🔭 OUR HOMESCHOOL ASTRONOMY YEAR is Complete!

Every week since last September we’ve been exploring a rich assortment of topics in astronomy, and our explorations for the current home­school year are now complete! We’ve watched the skies, made friendship with the stars, sailed through the starry archipelagoes, and learned about comets, planets, galaxies, meteor showers, and much more. You can revisit all our celestial studies right here on the River Houses astronomy pages:

• ➢ Homeschool Astronomy Lessons (riverhouses.org)

One special set within that collection features our twelve Great Stars for the homeschool year, which you can browse here:

• ➢ Monthly Great Stars (riverhouses.org)

A new homeschool year will begin on the first of September with Cygnus Term! Print out some copies of our homeschool calendars and planners on the main River Houses calendar page and follow along with us throughout the year ahead.

What celestial sights and astronomical apparitions will you and your students be examining in the next wonderful homeschool year? 🔭

❡ All the star-sown sky: Teaching your students the major constellations and the names of the principal stars is one of the simplest and most enduring gifts you can give them. Our recommended backyard star guide and homeschool world atlas both contain charts of the constellations that will help you learn your way around the heavens. Find a dark-sky spot near you this month and spend some quality homeschool time with your students beneath the starry vault. ✨

❡ Star bright: If you’d like some light and easy homeschool astronomy lessons, download and print a copy of our annual River Houses Star Calendar and follow along with us month by month as we make twelve heavenly friends-for-life over the course of the year. 🌟

❡ The starry archipelagoes: For a great weekly astronomical essay, perfect for older homeschoolers, pay a visit to “The Sky This Week” from the U.S. Naval Observatory. These well-written pages usually focus on one or two special astronomical events or phenomena. If you have high school astronomy students, have them read these pages aloud to you each week, or ask them to study them and then narrate a summary back to you. 🌌

❡ Watchers of the skies: This is one of our regular Homeschool Astronomy posts. Subscribe to our free River Houses newsletter to get more great homeschool teaching ideas delivered right to your mailbox every week. 🔭

❡ Homeschool calendars: We have a whole collection of free, printable, educational homeschool calendars and planners available on our main River Houses calendar page. They will help you create a light and easy structure for your homeschool year. Give them a try today! 🗓

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❡ Join us! The aim of the River Houses project is to create a network of friendly local homeschool support groups — local chapters that we call “Houses.” Our first at-large chapter, Headwaters House, is now forming and is open to homeschoolers everywhere. Find out how to become one of our founding members on the Headwaters House membership page. 🏡