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🖋 🌞 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): “Sumer is i-cumin in”

1 June 2022 by Bob O'Hara

The weather is warming up, the birds are laying their eggs, and the trees are all leafed-out — summer is on its way! Our homeschool poem-of-the-week for the first week of June and the first week of Hercules Term, our summer term in the River Houses, is one of the oldest songs in the English language. Its author is unknown, but it was probably written sometime in the 1200s and is in the Wessex dialect of Middle English — loudly sing, cuckoo!

Sumer is i-cumin in

Sing, cuccu, nu. Sing, cuccu.
Sing, cuccu. Sing, cuccu, nu.

Sumer is i-cumin in —
Lhude sing, cuccu!
Groweth sed and bloweth med
And springth the wude nu.
Sing, cuccu!

Awe bleteth after lomb,
Lhouth after calve cu,
Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth —
Murie sing, cuccu!

Cuccu, cuccu,
Wel singes thu, cuccu.
Ne swik thu naver nu!

“Sumer is i-cumin in” is a round, like “Row, row, row your boat,” intended to be sung by multiple voices, but it is often printed as a simple poem and can easily be read as such. Here’s a modern English translation:

Sing, cuckoo, now. Sing, cuckoo.
Sing, cuckoo. Sing, cuckoo, now.

Summer has arrived,
Loudly sing, cuckoo!
The seed is growing and the meadow is blooming,
And the wood is coming into leaf now,
Sing, cuckoo!

The ewe is bleating after her lamb,
The cow is lowing after her calf;
The bullock is prancing, the stag cavorting,*
Sing merrily, cuckoo!

Cuckoo, cuckoo,
You sing well, cuckoo.
Never stop now!

*Nota bene: You may wish, or perhaps you may not wish, to delight your local ten-year-old by explaining that the translation of the phrase “bucke verteth” is disputed. Some profound scholars believe it actually contains the first English appearance of the verb “to fart,” and they would translate the phrase as “billy-goat farteth.” Other learned philologists are content to read “bucke verteth” as “buck cavorteth,” or more naturally, “the stag leaps about.” 🦌

Here’s how you can present “Sumer is i-cumin in” this week in your homeschool: just go about your usual school activities singing the opening lines all day — “Sumer is i-cumin in, sing, cuccu!” Your students will pick it right up and make it a June tradition:

(That’s the European Cuckoo shown, correctly, in the video — a species that really does sing “cuccu,” unlike our North American cuckoos.)

“Sumer is i-cumin in” has been a staple of high school and college English classes for generations. By sharing it with your students this summer you’ll be introducing them to the rich and ancient heritage of the English language.

What wonderful words and poetical productions will you be studying in your homeschool this Hercules Term? 😊

❡ Sing, cuccu! If a special line or turn of phrase happens to strike you in one of our weekly poems, just copy it onto your homeschool bulletin board for a few days and invite your students to speak it (or sing it!) aloud — that’s all it takes to begin a new poetical friendship and learn a few lovely words that will stay with you for life. 🌞

❡ Explore more: For a quick review of the European Middle Ages, the era within which this little song originated, turn to page 188 in your River Houses history encyclopedia. 📚

❡ Here, said the year: This post is one of our regular homeschool poems-of-the-week. Print your own River Houses Poetry Calendar to follow along with us as we visit fifty of our favorite friends over the course of the year, and add your name to our River Houses mailing list to get posts like these delivered right to your mailbox every week. 🗞

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

🌍 🇸🇨 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles

1 June 2022 by Bob O'Hara

The island nation of Seychelles in the Indian Ocean is one of our homeschool countries-of-the-week, so why not spend a few minutes today learning about one of the Seychelles’ World Heritage Sites: Aldabra Atoll.

Aldabra Atoll from the air. The entire atoll is about 21 miles (34 km) long. The interior lagoon is tidal and may be substantially dry at low water. (Image: Wikimedia Commons.)

Aldabra Atoll is one of the largest coral reef ecosystems in the world:

Located in the Indian Ocean, the Aldabra Atoll is an outstanding example of a raised coral atoll. Due to its remoteness and inaccessibility, the atoll has remained largely untouched by humans for the majority of its existence. Aldabra is one of the largest atolls in the world, and contains one of the most important natural habitats for studying evolutionary and ecological processes. It is home to the largest giant tortoise population in the world. The richness and diversity of the ocean and landscapes result in an array of colours and formations that contribute to the atoll’s scenic and aesthetic appeal.

