Archives for January 2021

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: American emperors, colorable collections, wintery poems, baseball giants, lunar landings, golden nuggets, Asian rivers, a toast to warmth, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Alabama, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, and Kenya.

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 Barn Owls and the Typical Owls.

Our January 2021 full-moon report on the real scientific and scholarly projects around the world that you and your students can contribute to from the comfort of your little home academy.

Download a whole year’s worth of free educational coloring booklets from major libraries and museums all around the world. It’s one of the easiest educational art opportunities you can find for your homeschool.

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Rocky Mountains, auriferous deposits, wise birds, student projects, musical birthdays, Jamaican rivers, a toast to lucky labor, and more.

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Illinois, Ireland, Israel, Italy, and Jamaica.

“I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, / And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from John Masefield, for the Challenger Seven.)

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: New World Vultures, Ospreys, Hawks, Kites, and Eagles.

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Indonesian ancestors, poetical remembrances, spooky birthdays, electrical anniversaries, historic arrivals, Iranian rivers, a toast to perseverance, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Mississippi, India, Indonesia, Iran, and Iraq.

“Let our rejoicing rise / High as the listening skies, / Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from James Weldon Johnson, for Martin Luther King’s birthday.)

Setting up a bird feeder is one of the simplest and most educational homeschool activities you can do during the winter season. And by tracking the birds you see at your backyard feeder you can make a real contribution to science through Cornell University’s Project FeederWatch.

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 Herons, Bitterns, Ibises, and Spoonbills, all long-legged wading birds.

We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms, and the midpoint of each term (following old calendrical tradition) is called the cross-quarter day. Today, January 14th, is the cross-quarter day of Orion Term, our winter term. How are things going in your homeschool?

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: American anthems, story tellers, tropical refuges, peace treaties, royal birthdays, Haitian rivers, a toast to heroes, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Indiana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, and Iceland.

Make the acquaintance of Capella in the constellation Auriga the Charioteer this month — a nearby four-star system and one of the brightest lights in the northern hemisphere night sky — and make it your homeschool friend for life.

“She thinks she’ll never / be so happy, for who else will find her graceful, / find her perfect, skate with her / in circles outside the emptied rink forever?” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Gail Mazur, for all homeschool fathers.)