Adventures in a Messy Life https://ticiamessing.com Hands on learning for active learners Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:23:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://ticiamessing.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Adventures-in-a-Messy-Life-small-250-32x32.png Adventures in a Messy Life https://ticiamessing.com 32 32 Dear graduate https://ticiamessing.com/dear-graduate/ https://ticiamessing.com/dear-graduate/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:30:00 +0000 https://adventuresinmommydom.org/?p=20259 A dear friend of mine graduated from high school last year. As part of her graduation, I wrote this letter, and I had it on my mind to share it with other graduates. Future Ticia 2026 who is rescheduling this post has since shared variations on this with several kids. I think this is going in my Homeschool How To as a final thing, send them out into the world. Y’all ready for a crazy…

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]]> https://ticiamessing.com/dear-graduate/feed/ 7 March in Review https://ticiamessing.com/march-in-review/ https://ticiamessing.com/march-in-review/#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:18:22 +0000 https://ticiamessing.com/?p=51449 All right, let me get this month started I spent the first week of March organizing my pantry. That took three trips to Ikea, which mainly involved buying more of those big plastic tubs. The first trip, I bought 4 of the big tubs and several of the smaller tubs. Then I figured out I wanted a shelf on the bottom, and bought those shelving units, and finally I returned the…

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]]> https://ticiamessing.com/march-in-review/feed/ 1 Teaching early elementary students how to write reports https://ticiamessing.com/us-history-harry-truman-and-dwight-eisenhower/ https://ticiamessing.com/us-history-harry-truman-and-dwight-eisenhower/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:00:00 +0000 https://adventuresinmommydom.org/?p=5279 Once we are adults, we spend large amounts of time writing reports, but it is not an easy skill to learn, and there are several types of reports. It is good from an early age for kids to write reports and learn how to write reports. I like to find different ways to incorporate learning how to write reports into our lessons, like this history lesson. We are about halfway through our US history…

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]]> https://ticiamessing.com/us-history-harry-truman-and-dwight-eisenhower/feed/ 7 February in review https://ticiamessing.com/february-in-review/ https://ticiamessing.com/february-in-review/#respond Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:39:42 +0000 https://ticiamessing.com/?p=51338 Okay February, this is the shortest month of the year and it already feels like it’s been 3 months long. Not that you can tell from the pictures I took. (there are affiliate links in here) Jeff and I have been slowly clearing out the random debris in the loft so the carpets can be replaced and before that so I can paint the trim and touch up the paint. That is all that is left…

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]]> https://ticiamessing.com/february-in-review/feed/ 0 Travel Games https://ticiamessing.com/travel-games/ https://ticiamessing.com/travel-games/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:25:00 +0000 https://adventuresinmommydom.org/?p=5185 We LOVE road trips. We travel quite a bit, and that means I have kids who are bored in the car. In the 13 years, this is Future Ticia of 2019, not the 2013 Ticia saying this, of parenting my kids haven’t had electronics in the car. Instead, they’ve read books, listened to audiobooks, and played lots of travel games. Travel games can give you something to do during the tedious parts of traveling or…

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]]> https://ticiamessing.com/travel-games/feed/ 6 Can you cross the Oobleck Ocean? https://ticiamessing.com/oobleck-stem-project/ https://ticiamessing.com/oobleck-stem-project/#respond Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:30:00 +0000 https://adventuresinmommydom.org/?p=29049 A few years ago we studied astronomy (check out our astronomy lessons), and at the end of it all we had a Life in Space Unit, and one of the activities I somehow forgot to write about all those years ago was crossing the Oobleck Ocean. This is a super fun and messy STEM project, and it made for a fun science lesson to keep their brain from completely disengaging over the summer.

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]]> https://ticiamessing.com/oobleck-stem-project/feed/ 0 50 State Study: Ohio lesson https://ticiamessing.com/50-state-study-ohio/ https://ticiamessing.com/50-state-study-ohio/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:40:00 +0000 https://adventuresinmommydom.org/?p=1389 Hi, Future Ticia 2026 here, and I’m updating and basically rewriting our Ohio unit to make this more in line with our modern geography lessons. This was part of our United States Geography back when we were studying through the United States with a homegrown co-op studying the states as they entered the Union, and then we studied Ohio again very quickly as they were in high school to remind them…

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]]> https://ticiamessing.com/50-state-study-ohio/feed/ 5 January in Review https://ticiamessing.com/january-in-review/ https://ticiamessing.com/january-in-review/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:03:41 +0000 https://ticiamessing.com/?p=51135 Okay, let’s go. It is so weird to think that one fourth of this century is done. And here goes my plan of just recycling these posts and republishing them each year. This may be a crazy idea, but I think it will work. (There are affiliate links in here) The first week of the year was the last week Batman was here, so it was a lot of doing stuff together. It was also a lot of…

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]]> https://ticiamessing.com/january-in-review/feed/ 1 History Games for School https://ticiamessing.com/history-games-for-school/ https://ticiamessing.com/history-games-for-school/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:06:00 +0000 https://adventuresinmommydom.org/?p=5176 Regular readers of my blog will tell you we are BIG fans of history lessons here as well as gameschooling. I love finding new and unique ways to teach history lessons, and games often fills this challenge. Though many history games are not intended for young kids. Similar to my math games post, I’m going to group these by subject, but I am not planning on splitting out the…

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]]> https://ticiamessing.com/history-games-for-school/feed/ 9 December in Review https://ticiamessing.com/december-in-review/ https://ticiamessing.com/december-in-review/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2026 10:25:00 +0000 https://ticiamessing.com/?p=50995 Mwa ha ha ha, it is December 15 and I am starting to write. This is so much better than November when I started writing the post on December 4. Sigh, that month was insane. (there are affiliate links in here) Looking at this, these pictures are totally out of order, but here goes. I finished painting The Artist’s room, and now I’m painting the trim of her room.

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