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 … keep on reading
What’s going on right now!
Slow Down, Momma!
I have 15 free minutes. As of the date I'm writing this on March 19, since March 1 I have been out of the house 10 out of the 19 days, and I leave again on Thursday for a baby shower up in Iowa. It would be one thing if it had been one long trip,
Learning “how to adult” can be fun!
In middle school, I took a life skills class. My two big takeaways came from two wildly different activities. First, and the reason I took the course, for two weeks we carried around a sandbag baby. I remember seeing the kids carrying them, and how
Jacob finds a wife Sunday School lesson
Jacob is a fun character…….. One that I find a bit of affinity for. I like trickster characters, and if there's one thing that describes Jacob, he's a trickster. When last we saw him in our Sunday School lessons he was running from his brother.
YouTube seems scary, but it doesn’t have to be
Did you hear about the latest crazy YouTube challenge? You know the one where the kids are challenged to film themselves doing (fill in the blank). Or, have you heard about the latest scary video uploaded to YouTube and geared towards kids? You know
February Homeschooling 2019
I'm still in shock we are almost two decades into this decade. I still have vivid memories of the "In the Year 2000" skits on the Conan O'Brien show.... After doing this amazing job last month with writing weekly summaries for my January 2019
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
Abraham and Isaac activities
We finished off the unit on Abraham this past week with a lesson where he FINALLY got his child he’d been promised, earlier we saw how Abraham and Lot got along, and now in Sunday School it’s time to learn about Abraham and Isaac Of course, Abraham being the imperfect man that he is, he […]
Prayer Stations
Have you seen the cool new thing to teach prayer to Sunday School classes? Prayer stations are all the rage, or at least they are on my Pinterest feed, and I have to admit I rather like adding a tangible element to prayer to help kids focus. My one problem with most prayer station ideas? […]
Homeschool History
How to make a Roman mosaic out of candy
As we moved through history, we paused in our trek through Mystery of History 2 (affiliate link) to learn more about Romans. There’s a bunch of hands on lessons I wanted the kids to have a chance with, and there was no way we could do that progressing at our normal pace. Side note, you should […]
Tennessee: Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson is one of those presidents that I’ve always found amusing and interesting. Partially because he’s a bit rough and tumble, and partially because one of the big things he was famous for happened after the War of 1812 was over. I love this song, it totally cracks me up, the sound quality on […]
Homeschool Science
Starfish activity for kids
You remember how ages and ages ago I asked for recommendations about a starfish activity for kids, and then I lost my camera with the pictures of what we did? Well I found it. Or more accurately, when I made the kids clean out the dog’s toy box of all of their stuff […]
Mr Bear mystery crime lab
On Friday I talked about the first part of our Mr Bear Mystery, and that part was really more of homeschool math, but this part is all homeschool science. Now we get to the Mr Bear mystery crime lab. Mr Bear Mystery crime lab Printables and materials are from the GEMS Mystery Festival For […]