Archives for September 2021

“April, June, and November.” (There’s no better week than this to teach your students the ancient calendrical verse that every young homeschooler should know.)

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Practical cats, aquatic birds, phamous philologists, serendipitous discoveries, cartoon kids, Bangladeshi rivers, a toast to autumn, and more!

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 Quail, Curassows, Guans, Partridges, Grouse, Turkeys, and Old World Quail.

“And thus, without a Wing / Or service of a Keel / Our Summer made her light escape / Into the Beautiful.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for the end of summer.)

Our September 2021 full-moon report on the real scientific and scholarly projects around the world that you and your students can join from the comfort of your little home academy. Pick one and get started today!

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Autumnal equinoxes, talkative pirates, flying fish, famous judges, imperial births, transitional poems, West Indian rivers, a toast to the equinox, and more!

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).

“‘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.)

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: National anthems, essential documents, famous fights, wild flowers, ice men, children’s authors, Armenian rivers, a toast to good conduct, and more!

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).

Calling all homeschool photographers! The Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge is a great way for enthusiastic homeschool photography students to develop their talents and gain some recognition for their work. This month’s themes are “Coats of Arms” and “Lightbox Photography.” Take a look!

“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.)

Teaching your students to use the library independently is one of the best educational gifts you can give them. Join us this week as we begin our year-long homeschool tour of the Dewey Decimal system.

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Momentous voyages, Continental congresses, Dewey decimals, sad remembrances, famous physicists, African rivers, a toast to little houses, and more!