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 … keep on reading
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The messiest and funnest way to clean your house
And, yes, I know funnest is not a word. Way back when I was a brand new public school teacher, a veteran teacher pulled me aside and gave me advice on a fun way to practice spelling AND clean the desks at the same time. Squirt a small amount of
10 Ideas to Memorize Books of the Bible
I've spent a few years teaching Bible lessons to kids. Every year as the new kids came into our class, and as a reminder for the kids still there from the year before, we worked on how to memorize the books of the Bible. Actually, let me be more
You can homeschool math, even if you haven’t taken Calculus
The last math class I took was over 20 years ago. Since I was an elementary education major, I only had to take "Math for Elmentary Teachers," basically it teaches you how to teach math. The last time I took a high math class was Calculus in high
What should you do with Mad Cows?
Looking for an absolutely ridiculous game to play with your kids? Several years ago there was a company called Cheap*** Games that made cheap games. Their theory was you bought the game, and just the game. You supplied any dice, tokens, or anything
Plan your homeschool year!
I'm working on planing for the coming school year. Last winter we found a homeschool schedule that is currently working for us. I've gone through a few different schedules (and I'll link to them further down), but this homeschool schedule and
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
Noah’s ark craft
So, because I’m a crazy over-achiever or maybe a perfectionist or something I’ve decided to completely write and design my own Bible study curriculum that goes through the whole thing in 2 years for my Sunday School and homeschool. More or less. Well, this past week in our Sunday school class was Noah as we […]
Fruit of the Spirit bible study
As you all know, I’ve been working through the Bible both with my Sunday School class and at home. For my Sunday School class we just finished up learning about the Fruits of the Spirit. I’m always on the look out for good Bible resources, so when Carlie from So You Call Yourself a Homeschooler […]
Homeschool History
How to make a reusable timeline
One of the big things to understand history is a timeline. {This post contains affiliate links. See my full Disclosure statement for more information} It’s such a big deal that there’s a whole section about it in the introductory section of Mystery of History 1 {affiliate link}. Heck, they even allot a whole day to […]
Why were the American Colonies founded? a web-quest for junior high
Way back when I was teaching public school web-quests were wildly popular, and we were all encouraged to design lessons conducted entirely on the computer and teaching kids how to surf the internet. Now that I’m a homeschool Mom, and my kids are finally competent at typing I’m creating my first homeschool history lesson web-quest. […]