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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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Underground Railroad Picture books

It always amuses me when our lessons overlap. What can turn into a history lesson, often starts out as a geography lesson. Basically, I'm looking for a book happening in a particular state and I end up finding a book happening in that state, that

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Homeschool Inservice: Teach by Dennis Dinoia

Years ago when I launched my newsletter I called Inservice in my INbox, going back to when I was teaching public school and we'd have an in-service day to learn more about teaching. Eventually, I phased that out because I kept forgetting what number

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Killing Doctor Lucky

It’s the night before the game Clue happens, and you and a few of your friends are gathered at the house of Dr. Lucky, the famous philanthropist.  The thing is, you really can’t stand that crazy old man, and if you are given the chance you’d love to

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Gospel Colors

In high school our church switched from our summer VBS being taught by the adults in the church, to the teens and in backyards all throughout the city. In preparation for the VBS we all learned a gospel presentation, the Wordless Book, or Gospel

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Cinderella Around the World booklist

Right across from my university there was a teacher supply store. I went by there about once a month or so and would pick up a resource as I had money. One resource I wanted, but never picked up was a Cinderella Around the World Unit Study. It was

Sunday School and Family Discipleship

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Call of Abraham lesson

One of the things I love about the patriarchs is they’re not perfect.  The Jewish faith likes to say “We came from Abraham, look at Father Abraham.”  (Who else got the song in their head now?).  They don’t mention how twice Abraham nearly let his wife be given to another man.  Or his other failure……… […]

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Choosing a Children’s Bible

So now you have your own Bible, and you have some ideas on how to study the Bible or where to go to study it, but your kids don’t have a Bible to use at home for family discipleship or take to Sunday School, let’s look for a Children’s Bible. (there are affiliate links in […]

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Homeschool History

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon Lesson

As we’ve been going through our ancient history lessons I’ve been looking for opportunities to use Legos and Minecraft.  They are both things my kids enjoy, so when we reached the Hanging Gardens of Babylon I knew they needed to be built. I sent the kids upstairs to find as many plant Legos as we […]

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Church History resources

One great tragedy of our Sunday School set up we don’t know our history.  We can tell you all about King David, Paul’s miracles, but do you know anything the Lollards or John Calvin?  We know the famous names from our history, but we don’t know why they are important. Why study church history? As […]

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Homeschool Science

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Dinosaur booklist for your dino-crazy kid

At some point, every teacher and every homeschooler will head to the library looking for dinosaur books. Maybe it’s because their kids have suddenly gone dinosaur crazy or maybe it’s because they’re covering a dinosaur unit. Either way, they need a dinosaur booklist, and they need it now. There are also about 2 million dinosaur […]

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How to write an animal report with free printable

This past week we read about platypus.  They’re fascinating creatures that don’t really fit into any of our categories of animals perfectly.  It’s got a bill like a duck, it’s body is rather like that of a badger, it’s tail looks like a beaver tail, it lays eggs, but it suckles its’ young (I promise […]

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