Archives for October 2021

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Spooky nights, time warps, gunpowder plots, drifting continents, falling stars, election days, Patagonian rivers, a toast to Halloween, 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 Limpkins, Rails, Gallinules, Coots, and Cranes.

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Shakespearean celebrations, desperate battles, Medieval monuments, Martian invasions, famous poets, jewel heists, Cameroonian rivers, a toast to Agincourt, and more!

“If I had a thing to give you, / I would tell you one more time / That the world is always turning / Toward the morning.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Gordon Bok, for late October.)

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 Swifts and Hummingbirds, aerial acrobats all.

Our October 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: Prime meridians, splendid surrenders, illuminating anniversaries, animalculous observations, substantial quantities, African rivers, a toast to peace, and more!

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, October 16th, is the cross-quarter day of Cygnus Term, our fall term in the River Houses. How are things going in your homeschool?

“I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for apple season.)

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 Cuckoos, Roadrunners, Anis, and Goatsuckers. (All birds with funny names!)

“I be free to go abroad / Or take again my homeward road / To where for me the apple tree / Do lean down low in Linden Lea.” (A bonus poem-of-the-week, from William Barnes and Ralph Vaughan Williams, for apple season and Vaughan Williams’ birthday.)

Great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Italian explorers, fossil days, distant galaxies, harvest poems, Norman conquests, piranha-infested rivers, a toast to the navy, and more!

Make the acquaintance of the young double star Alpheratz in the constellation Andromeda this month — one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere sky — and make it your homeschool friend for life.

“The Tyrian would not come / Until the North — invoke it.” (Our autumnal homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for all late bloomers.)