Adventures in a Messy Life https://ticiamessing.com Hands on learning for active learners Wed, 13 May 2026 14:26:45 +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 World War 2 unit https://ticiamessing.com/world-war-2-unit-elementary/ https://ticiamessing.com/world-war-2-unit-elementary/#comments Sun, 03 May 2026 14:30:00 +0000 https://adventuresinmommydom.org/?p=13643 One of my favorite authors sent out an email reminding us that this week is the 70th anniversary of D-Day. I was lucky enough to be in France during the 50th anniversary of D-Day, and in honor of that, I’d like to share with you all of our World War 2 unit which is an amazing history lesson. (there are possibly affiliate links in here) World War 2 is a hard topic to cover in…

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]]> https://ticiamessing.com/world-war-2-unit-elementary/feed/ 15 April 2026 memories https://ticiamessing.com/april-memories/ https://ticiamessing.com/april-memories/#comments Fri, 01 May 2026 15:45:00 +0000 https://ticiamessing.com/?p=48971 It is April 22 and I’m just now starting to type up April. I kind of got behind as I started to write it and then got busy with other things. (There are affiliate links) April has been insane! We started the month with replacing the windows of our house. It’s amazing how quickly they can do that. The guys who did the work were also wildly amused at what Leezard can sleep…

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]]> https://ticiamessing.com/april-memories/feed/ 2 How Big is a Whale? https://ticiamessing.com/science-sunday-how-big-is-a-whale/ https://ticiamessing.com/science-sunday-how-big-is-a-whale/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:15:00 +0000 https://adventuresinmommydom.org/?p=1595 We finished up the chapter on whales and dolphins, but I didn’t think they were quite grasping how big these animals were. If I read to you a whale is 100 feet long would you know how long that is? So we started to investigate, how big is a whale? This made for a great science lesson and was such a fun addition to our Swimming Creatures Unit. (Future Ticia 2026 is going to add a few…

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]]> https://ticiamessing.com/science-sunday-how-big-is-a-whale/feed/ 11 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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