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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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief book club
I watched the Percy Jackson movies when they came out and vowed I was never going to watch them again. They were awful, they butchered a book series I enjoyed, and it was especially frustrating after the Harry Potter books started out as portraying
Help! This boring Bible passage is putting me to sleep!
A few weeks ago on my Facebook page I shared a post titled "The Bible is not boring, why do we treat it that way?". Someone commented on my post wanting to know if I'd actually read the whole Bible because there are several boring passages. She was
These courageous explorers changed the course of history, the Age of Exploration
Hey, this is Future Ticia of 2019, I originally wrote this post in 2016 a few years after the last time we studied the Age of Exploration and went through our Age of Exploration Unit for Elementary School (or middle school since this was designed for
September 2019
September was my attempt to settle strongly into school and get life going. I'm not quite sure how I did with that. (there are probably affiliate links in here somewhere) Week 1 The first week of September held lots of
Test Tube Science Kit, amazing find or complete dud?
A few years ago in Hobby Lobby I found this cool little kit. It had 5 test tubes, a nice plastic stand, and this nice little see-through bag. Now, I love random small bags, for not other reason than it's a random small bag, and cool science stuff,
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
Scripture Lullabies to destress your life
For anyone who’s been reading my blog for the last few months, you know it’s been a stressful fall. Well, a few months ago I received a great opportunity. A chance to review some CDs, and I accepted thinking it’d be great for my daughter, but let me tell you how it’s helped my whole […]
Jesus feeds the 5000 and Jesus walks on water
So funny story, last week I’ve been without a printer because we were out of ink, and I glance at my lesson plans from Illuminations (affiliate link) and it said Jesus feeds the 5000 in Sunday School, and I looked at my blogging calendar and it said today I was supposed to post Jesus feeding […]
Homeschool History
How we got a Christmas tree, or who is Saint Boniface
Have you ever wondered where the tradition of the Christmas tree comes from? It’s an interesting bit of church history that seems rather appropriate at Christmas time. This Saint Boniface lesson was one of our homeschool history lessons last year (2014, from when I originally wrote this). {This post contains affiliate links marked with […]
A-Z of Hands on History Day 3
K is for Knights, what is a study of history without some knights Make a cardboard castle for your knights to live in with the Imagination Tree Make milk jug armor with Layers of Learning, no it won’t really protect you, but it’ll look cool! make swords to go with your armor Go to […]
Homeschool Science
The BEST Animal Report for beginning writers
Almost 10 years ago I started researching the different states here in the United States to see what made each one different as we were studying them. I was amused to discover every state had a state animal, and we started studying the animals. This led to the need for a quick and easy way […]
Science ideas for September 2014
I think this was the month of life science for Science Sunday, I had so many great ideas shared in that category, I didn’t even bother with the categories for this month. If you’re going to study life science with your kids, it’s a good idea to start off with this wonderful post from Gift of Curiosity […]