Archives for September 2018

Elizabeth Jennings’ “Song at the Beginning of Autumn” is a wonderful poem for homeschool high-schoolers (and for mom and dad) at this time of year.

Our September 2018 full-moon report on the real scientific and scholarly projects, investigations, transcriptions, analyses, and computations that your students can work on in your little home academy.

“A Quietness distilled / As Twilight long begun, / Or Nature spending with herself / Sequestered Afternoon.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for summer’s end.)

Sign up for the free eBird website (ebird.org) sponsored by Cornell University, and start a homeschool bird list for the new school year.

“‘Men work together,’ I told him from the heart, ‘whether they work together or apart.'” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for our common labor through the year.)

Tour the United States and travel the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Pennsylvania, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, and Armenia.

Teaching your students to use the library independently is one of the best educational gifts you can give them.

“A river at my garden’s end, / A terrace walk, and half a rood / Of land, set out to plant a wood.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Horace, for the new River Houses year.)

Tour the United States and travel the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Delaware, Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, and Andorra.

Quick Freshes are our regular Sunday notes on the homeschool week ahead. This week: Delaware, Afghanistan, the fall of Rome, a toast to freedom, and more.