Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Spooky days, gunpowder plots, deciduous poems, religious reformations, drifting continents, Chinese rivers, a toast to Hallowe’en, and more!
Archives for October 2022
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: New Hampshire, Chad, China, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: New Hampshire, the Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, and China.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Limpkins, Rails, Gallinules, Coots, and Cranes
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 Limpkins, Rails, Gallinules, Coots, and Cranes.
👻 HOMESCHOOL SPOOKIDAYS: Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore”
Light a candle, turn out the lights, and let Edgar Allan Poe entertain you and your homeschool students this Halloween.
🌎 🇨🇦 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada
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: Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada.
👑 “FROM THIS DAY to the ending of the world”
“This day is call’d the feast of Crispian.” (Celebrate some Shakespearean history in your homeschool on this St. Crispin’s Day.)
⚔️ “THIS STORY shall the good man teach his son“
“He that shall live this day and see old age, will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, and say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispin’s.'” (A homeschool toast to offer from this day to the ending of the world.)
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 23 October 2022
Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Crispin’s Days, momentous visions, star sapphires, American singers, Welsh poets, aquatic birds, Canadian rivers, a toast to Agincourt, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: South Carolina, Cabo Verde, Canada, & More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: South Carolina, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, and Canada.
🖋 🌅 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): Turning Toward the Morning
“If I had a thing to give you, / I would tell you one more time / That the world is always turning / Toward the morning.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Gordon Bok, for late October.)
🖋 🌅 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): Turning Toward the Morning
“If I had a thing to give you, / I would tell you one more time / That the world is always turning / Toward the morning.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Gordon Bok, for late October.)
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Swifts and Hummingbirds
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 Swifts and Hummingbirds, aerial acrobats all.
🇺🇸 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Yorktown 1781
Invite your homeschool students to remember the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, on this day in 1781.
🌍 🇧🇫 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Ancient Metallurgy Sites of Burkina Faso
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 Ancient Ferrous Metallurgy Sites of Burkina Faso.
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – October 2022
Our October 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 two items this month: Holguin-Alvarez et al. (2022) and Ray (2022).
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 16 October 2022
Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Splendid surrenders, October songs, tiny birds, incandescent lights, Mole Days, amazing architects, Bruneian rivers, a toast to peace, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Maryland, Brunei, Burundi, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Maryland, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, and Burundi.
🗓 🦢 HAPPY CROSS-QUARTER DAY of Cygnus Term
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, October 16th, is the cross-quarter day of Cygnus Term, our fall term in the River Houses. How are things going in your homeschool?
🖋 🍏 🍎 WONDERFUL WORDS: After Apple-Picking
“I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for apple season.)
🏹 🧵 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: 1066 and All That
Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings in 1066: the beginning of the Norman Conquest of England. Why not use this occasion to introduce your homeschool students to one of the most famous objects that has survived from the Middle Ages: the Bayeux Tapestry.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Cuckoos, Roadrunners, Anis, and Goatsuckers
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 Cuckoos, Roadrunners, Anis, and Goatsuckers. (All birds with funny names!)
🌐 HOMESCHOOL GEOGRAPHY: The Prime Meridian
On this day in 1884, the north-south line running through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England, was established as our planet’s Prime Meridian: the line of 0º longitude.
⛏ NATURE NOTES: It’s National Fossil Day!
For National Fossil Day, why not explore a big collection of rare and beautiful books on paleontology made available by the Smithsonian Institution and the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
🌎 🇧🇷 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Historic Salvador de Bahia in Brazil
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 Historic Center of Salvador de Bahia in Brazil.
🎵 🍎 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): My Orchard in Linden Lea
“I be free to go abroad / Or take again my homeward road / To where for me the apple tree / Do lean down low in Linden Lea.” (A bonus poem-of-the-week, from William Barnes and Ralph Vaughan Williams, for apple season and Vaughan Williams’ birthday.)
🎵 🍎 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): My Orchard in Linden Lea
“I be free to go abroad / Or take again my homeward road / To where for me the apple tree / Do lean down low in Linden Lea.” (A bonus poem-of-the-week, from William Barnes and Ralph Vaughan Williams, for apple season and Vaughan Williams’ birthday.)
🌕 “CITIZEN SCIENCE” PROJECTS for Homeschoolers – October 2022
Our October 2022 full-moon report on the real “citizen science” 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!
