Archives for September 2019

Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: autumnal verses, bibliographical generalities, calendrical reforms, Indian politicians, rocketing anniversaries, phoenicopteran reviews, masticatory enterprises, Belgian rivers, a toast to truth and liberty, and more.

Join our year-long homeschool tour of North American bird families and pick up some great science and natural history teaching ideas along the way. This week: the New World Quail, the Curassows and Guans, and the Partridges, Grouse, Turkeys, and Old World Quail.

“As imperceptibly as Grief / The Summer lapsed away — / Too imperceptible at last / To seem like Perfidy.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for the end of summer.)

Fall is here! (If you’re in the northern hemisphere, that is.) If you’re in the southern hemisphere, spring is here! Happy September 2019 equinox to homeschoolers everywhere!

Quick Freshes are our regular Sunday notes on the homeschool week ahead. This week: the September Equinox, the Emperor of Rome, Old Possum, antibiotics, the Parthenon, Austrian economists, Barbadian rivers, a toast to freedom, and more.

Join our year-long homeschool tour of North American bird families and pick up some great science and natural history teaching ideas along the way. This week: the Ducks, Geese, and Swans (Part II).

“But I am carried back against / My will into a childhood where / Autumn is bonfires, marbles, smoke; / I lean against my window fenced / From evocations in the air. / When I said autumn, autumn broke.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Elizabeth Jennings, for the coming fall.)

Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: children’s classics, New York defenses, piratical inflections, global circumnavigations, Constitutional commemorations, Austrian rivers, toasts to heroes, and more.

Our September 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.

Get the new 2019–2020 homeschool year off to a great start by making a new friend this month: the giant star Deneb in the constellation Cygnus, one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere night sky.

Join our year-long homeschool tour of North American bird families and pick up some great science and natural history teaching ideas along the way. This week: the Ducks, Geese, and Swans (Part I).

It’s Homeschool Library Tuesday! Have you found all the libraries in your local area? There may be more than you realize, and the WorldCat Library Finder will help you and your students locate them.

“‘Men work together,’ I told him from the heart, / ‘Whether they work together or apart.’” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for late-summer mowing, the Monarch butterfly migration, and all of us working together, whether we work together or apart.)

Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: 9/11, Marathon, Henry Purcell, Clara Schumann, Francis Scott Key, student research, the Cunene River, a toast to the chase, and more.