Aldabra Atoll consists of four main islands of coral limestone separated by narrow passes and enclosing a large shallow lagoon, providing a superlative spectacle of natural phenomena. The lagoon contains many smaller islands and the entire atoll is surrounded by an outer fringing reef. Geomorphologic processes have produced a rugged topography, which supports a variety of habitats with a relatively rich biota for an oceanic island and a high degree of endemism. Marine habitats range from coral reefs to seagrass beds and mangrove mudflats with minimal human impact.

The property is an outstanding example of an oceanic island ecosystem in which evolutionary processes are active within a rich biota. Most of the land surface comprises ancient coral reef (~125,000 years old) which has been repeatedly raised above sea level. The size and morphological diversity of the atoll has permitted the development of a variety of discrete insular communities with a high incidence of endemicity among the constituent species. The top of the terrestrial food chain is, unusually, occupied by an herbivore: the giant tortoise. The tortoises feed on grasses and shrubbery, including plants which have evolved in response to its grazing patterns. The atoll’s isolation has also allowed the evolution of endemic flora and fauna. Due to minimal human interference, these ecological processes can be clearly observed in their full complexity. (World Heritage Centre #185)

You can find a gallery of additional photos of Aldabra Atoll on the World Heritage Centre’s website.

The giant land tortoises of Aldabra. (Image: Wikimedia Commons.)

World Heritage Sites are cultural or natural landmarks of international significance, selected for recognition by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. More than 1000 such sites have been recognized in over 160 countries, and we feature one every Wednesday, drawn from one of our homeschool countries-of-the-week. You can find a complete list of World Heritage Sites online at the World Heritage Centre and in Wikipedia.

The World Heritage Centre also has a free and comprehensive World Heritage education kit for teachers, as well as a wonderful full-color wall map of World Heritage Sites, available for the cost of shipping. Why not add them both to your own homeschool library. 🗺

What world treasures will you be exploring in your homeschool this Hercules Term? 😊

❡ Books in the running brooks: You can always turn to your River Houses almanac, atlas, and history encyclopedia for more information about any of our countries-of-the-week. The almanac has profiles of all the nations of the world on pages 752–859; the endpapers of the atlas are indexes that will show you where all of the individual national and regional maps may be found; the history encyclopedia includes national histories on pages 489–599; and you can find additional illustrations, flags, and other mentions through the indexes in each of these volumes. For an ideal little lesson, just write the name of the Weekly World Heritage Site on your homeschool bulletin board, find its location in your atlas, read the WHC’s brief description aloud, look at a picture or two, and you’re done. Over the course of the year, without even realizing it, your students will absorb a wealth of new historical, geographical, and cultural information. 🇸🇨

❡ The great globe itself: This is one of our regular Homeschool States & Countries posts featuring historical and natural sites of international importance. Download a copy of our River Houses World Heritage Calendar and follow along with us as we tour the planet, and add your name to our weekly mailing list to get great homeschool teaching ideas delivered right to your mailbox all through the year. 🌎 🌍 🌏

Filed Under: Homeschool States & Countries, Weekly World Heritage

🗓 🍃 🏸 HAPPY HOMESCHOOL JUNE from the River Houses!

1 June 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Happy June to all our homeschool readers and friends! Here are some educational ideas, events, and activities to look for in the homeschool month ahead. 🔍

Third-century Roman calendar mosaic from Tunisia. (Image: Ad Meskens/Wikimedia Commons.)
June with 30 days is the first month of Hercules Term, our summer term in the River Houses. Hercules Term runs from June through August. Visit our homeschool calendar page and print out some copies of our simple educational calendars and planners — they’ll help you create a light and easy structure for your whole homeschool year. 🗓

The month of June (Latin mensis Iunius) was the fourth month of the year in the earliest Roman calendars, which treated the beginning of spring in March as the beginning of the new year. The month’s name is usually said to be derived from Juno, queen of the gods and wife of Jupiter (although the Romans themselves were not always sure where their own month names came from, so ancient were they). You can learn more about different modern and historical calendars on pages 347–353 in your River Houses almanac. 📚

It is and they do:

It is the month of June,
The month of leaves and roses,
When pleasant sights salute the eyes
And pleasant scents the noses.

