Archives for April 2020

Invite your homeschool naturalists to explore the sights and sounds of birds all over the world through the collections of the Macaulay Library at Cornell University.

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Migrating birds, literary losses, presidential inaugurations, lupine laddies, jazzy anniversaries, Philippine rivers, a toast to farmers, and more!

Join our year-long homeschool tour of North American bird families and teach some great science and natural history lessons along the way. This week: the tiny Gnatcatchers, Dippers, and Kinglets.

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Revolutionary anniversaries, dramatic birthdays, lovely trees, kingly birds, molecular models, ancient rivers, a toast to merry days, and more!

Join our year-long homeschool tour of North American bird families and teach some great science and natural history lessons along the way. This week: the small and friendly Nuthatches, Creepers, and Wrens.

“A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, / And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark / Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet: / That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, / The fate of a nation was riding that night.” (A bonus homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Longfellow, for the beginning of the American Revolution.)

“By the rude bridge that arched the flood, / Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, / Here once the embattled farmers stood / And fired the shot heard round the world.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emerson, for the Nineteenth of April.)

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: the American Revolution, Emersonian verses, polymathic birthdays, pioneering cosmonauts, world atlases, the Concord River, a toast to small towns, and more!

Make the acquaintance of Regulus in the constellation Leo the Lion this month — one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere 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 Chickadees, Titmice, and their allies.

“Each minute bursts in the burning room, / The great globe reels in the solar fire, / Spinning the trivial and unique away. / (How all things flash! How all things flare!)” (Our homeschool poem of the week, from Delmore Schwartz, for April days.)