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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

Learn all about Australia with this great booklist

March 12, 2021 Ticia 6 Comments

Australia booklist geography Oceania

Growing up in the 80s Australia was the land down under and we knew about Crocodile Dundee and the Crocodile Hunter. And maybe they were walking on their heads because they were in the Southern hemisphere. It didn't take too long for me to figure out that idea was wrong, but it's … [Read more...]

geography, reading and writing australia, book list, kindergarten

Making words, a great phonics lesson for learning to read

August 10, 2020 Ticia 4 Comments

making words reading lesson kinder preschool

Hello! Future Ticia here, I first published this in 2009 when my kids were tiny! They are no longer tiny, but the lessons in here are still true. This was an activity I did when I was teaching first grade in public school, and I transitioned it to our reading lessons at home. We … [Read more...]

reading and writing kindergarten, learn to read

Dinosaur booklist for your dino-crazy kid

July 17, 2020 Ticia 1 Comment

Dinosaur booklist for kids

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 … [Read more...]

reading and writing, science book list, kindergarten, preschool

All about Us books for My Father’s World Kindergarten

June 8, 2020 Ticia 4 Comments

All About Us booklist preschool kindergarten My Father's World

Learning All About Us, and yes in my mind those are all capitalized is a common preschool or kindergarten theme. For us, it showed up in our kindergarten, and my preschool daughter was pulled along as traveled through this unit. I did a pivot from the original idea, which was … [Read more...]

reading and writing book list, kindergarten, My Father's World

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