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!
RightNow Media homeschool resources
With the quarantine hitting, churches all over are giving their congregations resources to keep growing their faith at home. My church joined that crowd and I've now got so many resources to look through and use. Thousands of people now have access
March 2020 homeschooling in review
March kicked off with a bang. I've just put together the first week's worth of pictures, and I had so many pictures, they wouldn't all fit in my collage. I'm hoping that is not what I'm in store for as March continues, but I'm pretty sure it is. Ha
Wyoming State Study
Sometimes as I research different states I find some cool little things I didn't know about. For instance, I didn't know about Esther Morris before I started researching our Wyoming state study for our geography lessons. With that being said, there
Ding Dong Cookies?
Millenia ago when I was a teenager, one of my friends was diagnosed with cancer. Shortly after that happened I was having a sleepover with my best friend and in our sleep-deprived sugar craziness we decided the best way to encourage him was to
Looking for an English curriculum for your high schooler?
As my kids get older I'm realizing homeschool plans that work for younger kids, do not work as well for older kids. Also, my kids have OPINIONS. Very loud opinions on what they want in a curriculum. Let's take a high school English curriculum. We've
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
Job Bible lesson plans, praising in pain
Last time I shared about Job from the Bible (I have to add that because otherwise search engines think I’m talking about job as in “get a job”), and how to help friends in pain. It’s a great Sunday School lesson because we all know someone who had a hard time. This time we looked […]
Finding the right Bible for you
Over the next 2 weeks I’m going to be spending 10 days giving you tips to teach your children about God and the Bible both at home for family discipleship and in Sunday School at church. The first thing you need to do is find a Bible for yourself. You can’t pour the Bible into your […]
Homeschool History
Comparing texts with early writers
The more I use and look through our Heritage History stuff, the more I love it. Especially the book “This Country of Ours,” I’ve read the kids several chapters from this book, and each time we all really enjoy it. This time we were reading about the end of the Civil War and Sherman’s march […]
Hands on History (history and geography linkie 2)
I’m sure you won’t be too surprised to find out we’ve come to my favorite kind of hands on teaching. I love hands on history, and coming up with ideas to make history stick with my kids. Hands on history activity ideas (these are going to be somewhat similar to science in many ways) […]
Homeschool Science
Galileo history lesson, or why you shouldn’t smart off to those in charge
I’ll get to the Galileo history lesson in just a moment, first a story. Galileo became the center of a bit of controversy several years ago when Carl Sagan pronounced in his show, Cosmos, Galileo had been persecuted because of science and religious ignorance. This idea was picked up over and over again until in […]
Mad Scientist present
Sometimes when giving a birthday present you don’t want to just give another toy. A few months ago Princess was invited to a birthday party, and I came up with the perfect present for this goofy fun loving girl: A Mad Scientist present. When she came over for Princess’ Harry Potter Birthday party (which apparently […]