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“Ring out the old, ring in the new, / Ring, happy bells, across the snow: / The year is going, let him go; / Ring out the false, ring in the true.” (Join Tennyson and some skillful bell-ringers to ring in the new year in your homeschool.)
Archives for 2023
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 31 December 2023
![[Weekly Homeschool Almanac]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/calendar-2-150x85.jpg)
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: New Years, Twelfth Nights, new calendars, new moons, missing planets, winter poems, Dewey decimals, Guatemalan rivers, a toast to war and peace, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Louisiana, Guatemala, Guyana, and More
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Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Louisiana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, and Guyana. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🗡♗ HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Murder in the Cathedral
Take five minutes today to teach your students the story of Archbishop Thomas Becket, whose murder on this day in the year 1170 has loomed large in the Western imagination for nearly a thousand years.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Shearwaters, Petrels, & Storm-Petrels
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Come along on our homeschool tour of North American birds and pick up some great science and natural history lessons along the way. This week: the Shearwaters, Petrels, and Storm-Petrels, birds of the open ocean.
🖋 🍻 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): Auld Lang Syne
“We two once ran along the hills and picked the daisies fine; / But we’ve wandered many a weary foot since those days of long ago.” (Our celebratory homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Burns, for auld lang syne.)
🌍 🇩🇪 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Historic Regensburg in Germany
![[Flag of Germany]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/flag-germany-150x90.png)
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 Old Town of Regensburg in Germany.
🌍 🇫🇷 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Chartres Cathedral in France
![[Flag of France]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/flag-france-150x100.jpg)
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: Chartres Cathedral in France.
🌍 🇪🇹 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Ancient Aksum in Ethiopia
![[Flag of Ethiopia]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/flag-ethiopia-150x75.png)
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 City of Aksum in Ethiopia.
🌍 🇪🇷 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Modernist Asmara in Eritrea
![[Flag of Eritrea]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/flag-eritrea-150x75.png)
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 Modernist African City of Asmara in Eritrea.
🌎 🇩🇲 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Morne Trois Pitons Park in Dominica
![[Flag of Dominica]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/flag-dominica-150x75.png)
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: Morne Trois Pitons National Park in Dominica.
🌍 🇨🇾 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Painted Churches of Cyprus
![[Flag of Cyprus]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/flag-cyprus-150x100.png)
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 Painted Churches of the Troödos Region of Cyprus.
🌎 🇨🇷 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Cocos Island in Costa Rica
![[Flag of Costa Rica]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/flag-costa-rica-150x90.png)
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: Cocos Island National Park in Costa Rica.
🌎 🇨🇴 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Fortresses of Cartagena in Colombia
![[Flag of Colombia]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/flag-colombia-150x100.png)
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 Port, Fortresses, and Monuments of Cartagena in Colombia.
🖋 🍂 WONDERFUL WORDS: A Leaf-Treader
“I have been treading on leaves all day until I am autumn-tired. / God knows all the color and form of leaves I have trodden on and mired.” (Our autumnal homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for the falling leaves.)
🌍 🇨🇫 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: St. Floris National Park in the Central African Republic
![[Flag of the Central African Republic]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/flag-central-african-republic-150x100.png)
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: Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park in the Central African Republic.
🌍 🇨🇻 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Cidade Velha in Cabo Verde
![[Flag of Cabo Verde]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/flag-cabo-verde-150x88.png)
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: Cidade Velha, the historic center of Ribeira Grande in Cabo Verde.
🌍 🇧🇬 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak in Bulgaria
![[Flag of Bulgaria]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/flag-bulgaria-150x90.png)
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 Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak in Bulgaria.
🌎 🇧🇴 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Historic City of Sucre in Bolivia
![[Flag of Bolivia]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/flag-bolivia-150x102.png)
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 City of Sucre in Bolivia.
🌍 🇧🇪 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Neolithic Flint Mines of Belgium
![[Flag of Belgium]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/flag-belgium-150x130.png)
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 Flint Mines at Spiennes in Belgium.
🌍 🇧🇭 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Ancient Capital of Dilmun in Bahrain
![[Flag of Bahrain]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/flag-bahrain-150x90.png)
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: Qal’at al-Bahrain, the Ancient Harbor and Capital of Dilmun in Bahrain.
🌏 🇦🇺 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Sydney Opera House in Australia
![[Flag of Australia]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/flag-australia-150x75.png)
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 Sydney Opera House in Australia.
🌍 🇦🇴 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Mbanza Kongo in Angola
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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: Mbanza Kongo, the Capital of the Former Kingdom of Kongo in Angola.
🌏 🇦🇫 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Bamiyan in Afghanistan (To Open the Year)
![[Flag of Afghanistan]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/flag-afghanistan-150x100.png)
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 begin the new homeschool year: the Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan.
🌎 🗺 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: A Free World Heritage Wall Map
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Get your own full-color wall map of World Heritage Sites and follow along with us as we tour the world week by week throughout the homeschool year.
