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๐Ÿ—“ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Familiesย โ€“ Week of 15 January 2023

15 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Quick Freshes is our regular Sunday almanac for the homeschool week ahead. Pick one or two (or more!) of the items below each week and use them to enrich your homeschooling schedule. Add your name to our free mailing list to get posts like these delivered right to your mailbox each week. Visit our River Houses calendar page to print your own homeschool calendars and planners for the entire year.

๐Ÿ“– Have you gotten your NEW WORLD ALMANAC for the new 2023 year? Itโ€™s one of the handiest educational reference books you can have in a homeschool library.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ OUR STATE-OF-THE-WEEK is Mississippi, and our COUNTRIES are Indiaย ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ, Indonesiaย ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ, Iranย ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท, and Iraqย ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ. (Our separate Sunday Statesย & Countries post for the week went up just a few minutes ago.)

๐ŸŒ— THE MOON at the beginning of this week is at its third quarterย โ€” aย good time for moon watching! You can explore the night sky and the features of the moon in your recommended backyard astronomy guide and your homeschool world atlas, and you can learn a host of stellar and lunar facts on pages 341โ€“356 in your almanac. Browse through our many homeschool astronomy posts for even more.

๐Ÿ—“ TODAY, Sunday (15 January 2023) โ€” Today is the 15th day of 2023; there are 350 days remaining in this common year. Learn more about different modern and historical calendars on pages 357โ€“363 in your River Houses almanac.ย ๐Ÿ“š Queen Elizabeth I of England was crowned on this day in 1559. For an illustrated outline of the historical period named for her, turn to pages 260โ€“261 in your homeschool history encyclopedia.ย ๐Ÿ‘‘ And our homeschool poem-of-the-week for the third week of January is James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (1900), for American minister and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., born on this day in 1929. Print your own River Houses Poetry Calendar and follow along with us throughout the year.ย ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

Monday (16 January 2023) โ€” Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday in the United States. Lift every voice and sing!ย ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ On this day in the year 27 B.C., the Roman Senate conferred the title “Augustus” on the general and de facto dictator Octavian, the great-nephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar, and the last remnants of the old republic were swept away.ย ๐Ÿ‘‘

Tuesday (17 January 2023) โ€” Benjamin Franklin was born on this day in 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts.ย ๐Ÿ“ฐ And one of the most important battles in the Southern Theater of the American Revolution, the Battle of Cowpens, took place on this day in 1781 near Cowpens, South Carolina.ย โš”๏ธ

Wednesday (18 January 2023) โ€” On this day in 1788, the first convict ships from Britain, now known as the First Fleet, arrived at Botany Bay, Australia.ย ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Today is the birthday of the Polish-British mathematician and historian of science Jacob Bronowski (1908โ€“1974), creator of the pioneering documentary series “The Ascent of Man.”ย ๐Ÿ“บ And our Wednesday tour of World Heritage Sites this week will take you to ancient Babylon in Iraq.ย ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ

Thursday (19 January 2023) โ€” Today is the birthday of the polemical American lawyer, author, and freedom-philosopher Lysander Spooner (1808โ€“1887).ย โš–๏ธ It’s also the birthday of the spooky American poet and short-story writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809โ€“1849).ย ๐Ÿ‘ป

Friday (20 January 2023) โ€” One of the first two men to walk on the moon, American astronaut Buzz Aldrin, was born on this day in 1930.ย ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿš€ And our Friday Bird Families post this week will introduce you to the New World Vultures, Ospreys, Hawks, Kites, and Eagles. Print your own River Houses Calendar of American Birds and follow the flyways with us throughout the year.ย ๐Ÿฆ…

Saturday (21 January 2023) โ€” Today is St. Agnes Day, named for Agnes of Rome, aย teenage Christian martyr of the fourth century and a favorite subject of artists and writers for hundreds of years. On this day, saith tradition, young girls will have their future husbands revealed to them in their dreams: “Agnes sweet, and Agnes fair,ย / Hither, hither, now repair;ย / Bonny Agnes, let me seeย / The lad who is to marry me.”ย ๐Ÿ’

Sunday (22 January 2023) โ€” Today is the birthday of two great English poets: John Donne (1573โ€“1631) and George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788โ€“1824).ย ๐Ÿ–‹ And speaking of poetry, our homeschool poem-of-the-week for last week of January is John Masefield’s “Sea Fever,” in memory of the Space Shuttle Challenger and its crew, who died 28 January 1986. Print your own River Houses Poetry Calendar and follow along with us throughout the year.ย ๐ŸŒŠ And finally, our Sunday Statesย & Countries for next week will be Illinoisย ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ, Irelandย ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช, Israelย ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ, Italyย ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น, and Jamaicaย ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ฒ.

๐Ÿฅ‚ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ OUR WEEKLY TOAST is in honor of Martin Luther King’s January 15th birthday, observed as aย federal holiday on Monday the 16th: “Let freedom ring!”

โกโ€…Toasts can be a fun educational tradition for your family table. We offer one each week โ€” you can take it up, or make up one of your own (“To North American dinosaurs!”), or invite a different person to come up with one for each meal (“To unpredictability in toasting!”). What will you toast in your homeschool this week?ย ๐Ÿฅ‚

๐ŸŒ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ EVERYTHING FLOWS: India in southern Asia is one of our countries-of-the-week, so our Weekly World River is the spacious Chambal River in northern India. You can find its location in your recommended homeschool atlas, and you can read more about it in the Chambal River entry in Wikipedia or perhaps on your next visit to your local library.

The Chambal River near Dhaulpur in northern India. (Image:ย Wikimediaย Commons.)

โกโ€…Children of Ocean: Why not do a homeschool study of world rivers over the course of the year? Take the one we select each week (above), or start with the river lists in your almanac (pages 695โ€“697), and make it a project to look them all up in your atlas, or in a handy encyclopedia either online or on a weekly visit to your local library. Aย whole world of geographical learning awaits you.ย ๐ŸŒŽโ€‰๐ŸŒโ€‰๐ŸŒ

What do you have planned for your homeschool this week?ย ๐Ÿ˜Š

โกโ€…Lively springs: This is one of our regular “Quick Freshes” posts looking at the homeschool week ahead. Add your name to our River Houses mailing list and get these weekly messages delivered right to your mailbox all through the year. You can also print your own River Houses calendars of educational events and follow along with us.ย ๐Ÿ—“

โกโ€…Support our work: If you enjoy the educational materials we distribute each week, please support our work and the noble cause of homeschooling by making a small donation as a Friend of the River Houses! Your support keeps us going and growing!ย ๐Ÿ˜Š

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