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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Cambodia Unit
Cambodia is a mystery to me. Actually let me rephrase that, Cambodia fell into the grouping of countries I knew existed but didn't know much about. I knew there were events that happened in Asia, but I didn't know exactly where they happened. Thanks
Lightsail online reading curriculum
I love to read. After teaching in public school for a few years and over 10 years of homeschooling my kids, I've learned something. The key to enthusiastic readers is having a wide variety of books available. However, building that personal library
Big changes coming
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum.... I've been thinking off and on about changing my blog name for years. The name didn't really reflect what I wrote about. I'm not so much writing about being a mom now, it's more adventures in
June 2021 homeschool memories
June was a bit of a shock to me I was still trying to catch up from May, and then June smacked me upside the head. I'm really trying to figure out how to not keep having this happen. (yes, affiliate links somewhere) June week 1 We started
Hidden Figures book club
As soon as the Hidden Figures movie came out I knew I wanted to use it at some point in our homeschooling. It was a perfect book and a movie combo for us. I debated whether to put it in our assigned reading for our Modern History unit OR my planned
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
Road to Ammaeus lesson
In terms of continuity this Sunday School lesson comes after Easter. Take a moment and think of how the disciples feel. They have just seen the man they followed, the man they thought was going to rescue Israel go from everyone crying out “King of Kings,” to his brutal beating and crucifixion. They are demoralized. […]
Noah’s ark puzzle game
I don’t know if this is you, but I’ve always wondered how Noah got all of the animals on the ark. It’s not exactly a big space, and how did he make sure all of those animals fit on there, and how did he keep the carnivores away from the herbivores? I’ve always thought it […]
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 […]
World War 1 nurse’s hat craft
By World War 1 nursing was finally recognized as a profession and as a noble service. There had been recent work to get medics universally recognized as non-combatants, so they were now, in theory, not going to be shot at while helping the wounded. This led to the universally acknowledged red cross symbol. World War […]
Homeschool Science
Johnny Appleseed lessons
In September everyone starts thinking of back to school, apples, and in my case apples make me think of Johnny Appleseed. The funny thing is when I first started to write this post back in the beginning of August I had great plans of making this big huge Johnny Appleseed unit, and then I started […]
Science Sunday: Inner Space Caverns
Last week right before I got sick during our WEEK of FIELD TRIPS! I kid you not, it was insane, three in one week. The first one was to Inner Space Caverns. We’ve gone once before, but then the kids were a little young to absorb much scientifically, and they also were too […]