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.
Archives for June 2019
π πΊπΈ SUNDAY STATES: Wyoming, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, 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.
π π π TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE: Watch Live on 2 July 2019
There’s a total solar eclipse coming on 2 July 2019 (Tuesday), but it will be visible only in South America. (Alas for North Americans.) But you and your homeschool astronomy students can still watch a live feed online!
π¦ NATURE NOTES: Summer Bird Behavior
It’s homeschool natural history day! This week: are you and your students keeping an eye out for the birds that are breeding in your neighborhood this summer?
π βοΈ CHARLES MESSIER and the Most Beautiful Objects in the Universe
Happy birthday to the French astronomer Charles Messier (1730β1817), who cataloged some of the most beautiful nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies in the universe β so he could ignore them.
π πΉπ― WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Ancient Sarazm in Tajikistan
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week. This week: the Proto-Urban Site of Sarazm in Tajikistan.
π BOOKS & LIBRARIES: The Carle Picture Book Museum
It’s Books & Libraries Day in the River Houses, so why not pay a homeschool visit to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts.
π QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families β Week of 23 June 2019
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.
π πΊπΈ SUNDAY STATES: Idaho, Switzerland, Tajikistan, 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.
π π WONDERFUL WORDS: βThe Swingβ for Summer
“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.)
π β± SUMMER IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)
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.
π πΈπͺ WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Palace of Drottningholm in Sweden
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week. This week: the Royal Domain of Drottningholm in Sweden.
π A HISTORY CONTEST from the National Archives (Grades 4β6)
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.
π RESEARCH PROJECTS for Homeschool Students β June 2019
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.
π QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families β Week of 16 June 2019
Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: Father’s Day, great seals, the summer solstice, Bunker Hill, Juneteenth, secret codes, the Maroni River, a toast to honest greatness, and more.
π πΊπΈ SUNDAY STATES: Washington, Sudan, Sweden, and More
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.
π π¨βπ§βπ§ HAPPY HOMESCHOOL FATHER’S DAY from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“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.)
π HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS β June 2019
A June 2019 roundup of some recent academic research and news about homeschooling worldwide, with links to sources. (A new monthly feature we’re trying out.)
πΊπΈ HAPPY FLAG DAY 2019!
Flag Day (June 14th every year) celebrates the date in 1777 when Congress established the Stars & Stripes as the national flag of the United States.
π° FREE SUMMER LESSON PLANS from the U.S. Mint!
The U.S. Mint has a wide variety of educational resources and free lesson plans that you can easily drop into your homeschooling schedule this summer. Why not look them over and expand your students’ numismatical horizons.
π π±π° WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Golden Temple of Dambulla in Sri Lanka
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week. This week: the Golden Temple of Dambulla in Sri Lanka.
π πΊπΈ WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): βO! say can you see?β
“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.)
π QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families β Week of 9 June 2019
Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: Magna Carta, Maurice Sendak, Anne Frank, W.B. Yeats, Barbara McClintock, Flag Day, the Ebro River, a toast to Old Glory, and more.
π πΊπΈ SUNDAY STATES: Montana, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and More
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.
π STAR BRIGHT: Spica for June
Make the acquaintance of the young blue-white giant Spica in the constellation Virgo this month, one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere sky, and make it your homeschool friend for life.
π«π· HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Teaching About D-Day 1944
Remembering the World War II Allied invasion of Normandy, France, on 6 June 1944, with live news recordings from that day.
π πΈπ§ WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: East Rennell in the Solomon Islands
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week. This week: East Rennell in the Solomon Islands.