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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The Giver movie night
In case you don't know this, I'm a bit of a bookworm. I read a lot as a kid, and collected friends who read a lot. We read the same types of books, but they were a few years younger than me and that meant they had slightly different books hit the
World War 2 lesson, try some field rations
Say what you want about war, it does create a lot of advances in technology. For example, canning was invented because Napoleon wanted a way to feed his army. World War 2 brought its own set of advances, and many of those after the war were
Madagascar Chicken recipe
For some reason a year ago I decided to have us learn about Madagascar. I think it might have been one of my last Cooking Around the World with others. I'm not really sure why, but we cooked Madagascar chicken. Now, I'd stayed away from African
How to make a battery
Last year we studied physics, and some of our physics experiments felt a little more like chemistry. I didn't really mind this because I felt we had missed out on a lot of opportunities when we studied chemistry. This time we were looking at how to
Three Musketeers movie night
My introduction to Three Musketeers was the 90s Disney movie. It's very Disney and very 1990s. Then I grew up, met my husband, at some point the 90s Three Musketeers movie came up and he said it was one of the worst movies he'd ever seen. My inner
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
Jesus heals craft
One of the days of clubs was the story of Jesus and all of the amazing things he did (and yes I’m going to reuse this craft later for my Sunday School class). With the pre-schoolers we talked about how Jesus could heal the people without using medicine or band-aids, just by talking Jesus was […]
Easy no sew Bible costume
So last year as I was getting ready for our Navajo mission trip I had to make 30 Bible costumes in a week, so I came up with this no sew Bible costume, which I’ve since used several times in my Sunday School class for skits. I was originally planning on waiting to share this […]
Homeschool History
From the Protestant Reformation to the American Revolution
Our recent discussions in homeschool history have been connecting facts and events. It’s been quite fun to hear the kids give me a detailed explanation connecting the Seven Years War to the American Revolution. They don’t completely understand these facts but they’re starting to draw connections. I’ve been having fun drawing connections from the Protestant Reformation to […]
Where to find homeschool history resources
A few years ago when we toured Monticello, the tour guide told us Thomas Jefferson wasn’t an innovator, he was more of a first adaptor. He found great ideas and used them himself and adapted them to fit his needs. That’s how I tend to think of myself and my homeschooling. I don’t always come […]