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๐Ÿ—“ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Familiesย โ€“ Week of 9 January 2022

9 January 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Quick Freshes are our regular Sunday notes on the homeschool week ahead. Pick one or two (or more!) of the items below each week and use them to enrich your homeschooling schedule. Add your name to our free mailing list to get posts like these delivered right to your mailbox each week. Visit our River Houses calendar page to print your own homeschool calendars and planners for the entire year.

๐Ÿ“– Have you gotten your NEW WORLD ALMANAC for the new 2022 year?

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ OUR STATE-OF-THE-WEEK is Indiana, and our COUNTRIES are Haitiย ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡น, Hondurasย ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ณ, Hungaryย ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ, and Icelandย ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ธ. (Our separate Sunday States & Countries post for the week went up just a few minutes ago.)

๐ŸŒ“ THE MOON at the beginning of this week is at its first quarterย โ€” aย good time for moon watching! You can explore the night sky and the features of the moon in your recommended backyard astronomy guide and your homeschool world atlas, and you can learn a host of stellar and lunar facts on pages 331โ€“346 in your almanac. Browse through our many astronomy posts for even more.

๐Ÿ—“ TODAY, Sunday (9 January 2022) โ€” Today is the 9th day of 2022; there are 356 days remaining in this common year. Learn more about different kinds of modern and historical calendars on pages 347โ€“353 in your (brand new 2022!) River Houses almanac.ย ๐Ÿ“š On this day in 1923, Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva made the first successful flight in an autogyro, the ancestor of the modern helicopter.ย ๐Ÿš

Monday (10 January 2022) โ€” On this day in the year 49 B.C., Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river and approached the city of Rome with his army, touching off a civil war that led to the destruction of the Roman Republic and the eventual formation of the Roman Empire. For an illustrated overview of the life and times of Julius Caesar and his outsized impact on the Western world, see pages 108โ€“109 in your homeschool history encyclopedia.ย โš”๏ธ

Tuesday (11 January 2022) โ€” Today is the birthday of Alexander Hamilton (1755โ€“1804), the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, whose portrait appears on our $10 bills.ย ๐Ÿ’ต It’s also the birthday of William James (1842โ€“1910), one of the founders of the modern field of psychology.ย ๐Ÿง 

Wednesday (12 January 2022) โ€” Today is the birthday of the French author Charles Perrault (1628โ€“1703), who gave the world Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, and many other beloved fairy tales.ย ๐Ÿ›Œ It’s also the birthday of the American writer Jack London (1876โ€“1916).ย ๐Ÿบ Our Wednesday tour of World Heritage Sites this week will take you to the Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape in Hungary.ย ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ

Thursday (13 January 2022) โ€” The National Geographic Society was founded on this day in 1888 in Washington, D.C.ย ๐Ÿ—บ

Friday (14 January 2022) โ€” Today is the midpoint of Orion Term and thus one of the four cross-quarter days of the River Houses year. How are things going?ย ๐Ÿ—“ย ๐Ÿ—ก Today is also Ratification Day. On this day in 1784 in Annapolis, Maryland, Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris, officially ending the American Revolutionary War.ย ๐Ÿ•Š Our Friday Bird Families post this week will introduce you to the long-legged Herons, Bitterns, Ibises, and Spoonbills. Print your own River Houses Calendar of American Birds and follow the flyways with us throughout the year.ย ๐Ÿฆ…

Saturday (15 January 2022) โ€” Queen Elizabeth I of England was crowned on this day in 1559. For an illustrated outline of the historical period named for her, turn to pages 260โ€“261 in your homeschool history encyclopedia.ย ๐Ÿ‘‘ And our poem-of-the-week for the third week of January is James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (1900), for American minister and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., born on this day in 1929. Print your own River Houses Poetry Calendar and follow along with us throughout the year.ย ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

Sunday (16 January 2022) โ€” On this day in the year 27 B.C., the Roman Senate conferred the title “Augustus” on the general and de facto dictator Octavian, the great-nephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar, and the last remnants of the old republic were swept away.ย ๐Ÿ‘‘

๐Ÿฅ‚ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ OUR WEEKLY TOAST is in honor of Martin Luther King’s January 15th birthday, observed as aย federal holiday on this coming Monday the 17th: “Let freedom ring!”

โกโ€…Toasts can be a fun educational tradition for your family table. We offer one each week โ€” you can take it up, or make up one of your own (“To North American dinosaurs!”), or invite a different person to come up with one for each meal (“To unpredictability in toasting!”). What will you toast in your homeschool this week?ย ๐Ÿฅ‚

๐ŸŒ ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ EVERYTHING FLOWS: Hungary in central Europe is one of our countries-of-the-week, so our Weekly World River is the peaceful Zala River, which flows through the Hungarian city of Zalaegerszeg. You can find its location in your recommended homeschool atlas, and you can read more about it in the Zala River entry in Wikipedia or perhaps on your next visit to your local library.

The Zala River in western Hungary. (Image:ย Wikimediaย Commons.)

โกโ€…Children of Ocean: Why not do a homeschool study of world rivers over the course of the year? Take the one we select each week (above), or start with the river lists in your almanac (pages 693โ€“695), and make it a project to look them all up in your atlas, or in a handy encyclopedia either online or on a weekly visit to your local library. Aย whole world of geographical learning awaits you.ย ๐ŸŒ

๐Ÿ™€ AND DON’T FORGET: Friday the 13th comes on a Thursday this month!

What do you have planned for your homeschool this week, this month, and this wonderful new year?ย ๐Ÿ˜Š

โกโ€…Lively springs: This is one of our regular “Quick Freshes” posts looking at the homeschool week ahead. Add your name to our River Houses mailing list and get these weekly messages delivered right to your mailbox all through the year. You can also print your own River Houses calendars of educational events and follow along with us.ย ๐Ÿ—“

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