Archives for March 2020

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Alpine harvests, shoures soote, peaceable kingdoms, big ticket items, Danish authors, Mozambiquan rivers, a toast to comfort, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: California, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, and Nauru.

On this day in 1912, the Japanese government presented a gift of 3000 cherry trees to the United States to line the banks of the Potomac River and other sites in Washington, D.C., where they and their successors may still be seen today.

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 Crows and Jays (Part II).

“Nature’s first green is gold, / Her hardest hue to hold.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for his birthday and for early spring.)

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Renaissance painters, springtime poems, life-saving agronomists, Hungarian magicians, fiery speeches, Latin translators, Montenegrin rivers, a toast to freedom, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Wisconsin, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, and Morocco.

Take a few homeschool minutes to introduce your students to a tiny masterpiece by one of the world’s great composers, Johann Sebastian Bach, born on this day in 1685.

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 Crows and Jays (Part I), garrulous residents of town and country.

Spring is here! (If you’re in the northern hemisphere, that is.) If you’re in the southern hemisphere, fall is here! Happy March 2020 equinox to homeschoolers everywhere!

“And if you can’t curb your ambitions, / at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. / And the higher you go, / the more searching and careful you need to be.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Constantine Cavafy, for the Ides of March.)

Remembering the Ides of March, the famous date on which the Roman politician, general, and dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 B.C.

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Roman revolutions, revolutionary rockets, vernal equinoxes, Constitutional fathers, Classical composers, Puritan poets, Mauritian waterfalls, a toast to free republics, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Iowa, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, and Moldova.

You and your students can search for undiscovered pulsars in deep space, right from the comfort of your homeschool living room. (Really!) How cool is that?

Make the acquaintance of the brilliant white star Sirius, “the dog star,” in the constellation Canis Major this month — the brightest star in earth’s night sky — and make it your homeschool friend for life.

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 predatory Shrikes and the plain but vocal Vireos.