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 … keep on reading
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San Marino Unit
Sometimes you learn things you never expected to learn. For instance, with our San Marino unit I learned there is not one, but two completely independent countries INSIDE Italy. I knew about Vatican City, which endlessly amuses my kids, but San
April 2021 month in Review
It's a new month! How crazy is that. (there are affiliate links in here) April week 1 We ran out of Leezard's anti-seizure medicine, but I headed off to the pharmacy to go and get it, and for some unknown reason
Don’t Lose Your Temper Bible game
The other day I was talking with Princess and discussing what activities you might do with the Fall of Man Story. I was telling her all about how I had a game for the first part, but I didn't have a game for Cain and Abel. She jokingly replied,
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea book club
My neighbor across the street when I was a kid had all the best movies on VHS. I remember going across the street to her house and watching all of the classic Disney movies. Then when we moved to Texas, we would rent movies from Blockbuster, yes I
Bavarian Pot Roast: Germany recipe
I had to laugh as I searched up German recipes because every single recipe started out like this, "My German grandma used to make this." If they are to be believed, there are an astonishingly large number of German grandmothers running around among
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
Battle of Jericho
I made the mistake of telling my kids that in a few days we’d be building the city of Jericho as part of our homeschool history lessons and then destroying it (I’d never do this as a Sunday School lesson because too much chaos for our class of 30). As you can imagine, that immediately led […]
Memory Verse puzzles
Part of what I want my blog to be is a great resource for teaching your kids about the Bible, and to show what has been working for me with my kids for family discipleship and in my Sunday School class. Right now my Sunday School class of 3rd and 4th graders are working on […]
Homeschool History
The Great Baltimore Fire, how one person or horse can change history
Sometimes the most interesting bits of history, are not the ones we all know. As an example, I didn’t know a bit about the 1904 Great Baltimore Fire until we were researching Maryland for our United States geography lessons. Then I found out about the unsung heroes of the Great Baltimore Fire and Goliath the […]
At what cost progress? Lessons from Vasco de Gama
There are some explorer names I remember better than others. As I mentioned yesterday I have a hard time remembering Bartolomue Dias. Vasco de Gama, on the other hand I remember. I have fun saying his name, it just rolls off the tongue. I wonder if that helped him when traveling. It certainly made this […]
Homeschool Science
Great places to find science for kids
As you’ve probably figured out, I’m a big fan of science for kids. I love to see kids make the connections and learn how to think that comes from science. It can be hard at times to find great sources for science for kids. Since Science Sunday is ending here, I wanted to share with […]
How far does a kangaroo jump
Hi, this is future Ticia 2020, and I’m about to tell you one of my biggest parenting failures when my kids were little. But first, this little kangaroo unit all started because my kids were enthralled by the kangaroo and have been jumping around pretending they were kangaroos. ‘How far does a kangaroo jump’ fit […]