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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To Kill a Mockingbird Book Club
To Kill a Mockingbird book club Last year for 8th grade I put together a list of books I wanted the kids to read, and we went through and read two books dealing with race. I hopped on Facebook and asked everyone which should we read first:
Pray Like This
Prayer is tricky. Wait no, it's not tricky. It can be hard to explain. We often over-spiritualize prayer or we turn it into a formula. I've certainly been guilty of both of these extremes. It can be difficult to teach children how to pray. Pray Like
Dump out your LEGOs and grab your history books
In our homeschool history lessons we pull out a lot of LEGOs to create LEGO history. LEGOs have a wide variety of uses in your history and geography lessons: provide visual aid of how history unfolded build famous monuments re-enact famous
Visit Italy with these great books
Ciao! Today we're heading to Italy for a fun romp through this country chock full of history and culture! It's home to the longest ruling empire (Roman empire), the birthplace of the Renaissance and one of my favorite meals, spaghetti. This of course
Civil War Unit study
The American Civil War is a turning point in history. Not just for Americans, it was the start of modern warfare, and dignitaries from Europe came to observe the American war. That of course means it's a vitally important war to discuss with your
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
The Christmas Story Sunday School unit
This next week I’m going to be sharing our December Sunday School plans. We’ve been doing this Christmas Story Sunday School lesson for the last 5 years or so, and every year I intend to write about it, but it always feels weird to write about it after the fact. So, this year I planned […]
Peter and John heal a lame man
There are some Sunday School lessons which leave songs sticking in your head. Last weeks Bible lesson of Pentecost is not one of those lessons. This weeks lesson, Peter and John heal a lame man has a song stuck in my head, which of course I know all of one part of it. What […]
Homeschool History
Jacques Cousteau lesson
Prior to this Jacques Cousteau lesson I’d heard of the man, but I hadn’t really known much about him, or all that he did. Jacques Cousteau is an interesting man, and I’m glad we studied him for our homeschool geography lesson on France. I learned so much. {This post contains affiliate links marked with an […]
Teaching your kids about small arms combat and ancient warfare
As we learned about ancient history, I knew for the battles to really make sense I need them to learn about small arms combat. So I set about to teach them about small arms combat. The first step was to teach them about how to fight effectively with small arms combat. Small Arms Combat […]
Homeschool Science
Science Sunday: We’re getting a dog
Isn’t he just the cutest little thing? We’ll be getting him very shortly after you read this, and we’ve spent the last two weeks learning about dogs, and how to care for them in preparation. So, here’s a true preschool friendly science lesson. We practiced walking the dog and taking him […]
Where is the baby plant in the peanut?
I wanted to do something for peanuts with Georgia because I remembered that Georgia is one of the largest peanut producing states in our country and since one of my goals for our geography lessons is to teach the kids what the states are known for. I thought for a little bit, and then remembered this post […]