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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June 2020 Homeschooling
June started off with a bang, well at least for us, you'll read all about that in the first week, and after that I'm pretty sure the events for week one will dominate the pictures for the month (probably some affiliate links in
Creation story bag, continue the learning through play
I love when the lesson you teach at Sunday School follows the kids home and gives them a chance to review it and learn more about the story through the week. With older kids I like that to be them digging into the Bible, but younger kids aren't able
Old Yeller book club
I was assigned to read Old Yeller in 6th grade. For whatever reason, 6th grade was full of the tragedy books. I read about a childhood best friend dying, a dog dying, and watching someone you love grow old and die. Now that I think about it, that is
Montana state study
I visited Montana as a kid during our family reunions. We'd all descend on some town that I cannot remember beyond it was trading on its famous Old West cowboys and outlaws. I mainly remember visiting Custer's Last Stand and then heading over to a
Camel Up board game review
Every month we get together with our friends from church to play board games. During that time we're looking for shortish games that can be played in 15-45 minutes. I'm always on the lookout for games that would work for our monthly game night, and
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
100 Ideas to teach the New Testament to Kids
As you no doubt know by now, I’m a big fan of teaching the Bible to kids and love my Sunday School class. And because of that I’ve collected a lot of resources for the different Bible stories, and I have a lot of ideas to teach the New Testament to kids. On my Bible […]
Teaching kids to serve others
We’ve talked about learning and studying God’s Word for the past several days. But God did not just call us to study His Word in a vacuum of Sunday School. He is very clear that we are to serve others as well, and this is a wonderful way to encourage family discipleship. But how […]
Homeschool History
California Gold Rush Game
Last year before Christmas my Mom sent me a link with dozens of board games on sale, and said, “What do you want?” Well I looked through and found a handful of board games that looked interesting and we got ALL of them for Christmas. Some have been a big hit, and others have been […]
War of 1812 craft
Now how many of you went “what War of 1812?” Honestly, now? This is a slightly lesser known bit of homeschool history lesson, but I quite enjoyed the lesson with my kids. And then how many of you thought of this song? Or maybe I’m the only one who actually knows this song. But, it came […]
Homeschool Science
Science Sunday: Inner Space Caverns
Last week right before I got sick during our WEEK of FIELD TRIPS! I kid you not, it was insane, three in one week. The first one was to Inner Space Caverns. We’ve gone once before, but then the kids were a little young to absorb much scientifically, and they also were too […]
Science Sunday: What we learned at Moody Gardens
When we were down in Galveston we went by Moody Gardens, which I LOVE with a passion. I think I could happily sit there and watch the fish swim by for hours. I mean look at that picture, isn’t it peaceful? Makes me wish there was one in Austin, and not somewhere four […]