You and your students can help astronomers study the shapes and orbits of real asteroids in space, right from the comfort of your little home academy. How cool is that?
Archives for June 2022
🌏 🇹🇯 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Tajik National Park in Tajikistan
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: Tajik National Park in Tajikistan.
🔭 ☄️ CHARLES MESSIER and the Most Beautiful Objects in the Universe
Happy birthday to the French astronomer Charles Messier (1730–1817), who cataloged some of the most beautiful nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies in the universe — so he could ignore them.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 26 June 2022
Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Clean hands, cosmic catalogues, children’s authors, asteroid days, momentous struggles, Tajik rivers, a toast to freedom and independence, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Idaho, Switzerland, Tajikistan, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Idaho, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, and Tajikistan.
🖋 🚂 WONDERFUL WORDS: “It was late June”
“And for that minute a blackbird sang / Close by, and round him, mistier, / Farther and farther, all the birds / Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.” (A bonus homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Edward Thomas, for late June.)
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Wood-Warblers (II)
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 tiny and colorful Wood-Warblers (Part II).
🖋 🌞 WONDERFUL WORDS: Stevenson’s “Summer Sun”
“Above the hills, along the blue, / Round the bright air with footing true, / To please the child, to paint the rose, / The gardener of the World, he goes.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Louis Stevenson, for the week of the summer solstice.)
🌏 🇱🇰 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Dambulla Temple in Sri Lanka
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 Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple in Sri Lanka.
🗓 ⛱ SUMMER IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)
Summer is here! (If you’re in the northern hemisphere, that is. If you’re in the southern hemisphere, winter is here!) Happy June solstice to homeschoolers everywhere!
🗓 ⛱ SUMMER IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)
Summer is here! (If you’re in the northern hemisphere, that is. If you’re in the southern hemisphere, winter is here!) Happy June 2022 solstice to homeschoolers everywhere!
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – June 2022
Our June 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: Matthews (2022), Rodriguez (2022), Sherlin (2022), and Whitlow-Spurlock (2022).
🌅 WATCH THE SUMMER SOLSTICE AT STONEHENGE
Follow a live broadcast of the summer-solstice sunset and sunrise at Stonehenge, the ancient astronomical landmark in southern England.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 19 June 2022
Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Father’s Days, summer solstices, joyful news, old schools, picture books, forced confessions, French astronomers, Sudanese rivers, a toast to summer, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Washington, Sri Lanka, Sweden, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Washington, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, and Sweden.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Wood-Warblers (I)
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 tiny and colorful Wood-Warblers (Part I).
🖋 🏰 HAPPY FATHER’S DAY WEEK from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A whisper, and then a silence: / Yet I know by their merry eyes / They are plotting and planning together / To take me by surprise.” (Our paternal homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, for Father’s Day, the third Sunday in June.)
🌍 🇿🇦 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Mapungubwe Sites in South Africa
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 Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape in South Africa.
🇺🇸 HOMESCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Happy Flag Day 2022!
Flag Day (June 14th every year) celebrates the date in 1777 when Congress established the Stars & Stripes as the national flag of the new United States.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 12 June 2022
Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Flag Days, ancient eclipses, Pyrrhic victories, paternal poems, splendid scientists, remarkable recipes, South African rivers, a toast to Old Glory, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Montana, Somalia, Spain, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Montana, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, and Spain.
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Spica for June
Make the acquaintance of the young blue-white giant Spica in the constellation Virgo this month, one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere sky, and make it your homeschool friend for life.
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Spica for June
Make the acquaintance of the young blue-white giant Spica in the constellation Virgo this month, one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere sky, and make it your homeschool friend for life.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Finches, Longspurs, and Snow Buntings
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 small and familiar Fringillid Finches, and the Longspurs and Snow Buntings.
📺 HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARIES for Your Homeschool Summer
Ten multi-part masterpieces of the documentarian’s art that you and your homeschool students can watch together and discuss over the summer.
📺 HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARIES for Your Homeschool Summer
Ten multi-part masterpieces of the documentarian’s art that you and your homeschool students can watch together and discuss over the summer.
🖋 🇺🇸 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): “O! say can you see?”
“Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, / In full glory reflected now shines on the stream — / ‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave / O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.” (Our American homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Francis Scott Key, for Flag Day, the 14th of June.)
