Archives for October 2018

Quick Freshes are our regular Sunday notes on the homeschool week ahead. This week: jewel thieves, Daniel Boone, the mighty Yangtze, a toast to liberty, and more.

“If I had a thing to give you, / I would tell you one more time / That the world is always turning / Toward the morning.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week — and song-of-the-week! — from Gordon Bok, for October’s end.)

Our October 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.

Quick Freshes are our regular Sunday notes on the homeschool week ahead. This week: South Carolina, Cabo Verde, a toast to St. Crispin, and more.

“I be free to go abroad / Or take again my homeward road / To where for me the apple tree / Do lean down low in Linden Lea.” (A bonus poem-of-the-week, from William Barnes, for apple season.)

“I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for the heavy apple trees of fall.)

Quick Freshes are our regular Sunday notes on the homeschool week ahead. This week: the Battle of Hastings, Chuck Berry, the Mouhoun River, a toast to wants and comforts, and more.

Introduce your homeschool students to 110 of the most beautiful objects in the night sky with this fine video series from the University of Nottingham.

“The Tyrian would not come / Until the North — invoke it.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for all late bloomers.)

Quick Freshes are our regular Sunday notes on the homeschool week ahead. This week: Massachusetts, Bolivia, Demosthenes, a toast to friendship, and more.