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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Science labs for high school
Y'all my kids are in high school and I've discovered science labs are much more difficult than our labs in elementary and middle school. Elementary science lessons were easy, "Go grab the baking soda and the vinegar, and let's go!" Now I need actual
Modern history lesson plans
A few years ago we studied Modern history. We went through history from 1700- current days for some really crazy history lessons. Modern history lessons cover a lot of material. The world changed a lot in the last 300 years. We saw the fall of almost
Grab your markers and create a Multiplication mini book
Way back ages ago, my daughter was struggling to learn multiplication. We'd built it with blocks, we'd watched videos, we'd read books, but for whatever reason, it wasn't clicking quite yet. Then I combined several ideas, we built it and then drew
August 2019 Homeschooling in Review
Soooooo..... I had this theory we would slowly ease into our first year of high school, and add a subject or two each week. Then, EVERYONE, and I do mean EVERYONE, was like, "School's about to start, let's get together!" and suddenly I was looking at
Back to School prayer cootie catcher
One thing I do in my welcome email to new subscribers is to ask what they'd love to see. Monday I got a response saying Back to School prayer stations, and I thought, "Yes! That's genius, and I was playing with some ideas," and got started on it, but
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
Prayer Stations for those affected by natural disasters
These past few weeks I’ve watched as hurricanes have hit Texas and Florida. I’ve been reading about forest fires raging untamed in several states and up into Canada. While I can help with the relief efforts here in Texas, there’s not much I can do for those hit by natural disasters further afield but pray. […]
Jesus wrote a letter to the church. What did He have to say?
Every Saturday morning Jeff takes the kids out for breakfast, and I sleep in. They grab their Bibles, and work their way through a book of the Bible. Right now they are working through Revelation because Superman decided that is his favorite book of the Bible. Then last week our Sunday School class went through […]
Homeschool History
At what cost progress? Lessons from Vasco de Gama
There are some explorer names I remember better than others. As I mentioned yesterday I have a hard time remembering Bartolomue Dias. Vasco de Gama, on the other hand I remember. I have fun saying his name, it just rolls off the tongue. I wonder if that helped him when traveling. It certainly made this […]
America in the 1950s lesson plan
There are many similarities between America in the 1950s and America in the 1920s. Both times there was a sudden expansion of industry, technology, and in building. All of the innovation that came about to help survive the war was now focused on improving the standard of living. Towards that end, we did a fun […]
Homeschool Science
North Carolina and airplanes…..
So, since North Carolina is the state of flight, we tried out paper airplanes, I went to paper airplane design to find all of our different ideas and then we had fun……. Only, it didn’t quite go as planned. I carefully chose planes they said would fly very far. I had them all […]
Why do you go faster on a steep slide? (potential energy experiment)
You know what’s fun? When your science lessons require you to make big messes. Or that’s what my kids think. I, as the Mom who is going to clean up that mess, don’t always agree with them. However, I could make this not as painful as it looked on paper to clean up. So, I […]