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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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
Alabama Unit
Our Alabama unit was a great addition to our homeschool geography lessons. For me it was a great revisit of some books we had read when the kids were younger, and since our library had a few new books a chance for me to add some new books to our book
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
The Lord’s Prayer craft
This isn’t part of my normal 2 year Bible cycle for my Sunday School class, but I’m joining together with several other bloggers to bring you a craft for the Jesus Storybook Bible. (all Amazon links in this post are affiliate links) What is the Jesus Storybook Bible? If you haven’t heard of the Jesus […]
Creation story bag, continue the learning through play
I love when the lesson you teach at Sunday School follows the kids home and gives them a chance to review it and learn more about the story through the week. With older kids I like that to be them digging into the Bible, but younger kids aren’t able to do that. Instead, you can […]
Homeschool History
Creation lesson activity Mystery of History 1
Future Ticia here, in the fall of 2018 we’re cycling back to Ancient History for the last time, and I wanted to see what we’ve done in the past in our history lessons. Since we’ll start off with this Creation lesson, I thought this would be a good place to start looking at, but my […]
American Revolution unit study
At a formative point in my childhood, almost 12 years old, I went to Colonial Williamsburg for the first time. We had part of a day to go there, and I remember distinctly reveling in the milieu of Virginia right before the American Revolution. It fascinated me, and so I wasn’t too surprised to discover […]
Homeschool Science
Cougars unit
We’ve been studying big cats recently and for this particular post I’m going to concentrate on our cougars unit. Cougars Unit videos One of the things that has really brought the lessons home during this unit is seeing videos of the animal in real life. Most of the ones I’ve used are of […]
Science Sunday: Prepare to be grossed out…..
This is the cry I heard as I innocently sat at my computer last week, “Mom! There’s a dead bird in our back yard and Mac’s chewing on it.” Now, I hadn’t fully woken up yet, and was still blinking at the computer screen. But, I was galvanized into action, and immediately said, […]