Half a Hundred Acre Wood

Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles

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Comanche Code Talkers of WWII

After a quick stop at the Comanche National Museum and Cultural Center in Lawton, Oklahoma, we discovered a little-known fact about the contribution that members of this tribe made to the success of the ally efforts during World War II. The Native Americans of Oklahoma were the first American Indian code talkers during both World Wars.  Needing a more secure form […]

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Historic Medicine Park, Oklahoma’s First Resort

At the main entrance to the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge lies Medicine Park, a unique cobblestone community founded in 1908 as Oklahoma’s first tourism resort.  Because this is only a 15-minute drive to my hometown of Lawton, Oklahoma, and we prefer to stay in unique places rather than hotels, it’s natural for us to rent a […]

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Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma

The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, the oldest managed wildlife preserve in the United States, is a 59,020-acre preserve located about 20 miles northwest of Lawton  in southwestern Oklahoma.  It has protected unique wildlife habitats since 1901, when it was designated as a Forest Reserve by President William McKinley. In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt renamed it as a game preserve, and […]

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Holy City of the Wichitas in Oklahoma

We have made it back from our incredibly hectic trip to visit our family in Southwest Oklahoma!  Once upon a time, my husband thought there was nothing in Oklahoma except wind and flat land (and maybe some tepees), so I thought I’d spotlight our adventures in Oklahoma to show that, yes, there are things to do in […]

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Paper Castle, Paper Theatre and Other Paper Toys

About six months ago, we came across two of the most amazing free websites for building paper models: Papertoys.com and Thetoymaker.com – all you need is to print, cut, fold and glue. Having boys that love to build things (and being that way myself), we’ve already incorporated many of the paper toy models we’ve found at Papertoys.com into our learnings.  The […]

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Quick math lesson: Geologic Geometry

We found ourselves out at the creek again looking for rocks.  (We have a habit of doing this. My pockets are always crammed full of rocks by the time we get back in the house…) What did we find?  Let’s take a look: We found POLYGONS (i.e., flat shapes with three or more straight sides)!! a square:  […]

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Creeks, forts, stones and bones

It was a lovely day to take a hike through the woods and up the ridge (ahem…only part of the way, though, since Levi was on my hip).  On the way up, we added a few animal bones to our bone collection at Fort Bones. No animals were harmed in the making of this blog post. […]

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S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G

We’ve been using a variety of resources for language arts this year, so it follows that we also have used a few different programs for spelling.  As I mentioned in a previous post, the spelling lists in Total Language Plus are from the work of literature being studied, so they were not grouped by rules.  […]

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What language are you speaking?

We plan to use Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) and Essentials of the English Language next year as part of our involvement with a classical homeschool community. But this year has been a year of testing some language and spelling programs as we also incorporate our own literature unit studies, since it was too […]