“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.)
Archives for May 2022
๐ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Familiesย โ Week of 29 May 2022
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!
๐ ๐บ๐ธ SUNDAY STATES: North Dakota, Sierra Leone, 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.
๐บ๐ธ MEMORIAL DAY 2022
“Rest, comrades, rest and sleep!ย / The thoughts of men shall beย / As sentinels to keepย / Your rest from danger free.” (Little homeschool lessons in literature, history, geography, and music, for the Memorial Day weekend.)
๐ฆ FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Indigobirds, Old World Sparrows, and Allies
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 Indigobirds and Whydahs, the Weavers, the Estrildid Finches, and the Old World Sparrows.
๐ HOMESCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Happy Birthday, Ralph! (Emerson, that is)
Invite your homeschool students to discover the work of the great American essayist, poet, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, born this day in 1803.
๐ ๐ธ๐ฆ WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Al-Hijr Site in Saudi Arabia
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 Al-Hijr (Hegra ) Archaeological Site in Saudi Arabia.
๐ ๐ GRADUATION SEASON: โSet me free to find my callingโ
“Bind me not to the pasture, chain me not to the plow,ย / Set me free to find my calling and Iโll return to you somehow.” (Our poem-of-the-week, from Marta Keen, for homeschool graduation season and the beginning of summer.)
๐ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Familiesย โ Week of 22 May 2022
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!
๐ ๐บ๐ธ SUNDAY STATES: Colorado, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, 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, Sรฃo Tomรฉ and Prรญncipe, and Saudi Arabia.
๐โโฑโ๐ก HAPPY WORLD METROLOGY DAY 2022!
On this day in 1875, the meter was adopted as an international standard of measurement. That makes today World Metrology Day! Why not invite your students to take a few scientific measurements this week in your homeschool.
๐ฆ FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Bulbuls, Starlings, Waxwings, and Allies
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 Bulbuls, Starlings, Waxwings, Silky-Flycatchers, Olive Warblers, and Accentors.
๐จ๐ฆ HOMESCHOOL MUSIC & HISTORY: โTo find the hand of Franklinโ
To understand a complex and beautiful piece of literature or music your students must first know a great deal about the worldย โ names, places, people, and events that may seem at first to be disconnected.
๐ ๐ฑ๐จ WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Pitons in Saint Lucia
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 Pitons Management Area in Saint Lucia.
๐ HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS โ May 2022
Our May 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 four items this month: Brooks & Elliott (2022), Burke (2022), Jahr & Kruschel (2022), and Soleymฤni, Samadi, & Ahmadi (2022).
๐ RESEARCH PROJECTS for Homeschoolers โ May 2022
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!
๐ ๐ WONDERFUL WORDS: Robert Frostโs โBirchesโ
“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.)
๐ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Familiesย โ Week of 15 May 2022
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!
๐ ๐บ๐ธ SUNDAY STATES: Nebraska, Rwanda, St. Vincent, 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..
๐ STAR BRIGHT: Polaris for May
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.
๐ฆ FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Mockingbirds, Catbirds, and Thrashers
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.
๐โ๐โ๐ WONDERFUL WORDS: โThe stellar gauge of earthly showโ
“Is such the stellar gauge of earthly show,ย / Nation at war with nation, brains that teem,ย / Heroes, and women fairer than the skies?” (An extra homeschool poem-of-the-week, aย sonnet-masterpiece from Thomas Hardy, for this week’s lunar eclipse.)
๐โ๐โ๐ LUNAR ECLIPSE SundayโMonday Night (15โ16 May 2022)
Invite your young homeschool astronomers to view the total lunar eclipse coming up on SundayโMonday night (15โ16 May 2022).
๐ ๐ท๐บ WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Solovetsky Islands in Russia
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 Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands in Russia.
๐ ๐ฆ LIBRARY LESSONS: The Macaulay Library of Natural History
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.
