Archives for May 2020

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: heroic terms, aerial anniversaries, library literature, historical geologists, decisive days, lunar societies, Slovenian rivers, a toast to travelers, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: South Dakota, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the Solomon Islands.

“A beauteous type of that unchanging good, / That bright eternal beacon, by whose ray / The voyager of time should shape his heedful way.” (An extra homeschool poem-of-the-week, from William Cullen Bryant, for Polaris, our Great Star for the month of May.)

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 Indigobirds and Whydahs, the Weavers, the Estrildid Finches, and the Old World Sparrows.

“Bind me not to the pasture, chain me not to the plow, / Set me free to find my calling and I’ll return to you somehow.” (Our poem-of-the-week, from Marta Keen, for homeschool graduation season and the beginning of summer.)

Get some fun and easy writing ideas for aspiring homeschool writers from young-adult author Jason Reynolds, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature at the Library of Congress.

“Weeds triumphant ranged / Strangers strolled and spelled / At the lone Orthography / Of the Elder Dead.” (An extra homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for Memorial Day.)

“Rest, comrades, rest and sleep! / The thoughts of men shall be / As sentinels to keep / Your rest from danger free.” (Little homeschool lessons in literature, history, geography, and music, for the Memorial Day weekend.)

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Memorial Days, historic eclipses, amazing ascents, marvelous mimics, paper airplanes, Serbian rivers, lost empires, 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: North Dakota, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, and Sierra Leone.

May is Bird Migration Month in the River Houses. Here’s how you can find out what birds are migrating though your homeschool neighborhood this month (or any month of the year).

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 Bulbuls, Starlings, Waxwings, Silky-Flycatchers, Olive Warblers, and Accentors

On this day in 1875, the meter was adopted as the international standard of measurement. That makes today World Metrology Day! Why not invite your students to take a few scientific measurements this week in your homeschool. 😊

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: marvelous measurements, ancient computers, famous photographers, life-saving nurses, lost expeditions, tiny 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: Colorado, Samoa, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Saudi Arabia.

“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for childhood play and growing up.)

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 loquacious Mockingbirds and Thrashers.

“When each of you shall in your nest / Among your young ones take your rest, / In chirping languages oft them tell / You had a Dame that lov’d you well.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Anne Bradstreet, for Mother’s Day.)

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Mother’s Day, American musicians, famous nurses, golden spikes, space stations, great comets, playful poems, Rwandan rivers, a toast to truth and liberty, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Nebraska, Rwanda, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent & the Grenadines.