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Archives for 1 January 2023

πŸ–‹ ❄️ WONDERFUL WORDS: β€œWhat so soon will wake and grow”

1 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“They could not grasp it if they knew,Β / What so soon will wake and growΒ / Utterly unlike the snow.” (Our hopeful homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Philip Larkin, for all things born in January.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

🎡 πŸŽ‰ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: The Old Year Now Away is Fled

1 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Let’s merry be this day,Β / And let us now both sport and play,Β / Hang grief, cast care away,Β / God send you aΒ happy new year!” (An ancient new-year carol sung to the tune “Greensleeves,” by the great countertenor Alfred Deller, for Homeschool Holiday Music Month.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History

πŸ—“ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 1 January 2023(!)

1 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: New Years, Twelfth Nights, calendrical revolutions, new moons, missing planets, winter poems, Dewey decimals, Guatemalan rivers, a toast to the new year, and more!

Filed Under: Quick Freshes

🌎 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ SUNDAY STATES: Louisiana, Guatemala, Guyana, and More

1 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

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.

Filed Under: Homeschool Geography, States & Countries

πŸ—“ πŸŽ‰ ❄️ HAPPY HOMESCHOOL JANUARY from the River Houses!

1 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Happy January and Happy New Year! Here are some little lessons, teaching traditions, and wonderful educational opportunities you and your students can watch for this month.

Filed Under: The Homeschool Year

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