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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Edvard Munch art history lesson
When I was in high school, my youth pastor used The Scream as the theme for a youth retreat. And then it became a thing in pop culture. I don't know if you've ever seen that, but there are all sorts of great parodies of The Scream (which I'll link to
Burundi Unit
You want to know how I learned about Burundi? I have a friend who BC (Before Covid) would fly over there once a year or so and help run a school for women to learn how to sew. Then they would have the skills and the equipment to open up a shop and
Man in the Iron Mask book club
Back when Leonardo DiCaprio was the guy every girl I knew had a crush on, he was in Man in the Iron Mask. Now, I assumed because it was Leonardo DiCaprio that this was not a particularly good movie, and it was only created to make girls go watch the
Czechia Unit
I thoroughly enjoyed frustrating my daughter mispronouncing Czechia, or what was once known as the Czech Republic. That and we may have spent way more time than anyone else might have making jokes about defenestration. Yes, sometimes our geography
Word in Motion homeschool Bible curriculum
Way back when I was in middle school my church had this weekend retreat where we could all learn the BIG STORY of the Bible. We spent the weekend learning the major events and motions to go with each event to help us learn what happened when. Fast
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
Esther lesson for kids
Esther is a book of the Bible I very much enjoy, but it’s also an odd one. God is never directly mentioned through the whole book, but you can see His fingerprints all over the book, which makes for a great Sunday School lesson on providence. It’s also intriguing to me because Esther takes place […]
Peter and Cornelius Sunday School lesson
I’ve always wondered at the placement of this lesson in the Bible. I’m always tempted as I plan our Sunday School lessons to switch it to before Paul’s conversion, because it feels like a break in the narrative. But, as I was rereading the material I realized, it’s not a break in the narrative. […]
Homeschool History
10 history board games to give this year
A few years ago I wrote a 10 Days of Games series, and I shared lists and lists of board games. Since then I’ve refined my thinking and gotten a few new board games, so I wanted to share my 10 favorite history board games. {All Amazon links in this post are affiliate links} Ancient […]
Make your history projects look more authentic with this ship’s logbook project
Technically speaking, all of the posts for the next week or so were completed before the Christopher Columbus unit. I say technically because, it’s all a horrible mish mash of activities in my head, and some were completed after, and some were before, but I know we started our Ship’s logbook craft before any lessons […]