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Archives for August 2022
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 28 August 2022
Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Freedom philosophers, notable novelists, splendid sluggers, celebrated calendars, Parisian peace, the Great River of the Heavens, a toast to free rivers, and more!
🌎 🌌 SUNDAY STATES BONUS: The Earth, the Solar System, and the Universe
Thank you for taking a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with us over the past year! We conclude today with the Earth itself and the amazing Universe beyond. A new world tour for the 2022–2023 homeschool year begins next month!
🌎 🌌 SUNDAY STATES BONUS: The Earth, the Solar System, and the Universe
Thank you for taking a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with us over the past year! We conclude today with the Earth itself and the amazing Universe beyond. A new world tour for the 2022–2023 homeschool year begins next month!
🔭 THE 2021–2022 HOMESCHOOL ASTRONOMY YEAR is Complete!
Our explorations of stars and planets, comets and meteors, galaxies and more, are now complete for the 2021–2022 homeschool year! What astronomical apparitions will you and your students be examining in the new 2022–2023 homeschool year ahead?
🔭 THE 2021–2022 HOMESCHOOL ASTRONOMY YEAR is Complete!
Our explorations of stars and planets, comets and meteors, galaxies and more, are now complete for the 2021–2022 homeschool year! What astronomical apparitions will you and your students be examining in the new 2022–2023 homeschool year ahead?
🐦 HOMESCHOOL NATURE NOTES: Getting Started with Bird Study and eBird
Bird study is one of the best subjects you can take up in a homeschool environment. Here’s how you and your young naturalists can get started with bird study in the homeschool year ahead.
🌎 🗺 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: A Free World Heritage Wall Map
Get your own full-color wall map of World Heritage Sites and follow along with us as we tour the world during the upcoming 2022–2023 River Houses homeschool year.
🖋 🏡 ENVOY: A Living River by the Door
“Go, little book, and wish to all / Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, / A living river by the door, / A nightingale in the sycamore.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Louis Stevenson, for the end of the 2021–2022 River Houses year.)
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 21 August 2022
Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Open rebellions, earth-shattering kabooms, notable naturalists, famous Frenchmen, farewell poems, the father of all rivers, a toast to fair winds, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: U.S. Territories and World Oceans
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week, to wrap up the 2021–2022 homeschool year: U.S. Territories and Possessions and the Oceans of the World.
🦅 NATURE NOTES: The Beginning of Fall Migration
It still feels like summer, but the first signs of fall are beginning to appear all around us. Can your homeschool naturalists see them?
🦅 NATURE NOTES: The Beginning of Fall Migration
It still feels like summer, but the first signs of fall are beginning to appear all around us. Can your homeschool naturalists see them?
🌎 🇺🇳 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Newly Inscribed Sites
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, to wrap up the 2021–2022 homeschool year: newly inscribed World Heritage Sites.
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – August 2022
Our August 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: Anderson (2022), Immings (2022), Miller & Miller-Hargis (2022), and Pietersma (2022).
🖋 🌞 WONDERFUL WORDS: “Poor, middle-agèd summer!”
“Poor, middle-agèd summer! Vain this show! / Whole fields of golden-rod cannot offset / One meadow with a single violet.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Helen Hunt Jackson, for late summer.)
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 14 August 2022
Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Strange signals, momentous amendments, colossal compositions, stout ships, August poems, Antarctic rivers, a toast to strange new worlds, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Hawaii and Antarctica
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week, as the year approaches its end, we visit Hawaii and Antarctica.
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Vega for August and the End of the Homeschool Year
Make one last homeschool friend for the summer: our blue-white neighbor-star Vega in the constellation Lyra the Lyre, one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere night sky.
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Vega for August
Make one last homeschool friend for the summer: our blue-white neighbor-star Vega in the constellation Lyra the Lyre, one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere night sky.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Our 2021–2022 Tour is Complete!
Our 2021–2022 homeschool tour of all the birds of North America is now complete! Tune in next month for a new round of avian explorations for the upcoming 2022–2023 homeschool year.
🌕 INDEPENDENT PROJECTS for Homeschoolers – August 2022
Our August 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!
🌍 🇿🇼 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Khami Ruins in Zimbabwe
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: Khami Ruins National Monument in Zimbabwe.
🖋 🌠 WONDERFUL WORDS: A Star in a Stoneboat
“From following walls I never lift my eye, / Except at night to places in the sky / Where showers of charted meteors let fly.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for this month’s Perseid meteor shower.)
🖋 🌠 WONDERFUL WORDS: A Star in a Stoneboat
“From following walls I never lift my eye, / Except at night to places in the sky / Where showers of charted meteors let fly.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for this month’s Perseid meteor shower.)
🌠 PERSEID METEORS for August 2022
Point your homeschool students to the constellation Perseus this week for the annual Perseid meteor shower, the lovely trail of debris left behind by Comet Swift–Tuttle.
🌠 PERSEID METEORS for August 2022
Point your homeschool students to the constellation Perseus this week for the annual Perseid meteor shower, the lovely trail of debris left behind by Comet Swift–Tuttle.
