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🎵 🎨 Homeschool Arts & Music: Little Lessons for the Whole Year

Great homeschool teaching tips and easy little lessons on arts and music from the River Houses Homeschool Network. Add your name to our free River Houses mailing list and get posts like these delivered right to your mailbox every week! 😊

❡ Holiday Music Month: This Arts & Music collection includes our special series of December Homeschool Holiday Music Month posts. 🎵 🎄 🎅

📸 PHOTO CHALLENGE for September: “Beach” and “Compost”

4 September 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Calling all homeschool photographers in the new homeschool year! The Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge is a great way for enthusiastic photography students to develop their talents and gain some recognition for their work. This month’s themes (to begin the new homeschool year) are “Beach” and “Compost.” Take a look!

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Lunar Society Bulletins, Photo Challenges

🏡 🎉 A NEW HOMESCHOOL YEAR BEGINS: Let the River Run!

1 September 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Welcome to a beautiful brand new homeschool year in the River Houses! Let all the dreamers wake the nation.

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, The Homeschool Year

📸 PHOTO CHALLENGE for August: “On Stage” and “Millet”

3 August 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Calling all homeschool photographers! The Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge is a great way for enthusiastic homeschool photography students to develop their skills and gain some recognition for their work. This month’s themes (to wrap up the current homeschool year) are “On Stage” and “Millet.” Take a look!

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Lunar Society Bulletins, Photo Challenges

📸 PHOTO CHALLENGE for July: “Halfs” and “Climate Change”

6 July 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Calling all homeschool photographers! The Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge is a great way for enthusiastic homeschool photography students to develop their skills and gain some recognition for their work. This month’s themes are “Halfs” and “Climate Change.” Take a look!

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Lunar Society Bulletins, Photo Challenges

📺 HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARIES for Your Homeschool Summer

8 June 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Ten multi-part masterpieces of the documentarian’s art that you and your homeschool students can watch together and discuss over the summer. (Or at any other time of year!)

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Books & Libraries, Homeschool Geography, Homeschool Holidays & History

🖋 🇺🇸 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): “O! say can you see?”

8 June 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, / In full glory reflected now shines on the stream — / ‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave / O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.” (Our American homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Francis Scott Key, for Flag Day, the 14th of June.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

📸 PHOTO CHALLENGE for June: “Tents” and “Seven Prismatic Colors”

4 June 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Calling all homeschool photographers! The Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge is a great way for enthusiastic homeschool photography students to develop their skills and gain some recognition for their work. This month’s themes are “Tents” and “Seven Prismatic Colors.” Take a look!

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Lunar Society Bulletins, Photo Challenges

🖋 🌞 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): “Sumer is i-cumin in”

1 June 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Loudly sing, cuckoo!” (Our ancient homeschool poem-of-the-week, anonymously, for the beginning of our summer term.)

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

🇺🇸 🕊 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Memorial Day

26 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Rest, comrades, rest and sleep! / The thoughts of men shall be / As sentinels to keep / Your rest from danger free.” (Little homeschool lessons in literature, history, geography, and music, for the Memorial Day weekend.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature

🎓 🎉 HOMESCHOOL MUSIC: Let Us Rejoice!

25 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Invite your homeschoolers to learn a few lines this week from the most famous of all medieval student songs – it’s an inheritance they can carry with them around the world.

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature

🖋 🎓 GRADUATION SEASON: “Set me free to find my calling”

22 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Bind me not to the pasture, chain me not to the plow, / Set me free to find my calling and I’ll return to you somehow.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Marta Keen, for graduation season and the coming summer.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week, The Homeschool Year

🇨🇦 HOMESCHOOL MUSIC & HISTORY: “To find the hand of Franklin”

19 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

To understand a complex and beautiful piece of art or music, your students must first learn a great deal about the world — names, places, people, and events that may seem at first to be unrelated.

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Geography, Homeschool Holidays & History

📸 PHOTO CHALLENGE for May: “Macro Photography” and “Feathers”

4 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Calling all homeschool photographers! The Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge is a great way for enthusiastic homeschool photography students to develop their talents and gain some recognition for their work. This month’s themes are “Macro Photography” and “Feathers.” Take a look!

