Setting up a bird feeder is one of the simplest and most educational homeschool activities you can do during the winter season.
Archives for November 2018
📖 🦦 LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Gets a Visit From Horace the Otter
Our River Houses mascot, Horace the Otter, remembers the author of “Little Women” (1868) on her birthday.
📚 LIBRARY TUESDAY: Discovering William Blake (1757–1827)
“What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 25 November 2018
Smart homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: Orion Term, Rosa Parks, the River Nile, a toast to compassion, and more.
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Rhode Island, Dominica, Egypt, and More
Take a homeschool tour the United States and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Rhode Island, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, and Egypt.
🌕 RESEARCH PROJECTS for Homeschool Students – November 2018
Our November 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.
🎵 WELCOME HOME for Native American Heritage Day
Enjoy some great celebratory family music from Cherokee singer-songwriter Michael Jacobs.
🎵 THE ROAD HOME for Thanksgiving
“There is no such beauty as where you belong. / Rise up, follow me, I will lead you home.”
🖋 🦃 WONDERFUL WORDS: Delicious “Thanksgiving Magic”
“Oh, some like magic made by wands, / And some read magic out of books, / And some like fairy spells and charms / But I like magic made by cooks!” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Rowena Bastin Bennett, for a happy Thanksgiving!)
🦃 LIBRARY TUESDAY: Franklin Roosevelt Talks Turkey
It’s Homeschool Library Tuesday! This week, for Thanksgiving, some notes on libraries and food, two of life’s greatest pleasures.
🇺🇸 SEVEN SCORE and Fifteen Years Ago
Marking the 155th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address (with help from Carl Sandburg).
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 18 November 2018
Smart homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: Thanksgiving, the Gettysburg Address, Andrew Carnegie, the Vltava River, a toast to happiness, and more.
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: North Carolina, Cyprus, Djibouti, and More
Take a homeschool tour the United States and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: North Carolina, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, and Djibouti.
🖋 🌠 WONDERFUL WORDS: Of Poems and Meteors
“No star is lost at all / From all the star-sown sky.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from A.E. Housman, for the annual Leonid meteor shower.)
🌠 🦁 LEONID METEORS for 2018
Look to the constellation Leo this week for the annual Leonid meteor shower.
📚 LIBRARY TUESDAY: World War I Centennial at the National Archives
Take a homeschool tour of the World War I centennial exhibits at the National Archives in Washington.
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: New York, Costa Rica, Cuba, and More
Tour the United States and travel the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: New York, Costa Rica, Cote d’Ivoire, Croatia, and Cuba.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 11 November 2018
Smart homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: Veterans Day, Leonid meteors, the Kupa River, a toast to peace, and more.
🖋 🇫🇷 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: The Farmer Remembers the Somme
“But all that my mind sees / Is a quaking bog in a mist — stark, snapped trees, / And the dark Somme flowing.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Vance Palmer, in memory of the soldiers of World War I.)
🌎 TEACHING MATERIALS from the U.S. Geological Survey
Geology, geography, biology, water, fossils, volcanoes, maps, and more.
🗓 🦢 ABOUT CYGNUS TERM and the River Houses Year
![[Chart of the constellation Cygnus]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/term-cygnus-svg-122x150.png)
We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms in the River Houses. We’re now in the last month of Cygnus Term, named for the Great Swan of the Heavens. Cygnus Term runs from September through November.
📚 LEARNING THE LIBRARY: The Philosophical 100s
It’s Homeschool Library Tuesday! This week: exploring “The Philosophical 100s” in the Dewey Decimal Classification.
🖋 🍂 WONDERFUL WORDS: A Leaf-Treader
![[Horace the Otter, among the leaves]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/horace-leaf-treader-150x90.jpg)
“I have been treading on leaves all day until I am autumn-tired.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for the leaves of fall.)
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Virginia, Colombia, the Congo Republic, and More
Tour the United States and travel the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Colombia, the Comoros, the Congo, and the Congo Republic.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 4 November 2018
Smart homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: Marie Curie, the Gunpowder Plot, the Magdalena River, a toast to wisdom, and more.
🐦 HOMESCHOOL NATURAL HISTORY: Getting Started With eBird
A free introduction to the eBird website from Cornell University.
🔭 WATCHERS OF THE SKIES – November 2018
A homeschooling review of the northern hemisphere night sky for November 2018.
