Half a Hundred Acre Wood

Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles

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Historical Novels for Engaging Thinkers

In the six years that this website has existed, I have never come across any resource that has challenged me so greatly as a set of four novels by Brimwood Press. It has taken our family three years to read these books – not because of their length (they are relatively short novels) and not because of their […]

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New to this website? Start here!

Howdy! Thanks for dropping by Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood! I just wanted to take a few moments to let you know the what, why, and how of this website since it can be overwhelming to pop over here without a little background information. Simply stated, this blog started in 2010 as an effort to connect with […]

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Cycle 2 Reading Plans & Loop Schedules

Within this homeschooling journey, I’ve grown to thrive off of reading great books with my children. I treasure sharing stories with them. I also ask for feedback from my children to see what they would most like to learn. And so… this is how our plans have come into existence each year. Some parents like […]

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Favorite Picture Books: Medieval to Modern

Welcome to our family’s list of favorite picture books for Medieval to Modern world history (along with astronomy, English grammar, and fine arts). After investing in many books over the past several years, we’ve decided to let you in on what our favorites have been! We’ve selected the following books as personal family favorites because […]

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Great Big Ole Book Giveaway 2016

As our family reorganized our bookshelves this summer, we decided to release a few of our books to bless another family who may wish to add some Medieval-to-Modern world history related reading to their home library. This giveaway ended on July 26, 2016. Thank you to all who participated! Be sure to check back in […]

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CC Cycle 2 Read Aloud Plan

Of all that I share here on this blog, searching through books to develop our reading plans is what I spend the most time doing, as I hope to choose books that our family cherishes reading together (and your family cherishes as well, should you choose to use our reading plans!). The only problem is… […]

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Ten Thousand Miles?!?

It’s been pretty quiet over here at Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood lately. That’s because we’ve just completed a 38-day road trip with over 150 stops in 20 different states crossing 4 different U.S. time zones and traveling a total of 10,334 miles (all in a minivan). And somehow I thought I was going to continue writing and posting […]

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New Testament Stick Figure Bible Study

We’ve finished! Last week we wrapped up our final book of the New Testament Overview Bible Study! Even though it may have taken us 4 months longer than I had originally planned, we have finally completed a study of the entire Bible with stick figure drawings. (And just in case this gives the false impression that […]

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History through the Summer… and Beyond

It was three years ago, and… here we go again! It’s not often that we have reviewed a new curriculum (especially one spanning 5,000 years of history) and have used it completely – in its entirety – in one summer.  In fact, there’s really only one study that fully fits that description. It’s called the Western Civilization (Calendar Quest) Study […]