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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Dual Enrollment for Homeschool can be easy
Y'all, I have spent the last two months getting my kids registered for dual enrollment in college as a homeschooler. If you haven't done this, it's a nightmare. Or, my experience was, I've found somewhere dual enrollment for homeschool isn't a
Fall of Man Worksheet
Sometimes I accidentally keep a post in my drafts folder for way too long. I first taught this Fall of Man lesson with my Sunday School class years ago, and I started writing about using this Fall of Man worksheet and then did nothing. I don't even
Forbidden Island game
Jeff gave me Forbidden Desert and it was popular with the family and we thought it would be fun to try Forbidden Island, it's a similar game, and cooperative games are popular in our family. If you're curious about the game, then see how we don't
Journey to the Center of the Earth book club
Jules Verne is a pioneer of science fiction, he created many of the tropes that we see as common in science fiction today, and many of his books predicted technology we think of as commonplace now. That's why we had a Journey to the Center of the
2020 wasn’t all bad
An incredibly popular ice breaker question that comes up whenever someone is trying to be deep without being too deep is "What in your life would you change?" The theory is you look back at your life and find this moment you deeply regret and say, "I
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
What to do when you’re spiritually empty
This past week I’ve felt like I was running on fumes. I’ve been running around from place to place and achieving much, but I didn’t feel like I was. I tried teaching my kids our lessons for the week, and I didn’t feel connected. I didn’t think they were getting it. I’ve spent the […]
Teaching kids to volunteer
I’m choosing to post this today, July 4, because I think volunteering is one of the principles our country was founded on. Large numbers of the men who fought for our independence took no paycheck, they fought because they believed it was right. To this day the United States is still a country that leads […]
Homeschool History
Hannibal and the Punic Wars lesson
There’s some parts of Roman history that are fairly well known, people know of Julius Caesar, they know of Nero and Rome burning, they know about gladiators. And if you say Hannibal, you’ll probably get at least a glimmer of reaction. Hannibal is a turning point for Rome and the city of Carthage. Who is involved […]
Galileo history lesson, or why you shouldn’t smart off to those in charge
I’ll get to the Galileo history lesson in just a moment, first a story. Galileo became the center of a bit of controversy several years ago when Carl Sagan pronounced in his show, Cosmos, Galileo had been persecuted because of science and religious ignorance. This idea was picked up over and over again until in […]
Homeschool Science
Science Sunday: How to get a popcorn kernel out of your ear
This has been a week of learning about medical procedures galore. I learned that when you get a strep rash, that is what Scarlet Fever is. My kids got to learn all about going to the dentist, which we had been slow to get going. Actually, we had an appointment about a year and a […]
A Quick Nature Walk for your neighborhood
This is something we’ve been meaning to do for a while, but every time we’ve had a Saturday morning free it’s been horridly cold (which for anyone who lives North might consider warm, but to me anything approaching freezing is cold), or raining. We’ve had a very rainy winter here, but we finally got to […]