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![[Auriga Star Chart]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/auriga-capella-chart-150x141.png)
Make the acquaintance of Capella in the constellation Auriga the Charioteer this month — a nearby four-star system and one of the brightest lights in the northern hemisphere night sky — and make it your homeschool friend for life.
🔭 Homeschool Astronomy: Celestial Lessons for the Whole Year
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken.
Little homeschool astronomy lessons and easy teaching tips on stars, planets, constellations, comets, meteors, galaxies, space exploration, and more, from the River Houses Homeschool Network. Use these posts to enrich your homeschool science teaching all through the year, and subscribe to our free homeschool newsletter to get more little homeschool science lessons delivered right to your mailbox every week. 📫
❡ Star bright: This Homeschool Astronomy collection also includes our special series of monthly Great Star lessons that introduce you and your students to twelve of the brightest stars of the northern hemisphere night sky. 🌟
![[Thomas Carlyle on Knowing the Constellations]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/carlyle-astronomy-1024x222.png)
🔭 WATCHERS OF THE SKIES: Homeschool Astronomy for January
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Our homeschool review of the educational wonders that you and your students can watch for in the northern hemisphere night sky during the month of January.
🌎 HOMESCHOOL SCIENCE & HISTORY: Earthrise
![[Earthrise, 24 December 1968]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise-150x150.jpg)
Every smart homeschool student should be able to recognize one of the most famous photographs in history, taken from lunar orbit on this day in 1968.
🗓 ⛄️ WINTER IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)
Winter is here! If you’re in the northern hemisphere, that is. If you’re in the southern hemisphere, summer is here! Happy December solstice to homeschoolers everywhere!
🌠 HOMESCHOOL ASTRONOMY: Geminid Meteors for December
Point your homeschool students to the constellation Gemini this month for the annual Geminid meteor shower, the debris-trail left behind by asteroid 3200 Phaethon.
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Aldebaran and Taurus for December
![[Taurus Star Chart]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/taurus-iau-chart-150x142.png)
Make the acquaintance of the ancient red giant Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus the Bull this month — one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere sky — and make it your homeschool friend for life.
🔭 WATCHERS OF THE SKIES: Homeschool Astronomy for December
Our homeschool review of the educational wonders that you and your students can watch for in the northern hemisphere night sky during the month of December.
🗓 🗡 ORION TERM and the River Houses Homeschool Year
![[Orion Constellation Chart (1822)]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/orion-jamieson-1822-150x133.jpg)
We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms in the River Houses. Today is the first day of Orion Term, our winter term, named for the Great Hunter of the Heavens. Orion Term runs from December through February.
