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.
Archives for September 2019
π πΊπΈ SUNDAY STATES: Connecticut, Belgium, Bhutan, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses in 2019β2020. This week: Connecticut, Belgium, Belize, Benin, and Bhutan.
π¦ FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: βGallinaceousβ Birds
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.
π π§π WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Qalβat al-Bahrain, the Ancient Capital of Dilmun in Bahrain
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week. This week: Qalβat al-Bahrain, the Ancient Harbor and Capital of Dilmun in Bahrain.
π° KAPOW! Comic Art at the Library of Congress
If you have comics-mad kids in your homeschool, why not take educational advantage of their interests with some help from the Library of Congress.
π π WONDERFUL WORDS: βOur Summer made her light escapeβ
“As imperceptibly as Grief / The Summer lapsed away β / Too imperceptible at last / To seem like Perfidy.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for the end of summer.)
π π FALL IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)
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!
π QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families β Week of 22 September 2019
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.
π πΊπΈ SUNDAY STATES: Georgia, Bahrain, Belarus, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Georgia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, and Belarus.
π HOMESCHOOL ASTRONOMY: A Cygnus Skyscape
Invite your young homeschool astronomers to explore an amazing image of the constellation Cygnus (and our monthly star Deneb) from NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day website.
π¦ FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Ducks, Geese, and Swans (II)
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).
π π¦πΊ WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Sydney Opera House in Australia
Pay a homeschool visit to a UNESCO World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week. This week: the Sydney Opera House in Australia.
πΊπΈ CONSTITUTION DAY 2019 β Homeschool Teaching Resources
Pay a homeschool visit to the National Archives in Washington this week to celebrate the signing of the U.S. Constitution on 17 September 1787.
π π WONDERFUL WORDS: Song at the Beginning of Autumn
“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.)
π HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS β September 2019
A September 2019 roundup of some recent academic research and news about homeschooling worldwide, with links to sources. We have five items this month: Cheng & Donnelly (2019), Elliott (2019), Hirsh (2019), Mckeithan et al. (2019), and Wolfe (2019).
π QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families β Week of 15 September 2019
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.
π πΊπΈ SUNDAY STATES: New Jersey, Australia, the Bahamas, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses in 2019β2020. This week: New Jersey, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, and the Bahamas.
π RESEARCH PROJECTS for Homeschool Students β September 2019
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.
π STAR BRIGHT: Deneb for September
Get the new 2019β2020 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.
π¦’ FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Ducks, Geese, and Swans (I)
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).
βοΈ REMEMBERING the Battle of Marathon, 490 B.C.
The Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. was one of the most consequential battles in the history of the Western world. It’s an event every homeschool student should know.
π π¦π΄ WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Mbanza Kongo in Angola
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week. This week: Mbanza Kongo, the Capital of the Former Kingdom of Kongo in Angola.
πΊπΈ REMEMBERING 9/11
The Star-Spangled Banner, in London and New York.
π LEARNING THE LIBRARY: Finding Local Libraries With WorldCat
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.
π π¦ WONDERFUL WORDS: The Tuft of Flowers
“βMen work together,β I told him from the heart, / βWhether they work together or apart.β” (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.)
π QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families β Week of 8 September 2019
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.
π πΊπΈ SUNDAY STATES: Pennsylvania, Angola, Armenia, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses in 2019β2020. This week: Pennsylvania, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, and Armenia.