Half a Hundred Acre Wood

Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles

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I unfortunately do not have photos of many of these things because I accidentally stuck the photo card into the DVD-ROM drive and now it’s stuck. Nevertheless, our history activities included:
Math (in addition to Saxon lessons):
Stephen and David working on the Mystery Castle Puzzle
Stephen’s Completed Graphing Lesson
Science (some of this is still in progress as I write):
Though Stephen continues to work on his Human Body lapbook, he’s also enjoying the activities in Scholastic’s Human Body Activity Book

Art:  Stephen completed this 1-point perspective activity at home as I was trying to figure out what would be appropriate for his class. (By the way, teaching perspective is just NOT my cup of tea!  BUT, it is really rewarding when they get it.)

Stephen’s finished masterpiece

We decided this one would be tough for some of them to do in a short timeframe.  Instead, we drew a room with one-point perspective using this one-point perspective tutorial on Wetcanvas.

While I’m on the subject of art, for an abstract art project, we wrote each letter of our first names once, rotating the paper after writing each letter.
This is a digital example of Stephen’s name.
Stephen’s completed abstract art project.
Stephen has also used the Draw Write Now books 2, 3, and 5 to sketch History Sentence illustrations similar to this one:
We are now under construction, so I have a long list of things we didn’t do this week.  If you’re interested in finding more activities, here are some we did not do this week:

Because I’ve listed all of our resources on our Resource Links Page, I will discontinue writing out what we don’t do, because I think it’s obvious now that I’ve overplanned, ESPECIALLY given our current circumstances.

Even though we didn’t get around to doing everything we planned, we did do some things that weren’t on our list, like go to the garden to “throw tomatoes.” Whereas most people would say, “I want to go pick tomatoes,” our children take off running or (riding their bikes) towards to garden, saying, “I want to go throw tomatoes.”

After a quick bike ride, the boys collect rotten tomatoes for ballistics-type experiments.

 

The boys are throwing tomatoes as high in the air as possible.

 

After “throwing tomatoes,” the boys take off running to Flat Rock…

 

…where we notice this rock that looked like an old man yelling.

Mid-week, the lumber and crew arrived to begin the building of our addition.  (Only one set-back in the process:  I accidentally made the Port-a-Potty people mad.  But Gary returned from Tanzania the day this all started.  So, though it was a hectic morning, I gave a huge sigh of relief upon seeing him in the airport that afternoon.)

This week, Levi spent a lot of time with the “Pork-lift.”
And our house slowly but surely doubled in size.

Next week marks my last week this year as a tutor, and then we start our traveling excursions down south.  So, though I won’t be writing planning posts, you can find optional activities by visiting our Supplemental Resource Page.  Everything is sorted by subject, which hopefully will help those of you looking for resources to use for the rest of the year.  (I will continue to update it when I find good resources that we hope to use as a family.)  Our plan is to wrap up our American Revolution studies soon and start our Civil War studies.  (We hope to post next week’s activities before we head to Texas.)


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