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Arkansas Unit

January 27, 2023 Ticia 1 Comment

Arkansas Unit geography United States 50 state study 11th

As a kid, most of my knowledge of Arkansas was President Clinton was from there, and we made a lot of jokes about people in Arkansas being rather backwards. I have no clue why that is, but Arkansas and Mississippi were the two states we picked on. Now as a grownup I know there … [Read more...]

geography 11th grade, 1st grade, 50 states study, book list

New Hampshire Unit

December 26, 2022 Ticia Leave a Comment

New Hampshire geography unit North America United States 1st 12th

New Hampshire is one of the states the kids and I studied back in our first attempts at geography lessons as we studied our way through United States geography. So while I wrote about a few of the individual books we read, I somehow never wrote a summary post of our New Hampshire … [Read more...]

geography, reading and writing, recipe 11th grade, 1st grade, 50 states study, kindergarten, North America

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs book club

September 19, 2022 Ticia 2 Comments

Cloud with a Chance of Meatballs book and a movie picture book

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 book. A second sequel came out … [Read more...]

reading and writing 1st grade, 2nd grade, book and a movie, elementary

Colonial games and pasttimes

August 28, 2020 Ticia 3 Comments

colonial games lesson

Future Ticia 2020, I finally added in the last few Colonial games into this post. This is like the third time I've added more to this Colonial games post. Deep sigh, finally done. When you look back at Colonial America, one thing we think about is how their life is different … [Read more...]

history 1st grade, 6th grade, colonial America, primary grades, US history

The Oldest Barn in America, a lesson in Order of Events

October 10, 2018 Ticia 12 Comments

Tuttles Red Barn lesson

As I went about trying to find good books about New Hampshire for our geography lessons, I found a nice bit of Colonial American history and an amazing family story. This lesson also made for a great opportunity to work on order of events in a story as we read the almost 400-year … [Read more...]

history 1st grade, colonial America, primary, US history

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