Welcome to our little corner of the world. I'm Ticia, and I'll be guiding you on this journey here, so let me tell you a little bit about myself and our life here. I'm a former elementary teacher who decided to stay home with her twins when they were born, daycare would not have made sense on a teacher's salary, besides I'd always wanted to stay home with my kids. When I was teaching I always loved finding hands-on ways to teach a concept, and that continued with my kids when I came … keep on reading
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3rd Grade Books Made Into Movies
As I was getting read to go to the library and pick up the books to take pictures of for today's post, I was surprised to learn how few 3rd-grade books made into movies there are. I barely have 10 books. Right now. If I've learned anything it is that
Tunisia Unit
For some reason, Tunisia has always seemed exotic to me. I think it's because it gets brief mentions in older movies, or they'll film there to find alien landscapes (cough Star Wars cough cough). Either way, our Tunisia Unit was a great way for me to
How I teach using hands on learning
I love hands-on learning. We used it all the time in our homeschool and I thought it could be helpful to give everyone an idea of how to add it in to your different subject areas, and some tips and tricks I've learned over the years of our hands-on
12 Spies bookmark craft
I was searching for a fun craft to do with my Sunday School class this Sunday. We're finishing up our Exodus Unit with the 12 Spies lesson, and all of the crafts I could think of would not be popular with my current class, and then I saw a 12 spies
Gambia Unit
When I studied the various countries I really should have written a date on the country so I would know what grade to put them in. That is completely unrelated to our Gambia Unit, but I'm staring at my notes and what we did on Gambia and the big
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
I visited a Seventh Day Adventist Church
My college roommate, Danette, is a Seventh Day Adventist. Which, according to my interpretation, which is of course completely wrong I’m sure, means she goes to church on Saturday, and they follow some of the Jewish rules. Oh, and she’s essentially a vegetarian. One thing I learned is they don’t have a […]
Mary did you know?
It feels like every year, we have a new Christmas song everyone is mad about. Last year it was “Baby it’s cold outside,” and this year it’s “Mary Did You Know?” Well, let me tell you, after writing a lot of Bible lessons the answer is: “Yes, and No.” (I’m sure I’ve got an affiliate […]
Homeschool History
Stained Glass craft
I had one final King Arthur activity up my sleeve, for this bit of funschooling homeschool history and that was a stained glass craft. I know, everyone has a stained glass activity, and you’re right, but my kids haven’t done a stained glass craft before, and it’s fun. Edited to add: Sigh and double sigh, I […]
Alexander the Great lesson
Alexander the Great is one of those great stopping points in history. His ascent to glory occupies many great “What if” questions, as does his death, and his reign. That’s one of the fun things about this lesson, we got to talk through some of these things. Alexander the Great mapwork We started off […]
Homeschool Science
Science Sunday: Popping Popcorn in Illinois
I was trying to think what I wanted to do with popcorn late one night, and all I kept thinking of was charting what their favorite flavors were, and that didn’t sound exciting. It sounded boring, mainly because I’d done that a lot when I was teaching public school. Then in a flash […]
Archimedes lesson
Hi! Future Ticia 2023 here, I was sitting down about to write down our Archimedes lesson from a few years ago. I started to create a draft and thought, “I thought I had already written about Archimedes, maybe I should double-check this,” and sure enough there it was. I had a preschool or early elementary […]