Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week and learn some great history and geography along the way. This week: the Altai Petroglyphs of Mongolia.
Archives for March 2022
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 27 March 2022
Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Spaghetti harvests, cherry blossoms, Canterbury Tales, marvelous mathematicians, distinguished doctors, Mongolian rivers, a toast to good eating, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Wisconsin, Mongolia, Mozambique, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Wisconsin, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, and Mozambique.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Crows and Jays (Part II)
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 garrulous and gregarious Crows and Jays (Part II).
🌏 🇫🇲 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Nan Madol Site in Micronesia
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week and learn some great history and geography along the way. This week: the Nan Madol Ceremonial Center in Micronesia.
🖋 🌱 WONDERFUL WORDS: Nothing Gold Can Stay
“Nature’s first green is gold, / Her hardest hue to hold.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for his birthday and for early spring.)
🎵 HOMESCHOOL MUSIC: Happy Birthday Bach!
Take a few homeschool minutes to introduce your students to a tiny musical masterpiece by one of the world’s great composers, Johann Sebastian Bach, born on this day in 1685.
🗓 🌷 SPRING IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)
Spring is here! In the northern hemisphere, that is; in the southern hemisphere, fall is here! Happy March 2022 equinox to homeschoolers everywhere!
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 20 March 2022
Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Vernal equinoxes, famous farmers, great speeches, pensive poems, beautiful blossoms, Mexican rivers, a toast to spring days, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Iowa, Mexico, Monaco, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Iowa, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, and Monaco.
🌕 RESEARCH PROJECTS for Homeschoolers – March 2022
Our March 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!
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Crows and Jays (Part I)
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 Crows and Jays (Part I), garrulous residents of town and country.
🌏 🇲🇭 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week and learn some great history and geography along the way. This week: the Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site in the Marshall Islands.
🖋 🗡 WONDERFUL WORDS: The Ides of March
“And if you can’t curb your ambitions, / at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. / And the higher you go, / the more searching and careful you need to be.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Constantine Cavafy, for the Ides of March.)
🗓 🗡 BEWARE the Ides of March!
Remembering the Ides of March, the famous date on which the Roman politician, general, and dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 B.C.
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – March 2022
Our March 2022 roundup of some recent academic research and news about home education in the United States and around the world, with links to sources. We have five items this month: Ali-Coleman & Fields-Smith, eds. (2022), Dwyer (2022), Lange & Ohlbrecht (2022), Liwanag & Liwanag (2020), and Smith (2022).
📡 JOIN A HOMESCHOOL SCIENCE PROJECT for Einstein’s Birthday
You and your young science students can assist in the search for undiscovered pulsars in deep space, right from the comfort of your own homeschool living room. (Really!) How cool is that?
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 13 March 2022
Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Ancient warnings, time warps, spring solstices, irrational dates, revolutionary rockets, Maltese marshes, a toast to tyrannicide, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Texas, Malta, Mauritius, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Texas, Malta, the Marshall Islands, Mauritania, and Mauritius.
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Sirius for March
Make the acquaintance of the brilliant nearby star Sirius, “the dog star,” in the constellation Canis Major this month — the brightest star in earth’s night sky — and make it your homeschool friend for life.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Shrikes and Vireos
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 predatory Shrikes and the plain but voluble Vireos.
🌏 🇲🇾 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Gunung Mulu Park in Malaysia
Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week and learn some great history and geography along the way. This week: Gunung Mulu National Park in Malaysia.
✒️ 🔭 WONDERFUL WORDS: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
“Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, / In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, / Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Walt Whitman, contrariwise, for John Herschel and Albert Einstein.)
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 6 March 2022
Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Learn’d astronomers, memorable defenses, marvelous musicians, great gardeners, time changes, Malaysian rivers, a toast to the Alamo, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Florida, Malawi, Mali, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Florida, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, and Mali.
