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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 […]

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Once upon a time… {Visiting Houston}

Once upon a time, we lived in Houston. Now… we don’t. I never knew how much living in the country would change me.  But it has. I used to be able to fly in airplanes and drive in rush hour traffic without missing a beat.  Now, I have issues.  Serious issues. As we approached the […]

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War of 1812 et al (and a week of field trips)

We scaled back in our regular school programming this week to re-discover Houston. As far as school was concerned, this has been a week of playing games and listening to audio CDs. English Grammar Review: David watches Stephen match up his English Grammar verb principle parts. Stephen used a free downloadable booklet called Adventure Tales […]

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Chainsaw Chaos (Week 6 of CC Cycle 3)

It’s not every day that you get to teach, talk, cook, clean, and just generally live with the sound of three chainsaws and two circular saws echoing through your home all AT THE SAME TIME.  In case you’re wondering, it is REALLY LOUD when a chainsaw cuts through the logs of your home.  But surviving […]

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Classical Conversations Cycle 3 Week 5

I unfortunately do not have photos of many of these things because I accidentally stuck the photo card into the DVD-ROM drive and now it’s stuck. Nevertheless, our history activities included: George Washington Comic from Chester Comix Made a Three-cornered hat George Washington Article with Comprehension Questions Not related to our history studies, but Stephen […]

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The Great Guinea Gaffe

Built a playground for the boys and a house for the fowl, Complete with a mirror and some big plastic owls. Named the three guineas Larry, Curly and Moe And went to our first blacklight puppet show. -Excerpt from the Ferrell 2010 Christmas wRap I received a question from a friend about when we might […]

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CC Week 4: A little silliness

We started out the week making homemade straw oboes that sound like a…. honk of a dying goose?  What does this have to do with our planned homeschool studies?  Nothing!  But it was ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!!!  (Sometimes, you just gotta do stuff that makes ya laugh.) As a side note, we love all of the homemade […]

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CC Week 3: ESSENTIALly, we’re adjusting…

After experiencing two weeks of Essentials…. I sat down with Stephen and asked him what he’d like to drop from the schedule.  Well, naturally, he didn’t want to drop anything, except practicing his math facts.  (For a person with a natural gift and love for memorizing, why would he rather scrub toilets than memorize his […]

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What about Socialization?

It was a question that I hadn’t really thought about before we made the decision to homeschool.  I’m not sure why it never dawned on us that it would be an issue.  Maybe because, when we’d been around some homeschooling families in the past, I had never really noticed a problem with their ability to […]