Archives for March 2020

Our March 2020 full-moon report on the real scientific and scholarly projects around the world that you and your students can join and contribute to from the comfort of your little home academy.

“Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, / In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, / Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Walt Whitman, contrariwise, for John Herschel and Albert Einstein.)

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: brilliant stars, famous physicists, Martian canals, astronomical poems, girl scout troops, student projects, Maltese rivers, a toast to cleverness, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Texas, Mali, Malta, the Marshall Islands, and Mauritania.

Calling all homeschool photographers! The Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge is a great way for serious homeschool photography students to develop their talents and gain some recognition. This month’s themes are “Nature’s Yellows” and “Canyons and Gorges.” Take a look!

A homeschool review of educational wonders to watch for in the northern hemisphere night sky during the month of March 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 Tyrant Flycatchers and the Becards.

It’s Homeschool Library Day! This week: exploring “The Scientific 500s” in the Dewey Decimal Classification, part of our year-long survey of the whole of knowledge. (Really!)

“The river is moving. / The blackbird must be flying.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Wallace Stevens, for the earliest migrants of spring.)

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Leonine terms, Dewey decimals, Texian tragedies, Boston Massacres, famous painters, flycatching birds, Malawian rivers, a toast to the Alamo, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Florida, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, and the Maldives.

It’s the first day of March 2020! Here are some little lessons, educational opportunities, and teaching traditions to look for in the homeschool month ahead.

We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms in the River Houses. Today is the beginning of Leo Term, our spring term, named for the Great Lion of the Heavens. Leo Term runs from March through May.