Archives for May 2022

“Weeds triumphant ranged / Strangers strolled and spelled / At the lone Orthography / Of the Elder Dead.” (An extra homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for Memorial Day.)

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Memorial Days, high peaks, high flights, new terms, ocean atolls, summer songs, Senegalese rivers, a toast to homeschool graduates, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: North Dakota, Senegal, Serbia, the Seychelles, and Sierra Leone.

“Bind me not to the pasture, chain me not to the plow, / Set me free to find my calling and I’ll return to you somehow.” (Our poem-of-the-week, from Marta Keen, for homeschool graduation season and the beginning of summer.)

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Philosophical birthdays, momentous messages, graduation songs, global otters, ancient apparitions, paper airplanes, Saudi Arabian rivers, a toast to satisfaction, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Colorado, Samoa, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Saudi Arabia.

Our May 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!

“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for childhood play and growing up.)

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Lunar eclipses, ancient mechanisms, ill-fated expeditions, phamous photographers, betuline poems, West Indian rivers, a toast to blissful days, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Nebraska, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines..

Make the acquaintance of the pole star Polaris in the constellation Ursa Minor this month, one of the most important stars in the northern hemisphere sky, and make it your homeschool friend and landmark for life.

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 loquacious Mockingbirds, Catbirds, and Thrashers.

“Is such the stellar gauge of earthly show, / Nation at war with nation, brains that teem, / Heroes, and women fairer than the skies?” (An extra homeschool poem-of-the-week, a sonnet-masterpiece from Thomas Hardy, for this week’s lunar eclipse.)

Invite your young homeschool astronomers to view the total lunar eclipse coming up on Sunday–Monday night (15–16 May 2022).

Invite your homeschool naturalists to explore the sights and sounds of birds all over the world through the online collections of the Macaulay Library at Cornell University.

“Great was my pain when I you bred, / Great was my care when I you fed. / Long did I keep you soft and warm / And with my wings kept off all harm.” (Our “ornithological” homeschool poem-of-the-week, from the early American poet Anne Bradstreet, for Mother’s Day.)

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Marvelous moms, lunar eclipses, migrating birds, maternal poems, great comets, tall buildings, Romanian rivers, a toast to merry days, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Nevada, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, and Russia.

Our homeschool review of the educational wonders that you and your students can watch for in the northern hemisphere night sky during the month of May.

May is Bird Migration Month in the River Houses! Why not show your homeschool naturalists how to track the number of avian migrants across the United States each night with BirdCast.

Explore your local library and the whole universe of knowledge with our homeschool tour of the Dewey Decimal System. This month: The Artistic 700s.