Archives for January 2020

Join our year-long homeschool tour of North American bird families and teach some great little science and natural history lessons along the way. This week: the Barn Owls and the Typical Owls.

“And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, / And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from John Masefield, for the Challenger Seven.)

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: tall ships, classical composers, wise owls, baseball pioneers, Asian rivers, city fathers, a toast to peace and plenty, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Alabama, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, and Kenya.

Join our year-long homeschool tour of North American bird families and teach some great little science and natural history lessons along the way. This week: the New World Vultures, the Ospreys, and the Hawks, Kites, and Eagles.

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: declaratory signatures, giant diamonds, famous poets, teenage dreams, lunar birthdays, Israeli rivers, a toast to discovery, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Illinois, Ireland, Israel, Italy, and Jamaica.

Join our year-long homeschool tour of North American bird families and teach some great little science and natural history lessons along the way. This week: the Herons and Bitterns, and the Ibises and Spoonbills, all long-legged wading birds.

“Let our rejoicing rise / High as the listening skies, / Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from James Weldon Johnson, for Martin Luther King’s birthday.)

We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms, and the midpoint of each term (following old calendrical tradition) is called the cross-quarter day. Today, January 15th, is the cross-quarter day of Orion Term, our winter term. How are things going in your homeschool?

Get your homeschool naturalists involved next month in the Great Backyard Bird Count, an annual international survey that will let you and your students make a real contribution to science.

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: fairy-tale authors, peaceful ratifications, patriotic printers, freedom philosophers, joyous songs, Indonesian rivers, a toast to Dame Fortune, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Mississippi, India, Indonesia, Iran, and Iraq.

Make the acquaintance of Capella in the constellation Auriga this month — a nearby four-star system and one of the brightest lights in the northern hemisphere night sky — and make it your homeschool friend for life.

Our January 2020 full-moon report on the real scientific and scholarly research projects around the world that you and your students can participate in and contribute to in your little home academy.

Join our year-long homeschool tour of North American bird families and teach some great little science and natural history lessons along the way. This week: the Storks, Frigatebirds, Boobies, Gannets, Cormorants, Darters, and Pelicans.

“She thinks she’ll never / be so happy, for who else will find her graceful, / find her perfect, skate with her / in circles outside the emptied rink forever?” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Gail Mazur, for all homeschool fathers.)

It’s Homeschool Library Day! This week: exploring “The Social 300s” in the Dewey Decimal Classification, part of our year-long survey of the whole of knowledge. (Really!)