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
What’s going on right now!
Candlemaking lesson
I love to watch historical movies. And depending on the quality of the movie, my family enjoys watching them with me. I may object loudly to bad history, costumes, and well I may not be the best person to go watch it with. One thing my husband and I
Chagall art history lesson
When looking up Belarus for our geography lessons I did my usual search for interesting things to study, and came up with very few things of note. So, I turned to my friend Natalie and said, "What should I study?" She immediately said, "you should
Lewis and Clark lesson
In elementary and middle school we all have the Lewis and Clark lesson. They talk about Lewis and Clark hiking across the Western United States with Sacagewea leading them with her baby strapped to her back. It's a fascinating story. Unfortunately,
The reading curriculum for working parents
Like many other parents, my brother and his wife suddenly found himself with his kids at home and learning online. It was a disaster for them. The district kept changing what was going on, their kids were not learning, and meanwhile both parents were
Let’s learn about Europe!
You know how people will ask, "Where would you love to visit if money and time was no limit?" My brain locks up because there are SOOOOO many places I want to visit. SO many. Our geography lessons let me virtually visit a country as we read about
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
Jesus heals craft
One of the days of clubs was the story of Jesus and all of the amazing things he did (and yes I’m going to reuse this craft later for my Sunday School class). With the pre-schoolers we talked about how Jesus could heal the people without using medicine or band-aids, just by talking Jesus was […]
Daniel and the lion’s den activities
Last week we learned about Nebuchadnezzar’s dreams in Sunday School and how Daniel gave Nebuchadnezzar some bad news. Today we finish the life of Daniel with the story of Daniel and the lion’s den. I have to admit I love this story the most of all of Daniel’s stories, I love the weird dreams, and […]
Homeschool History
Homemade Neosporin
We made our homemade Neosporin as part of our Middle Ages unit study for homeschool history, but it would also make a great homeschool science project as you talked about the properties of the different herbs involved. {Disclosure, I received a free kit of the healing salve from my super awesome friend Amanda, and in […]
How to make a knight’s shield
Over the next couple of weeks I’m getting together with Erin over at The Usual Mayhem to share our King Arthur units. This is a fun bit of homeschool history we briefly covered last year, but I check out two million books from the library, to have some more fun with it over the next […]
Homeschool Science
Cookie Fossil Dig
We picked back up our geography for kids with a cookie fossil dig in Colorado. I know this is also a science for kids activity, but we did it as part of learning about Colorado. {This post contains affiliate links marked with a *. For more information read my disclosure page} First we read Dinosaur […]
Cougars unit
We’ve been studying big cats recently and for this particular post I’m going to concentrate on our cougars unit. Cougars Unit videos One of the things that has really brought the lessons home during this unit is seeing videos of the animal in real life. Most of the ones I’ve used are of […]