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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Italy Unit Study
Italy is the center point for a lot of history. A LOT OF HISTORY. Narrowing that down into a usable Italy unit became a challenge to decide what I want to include. I ended up leaving out large amounts of things I could have included in our Italy Unit
Bhutan Unit
When we look at Asia, we don't think there are tons of countries there, because we see the massive expanse that is Russia, India, and China. So, it always surprises me when I find a relatively small country like Bhutan. It's not anywhere near as
Jesus at the temple sensory bin
As I thought about how to make a Jesus at the temple sensory bin, I wondered just what I would really want in a sensory bin like that. I want it to contribute to the Bible lesson, but I also don't want it to just be a rehash of other Bible sensory
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs book club
I read Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs as a kid and loved the book. It's such a fun silly book. When I was in high school the first sequel came out. At the time I was volunteering in a first grade classroom, so I had a valid excuse for reading the
Fall of Man craft
For years whenever I would search Fall of Man craft I would find precisely two different crafts. First I would find some sort of snake craft. I hated that because it's focusing on Satan and what he did, rather than on God and how He offered a
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
Job Bible lesson plans, praising in pain
Last time I shared about Job from the Bible (I have to add that because otherwise, search engines think I’m talking about job as in “get a job”), and how to help friends in pain. It’s a great Sunday School lesson because we all know someone who had a hard time. This time we looked […]
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 […]
Homeschool History
US history: Transcontinental Railroad
In the middle of the 1800s, everyone in the United States became obsessed with two things: the slavery fight, and Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny is the belief that God meant for the United States to go from “sea to shining sea.” Horace Greeley wrote many an article encouraging people to “Go West, Young Man!” There […]
What happens when the kids write the Declaration of Independence from Mom?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, and they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights…” Thomas Jefferson wrote those words a couple hundred years ago and with the flick of a pen set in motion events that changed the world. What would happen if your kids […]
Homeschool Science
Science Sunday: learning how to use a microscope
I mentioned in the Moses and the Burning Bush post that we were studying snakes, well here’s one of our projects. The boys got a snake skin from the Nature Center, and couldn’t wait to observe it. It being the ridiculously delicate thing it was, it had already broken into a few smaller pieces, […]
Squirrels and Squirrel nests lesson
As I mentioned last week, we’ve been studying squirrels (head to last week’s post to get the free rodent picture search and to see our other activities). It’s been fun to learn about squirrels, their habits, squirrel nests (I didn’t know about them prior to learning about them this time). Looking at that […]