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Archives for March 2019

πŸ—“ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 31 March 2019

31 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: Aprille shoures, John Burroughs, Dewey 600s, spaghetti farming, Hans Christian Andersen, First Contact, the Fish River, a toast to peace and long life, and more.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

🌎 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ SUNDAY STATES: California, Myanmar, Nepal, and More

31 March 2019 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: California, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, and Nepal.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

🎨 NATURAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATION for Serious Homeschool Artists

30 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

“Learn how to see and draw nature like an illustrator” with this free online university-level course. If you know any serious homeschool artists, this could be a great opportunity for them!

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Natural History

🌠 HOMESCHOOL ASTRONOMY: Ashokan Fireball

29 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Keep your homeschool eyes on the sky and you might spot a fireball β€” just like more than 250 people did yesterday morning all across the northeastern United States.

Filed Under: REUSABLE POSTS

🌏 πŸ‡²πŸ‡³ WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Burkhan Khaldun Mountain in Mongolia

27 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week. This week: Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain in Mongolia.

Filed Under: Homeschool States & Countries, Weekly World Heritage

πŸ“œ LIBRARY LESSONS: A Free Course on the Book of Kells

26 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Take a free course on one of the world’s most famous books β€” The Book of Kells β€” from Trinity College Dublin.

Filed Under: Homeschool Books & Libraries

πŸ–‹ 🌱 WONDERFUL WORDS: Nothing Gold Can Stay

25 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

“Then leaf subsides to leaf. / So Eden sank to grief, / So dawn goes down to day. / Nothing gold can stay.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for his birthday and for early spring.)

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

πŸ—“ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 24 March 2019

24 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: cherry blossoms, Norman Borlaug, Saint Jerome, Robert Frost, Seward’s Folly, the Ziz River, a toast to constancy and sincerity, and more.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

🌎 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ SUNDAY STATES: Wisconsin, Mongolia, Mozambique, and More

24 March 2019 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: Wisconsin, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, and Mozambique.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

🎼 HOMESCHOOL ARTS & MUSIC: Happy Birthday Bach!

21 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Take a few homeschool minutes to introduce your students to a tiny masterpiece by one of the world’s great composers, Johann Sebastian Bach, born this day in 1685.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

πŸŒ• RESEARCH PROJECTS for Homeschool Students – March 2019

20 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Our March 2019 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.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

πŸ—“ 🌷 SPRING IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)

20 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Spring is here! (If you’re in the northern hemisphere, that is.) If you’re in the southern hemisphere, fall is here! Happy March equinox to homeschoolers everywhere!

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

πŸ—“ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 17 March 2019

17 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: the Spring Equinox, the swallows of Capistrano, Randolph Caldecott, J.S. Bach, the Yaqui River, a toast to hearts and purses, and more.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

🌎 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ SUNDAY STATES: Iowa, Mexico, Monaco, and More

17 March 2019 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: Iowa, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, and Monaco.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

πŸ–‹ πŸ—‘ WONDERFUL WORDS: The Ides of March

16 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

“And if you can’t curb your ambitions, / at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. / And the higher you go, / the more searching and careful you need to be.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Constantine Cavafy, for the Ides of March.)

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

🏞 HOMESCHOOL NATURE NOTES on the Arrival of Spring

15 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Spring may not begin officially for another week, but the birds in my neighborhood can tell it’s on the way. What signs and significations of spring are you and your students seeing in your homeschool?

Filed Under: Homeschool Natural History

πŸ—‘ BEWARE the Ides of March!

15 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Remembering the Ides of March, the famous date on which the Roman politician, general, and dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 B.C.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

πŸ”­ JOIN A HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH PROJECT for Einstein’s Birthday

14 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

You and your students can search for undiscovered pulsars in deep space, right from the comfort of your homeschool living room. (Really!) How cool is that?

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

πŸ“œ LIBRARY LESSONS: Julius Caesar the Author

12 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

It’s Homeschool Library Tuesday! For our unofficial Julius Caesar Week we look at Caesar the author, always dividing everything into three parts.

Filed Under: Homeschool Books & Libraries

πŸ—“ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 10 March 2019

10 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: the Ides of March, Albert Einstein, James Madison, the Girl Scouts, the Senegal River, a toast to liberty, and more.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

🌎 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ SUNDAY STATES: Texas, Malta, Mauritius, and More

10 March 2019 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: Texas, Malta, the Marshall Islands, Mauritania, and Mauritius.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Sirius for March

9 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Make the acquaintance of the brilliant white star Sirius, “the dog star,” in the constellation Canis Major this month β€” the brightest star in earth’s night sky β€” and make it your homeschool friend for life.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

πŸŒ’ HOMESCHOOL NATURE NOTES: Signs of Spring

8 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

The astronomical start of spring is still a couple of weeks away, but the signs of spring are already all around us. What springtime signals are appearing in your homeschool neighborhood?

Filed Under: Homeschool Natural History

πŸ–‹ πŸ”­ WONDERFUL WORDS: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

8 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

“Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, / In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, / Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Walt Whitman, contrariwise, for William Herschel and Albert Einstein.)

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

🌎 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ FOR YOUR BULLETIN BOARD: A Printable States & Countries Schedule

5 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Download and print a simple one-page schedule of our regular Sunday States & Countries posts and follow along with us as we tour the world over the course of the homeschool year.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

πŸ“š LEARNING THE LIBRARY: The Scientific 500s

5 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

It’s Homeschool Library Tuesday! This week: exploring “The Scientific 500s” in the Dewey Decimal Classification, part of our year-long survey of the whole of knowledge. (Really!)

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

πŸ–‹ πŸ“š WONDERFUL WORDS: β€œBooks, books, books!”

4 March 2019 by Bob O'Hara

“And how I felt it beat / Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark, / An hour before the sun would let me read!” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Aurora Leigh,” for Browning’s birthday.)

Filed Under: REUSABLE POSTS

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