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...]
Xerxes lesson for elementary kids
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...]
Test Tube Science Kit, amazing find or complete dud?
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...]
Grab your markers and create a Multiplication mini book
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...]
Ancient Sumerian 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...]
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