June is the month of the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere — the astronomical beginning of summer — which falls this year on Tuesday the 21st. (In the southern hemisphere the 21st will be the winter solstice — the astronomical beginning of winter.) The summer solstice is the “longest day” of the year: the day with the longest period of daylight and the shortest period of darkness. ⛱

Our Sunday states-of-the-week for June will be South Dakota, Montana, Washington, and Idaho, and our countries will run from Singapore to Tajikistan. Print your own River Houses States & Countries Calendar and tour the United States and the whole world with us from Delaware to Hawaii and Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. 🇺🇸 🌎

We’ll be visiting World Heritage Sites in Seychelles, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Tajikistan this month — our River Houses World Heritage Calendar will point the way. 🗺

We’ll have homeschool poems this month from an anonymous medieval poet (for summer), Francis Scott Key (for Flag Day), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (for Father’s Day), and Robert Louis Stevenson (for the summer sun). Print your own River Houses Poetry Calendar and join us as we visit with fifty of our favorite friends over the course of the year. ✒️

Our Friday Bird Families this month will include the Wagtails and Pipits; the Fringilline Finches, Cardueline Finches, Longspurs, and Snow Buntings; and the Wood-Warblers (twice over). Print your own copy of our River Houses Calendar of American Birds, get out your copy of our recommended homeschool bird guide, and follow the flyways with us. 🦅

Our monthly Great Star for June is Spica (alpha Virginis), which we’ll be writing about next week. Print your own River Houses Star Calendar and join us as we visit twelve high lights of the northern hemisphere night sky and make them friends for life. 🌟

Our Dewey Decimal class for June is the Literary 800s — follow along with us (on the first Tuesday of each month) and help your students learn the whole library over the course of the year! 📚

And watch for our monthly Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge post, coming up in the next few days — it’s a great opportunity for homeschool photographers. 📸

Also coming up this month:

 ⬩ 14 June (Tu): Flag Day 🇺🇸
 ⬩ 14 June (Tu): Lunar Society Report 🌕
 ⬩ 19 June (Su): Father’s Day 👨‍👧‍👦
 ⬩ 21 June (Tu): June (Summer) Solstice – First Day of (Astronomical) Summer ⛱

And consider well:

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

What calendrical events and annual apparitions will you be marking in your homeschool this June? 😊

❡ Thirty days hath September: This is one of our regular Homeschool Terms & Calendars posts. Print your own set of River Houses Calendars to follow along with us, and add your name to our weekly mailing list to get more great homeschool teaching ideas delivered right to your mailbox all through the year. 🗞

Filed Under: Homeschool Terms & Calendars

🗓 💪 HERCULES TERM 2022 and the Homeschool Year

1 June 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Today is the first day of our summer term in the River Houses: Hercules Term, named for the Great Hero of the Heavens. Hercules Term runs from June through August.

We put great stock in the educational value of the calendar in the River Houses. The calendar is the framework on which we human beings hang most of the facts we know about the world: historical events, natural phenomena, personal reminiscences, the seasons, blooming flowers, migrating birds, the sun and moon, the planets, the stars. A key part of every student’s intellectual development is the development of “calendar sense” — a sense of time and history.

The constellation Hercules, quite upside down, from A Celestial Atlas Comprising a Systematic Display of the Heavens in a Series of Thirty Maps by Alexander Jamieson (1822). (Image: Wikimedia Commons.)

Our annual River Houses calendar divides the homeschool year into four three-month terms (quarters) that correspond to the “meteorological seasons,” and these terms are named after prominent seasonal constellations of the northern hemisphere:

  • 🗓 🦢 Fall or Cygnus Term (September–November)
  • 🗓 🗡 Winter or Orion Term (December–February)
  • 🗓 🦁 Spring or Leo Term (March–May)
  • 🗓 💪 Summer or Hercules Term (June–August)

This calendrical division is an open-ended idea that we’ve developed for the River Houses, and we think has a great deal of educational potential.

Hercules Term 2022 as it appears in our annual River Houses homeschool calendar.

As you think about your own homeschool year, think about how different parts of it — curricular, co-curricular, social, or recreational — might be informally arranged into these four terms. You could have a different decorating theme in your classroom each term, for example, or you could schedule a regular trip to a special place where you take a photo at the beginning of each term to track how the seasons change. You could group your curricular work by term, or bake a quarterly cake, or set goals at the beginning of each term that you want your students to have met by the end. You could have your students measure their height at the beginning of each term, or take their penny-jar to the bank for a quarterly deposit. At the end of each term you could assemble a portfolio of student accomplishments. With a little imagination you will be able to come up with a clever and comfortable arrangement and a new way to think about the structure of your educational year. (And you can use our simple planners to track your progress.)

Star chart of the constellation Hercules. (Image: Wikimedia Commons.)

Hercules Term is named for the Great Hero of the Heavens, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, who is up in the southeast each evening now at sunset and will be passing high overhead throughout the summer. Hercules Term is home to Flag Day (14 June), Father’s Day (19 June), and Independence Day (4 July); to the anniversary of the first moon landing (20 July, which is also Gregor Mendel’s Birthday); and to the annual Perseid Meteor Shower (11–13 August) — not to mention countless other holidays, anniversaries, and events, local and global, public and private, that you may wish to mark on your own homeschool calendar.

