Half a Hundred Acre Wood

Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles

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Paper Models

For those who remember our days of putting together little bitty paper toys related to world history studies and more days of putting together little bitty paper toys (to build America City)… and more and more days of putting together little bitty paper toys (to make Bethlehem Village for Christmas and the empty tomb for Easter), […]

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Mom-of-the-year… NOT!!!

My apologies to those who follow on Facebook… But some things just have to be said more than once. Like that whole story about how I’m not a perfect mom…  A mom that does NOT strive to win the gourmet-cook-of-the-year award.  It is TRUE.  FOR REAL. So… this week, I recount a few of my best BE […]

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Free Ancient Rome Lapbook with Study Guide

Homeschoolshare is one of our favorite places to find lapbook and unit studies for our homeschool. Check out this Ancient Rome Lapbook with Study Guide!

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Our Essentials Student Notebook

We’ve made a few simple updates to our Essentials student practice notebook, and… it’s working! I thought I’d share what we’re doing in case others may find it useful…  (or muse that it’s taken me this long to figure out something so simple…) All of the reference master charts are in page protectors (for durability) […]

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Ancient Greece, Celery, and Cells!

This week we had a lapbook factory underway as the boys put together an Ancient Greece Lapbook using Homeschoolshare’s Free Ancient Greece Lapbook along with Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool’s Greece Lapbook Pieces.  This dove deeper into details about the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, Famous Greeks, the Trojan Horse, Homer & The Odyssey and Illiad, Alexander the […]

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The Power of Prayer

As our family reads selections from Lisa Whelchel’s Busy Mom’s Guide to Prayer together… we’re learning to: Praise God together Pray for each other Pray for those who impact our lives Pray for those beyond us Though we’ve prayed together in the past, using my handy-dandy prayer journal (which I’ve owned for several years now) […]

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The Breakfast Notebook

The problem: When our fourth grader (a memory master x 2, just to point out the irony here) did not know his address and phone number at a 4-H meeting, I realized I had dropped the ball.  So many times, I’ve said that we’re going to practice and memorize our address and phone number, only to […]

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Timelines, Shoe Classification, and My Calendar Craze

In our lives this week… We played a Ten Commandments File Folder Game. (Do you know what it’s like when you picture something in your mind, and then when you implement it, it just seems utterly ridiculous?  Our Ten Commandments game ended up that way, mainly because my oldest is starting to mature beyond my […]

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Trekking Tanzania: A Family Presentation

Once upon a time… in a land far, far away…     there was this woman… who worked for an oil company… as an engineer rotating offshore… There she met her knight in shining armor… who has since worked in many more lands far, far away… For the past year, Gary has worked in the […]