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5 Beginning Chapter Book Series for Boys

December 17, 2021 Ticia 1 Comment

beginning chapter book series for boys book list reading elementary 2nd 3rd

When my boys were at the stage where they were ready to move beyond the "Leard to Read" books but weren't quite ready for most chapter books. I headed over to the local Barnes and Noble and perused the beginning chapter books and found a lot of fairies, cute pets, Disney … [Read more...]

reading and writing 2nd grade, 3rd grade, book list, elementary

Xerxes lesson for elementary kids

June 15, 2020 Ticia 6 Comments

King Xerxes lesson for elementary

Hey, Future Ticia 2020 here, and I'm updating a few things here, and expanding on this Xerxes lesson, which is part of a greater library of history lessons and in particular part of our Ancient History and Babylon unit. I now mostly return you to 2014 Ticia. Our Xerxes lesson … [Read more...]

history 3rd grade, ancient Babylon, ancient history, ancient mesopotamia, ancient Persia

Test Tube Science Kit, amazing find or complete dud?

September 30, 2019 Ticia 1 Comment

test tube science in a bag review

A few years ago in Hobby Lobby I found this cool little kit. It had 5 test tubes, a nice plastic stand, and this nice little see-through bag. Now, I love random small bags, for not other reason than it's a random small bag, and cool science stuff, why not? So I picked it up … [Read more...]

science 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, chemistry, primary grades

Grab your markers and create a Multiplication mini book

September 5, 2019 Ticia Leave a Comment

place value notation lesson

Way back ages ago, my daughter was struggling to learn multiplication. We'd built it with blocks, we'd watched videos, we'd read books, but for whatever reason, it wasn't clicking quite yet. Then I combined several ideas, we built it and then drew out what we'd built creating a … [Read more...]

math 3rd grade

Ancient Sumerian lessons

June 12, 2019 Ticia 12 Comments

Sumerian hands on activities for ancient history lessons

Occasionally in our homeschool history lessons we get inspired by our book to dig deeper. I don't know if it was reading the lesson and thinking how fun it would be to build a super tall building, or if the kids remembered the last time we read about Ancient Sumeria, but this … [Read more...]

arts and crafts, history 3rd grade, ancient history, kid crafts, lego history

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