Archives for September 2020

“April, June, and November.” (The ancient calendrical verse that every young homeschooler should know.)

As the new homeschool year gets going, why not get (re)acquainted with the Library of Congress, the world’s largest library, a rich source of educational materials for homeschoolers, and a place every American should know.

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Italian physicists, famous fungi, Austrian economists, Bangladeshi monuments, temporal distortions, flaming flamingos, Belarusian rivers, a toast to autumn, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Georgia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, and Belarus.

Join our year-long homeschool tour of North American bird families and pick up some great science and natural history teaching ideas along the way. This week: New World Quail, Curassows, Guans, Partridges, Grouse, Turkeys, and Old World Quail.

“As imperceptibly as Grief / The Summer lapsed away — / Too imperceptible at last / To seem like Perfidy.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for the end of summer.)

Fall is here! If you’re in the northern hemisphere, that is. If you’re in the southern hemisphere, spring is here! Happy September 2020 equinox to homeschoolers everywhere!

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: September equinoxes, hobbit holidays, Austrian cities, gallinaceous birds, marvelous musicians, practical cats, Azerbaijani rivers, a toast to calmness, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: New Jersey, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, and the Bahamas.

Come along on our homeschool tour of North American bird families and pick up some great science and natural history teaching ideas along the way. This week: the Ducks, Geese, and Swans (Part II).

Pay a homeschool visit to the National Archives in Washington this week to celebrate the signing of the U.S. Constitution on 17 September 1787. The National Archives has a wealth of free teaching materials available that are ideal for homeschoolers.

“‘Men work together,’ I told him from the heart, / ‘Whether they work together or apart.’” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for late-summer mowing, the Monarch butterfly migration, and all of us working together, whether we work together or apart.)

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Constitutional conventions, migrating Monarchs, quacking birds, flying fish, lunar landings, national anthems, Armenian rivers, a toast to universal advancement, and more, arrrr!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Pennsylvania, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, and Armenia.

Come along on our homeschool tour of North American bird families and pick up some great science and natural history teaching ideas along the way. This week: the Ducks, Geese, and Swans (Part I).

The Star-Spangled Banner, in London and New York.

“But I am carried back against / My will into a childhood where / Autumn is bonfires, marbles, smoke; / I lean against my window fenced / From evocations in the air. / When I said autumn, autumn broke.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Elizabeth Jennings, for the coming fall.)

Have you found all the libraries in your local area? There may be more than you realize, and the WorldCat Library Finder will help you and your students locate them.

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Algerian rivers, new years, autumnal songs, united federations, world circles, chemical pioneers, Russian novelists, fried chicken, a toast to freedom, and more!