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🏑 WELCOME! (Pinned Post)

1 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

First time visitor? We post a wide range of easy-to-use educational ideas and “little lessons” that will enrich your homeschooling schedule all through the year. Please add your name to our free mailing list! (Just one message a week and no spam.)

There’s a wealth of wonderful material here on our website β€” everything from homeschool astronomy to books and libraries to language and literature to geography, natural history, homeschool calendars, and more. The materials we’re developing are going to become the foundation for aΒ new type of homeschool network made up of friendly local groups called “Houses” (just like in Harry Potter). Make yourself at home! 😊

Filed Under: Gauging Stations

πŸŒ• HOMESCHOOL “CITIZEN SCIENCE” PROJECTS for June

3 June 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Our June full-moon report on the real “citizen science” projects around the world that you and your students can participate in from the comfort of your little home academy. Pick one and get started today!

Filed Under: Lunar Society Bulletins

πŸ”­ WATCHERS OF THE SKIES: Homeschool Astronomy for June

3 June 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Our homeschool review of the educational wonders that you and your students can watch for in the northern hemisphere night sky during the month of June.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy

πŸ¦… FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Wagtails and Pipits

2 June 2023 by Horace the Otter 🦦

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 ground-loving Wagtails and Pipits.

Filed Under: Friday Bird Families, Homeschool Natural History

πŸ–‹ 🌞 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): β€œSumer is i-cumin in”

1 June 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Loudly sing, cuckoo!” (Our ancient homeschool poem-of-the-week, anonymously, for the beginning of our summer term.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

πŸ—“ πŸƒ 🏸 HAPPY HOMESCHOOL JUNE from the River Houses!

1 June 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Happy homeschool June! Here are some little lessons, teaching traditions, and wonderful educational opportunities you and your students can watch for this month.

Filed Under: The Homeschool Year

πŸ—“ πŸ’ͺ HERCULES TERM and the River Houses Homeschool Year

1 June 2023 by Bob O'Hara

We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms in the River Houses. Today is the first day of Hercules Term, our summer term, named for the Great Hero of the Heavens. Hercules Term runs from June through August.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, The Homeschool Year

πŸ—“ βœ’οΈ WONDERFUL WORDS: Happy Birthday to Walt Whitman

31 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,Β / Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,Β / AΒ grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,Β / Chair’d in the adamant of Time.” (Happy birthday to the great American poet Walt Whitman, born on this day in 1819.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature

🌍 πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Studenica Monastery in Serbia

31 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

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 medieval Studenica Monastery in Serbia.

Filed Under: Homeschool Geography, Weekly World Heritage

πŸ—“ NEW CALENDARS & PLANNERS for the 2023–2024 Homeschool Year

30 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Print your own set of free homeschool planners and educational calendars for the new homeschool year that begins in September.

Filed Under: The Homeschool Year

πŸ—“ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 28 May 2023

28 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Memorial Days, new terms, relativistic predictions, vocal virtuosos, amazing ascents, Sierra Leonean rivers, a toast to heroes, and more!

Filed Under: Quick Freshes

🌎 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ SUNDAY STATES: North Dakota, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and More

28 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: North Dakota, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, and Sierra Leone.

Filed Under: Homeschool Geography, States & Countries

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ–‹ β€œAFTER A HUNDRED YEARS / Nobody knows the Place”

27 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Weeds triumphant ranged / Strangers strolled and spelled / At the lone Orthography / Of the Elder Dead.” (An extra homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for Memorial Day.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ•Š HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Memorial Day

26 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Rest, comrades, rest and sleep!Β / The thoughts of men shall beΒ / As sentinels to keepΒ / Your rest from danger free.” (Little homeschool lessons in literature, history, geography, and music, for the Memorial Day weekend.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature

πŸ¦… FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Indigobirds, Old World Sparrows, and Allies

26 May 2023 by Horace the Otter 🦦

Come along on our homeschool tour of North American bird families and pick up some great science and natural history teaching tips along the way. This week: the Indigobirds and Whydahs, the Weavers, the Estrildid Finches, and the Old World Sparrows.

Filed Under: Friday Bird Families, Homeschool Natural History

πŸŽ“ πŸŽ‰ HOMESCHOOL MUSIC: Let Us Rejoice!

25 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Invite your homeschoolers to learn a few lines this week from the most famous of all medieval student songs – it’s an inheritance they can carry with them around the world.

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature

πŸŽ‚ HOMESCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Happy Birthday, Ralph! (Emerson, that is)

25 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Invite your homeschool students to discover the work of the great American essayist, poet, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, born this day in 1803.

