Archives for June 2019

Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: Independence Day, Ignaz Semmelweis, Thurgood Marshall, the Continental Army, the Historical 900s, the Chao Phraya River, Marc Chagall, SPAM, sliced bread, a toast to the Declaration, and more.

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Wyoming, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Togo.

Happy birthday to the French astronomer Charles Messier (1730–1817), who cataloged some of the most beautiful nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies in the universe — so he could ignore them.

Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: Little Bighorn, Paul Laurence Dunbar, children’s books, Messier Objects, Versailles, the Yaghnob River, Captain Kangaroo, a toast to virtue, and more.

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Idaho, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, and Tajikistan.

“How do you like to go up in a swing, / Up in the air so blue?” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Louis Stevenson, for summer.)

It’s the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere (and the first day of winter in the southern hemisphere). A crossword puzzle from NASA will help your homeschoolers learn all about it.

Celebrate the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment that gave women the right to vote, and maybe win a trip to the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

Our June 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.

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Washington, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, and Sweden.

“A whisper, and then a silence: / Yet I know by their merry eyes / They are plotting and planning together / To take me by surprise.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Longfellow, for Father’s Day.)

“O! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave / O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Francis Scott Key, for Flag Day.)

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Montana, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, and Sri Lanka.