Tag: 2nd grade

  • Pasta Dinosaur Dig

    Pasta Dinosaur Dig

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    Hi! This is Future Ticia 2024, and I’m updating this post and thought I’d pop in to start and say a few things about our pasta dinosaur dig to warn you. This was written back in the dark ages of the internet back in 2011, so my original pictures are small, and not that great.…

  • Picture books made into movies

    Picture books made into movies

    I love picture books, even when my kids were in high school I would occasionally check out picture books that did a good job of conveying what I wanted them to learn in a lesson. I also love Books made into movies, but when my kids were the age we would have really done this,…

  • The BEST Animal Report minibook for beginning writers

    The BEST Animal Report minibook for beginning writers

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    Almost 10 years ago I started researching the different states here in the United States to see what made each one different as we were studying them. I was amused to discover every state had a state animal, and we started studying the animals. This led to the need for a quick and easy way…

  • Everything you need to know to get started with All About Reading

    Everything you need to know to get started with All About Reading

    The one thing I thought was scary about homeschooling was teaching my kids how to read.  I taught first grade, and an entire class full of students how to read, and yet I still found the idea scary.  Probably because learning how to read is so fundamental to everything we do.  I tried a few…

  • Canada unit

    Canada unit

    Hi Future Ticia 2023 here, actually I’m republishing this in 2023, so it’s just present Ticia. Almost 10 years ago we had a Canada Unit, but kids being kids they didn’t remember much, and so when we reached high school we studied Canada again in our geography lessons. Now I return you to past Ticia,…