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature

🌍 πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¦ WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Historic Jeddah in Saudi Arabia

24 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

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: Historic Jeddah, the Gate to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

Filed Under: Homeschool Geography, Weekly World Heritage

πŸ–‹ πŸŽ“ GRADUATION SEASON: β€œSet me free to find my calling”

22 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Bind me not to the pasture, chain me not to the plow,Β / Set me free to find my calling and I’ll return to you somehow.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Marta Keen, for graduation season and the coming summer.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week, The Homeschool Year

πŸ—“ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 21 May 2023

21 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: American philosophers, graduation poems, marvelous messages, inimitable investigators, ancient eclipses, Swedish naturalists, Samoan waterfalls, a toast to blissful days, and more!

Filed Under: Quick Freshes

🌎 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ SUNDAY STATES: Colorado, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, and More

21 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Colorado, Samoa, San Marino, SΓ£o TomΓ© & PrΓ­ncipe, and Saudi Arabia.

Filed Under: Homeschool Geography, States & Countries

πŸ“β€‰β±β€‰πŸŒ‘ HAPPY WORLD METROLOGY DAY!

20 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

On this day in 1875, the meter was adopted as an international standard of measurement. That makes today World Metrology Day! Why not invite your students to take a few scientific measurements this week in your homeschool.

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History

πŸ–‹ 🌟 WONDERFUL WORDS: Hymn to the North Star

20 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“A beauteous type of that unchanging good,Β / That bright eternal beacon, by whose rayΒ / The voyager of time should shape his heedful way.” (An extra astronomical homeschool poem-of-the-week, from William Cullen Bryant, for Polaris, our Great Star for the month of May.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Language & Literature, Monthly Great Stars, Poems-of-the-Week

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ HOMESCHOOL MUSIC & HISTORY: β€œTo find the hand of Franklin”

19 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

To understand a complex and beautiful piece of art or music, your students must first learn a great deal about the worldΒ β€” names, places, people, and events that may seem at first to be unrelated.

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Geography, Homeschool Holidays & History

πŸ¦… FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Bulbuls, Starlings, Waxwings, and Allies

19 May 2023 by Horace the Otter 🦦

Come along on our homeschool tour of North American bird families and pick up some great science and natural history teaching ideas along the way. This week: the Bulbuls, Starlings, Waxwings, Silky-Flycatchers, Olive Warblers, and Accentors.

Filed Under: Friday Bird Families, Homeschool Natural History

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡· HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: The Antikythera Mechanism

17 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Spend a few homeschool history minutes this week learning about one of the most amazing objects the ancient world ever produced: an astronomical computer called the Antikythera mechanism.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Holidays & History

🌎 πŸ‡°πŸ‡³ WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Brimstone Hill Fortress on Saint Kitts

17 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

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: Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park in Saint Kitts & Nevis.

Filed Under: Homeschool Geography, Weekly World Heritage

πŸ”Ž HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – May 2023

16 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Our May 2023 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 four items this month: Chinazzi (2023), King (2023), Merrill (2023), and Sadorra (2023).

Filed Under: Homeschool Research & News

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  • πŸ—“ NEW CALENDARS & PLANNERS for the 2023–2024 Homeschool Year
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  • 🌎 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ SUNDAY STATES: North Dakota, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and More
  • πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ–‹ β€œAFTER A HUNDRED YEARS / Nobody knows the Place”
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Astronomy

  • American Meteor Society
    • – Fireball Reporting System
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  • Hubble Space Telescope
    • – Learning Resources
  • NASA
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Books & Libraries

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Natural History

  • All About Birds (Cornell University)
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  • Time and Date
    • – Seasons
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Maps & Geography

  • Antipodes Map
  • FlightAware (Planes in the Air)
  • Mapquest World Maps
  • MarineTraffic (Ships at Sea)
  • OpenStreetMap World Maps
  • Printable Blank Maps & Flags
  • Printable Outline Maps (d-maps.com)
  • River Runner
  • USGS Topographic Maps
  • World Heritage Sites (UNESCO)
    • – Educator Resources
  • Zoom Earth

Civics & Social Science

  • Bill of Rights Institute
  • Constitution Center
  • C-Span Classroom
  • Free Speech Curriculum from FIRE
  • Foundation for Economic Education
  • History of the Western World (I)
    • – Western World (II)
  • iCivics.org
  • Learn Liberty
  • Mises Institute Economics
  • MyMoney.gov
    • – Educator Resources
  • Online Library of Liberty
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  • US Government Portal
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    • – Coin Activities for Kids
    • – Educator Resources
  • US Postal Museum
    • – Explore the Collections
    • – Activities for Kids
    • – Stamps Teach (from APS)
  • Visual Capitalist
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