If you want to make a special astronomical study this Hercules Term, your River Houses reference library includes an excellent backyard guide to the night sky that will introduce you to Hercules and its most prominent stars:

As one of the more prominent heroes of Greek mythology, Hercules has earned a central place in the sky — at least for those in the Northern Hemisphere — appearing almost directly overhead during the summer months. From mid-northern latitudes the warrior can be seen running east toward the Milky Way. Four stars in an approximate square make up the asterism known as the Keystone, similar in shape to the central stone in archways. Right next to bright Vega [our August star], Hercules is easy to locate, especially during the summer weeks when the constellation is at its highest. Though prominently positioned in the night sky, Hercules is a dim constellation that does not benefit from any notably bright stars and was once named “the Phantom.” Only three are brighter than magnitude 3. Rasalgethi, the alpha star, is a red supergiant that is visible to the naked eye.

In Greco-Roman lore, Hercules was a half-mortal son of Zeus, famous for his amazing strength. He was driven mad by Hera, queen of the gods and Zeus’s wife, who was angered by her husband’s unfaithfulness. While cursed with insanity, Hercules took his family’s life. When the tragic spell lifted, Hercules was so overcome with grief that he undertook 12 labors to repent for his actions. Each challenge seemed impossible, but through strength and ingenuity Hercules overcame each one and was granted celestial immortality. Many of the creatures Hercules battles are the other constellations in the sky including Leo the lion, Cancer the crab, and Hydra the serpent. (National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Night Sky, pages 222–223)

Why not spend a little time out after dark with your students over the next three months and watch the Great Hero as he makes his nightly passage to the west. Once you learn to spot him, you’ll have a friend for life.

What educational adventures do you and your homescholars have planned for this Hercules Term? 😊

❡ Quarter days and cross-quarter days: Dividing the year into quarters is an ancient and natural practice: the annual movement of the sun across the sky automatically gives us two equinoxes, two solstices, and four seasons. Our four terms are just a simple modification of that arrangement so that our River Houses calendar will align more conveniently with the ordinary months — with the “meteorological seasons” rather than the astronomical seasons — and with the customary American school year. In many traditional calendrical systems, going back into the Middle Ages, the first day of each quarter is called the quarter day and the midpoint of each quarter is called the cross-quarter day. That means the quarter days of the River Houses year are 1 September, 1 December, 1 March, and 1 June, and the cross-quarter days are 16 October, 14 January (15 January in Leap Years), 15 April, and 16 July. (Fun fact: a vestige of the old system of quarter and cross-quarter days is Groundhog Day, also known as Candlemas on the Christian calendar: it’s the cross-quarter day between the winter solstice and the spring equinox.) Quarter days have for centuries been the traditional days on which school terms began, so homeschoolers who follow our four-term River Houses calendar are participating in a very ancient tradition indeed. 🗓

❡ Watchers of the skies: Teaching your students to recognize the constellations is one of the simplest and most enduring gifts you can give them. Your recommended River Houses night-sky guide has descriptions and maps of each constellation that point out the highlights, and the astronomical section of your recommended world atlas has beautiful large charts of both celestial hemispheres. Why not find a dark-sky spot near you this term and spend some quality homeschool time beneath the starry vault. 🔭

❡ Choose something like a star: If you’d like some more light and easy homeschool astronomy lessons, download and print a copy of our annual River Houses Star Calendar and follow along with us month by month as we make twelve heavenly friends-for-life over the course of the year. 🌟

❡ Here, said the year: This is one of our occasional posts about our Homeschool Terms & Calendars. Print your own set of River Houses Calendars to follow along with us, and add your name to our weekly mailing list to get more great homeschool teaching ideas delivered right to your mailbox all through the year. 🗞

Filed Under: Homeschool Terms & Calendars

🏡 WELCOME! (Pinned Post)

1 June 2022 by Bob O'Hara

First time visitor? We post a wide range of easy-to-use educational ideas and “little lessons” that will enrich your homeschooling schedule all through the year. Please add your name to our free mailing list! (Just one message a week and no spam.) 😊

There’s a wealth of wonderful material here on our website — everything from homeschool astronomy to books and libraries to language and literature to geography, natural history, homeschool calendars, and more. The materials we’re developing are going to become the foundation for a new type of homeschool network made up of friendly local groups called “Houses” (just like in Harry Potter). Make yourself at home! 😊

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