Half a Hundred Acre Wood

Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles

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Native American Study

In light of the American history we will be learning this fall, we’re using this summer to learn a bit about Native Americans.  Because I am originally from Oklahoma, I have always been fascinated with the Native American culture.  Sadly, this is oftentimes left out of American history books and curriculum, or at times the history and culture […]

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Online Organization for Classical Conversations

If you are following us to discover our supplemental resources in the form of great on-line freebies for History, Geography, Science, Timeline, Math, and Fine Arts, then you may want to go ahead and create an on-line organization system for saving all of this… stuff.  Otherwise, you might get overwhelmed and not use anything.  (I’m speaking […]

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American History Literature Resources

You’d think that since this is the close of our school year I’d be ready for a break, but I am SO excited about studying U.S. History for the first time.  There are hundreds of great resources out there to study American history!  I’m just glad we’ll be cycling back trough it again in a […]

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Nature study for beginners

As we settled into our slower-paced life here in Middle Tennessee, we couldn’t help but marvel at the beauty abounding all around us. We came across so much LIFE while taking walks or playing in the creek. But as we discovered the vast assortment of plants and animals here – and the boys asked me […]

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The Thirteen-year Cicada

I’ve seen these interesting, big-bug-eyed insects several times over the course of my life.  I recall hearing their loud, deafening cadence somewhere in the distant past.  But I’ve never seen them quite like this: They were all over the boys’ playhouse…   and the trees…   and the grass. Hundreds of thousands of these insects can emerge from a […]

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Nim’s Island Unit Study & Lapbook

Sometimes I get in over my head on something.  Like telling Stephen we could lapbook Nim’s Island, only to find that there were no lapbook templates out there for us to use.  Thus, we embarked on an adventure as mother and son, creating our first lapbook from scratch.  An unexpected benefit from doing this was that […]

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Rub-a-dub-dub

When little boys tried to convince their mom that they didn’t need a bath, it went something like this: Me:  “You need a bath.” David:  “Why?” Me: “Because you’re dirty.  Just look at your feet.” About this time is when I became distracted with doing something else.  When I walked back into our bedroom, I saw this: Levi and David […]

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My green thumb: You mean I DIDN’T plant daffodils?!?

I love flowers. I love herbs. And I love vegetables. I love trying to grow my own. Last fall, we had some dirt work done around the old guest house, which had hundreds of daffodils planted around it.  As they were leveling the land around the house, we had them place a pile of dirt aside so that we […]

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Celebrating Easter in One-and-a-Half Weeks

My husband works a rotational assignment as a supervisor on a drillship in another country. A drawback:  He misses holidays, birthdays, and lots-of-other-days (including Easter). A benefit:  We celebrate each holiday that he misses either multiple times or across many days… And so, our Easter celebration started on Palm Sunday when we colored Easter eggs with some very good friends of ours […]