Enjoy some happy celebratory music in your homeschool this week from Cherokee singer-songwriter Michael Jacobs β it’s just the thing for a big family weekend.
Archives for November 2019
π¦ FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Sandpipers (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 Sandpipers (Part II), familiar shorebirds all around the world.
π΅ π½ THANKSGIVING MEMORIES: βWe Gather Togetherβ
Take a just moment this week to introduce your homeschool students to a beautiful four hundred year old Dutch folk tune that has become a Thanksgiving classic.
π π©π² WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Morne Trois Pitons National Park in Dominica
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week. This week: Morne Trois Pitons National Park in Dominica.
π΅ π‘ THANKSGIVING MUSIC: βRise up, follow me, I will lead you homeβ
“Through the air there’s a calling from far away, / There’s a voice I can hear that will lead me home.” (Some lovely music and words from Stephen Paulus and Michael Dennis Browne, for homeschool Thanksgiving.)
π π¦ WONDERFUL WORDS: Delicious βThanksgiving Magicβ
“Oh, some like magic made by wands, / And some read magic out of books, / And some like fairy spells and charms / But I like magic made by cooks!” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Rowena Bastin Bennett, for Thanksgiving!)
π QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families β Week of 24 November 2019
Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: holiday thanks, philanthropic libraries, familial novels, meteoric accidents, original books, lost lighthouses, Dominican rivers, a toast to two fowls, and more.
π πΊπΈ SUNDAY STATES: Rhode Island, Dominica, Egypt, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Rhode Island, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Egypt.
π΅ MUSICAL INTRODUCTIONS: Thomas Tallis, Master of Polyphony
![[Thomas Tallis historical marker]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tallis-132x150.jpg)
Why not give thanks in your homeschool this Thanksgiving week for the life of Thomas Tallis, the grand master of early English polyphonic music, who died on this day in 1585.
π¦ FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Sandpipers (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 Sandpipers (Part I), familiar shorebirds all around the world.
π π¨πΎ WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Painted Churches of TroΓΆdos in Cyprus
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week. This week: the Painted Churches of TroΓΆdos in Cyprus.
π π¦ HEADS UP: Possible Meteor Storm Thursday Night (21β22 November 2019)
This Thursday night (21β22 November 2019) there may be a significant, though brief, meteor storm associated with the annual Alpha Monocerotid meteor shower. Be sure to take your homeschool astronomy students outside for a look!
πΊπΈ SEVEN SCORE and Sixteen Years Ago
“What place is this? Where are we now?” (Marking the 156th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, with help from Carl Sandburg.)
π QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families β Week of 17 November 2019
Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: Pennsylvanian addresses, Einsteinian equations, Thanksgiving poems, giant churches, cetacean collisions, Cypriot rivers, a toast to happiness, and more.
π πΊπΈ SUNDAY STATES: North Carolina, Cyprus, Djibouti, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: North Carolina, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, and Djibouti.
π π¦ LEONID METEORS for November 2019
Take your young homeschool astronomers outside this week and look to the constellation Leo for the annual Leonid meteor shower.
π¦ FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Lapwings, Plovers, and Jacanas
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 Lapwings and Plovers, and the Jacanas.
π π WONDERFUL WORDS: Of Poems and Meteors
βNo star is lost at all /Β From all the star-sown sky.β (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from A.E. Housman, for the annual Leonid meteor shower.)
π HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS β November 2019
A November 2019 roundup of some recent academic research and news about homeschooling worldwide, with links to sources. We have six items this month: Catlin (2019), KΔ±lΔ±Γ§ & Γnen (2012), McDonald (2019), McTurnal (2019), Pannone (2019), and Sarajlic (2019).
βΏ π HORACE the Astronomical Otter and the Transit of Mercury
An otterific round-up of this week’s big astronomical event, the 2019 Transit of Mercury β another one won’t occur until 2032! (And don’t miss the futuristic painting of the Mercury transit of 1914!)
π π¨π· WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Cocos Island National Park in Costa Rica
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week. This week: Cocos Island National Park in Costa Rica.
π RESEARCH PROJECTS for Homeschool Students β November 2019
Our November 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.
π QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families β Week of 10 November 2019
Great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead. This week: Mercurial transits (tomorrow!), remembrance days, cometary landings, lily-trotting birds, MΓΆbius strips, Costa Rican rivers, a toast to good humor, and more.
π πΊπΈ SUNDAY STATES: New York, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: New York, Cote d’Ivoire, Costa Rica, Croatia, and Cuba.
π STAR BRIGHT: Algol for November
Make the acquaintance of the variable star Algol this month β “the demon star” in the constellation Perseus and one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere sky β and make it your homeschool friend for life.
π THE ELEVENTH DAY of the Eleventh Month: For the Fallen
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: / Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. / At the going down of the sun and in the morning / We will remember them.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Laurence Binyon, for Veterans Day and Armistice Day.)
π¦ FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Stilts, Avocets, and Oystercatchers
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 Stilts and Avocets, and the Oystercatchers, long-legged and long-billed birds every one.
