“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.)
Archives for 1 January 2023
π΅ π HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: The Old Year Now Away is Fled
“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.)
π QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool FamiliesΒ β Week of 1 January 2023(!)
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!
π πΊπΈ SUNDAY STATES: Louisiana, Guatemala, Guyana, and More
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.
π π βοΈ HAPPY HOMESCHOOL JANUARY from the River Houses!
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.