Archives for July 2020

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 familiar and widespread Blackbirds, Meadowlarks, Orioles, Grackles, Cowbirds, and their allies.

For this month’s anniversary of the first moon landing, why not teach your homeschool students the phases of the moon — you can even use emojis to do it!

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Polymathic microscopists, migrating Monarchs, wild hares, homeschooled novelists, collective counts, Pacific rivers, a toast to the shearer of ocean’s fleece, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Arizona, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, and Venezuela.

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 brilliant Cardinals and their allies, including the American Tanagers, Grosbeaks, and Buntings.

“Like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s / Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Gerard Manley Hopkins, for his birthday and for the halcyon days of summer.)

Some great educational resources for you and your homeschool students on this 51st anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Augustinian geneticists, cometary apparitions, moon walkers, halcyon verses, Latin liberators, brilliant birds, American painters, dry rivers, a toast to heroic hearts, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: New Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uruguay.

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 diverse Emberizid Sparrows (Part II).

Print your own set of free homeschool planners and calendars of educational events for the upcoming 2020–2021 River Houses year.

“Where is the Bee — / Where is the Blush — / Where is the Hay?” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for July.)

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 “Shadows” and “Obelisks.” Take a look!

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Transcendental birthdays, trilingual inscriptions, lyrical composers, temporal verses, capital cities, fiddling emperors, Asian rivers, a toast to truth, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Oklahoma, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, and Ukraine.

Make the acquaintance of the ancient orange giant Arcturus in the constellation Boötes the Herdsman this month, one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere 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 science and natural history lessons along the way. This week: the diverse Emberizid Sparrows (Part I).

“As from the East th’ illustrious King of Day, / With rising Radiance drives the Shades away, / So Freedom comes array’d with Charms divine, / And in her Train Commerce and Plenty shine.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Phillis Wheatley, for independent America.)

Explore your local library and the whole universe of knowledge as we take a year-long homeschool tour of the Dewey Decimal System. This month: “The Historical (and Geographical) 900s.”