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
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New Mexico unit study
There’s an interesting thing about the Southwest United States, there are a lot of overlap because of the Spanish/Mexican influence. However, you can also see some very distinct differences between each state. Texas certainly learned that when we
Who shot first at the Battle of Lexington and Concord
Do you ever think about what starts a war? Some of the wars in history officially started for ridiculous reasons (War of Jenkins Ear comes to mind). Then there are wars like the American Revolution. There's not a single cause, and in many ways,
What do you want to be when you grow up? Harriet wants to be a spy
I remember reading Harriet the Spy as a kid being fascinated by it, and thinking how true it was to school life. This past month when I assigned Harriet the Spy to the kids as our next book and a movie I read it as an adult and was apalled at the
How an oatmeal soak showed true love
Today, Jeff and I have been married for 16 years. I don’t really have a big emotional post to write with this, because I’ve already said a lot about what a wonderful man I’ve married. I just wanted to celebrate. I do have a short story for
May 2018 Homeschooling in Review
The first week of June is almost over, and I’m finally sitting down to write what we did in our May homeschooling learnings. It was a busy month of wrapping up things, and getting life figured out. May week 1 Our first week of May saw us finishing
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
Solomon’s temple activities
Most Solomon’s temple activities revolve around making your own model of Solomon’s temple, and I have to admit that’s a great deal of what we focused on in our lesson this week at home (our family discipleship), though in my Sunday School class we spend a lot of time talking through his bad decisions. Last […]
From the cradle to the cross Easter craft for your Sunday School
Since taking over my church’s Sunday School lessons and having to look for crafts that will work for the non-crafty, a big order. I wanted a good Gospel centered craft for Easter Sunday for the kindergarten through second grade to put together. This Easter craft has to be taught by a cop teaching kindergarteners. I […]
Homeschool History
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 […]
India lesson (and some Hinduism)
I was at the library looking for some books on Chinese New Year, and they were all checked out, but I found a great book on Buddhism, and thought, “Score!” That’s our next history lesson, the “Ancient India lesson”, interactive lesson, check. Only to get home and discover it wasn’t on Buddhism, it was on […]
Homeschool Science
I finally found the perfect middle school science curriculum
In high school I had the most amazing physics teacher. He was funny, he gave us great challenges to solve, and he made physics fun. It’s because of him that I have such great memories of physics and how much I enjoyed those science lessons. I’ve been looking forward to teaching my kids physics, but […]
Science Sunday: where I’m going to a funeral
My grandma passed away a week or so ago, and I’m on my way to the funeral now. In all honesty in the arrangement of travel plans, child care, who’s watching the dog (which I only remembered because someone asked), and everything else, I ran out of time to write this post. So, I’m […]