Archives for August 2019

Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: French chemists, Indonesian volcanoes, famous speeches, independent philosophers, monstrous novels, Italian educators, heavenly rivers, and a toast to the new school year.

Thank you for taking a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with us over the past school year! We conclude today with the Earth itself and the wonderful Universe beyond.

It’s homeschool natural history day! This week: looking for the first signs of the fall bird migration.

“Go, little book, and wish to all / Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, / A living river by the door, / A nightingale in the sycamore.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Louis Stevenson, for the end of the River Houses year.)

Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: Vesuvius, Pogo, Leonard Bernstein, Mars explorers, the U.S.S. Constitution, the War of 1812, the Great Bird of the Galaxy, the World River, a toast to virtue, and more.

Our August 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.

Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: Perseid meteors, quantum physicists, French emperors, August poems, student projects, great stars, Antarctic glaciers, a toast to friends, and more.

Make one last homeschool friend for the summer: our neighbor-star Vega in the constellation Lyra the Lyre, one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere night sky.

Point your homeschool students to the constellation Perseus this week for the annual Perseid meteor shower.

“From following walls I never lift my eye, / Except at night to places in the sky / Where showers of charted meteors fly.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for this month’s Perseid meteors.)

It’s Homeschool Library Day! This week: our year-long survey of the Dewey Decimal Classification is done! We’ll take a quick look at the alternative Library of Congress Classification, commonly used in colleges and universities, as the year ends.

Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: Perseid meteors, leaning towers, military medals, chemical numbers, global voyages, Victorian poets, Vietnamese rivers, a toast to love, liberty, and learning, and more.

A homeschool review of wonders to watch for in the northern hemisphere night sky during the month of August 2019.

Calling all homeschool photographers! The Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge is a great way for serious homeschool photography students to develop their talents and gain some recognition. This month’s themes are “Doors and Doorways” and “Lone Trees.”