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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Mysterium Board Game Review
A few years ago the family went to a group board game day, and we played the Mysterium board game. I should say, Jeff and I played it, at the time my kids were all off playing with the kids. I'd heard great things about Mysterium, and was really
Why you need Homeschooling High School by Design.
You may or may not be aware, but my kids are about to hit high school. This is terrifying. Somehow my children are that old. I also know colleges are competitive and how I design our high school is important. That is why when Heather came out with
Pride and Prejudice Book Club
A few years ago, thanks to a random discovery I found a modern-day adaptation of Pride and Prejudice movie that I loved. Princess came in while I was watching it and fell in love with it, and I explained it was inspired by Pride and Prejudice, which
Soul of the Empire Board Game, Roman history
My son, Superman, is a huge fan of Ancient Rome. This is probably an understatement, but he has quite a lot of ancient Rome stuff, and he's why I've got a big huge ancient Rome history section on my blog. When I saw the same people who made
Ancient Sumerian lessons
Occasionally in our homeschool history lessons we get inspired by our book to dig deeper. I don't know if it was reading the lesson and thinking how fun it would be to build a super tall building, or if the kids remembered the last time we read about
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
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 […]
Teaching your kids about giving
As a Christian there are some pretty clear things God tells us to do, and what starts in Sunday School needs to continue at home as family discipleship. One of those is to care for those who are less fortunate than us, and being in the United States that makes us pretty much better off […]
Homeschool History
Introducing timelines to preschool
I’m super excited for this lesson, it’s a great way to introduce timelines to preschoolers, and is a fun bit of homeschool history lesson for preschool. (Future Ticia here, I’m editing this post with new info, and updating pictures, so I’ll add in a few comments, from the perspective of a middle school parent now, not […]
Colonial America: natural dyes
So, a few weeks ago we set about learning how the colonists made their clothes and got the different colored cloths they got. We gathered some different items that had been suggested and boiled our materials for 30 minutes or so and pulled it all out. Then we pulled it all out and […]
Homeschool Science
Science Sunday: Florida and Disney World
During the summer I’m doing some things with my kids for geography that we couldn’t necessarily do during our geography co-op. This was definitely one of those times.We read Disney World (Going Places) and it certainly made my kids want to go. They’re already planning where they want to go. So, then I […]
Science Sunday: Elephants
We’ve been marching through our study of land animals, and have reached the chapter on Ungulates. Last week we learned how ungulates are categorized. This week we learned about elephants. We started off with their size. Elephants are HUGE! First we measured ourselves to get a general idea of size. Then we measured […]