Archives for July 2022

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Melville memorials, census commemorations, prominent publishers, poetical birthdays, Venezuelan rivers, a toast to the Meteor rolling home., and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Arizona, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, and Venezuela.

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Moth weeks, wild hares, capacious caverns, literary birthdays, Latin liberators, Welsh rivers, a toast to the necessities of life, and more!

Share some great educational resources with your homeschool students this week on the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Lunar landings, roundy wells, notable novelists, moth weeks, celebrated comets, record lows, Ukrainian rivers, a toast to tall ships, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Oklahoma, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, and Ukraine.

We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms, and the midpoint of each term (following old calendrical tradition) is called the “cross-quarter day.” Today, July 16th, is the cross-quarter day of Hercules Term, our summer term in the River Houses. How are things going in your homeschool?

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: American authors, ancient inscriptions, immortal artists, Plutonian probes, deadly duels, Turkish rivers, a toast to outdoor sports, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Utah, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, and Turkey.

Introduce your homeschool students to the ancient orange giant Arcturus in the constellation Boötes the Herdsman this month, one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere’s night sky, and make it their friend for life.

“As from the East th’ illustrious King of Day, / With rising Radiance drives the Shades away, / So Freedom comes array’d with Charms divine, / And in her Train Commerce and Plenty shine.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Phillis Wheatley, for independent America.)

For this month’s anniversary of the first moon landing, why not teach your homeschool students the phases of the moon. You can even use emojis to do it!

Explore your local library and the whole universe of knowledge with our homeschool tour of the Dewey Decimal System. This month: The Historical & Geographical 900s.

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Independence Days, continental armies, peaceful poems, ancient mysteries, backyard birds, Tanzanian rivers, a toast to a goose, and more!

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Wyoming, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), and Togo.

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 July.

“Not gold but only men can make / A people great and strong.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from William Ralph Emerson, for Independence Day.)

Happy July 2022! Here’s our monthly review of all the wonderful educational opportunities, little lessons, and teaching traditions you can look for in the homeschool month ahead.