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Lunar Society Bulletins, Photo Challenges

📚 LEARNING THE LIBRARY: The Artistic 700s

2 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Explore your local library and the whole universe of knowledge with our homeschool tour of the Dewey Decimal System. This month: The Artistic 700s.

Filed Under: Discovering Dewey, Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Books & Libraries

🎵 HOMESCHOOL MUSIC: Relax With Randall Thompson’s “Alleluia”

21 April 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Feeling cooped up and stressed out? Calm your homeschool down with the peaceful “Alleluia” of American composer Randall Thompson, born on this day in 1899.

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

🇺🇸 AMERICAN ICON: The Concord Minute Man

19 April 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Teach your homeschool students to recognize one of the most famous artistic symbols of the American Revolution this week: Daniel Chester French’s “Minute Man” (1874).

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

🖖 HOMESCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Happy First Contact Day!

5 April 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Sure on this shining night / I weep for wonder wand’ring far alone / Of shadows on the stars.” (On this day in the year 2063, in a remote area near Bozeman, Montana, a Vulcan survey ship will make first contact with the human race. Perhaps some of today’s homeschoolers will be there to see it.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature

📸 PHOTO CHALLENGE for April: “Baby Farm Animals” and “Looking Up”

3 April 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Calling all homeschool photographers! The Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge is a great way for enthusiastic homeschool photography students to develop their skills and gain some recognition for their work. This month’s themes are “Baby Farm Animals” and “Looking Up.” Take a look!

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Lunar Society Bulletins, Photo Challenges

🎵 HOMESCHOOL MUSIC: Happy Birthday Bach!

21 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Take a few homeschool minutes to introduce your students to a tiny musical masterpiece by one of the world’s great composers, Johann Sebastian Bach, born on this day in 1685.

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

🎭 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY & LITERATURE: “Lend Me Your Ears!”

16 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Why not wrap up this special Julius Caesar Week in your homeschool by viewing and discussing several versions of a famous Shakespearean speech with your students.

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature

🎻 HOMESCHOOL MUSIC: Introducing Barber’s Adagio and Agnus Dei

9 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Today is the birthday of the great American classical composer Samuel Barber (1910–1981). Introduce your homeschool students to one of his most famous works this week and give them a new treasure for life.

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

📸 PHOTO CHALLENGE for March: “Laundering” and “Hotels”

6 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Calling all homeschool photographers! The Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge is a great way for enthusiastic homeschool photography students to develop their talents and gain some recognition for their work. This month’s themes are “Laundering” and “Hotels & Motels.” Take a look!

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Lunar Society Bulletins, Photo Challenges

📸 PHOTO CHALLENGE for February: “Handles” and “Cruise Ships”

4 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Calling all homeschool photographers! The Wikimedia Commons Photo Challenge is a great way for enthusiastic homeschool photography students to develop their talents and gain some recognition for their work. This month’s themes are “Handles” and “Passenger Ships.” Take a look!

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Lunar Society Bulletins, Photo Challenges

🖍 HOMESCHOOL ARTS: Color Our Collections Week!

31 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Download a whole year’s worth of free educational coloring booklets from libraries and museums all around the world. It’s one of the easiest educational art opportunities you can find for your homeschool.

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Books & Libraries, Homeschool Collections & Collecting

🎵 HOMESCHOOL MUSIC: Happy Birthday Mozart!

27 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Happy birthday to one of the greatest musical composers of all time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born on this day in 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. Here are some little Mozart lessons that you can share with your homeschool students this week.

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

🖋 🇺🇸 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): Lift Every Voice and Sing

15 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Let our rejoicing rise / High as the listening skies, / Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.” (Our patriotic homeschool poem-of-the-week, from James Weldon Johnson, for Martin Luther King’s birthday.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

🎵 🎭 TWELFTH NIGHT and the End of Homeschool Holiday Music Month

5 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Long long ago the world begun, / With a hey, ho, the wind and the rain. / But that’s all one, our play is done, / And we’ll strive to please you every day.” (Shakespeare helps us bring the Christmas Season, and our own Homeschool Holiday Music Month, to a close.)

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

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