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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7th grade books made into movies
I love to read. At some point in middle school I got it into my head that I needed to read all the classics, or at least the classics I thought were what I should read. Now many of these were books made into movies, like Little Princess. So when I
November 2022 month in review
I know I say it pretty much every month, but it amazes me it's already November. (there are affiliate links in here) Week 1 My pictures don't really tell the tale of what all happened that week. Like, I completely forgot The Artist
Boy Jesus at the temple chart
There are some verses that people like to quote when talking about parenting. There's the less popular now vers of spare the rod, spoil the child. There's a verse in Deuteronomy about how to talk with your child about their faith, which basically
South America Unit
Before we started learning about South America for our geography. I knew a couple of things. I knew about the Amazon River and the rain forest. You can't have grown up in the 90s and not heard about the rain forest, and how we were going to DESTROY
Indonesia Unit
Funny story, a few weeks ago I was having lunch with my Mom and she talked about a news report where someone had gone to Indonesia and come back with lots of clothes. She doubted they had really been there because her memory of Indonesia (from 1979
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
Cain and Abel sort
One of the things I learned for studying the Bible is to make charts. Now that’s easy to do if you are reading easily and know how to compare, but what if you’re younger and just now learning how to make comparisons, and that’s where today’s Bible lesson comes into play. If you prepare the […]
Jesus feeds the 5000 and Jesus walks on water
So funny story, last week I’ve been without a printer because we were out of ink, and I glance at my lesson plans from Illuminations (affiliate link) and it said Jesus feeds the 5000 in Sunday School, and I looked at my blogging calendar and it said today I was supposed to post Jesus feeding […]
Homeschool History
When dreams change, a bit of New York history
I remember listening to the song “Unanswered Prayers” by Garth Brooks. In the song, he talks about his dreams coming true, just, not the dreams he expected. This parallels nicely with the time period presented in Tenth Avenue Cowboy, the Gilded Era, and made for a great philosophical discussion disguised as a homeschool history lesson. […]
Civil War Unit study
The American Civil War is a turning point in history. Not just for Americans, it was the start of modern warfare, and dignitaries from Europe came to observe the American war. That of course means it’s a vitally important war to discuss with your kids, so of course you need to makes sure you have […]
Homeschool Science
Elementary Biology lessons
Last year I was overly amibitious. I decided to cover two homeschool science curriculums in the same year. It was a little crazy, but my kids enjoyed the material, so it turned out well. This year is a bit of a review year because we’ve covered biology before, but we started the material when the […]
Science Sunday: Finishing up the mystery
We’ve been following along belatedly with All Things Beautiful and their mystery. And a few weeks before Christmas we finished up the mystery together. First we reviewed the clues. My kids happily drew pictures of their chosen suspect. Now, their chosen suspect changed often and rapidly. After reviewing what we knew […]