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: Wadi al-Hitan (Whale Valley) in Egypt.
Archives for November 2022
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 27 November 2022
Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Winter terms, holiday music, famous novelists, Alabama meteorites, oceanic birds, memorial poems, Egyptian rivers, a toast to the chase, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Rhode Island, Dominica, Egypt, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Rhode Island, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Egypt.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Sandpipers (Part II)
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 long-legged Sandpipers (Part II), familiar shorebirds all around the world.
🎵 🏡 THANKSGIVING MUSIC: “Rise up, follow me, I will lead you home”
“Through the air there’s a calling from far away, / There’s a voice I can hear that will lead me home.” (Some lovely music and words from Stephen Paulus and Michael Dennis Browne, for homeschool Thanksgiving.)
🎵 🍽 HOMESCHOOL THANKSGIVING: We Gather Together
Take just a minute this week to introduce your homeschool students to a beautiful four-hundred-year-old Dutch folk tune that has become a Thanksgiving classic.
🎵 MUSICAL INTRODUCTIONS: Thomas Tallis, Master of Polyphony
![[Thomas Tallis historical marker]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tallis-132x150.jpg)
Why not give thanks in your homeschool this Thanksgiving week for the life of Thomas Tallis, the grand master of early polyphonic music, who died on this day in 1585.
🌍 🇨🇾 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Neolithic Choirokoitia in Cyprus
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 Neolithic Settlement of Choirokoitia in Cyprus.
🖋 🦃 WONDERFUL WORDS: Delicious “Thanksgiving Magic”
“Oh, some like magic made by wands, / And some read magic out of books, / And some like fairy spells and charms / But I like magic made by cooks!” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Rowena Bastin Bennett, for Thanksgiving!)
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 20 November 2022
Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Thanksgiving Days, magical poems, excellent equations, celestial composers, phamous philanthropists, Czech rivers, a toast to two American birds, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: North Carolina, Cyprus, Djibouti, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: North Carolina, Cyprus, Czechia (Czech Republic), Denmark, and Djibouti.
🐦 BIRD-FEEDING SEASON is Here! (And so is Project FeederWatch!)
Setting up a bird feeder is one of the simplest and most educational homeschool activities you can do at any time of year. And by tracking the birds you see at your backyard feeder you can make a real contribution to science through Cornell University’s Project FeederWatch.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Sandpipers (Part I)
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 long-legged Sandpipers (Part I), familiar shorebirds all around the world.
🇺🇸 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Seven Score and Nineteen Years Ago
“What place is this? Where are we now?” (Marking the 159th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, with help from Ken Burns and Carl Sandburg.)
🇺🇸 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Seven Score and Nineteen Years Ago
“What place is this? Where are we now?” (Marking the 159th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, with help from Ken Burns and Carl Sandburg.)
🌎 🇨🇺 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Old Havana in Cuba
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: Old Havana in Cuba.
🖋 🌠 WONDERFUL WORDS: Of Poems and Meteors
“Stars, I have seen them fall, / But when they drop and die / No star is lost at all / From all the star-sown sky.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from A.E. Housman, for the annual Leonid meteor shower.)
🖋 🌠 WONDERFUL WORDS: Of Poems and Meteors
“Stars, I have seen them fall, / But when they drop and die / No star is lost at all / From all the star-sown sky.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from A.E. Housman, for the annual Leonid meteor shower.)
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – November 2022
Our November 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: Edri & Court (2022), Jolly (2022), Stassen et al. (2022), and Williams-Johnson & Fields-Smith (2022).
🌠 🦁 LEONID METEORS for November 2022
Take your young astronomers outside this week and look to the constellation Leo for the annual Leonid meteor shower.
🌠 🦁 LEONID METEORS for November 2022
Take your young astronomers outside this week and look to the constellation Leo for the annual Leonid meteor shower.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 13 November 2022
Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Shooting stars, meteoric poems, shore-loving birds, famous geologists, marvelous musicians, Gettysburg Addresses, Cuban rivers, a toast to freedom, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: New York, Costa Rica, Cuba, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: New York, Costa Rica, Cote d’Ivoire, Croatia, and Cuba.
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Algol for November
Make the acquaintance of the variable star Algol this month — “the demon star” in the constellation Perseus the Hero and one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere sky — and make it your homeschool friend for life.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Lapwings, Plovers, and Jacanas
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 Lapwings, Plovers, and Jacanas.
📚 🇺🇸 HOMESCHOOL OPPORTUNITIES: The Veterans History Project
You and your homeschool students can contribute to an important historical documentary project by interviewing American veterans in your family or community for the Library of Congress.
📚 🇺🇸 STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES: The Veterans History Project
You and your homeschool students can contribute to an important historical documentary project by interviewing American veterans in your family or community for the Library of Congress.
