Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week and learn some great history and geography along the way. This week: the Old City of Berne in Switzerland.
🔭 ☄️ HOMESCHOOL ASTRONOMY: The Most Beautiful Objects in the Universe
Happy birthday to the great French astronomer Charles Messier (1730–1817), who cataloged some of the most beautiful nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies in the universe — so he could ignore them.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 25 June 2023
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Clean hands, cosmic catalogues, children’s authors, asteroid days, momentous struggles, Tajik rivers, a toast to Independence, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Idaho, Switzerland, Tajikistan, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Idaho, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, and Tajikistan.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Wood-Warblers (Part II)
Come along on our homeschool tour of North American birds and pick up some great science and natural history lessons along the way. This week: the tiny and colorful Wood-Warblers (Part II).
🖋 🚂 WONDERFUL WORDS: “It was late June”
“And for that minute a blackbird sang / Close by, and round him, mistier, / Farther and farther, all the birds / Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Edward Thomas, for late June and the birds of summer.)
🌍 🇸🇪 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Decorated Farmhouses of Sweden
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week and learn some great history and geography along the way. This week: the Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland in Sweden.
🗓 ⛱ SUMMER IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)
Summer is here! If you’re in the northern hemisphere, that is. If you’re in the southern hemisphere, winter is here! Happy June solstice to homeschoolers everywhere!
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – June 2023
Our June roundup of some recent academic research and news about home education in the United States and around the world, with links to sources. We have three items this month from all around the world: Barbaroș & Bocoș (2023), Fatima, Kaukab, & Sheikh (2023), and Pratiwi et al. (2023).
🌅 HOMESCHOOL SEASONS: Watch the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge
Follow a live broadcast of the summer-solstice sunset and sunrise at Stonehenge, the ancient astronomical landmark in southern England.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 18 June 2023
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Father’s Days, summer solstices, June poems, old schools, Swedish farmhouses, South American rivers, a toast to merry hearts, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Washington, Sri Lanka, Sweden, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Washington, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, and Sweden.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Wood-Warblers (Part I)
Come along on our homeschool tour of North American birds and pick up some great science and natural history lessons along the way. This week: the tiny and colorful Wood-Warblers (Part I).
🖋 🏰 HAPPY FATHER’S DAY WEEK from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A whisper, and then a silence: / Yet I know by their merry eyes / They are plotting and planning together / To take me by surprise.” (Our paternal homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, for Father’s Day, the third Sunday in June.)
🇺🇸 HOMESCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Happy Flag Day!
Flag Day (June 14th every year) celebrates the date in 1777 when Congress established the Stars & Stripes as the national flag of the new United States.
🌍 🇪🇸 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Burgos Cathedral in Spain
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week and learn some great history and geography along the way. This week: Burgos Cathedral in Spain.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 11 June 2023
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Flag Days, ancient eclipses, Pyrrhic victories, paternal poems, splendid scientists, remarkable recipes, Somalian rivers, a toast to Old Glory, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Montana, Somalia, Spain, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Montana, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, and Spain.
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Spica and Virgo for June
Make the acquaintance of the young blue-white giant Spica in the constellation Virgo the Virgin this month, one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere sky, and make it your homeschool friend for life.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Finches, Longspurs, and Snow Buntings
Come along on our homeschool tour of North American birds and pick up some great science and natural history lessons along the way. This week: the small and familiar Fringillid Finches, and the Longspurs and Snow Buntings.
📺 HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARIES for Your Homeschool Summer
Ten multi-part masterpieces of the documentarian’s art that you and your homeschool students can watch together and discuss over the summer. (Or at any other time of year!)
🖋 🇺🇸 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): “O! say can you see?”
“Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, / In full glory reflected now shines on the stream — / ‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave / O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.” (Our American homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Francis Scott Key, for Flag Day, the 14th of June.)
🌍 🇸🇮 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Architecture of Jože Plečnik in Slovenia
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week and learn some great history and geography along the way. This week: the Architectural Works of Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
📚 LEARNING THE LIBRARY: The Literary 800s
Explore your local library and the whole universe of knowledge with our annual homeschool tour of the Dewey Decimal System. This month: the Literary 800s.
🇫🇷 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Learning About D-Day 1944
Learn about the World War II Allied invasion of Normandy, France, on 6 June 1944, using live news broadcasts from that day.
📸 PHOTO CHALLENGE for June: “Tents” and “Seven Prismatic Colors”
Calling all homeschool photographers! The Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge is a great way for enthusiastic homeschool photography students to develop their skills and gain some recognition for their work. This month’s themes are “Tents” and “Seven Prismatic Colors.” Take a look!
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 4 June 2023
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: New terms, Revolutionary resolutions, decisive days, patriotic poems, great stars, Slovakian rivers, a toast to liberty, and more!