Tour the United States and travel the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Connecticut, Belgium, Belize, Benin, and Bhutan.
Archives for September 2018
π QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families β Week of 30 September 2018
Quick Freshes are our regular Sunday notes on the homeschool week ahead. This week: Connecticut, Belgium, Family History Month, a toast to youth and age, and more.
π HOMESCHOOL NATURE NOTES: Follow the Crows
Have you found any crow roosts in your neighborhood? Tracking them down makes for an excellent homeschool science expedition.
π π WONDERFUL WORDS: Song at the Beginning of Autumn
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.
π π§ βWHEN IN DOUBT, go to the libraryβ
Explore a spell-binding exhibit at the British Library all about Harry Potter and the history of magic.
π RESEARCH PROJECTS for Homeschool Students β September 2018
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.
π πΊπΈ SUNDAY STATES: Georgia, Bahrain, Belarus, and More
Tour the United States and travel the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Georgia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, and Belarus.
π QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families β Week of 23 September 2018
Quick Freshes are our regular Sunday notes on the homeschool week ahead. This week: Georgia, Bahrain, Old Possum, a toast to happiness, and more.
π π FALL IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)
It’s the first day of fall in the northern hemisphere (and the first day of spring in the southern hemisphere).
π NATURE NOTES: Fall Bird Migration is Underway!
Friday is homeschool natural history day in the River Houses. This week: fall bird migration.
π π WONDERFUL WORDS: βOur Summer made her light escapeβ
“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.)
π LIBRARY TUESDAY: Discovering Dictionaries
On your next library visit, show your homeschool students the many wonderful kinds of dictionaries that are available to them β more than they probably realize!
πΊπΈ HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Constitution Day 2018
Pay a homeschool visit to the National Archives in Washington to celebrate the signing of the U.S. Constitution on 17 September 1787.
π πΊπΈ SUNDAY STATES: New Jersey, Australia, the Bahamas, and More
Tour the United States and travel the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: New Jersey, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, and the Bahamas.
π QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families β Week of 16 September 2018
Quick Freshes are our regular Sunday notes on the homeschool week ahead. This week: New Jersey, Australia, Sandra Day O’Connor, and a toast to contentment, arrrr!
π¦ NATURE NOTES: Start a Bird List for the New Homeschool Year
Sign up for the free eBird website (ebird.org) sponsored by Cornell University, and start a homeschool bird list for the new school year.
βοΈ REMEMBERING the Battle of Marathon, 490 B.C.
The Battle of Marathon was one of the most consequential battles in the history of the Western world. It’s an event every homeschool student should know.
π FINDING LOCAL LIBRARIES With WorldCat
Homeschool Library Tuesday: Using the WorldCat Library Finder to locate all the libraries in your local area.
π REMEMBERING 9/11
The Star-Spangled Banner, in London and New York.
π π¦ WONDERFUL WORDS: The Tuft of Flowers
“‘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.)
π πΊπΈ SUNDAY STATES: Pennsylvania, Angola, Armenia, and More
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.
π QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families β Week of 9 September 2018
Quick Freshes are our regular Sunday notes on the homeschool week ahead. This week: Pennsylvania, Angola, the Battle of Marathon, a toast to liberty, and more.
π WATCHERS OF THE SKIES β September 2018
A homeschooling review of the northern hemisphere night sky for September 2018.
π LEARNING THE LIBRARY: Introducing Dewey
Teaching your students to use the library independently is one of the best educational gifts you can give them.
π π‘ βA HANDSOME HOUSE to lodge a friendβ
“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.)
π πΊπΈ SUNDAY STATES: Delaware, Afghanistan, Andorra, and More
Tour the United States and travel the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Delaware, Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, and Andorra.
π QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families β Week of 2 September 2018
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.