Archives for January 2022

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 tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Welcome strangers, baseball giants, Dewey decimals, wintry poems, lunar landings, Japanese 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 tips along the way. This week: the Barn Owls and the Typical Owls.

Happy birthday to one of the greatest musical composers of all time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born on this day in 1756. Here are some little Mozart lessons that you can share with your homeschool students this week.

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Tall ships, Scottish poets, Revolutionary generals, giant jewels, auriferous deposits, wise birds, Italian rivers, a toast to useful 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 tips along the way. This week: New World Vultures, Ospreys, Hawks, Kites, and Eagles.

Our January 2022 full-moon report on the real scientific and scholarly projects around the world that you and your students can participate in from the comfort of your little home academy. Pick one and get started today!

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: American holidays, inventive birthdays, freedom philosophers, poetical tributes, First Fleets, Iranian rivers, a toast to wants and wishes, 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.)

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 in the River Houses. How are things going in your homeschool?

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 in the River Houses. How are things going in your homeschool?

Come along on our homeschool tour of North American bird families and pick up some great science and natural history teaching tips along the way. This week: the Herons, Bitterns, Ibises, and Spoonbills, all long-legged wading birds.

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Momentous crossings, cross-quarter days, fairy tales, brainy birthdays, imperial anniversaries, Hungarian rivers, a toast to freedom, 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.

“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.)

Come along on our homeschool tour of North American bird families and pick up some great science and natural history teaching tips along the way. This week: the Storks, Frigatebirds, Boobies, Gannets, Cormorants, Darters, and Pelicans.

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 “Heavy Equipment” and “Multiculturalism.” Take a look!