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Archives for July 2019
🌏 🇺🇿 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Historic Center of Bukhara in Uzbekistan
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week. This week: the Historic Center of Bukhara in Uzbekistan.
📖 🐳 MELVILLE @ 200: A Homeschool Visit to Herman’s Home
The great American author Herman Melville was born 200 years ago this week. Why not take a few homeschool minutes to explore the house where he lived and wrote: “Arrowhead” in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 28 July 2019
Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: Melville at 200, Arizona, the U.S. Census, Ranger 7, Emily Bronte, La Scala, the Chirchiq River, and a toast to the Meteor rolling home.
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Arizona, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Arizona, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, and Venezuela.
🦋 MONITORING MONARCHS This Week in Your Homeschool
It’s homeschool natural history day! This week: the 2019 International Monarch Monitoring Blitz wants you (yes, you) to help!
🖋 🔔 WONDERFUL WORDS: As Kingfishers Catch Fire
“Like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s / Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Gerard Manley Hopkins, for his birthday.)
🚀 🌎 APOLLO 11 RETURNED TO EARTH 50 Years Ago Today
Getting to the moon was only the first half of the Apollo 11 mission — the astronauts also had to make it safely back to earth.
🌍 🇬🇧 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Ironbridge Gorge in the United Kingdom
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week. This week: Ironbridge Gorge in the United Kingdom.
🌕 A LUNAR SAMPLE COLLECTION for Your Local Library?
It’s Homeschool Library Day! This week: if you work with your local librarians, you might be able to bring some real moon rocks to your town, courtesy of NASA.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 21 July 2019
Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: calendars, comets, explorers, splashdowns, painters, poets, chemists, Uruguayan rivers, wascally wabbits, a toast to stout ships, and more.
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: New Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: New Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uruguay.
🚀 🌕 APOLLO 11 RESOURCES for Your Homeschool
Some educational resources for you and your homeschool students on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. (With lots of extras added in the comments.)
🌍 🇺🇬 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week. This week: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda.
🌕 RESEARCH PROJECTS for Homeschool Students – July 2019
Our July 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.
🗓 NEW PRINTABLE CALENDARS for the 2019–2020 Homeschool Year
Print your own set of free homeschool calendars of educational events for the upcoming 2019–2020 school year.
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – July 2019
A July 2019 roundup of some recent academic research and news about homeschooling worldwide, with links to sources. (A new monthly feature we’re trying out.)
🖋 🍎 WONDERFUL WORDS: “When Newton saw an apple fall”
“We must deem the mode / In which Sir Isaac Newton could disclose / Through the then unpaved stars the turnpike road, / A thing to counterbalance human woes: / For ever since immortal man hath glow’d / With all kinds of mechanics, and full soon / Steam-engines will conduct him to the moon.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Byron, for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11.)
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 14 July 2019
Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: Apollo 11, the Rosetta Stone, the South Pole, Lord Byron, Seneca Falls, the Lunar Society, the Kagera River, a toast to heroic hearts, and more.
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Oklahoma, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Oklahoma, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, and Ukraine.
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Arcturus for July
Make the acquaintance of the ancient orange giant Arcturus in the constellation Boötes the Herdsman this month, one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere night sky, and make it your homeschool friend for life.
📖 🖋 THOREAU’S BIRTHDAY and Homeschool Journaling
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” (Happy birthday to Henry David Thoreau, born on this day in 1817.)
🌝 KNOW YOUR MOONS! 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑
For the 50th anniversary of the 1969 lunar landing, why not teach your homeschool students the phases of the moon — you can even use emojis to do it!
🌍 🇹🇳 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Archaeological Site of Carthage in Tunisia
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week. This week: the Archaeological Site of Carthage in Tunisia.
🚀 🎥 MOVIES & LIBRARIES: Apollo 11 at the National Archives
Film footage stored at the National Archives formed the basis for a magnificent new documentary that has been released to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 flight to the moon.
🖋 🕊 WONDERFUL WORDS: Liberty and Peace
“As from the East th’ illustrious King of Day, / With rising Radiance drives the Shades away, / So Freedom comes array’d with Charms divine, / And in her Train Commerce and Plenty shine.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Phillis Wheatley, for independent America.)
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 7 July 2019
Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: Pluto, Thoreau, Harper Lee, the ancient Minoans, Braddock’s Defeat, Thomas Bowdler, the Medjerda River, a toast to learning, and more.
