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Archives for July 2019

🐳 MELVILLE @ 200: Moby-Dick for Toddlers

31 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Sailor. Boat. Captain. Leg. Mad. Sail. Find. Whale. Chase. Smash. Sink. Float.

Filed Under: Homeschool Books & Libraries, Homeschool Holidays & History

🌏 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Ώ WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Historic Center of Bukhara in Uzbekistan

31 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

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.

Filed Under: Homeschool States & Countries, Weekly World Heritage

πŸ“– 🐳 MELVILLE @ 200: A Homeschool Visit to Herman’s Home

30 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

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.

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Homeschool Museums & Monuments

πŸ—“ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 28 July 2019

28 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

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.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

🌎 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ SUNDAY STATES: Arizona, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, and More

28 July 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: Arizona, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, and Venezuela.

Filed Under: Homeschool States & Countries

πŸ¦‹ MONITORING MONARCHS This Week in Your Homeschool

26 July 2019 by Horace the Otter 🦦

It’s homeschool natural history day! This week: the 2019 International Monarch Monitoring Blitz wants you (yes, you) to help!

Filed Under: Homeschool Natural History, Lunar Society Bulletins

πŸ–‹ πŸ”” WONDERFUL WORDS: As Kingfishers Catch Fire

25 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

“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.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

πŸš€ 🌎 APOLLO 11 RETURNED TO EARTH 50 Years Ago Today

24 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Getting to the moon was only the first half of the Apollo 11 mission β€” the astronauts also had to make it safely back to earth.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Holidays & History

🌍 πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Ironbridge Gorge in the United Kingdom

24 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

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.

Filed Under: Homeschool States & Countries, Weekly World Heritage

πŸŒ• A LUNAR SAMPLE COLLECTION for Your Local Library?

23 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

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.

Filed Under: REUSABLE POSTS

πŸ—“ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 21 July 2019

21 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

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.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

🌎 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ SUNDAY STATES: New Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, and More

21 July 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: New Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uruguay.

Filed Under: Homeschool States & Countries

πŸš€ πŸŒ• APOLLO 11 RESOURCES for Your Homeschool

19 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

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.)

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

🌍 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¬ WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda

17 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

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.

Filed Under: Homeschool States & Countries, Weekly World Heritage

πŸŒ• RESEARCH PROJECTS for Homeschool Students – July 2019

16 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

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.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

πŸ—“ NEW PRINTABLE CALENDARS for the 2019–2020 Homeschool Year

15 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Print your own set of free homeschool calendars of educational events for the upcoming 2019–2020 school year.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

πŸ”Ž HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – July 2019

15 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

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.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Research & News

πŸ–‹ 🍎 WONDERFUL WORDS: β€œWhen Newton saw an apple fall”

15 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

“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.)

Filed Under: REUSABLE POSTS

πŸ—“ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 14 July 2019

14 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

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.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

🌎 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ SUNDAY STATES: Oklahoma, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and More

14 July 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: Oklahoma, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, and Ukraine.

Filed Under: Homeschool States & Countries

🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Arcturus for July

13 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Make the acquaintance of the ancient orange giant Arcturus in the constellation BoΓΆtes the Herdsman this month, one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere night sky, and make it your homeschool friend for life.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

πŸ“– πŸ–‹ THOREAU’S BIRTHDAY and Homeschool Journaling

12 July 2019 by Horace the Otter 🦦

“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.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Homeschool Natural History

🌝 KNOW YOUR MOONS! πŸŒ‘πŸŒ’πŸŒ“πŸŒ”πŸŒ•πŸŒ–πŸŒ—πŸŒ˜πŸŒ‘

11 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

For the 50th anniversary of the 1969 lunar landing, why not teach your homeschool students the phases of the moon β€” you can even use emojis to do it!

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

🌍 πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡³ WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Archaeological Site of Carthage in Tunisia

10 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

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.

Filed Under: Homeschool States & Countries, Weekly World Heritage

πŸš€ πŸŽ₯ MOVIES & LIBRARIES: Apollo 11 at the National Archives

9 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

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.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Books & Libraries

πŸ–‹ πŸ•Š WONDERFUL WORDS: Liberty and Peace

8 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

“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.)

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

πŸ—“ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 7 July 2019

7 July 2019 by Bob O'Hara

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.

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

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