Half a Hundred Acre Wood

Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles

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Organized Chaos

With the added incentive of inviting our homeschool group to our home for a back-to-school bash, we finally went from this:   AAAACCCKKKK!!!!!!!! to this:       Just a few weeks ago I was saying: I’d like to say that we were trying to prove the Law of Increasing Disorder, so I will. You […]

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“The Classroom Contest”

Using some of my thoughts surrounding a lack of organization that we happened to fall into at the end of last year, we entered a contest that I did not originally plan to enter. And it just so happens that we are now semi-finalists for a contest I did not originally plan to enter:  The Simple Homeschool’s Classroom Contest […]

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Summertime Stories: Part 3

In July we officially changed our sign:           While we were over on that side of the farm, I opened up the door to the old guest house, which we have left in a state of de-construction because we are currently preparing to build onto our actual house. I subsequenty shut […]

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Summertime Stories: Part 2

On Flag Day, the boys made a Flag Cake for MomMom’s birthday: And it just so happened that they were enrolled in the Macon County Arts Council Art in the Park, so they were able to make some homemade gifts for me in addition to the homemade cards they made: Summertime harvests started coming in…  INCLUDING […]

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Summertime Stories: Part 1

We started out the summer with a trip to Destin as a special reward for Stephen’s diligence in striving to become a “Memory Master.” Though the dolphin cruise fit in nicely with our Island of the Blue Dolphins and Nim’s Island unit studies,   Gary reminded me: “You know, Brandy, it doesn’t HAVE to be about learning…” […]

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Care to join us…?

Care to join us for dinner?   The conversation is quite engaging…   And we always eat at least ONE BITE of our veggies: though sometimes Mom needs a microscope to see it.  Like David’s “bite” of carrot here. Sometimes we WEAR our food…   Sometimes we SHARE our food: We make important discoveries… Rigatoni noodles ARE like […]

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I spy… America City

It’s not often I’ve found a video game that I think has any usefulness whatsoever.  In fact, I really don’t much care for that thing they call the Wii. (Yes, I’m an overreactive mother who thinks that it’s a waste of time, money, energy, and brainwaves to play videogames, for the most part… but the fact […]

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Creepy Crawly Critters

It’s summertime in Tennessee, which means lots of critter collecting… After chasing grasshoppers all over the yard, Levi finally caught one all by himself! See, Mommy?  SQUISH!   With better luck, this cricket survived Levi’s observations…   Walking out to Flat Rock, Stephen found a very unusual sight: Walnut Caterpillar Moth Caterpillars.  It kind of makes […]

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Pocketful of Prayers

Due to circumstances in many of my friends’ and family’s lives, I’ve been thinking a lot about prayer, and how many times I’ve told someone, “I’m praying for you.” I wonder… how many times have they actually believed me? I want to be sure that when I say it, I really do mean it!   And […]