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 came … keep on reading
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Ancient Egypt activities for kids
In case you can’t tell ancient history is one of my favorite time periods for history lessons. I find the ideas and activities you can do with this time fascinating, the history, the people, the mythology. My bookshelves quite agree from
Elephant Booklist
As I continue adding to my booklists and trying to finish off all of the My Father's World Kindergarten booklists (I'm only halfway through, though I've got vestigial versions for some), I got to an elephant booklist, and it was fun to look up
Happy 17th birthday Artist!
Today my youngest child turns 17. Admittedly that's not as impressive for people with a greater gap between their kids ages than 20 months. But, it's still a big deal for me. And as has been my wont for the past decade, it's time to write another
United Arab Emirates Unit
I think my primary awareness of the United Arabe Emirates (UAE) comes form movies. It's a common location for action movies. Famously Tom Cruise did that stunt outside of a skyscraper, which just watching terrifies me as I imagine all the things that
Around Home Children’s Devotional review
I was on Twitter, I know it's renamed but I don't care, and I was talking about how I'm always on the lookout for new children's Bible studies and devotionals. So many don't focus much on the Bible Study portion and instead focus on telling a story
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
Creation story bean bags game
A few days ago I shared this picture with my facebook fans of our Creation story bean bags. One person asked if those were creation story bean bags for Sunday School, and if I made them. I told her I’d share how and the printable soon. Well, soon has come. Mainly because if I waited […]
Why go on a family mission trip?
I’ve been thinking long and hard about how to best share this. Because there was a lot to process and a lot happened in a week. And some of the things would probably sound horrible if you weren’t there. But it was an amazing week. One of the highlights for me was having so many […]
Homeschool History
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 every empire, the rise of democracies and socialism, and […]
Middle Ages Unit Study
You all know I like my hands on learning, especially in our history lessons, and I frequently spend a long time getting together materials and coming up with ideas for our projects. This time for our middle ages unit study I won’t have to. My plan this summer is to have a light school schedule […]
Homeschool Science
STEM project: Retrieve a planetary landing shuttle
Yesterday for our bit of homeschool science we made planetary landing shuttles. But we can’t just leave them on the planet. We need to be able to retrieve the planetary landing shuttles. This made for a great problem-solving STEM project. (good chance there are affiliate links in here) Supplies needed for retrieving a planetary landing […]
The BEST Animal Report for beginning writers
Almost 10 years ago I started researching the different states here in the United States to see what made each one different as we were studying them. I was amused to discover every state had a state animal, and we started studying the animals. This led to the need for a quick and easy way […]