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 Great Baltimore Fire, how one person or horse can change history
Sometimes the most interesting bits of history, are not the ones we all know. As an example, I didn't know a bit about the 1904 Great Baltimore Fire until we were researching Maryland for our United States geography lessons. Then I found out about
Presents for your Bookworm Friend
If you follow my blog on Facebook, you’ve probably seen dozens of bookworm memes. Jokes about not pronouncing words because you’ve only read them. Jokes about hiding with a good book. On Instagram you’ll occasionally see posts about reading all day
October 2018 Homeschooling Month in Review
Everyone in my family loves October because it starts the holiday season for us. We love dressing up for Halloween and being silly, and Jeff’s birthday is in October. However, this month was lots of people being vaguely sick, and part of the way
How to write the Unexpected Twist
I love teaching with picture books. They have so many great projects you can do with them. I can just hear you now, “That’s right Ticia, I love to use picture books with my six-year-old!” I loved that too, but I’m talking about picture books with my
How to make art lessons happen
I'm gonna confess something. I like art lessons. In high school, I always wanted to take art, but didn't have room in my schedule to take it. Later I fiddled around and learned somewhat to draw, but I recognize my limitations. I've always wanted art
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
My GO TO Bible resources
Every time I write a new Sunday School lesson I have a few places I go to for ideas. These are Bible resources I know will give me great content or show me a better way to teach the topic. My go to online places for Bible resources I’ll be honest, this will be listed […]
Can you drink the water from your faucet?
We have gone as a family to the Navajo Nation three times now. We started when Princess was six. Each year I look on it as an excellent time of family discipleship, as the kids grow and stretch themselves. This year was different though, this year I was more aware of the priveleges we have, […]
Homeschool History
Quick and easy archaeology dig to get your kids loving history
To kick off our homeschool history lessons this year with a bang we started with an archaeology dig lesson. What child wouldn’t want to start off their school year covered in mud? Ours certainly did. Archaeology dig lesson supplies As many empty 3 liters bottles as you have dig sites. We planned two dig […]
Dump out your LEGOs and grab your history books
In our homeschool history lessons we pull out a lot of LEGOs to create LEGO history. LEGOs have a wide variety of uses in your history and geography lessons: provide visual aid of how history unfolded build famous monuments re-enact famous scenes in history I’m sure there’s even more that I haven’t thought of yet, […]
Homeschool Science
Volcano Activities
We’ve spent what feels like the last two months completing volcano activities. I’m sure it was really only a few weeks spread out as I got the materials, but it’s felt like forever. First we read the chapter about in CKE Earth and Space (affiliate link) about volcanoes and all the cool stuff that goes on […]
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 […]