Archives for March 2019

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.

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.

“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.)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

“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.)

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

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?

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.

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.

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

“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.)

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.

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!)