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Archives for October 2019
🌍 🇨🇫 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park in the Central African Republic
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week. This week: Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park in the Central African Republic.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 27 October 2019
Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: poetical birthdays, fallen leaves, stolen jewels, Martian invasions, Constantinian victories, gruiform birds, Central African rivers, a toast to Halloween trick-or-treaters, and more.
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: New Hampshire, the Central African Republic, China, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: New Hampshire, the Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, and China.
👑 “FROM THIS DAY to the ending of the world”
“This day is call’d the feast of Crispian.”
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Swifts and Hummingbirds
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 Swifts and Hummingbirds, masters of the air.
👨👦 “THIS STORY shall the good man teach his son”
“He that shall live this day, and see old age, will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, and say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian.’”
🖋 🌅 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): Turning Toward the Morning
“If I had a thing to give you, / I would tell you one more time / That the world is always turning / Toward the morning.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Gordon Bok, for October’s end.)
🌍 🇨🇻 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Cidade Velha in Cabo Verde
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week. This week: Cidade Velha, the historic center of Ribeira Grande in Cabo Verde.
🗺 MARVELOUS MAPS: A Geology Lesson from the Library of Congress
Teach a little lesson on geology and plate tectonics this week with some beautiful maps from the collections of the Library of Congress.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 20 October 2019
Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: Agincourt, chemical numbers, Dutch animalcules, great architects, Maine singers, French cathedrals, Cape Verdean rivers, and a toast to offer from this day to the ending of the world.
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: South Carolina, Cabo Verde, Canada, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: South Carolina, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, and Canada.
☄️ SATURDAY STARS: “When a new planet swims into his ken”
An interstellar visitor, Comet 2I/Borisov, is passing through our solar system. It’s only the second such object ever discovered. Why not invite your young homescholars to investigate it this month.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Cuckoos, Roadrunners, Anis, and Goatsuckers
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 Cuckoos, Roadrunners, and Anis, and the Goatsuckers. (All birds with funny names!)
⛏ NATURE NOTES: It’s National Fossil Day!
For National Fossil Day, why not explore a big collection of rare and beautiful books on paleontology made available by the Smithsonian Institution and the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
🌍 🇧🇬 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak in Bulgaria
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week. This week: the Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak in Bulgaria.
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – October 2019
An October 2019 roundup of some recent academic research and news about homeschooling worldwide, with links to sources. We have five items this month: McDonald (2019), Morse (2019), Neuman (2019), O’Hare & Coyne (2019), and Tipton (2019).
🖋 🍎 WONDERFUL WORDS: After Apple-Picking
“I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for apple season.)
⚔️ 1066 AND ALL THAT
Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings in 1066 — the beginning of the Norman Conquest of England. Why not use this occasion to introduce your homeschool students to one of the most famous objects that has survived from the Middle Ages: the Bayeux Tapestry.
🌕 RESEARCH PROJECTS for Homeschool Students – October 2019
Our October 2019 full-moon report on the real scientific and scholarly projects, investigations, transcriptions, analyses, and computations that your students can work on and contribute to in your little home academy.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 13 October 2019
Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: whirlpool galaxies, Norman conquests, white whales, great harvests, student projects, new stars, big-ticket items, Asian rivers, naval toasts, and more.
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Maryland, Brunei, Burundi, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Maryland, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, and Burundi.
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Alpheratz for October
Make the acquaintance of the young double star Alpheratz in the constellation Andromeda this month — one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere sky — and make it your homeschool friend for life.
🕊️ FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Pigeons and Doves
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 Pigeons and Doves.
🌎 🇧🇴 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Historic City of Sucre in Bolivia
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week. This week: the Historic City of Sucre in Bolivia.
🖋 🌹 WONDERFUL WORDS: “The Frosts were her condition”
“The Tyrian would not come / Until the North — invoke it.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for all late bloomers.)
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 6 October 2019
Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: floral poems, Danish physicists, naval colleges, Andromedan stars, peaceful birds, Bolivian rivers, light-hearted toasts, and more.
