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🗓 Homeschool Holidays & History: Little Lessons for the Whole Year

Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons on history, holidays, anniversaries, and notable events from the River Houses Homeschool Network. Use these regular posts to enrich your homeschool history curriculum all through the year. Print your own homeschool calendars and planners on our main River Houses calendar page, and add your name to our free homeschool mailing list to get posts like these delivered right to your mailbox every week! 😊

🇺🇸 🦋 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Lincoln and Darwin (and Horace)

12 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Our recommended homeschool history encyclopedia is just the thing you need on a notable anniversary like today: the birthday of both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin (in the same year, 1809).

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History

🖋 ❤️ WONDERFUL WORDS: “Unwind the solemn twine, and tie my Valentine!”

8 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine!” (Our amatory homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for Valentine Week.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Books & Libraries, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

🗓 ⚗️ HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DMITRI! (Mendeleev, that is)

8 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

The father of the Periodic Table of Elements, the great Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, was born on this day in 1834 near Tobolsk, Siberia. Here are some clever educational ways to remember him in your homeschool.

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History

⏚ 🐖 HOMESCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Happy Groundhog Day!

2 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Happy mid-point of astronomical winter to homeschoolers everywhere! In other words, Happy Groundhog Day!

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History

🎵 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

🖋 🌊 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY & LITERATURE: Remembering Challenger

22 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, / And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from John Masefield, for the Challenger Seven of 1986.)

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

🖋 🇺🇸 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

🎵 🎉 HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: The Old Year Now Away is Fled

1 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Let’s merry be this day, / And let us now both sport and play, / Hang grief, cast care away, / God send you a 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

🖋 🔔 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Sounds!): Ring Out, Wild Bells!

31 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“Ring out the old, ring in the new, / Ring, happy bells, across the snow: / The year is going, let him go; / Ring out the false, ring in the true.” (Join Tennyson and some skillful bell-ringers to ring in the new year.)

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

🖋 🍻 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): Auld Lang Syne

30 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“We two once ran along the hills and picked the daisies fine; / But we’ve wandered many a weary foot since those days of long ago.” (Our celebratory homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Burns, for auld lang syne.)

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

🗡♗ HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Murder in the Cathedral

29 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Take five minutes today to teach your students the story of Archbishop Thomas Becket, whose murder on this day in the year 1170 has loomed large in the Western imagination for nearly a thousand years.

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

🌊 WONDERFUL WORDS: “It was a short, cold Christmas”

25 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Herman Melville reminds us that even on Christmas Day, somewhere in the world there are ships and sailors heading out to sea.

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

🖋 🎅 WONDERFUL WORDS: ’Twas the Night Before Christmas

22 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“The children were nestled all snug in their beds; / While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.” (Our festive homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Clement Clarke Moore, for Christmas Eve of course!)

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

📡 🎅 🦌 HOMESCHOOL HOLIDAYS: NORAD’s Santa Tracker is Up!

20 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Want to know when Santa will deliver your Christmas presents? Don’t ask Amazon, ask the North American Air Defense Command! (And maybe even learn a little world geography along the way.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Geography, Homeschool Holidays & History

🎵 🎄 A CHRISTMAS EVE INVITATION: Carols from King’s College

18 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

The beautiful Festival of Lessons and Carols from King’s College at Cambridge University is broadcast every year on Christmas Eve to millions of people around the world. You and your homescholars can join them.

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

🎵 MARVELOUS MUSIC: It’s Beethoven’s Birthday!

16 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Take a few minutes out of your homeschool schedule today to celebrate an annual international musical milestone, to wit, Beethoven’s Birthday!

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

🖋 📖 WONDERFUL WORDS: Happy Birthday to Emily Dickinson!

8 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“He ate and drank the precious Words — / His Spirit grew robust.” (Our literary homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for her birthday.)

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

🎵 🏡 THANKSGIVING MUSIC: “Rise up, follow me, I will lead you home”

24 November 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“Through the air there’s a calling from far away, / There’s a voice I can hear that will lead me home.” (Some lovely music and words from Stephen Paulus and Michael Dennis Browne, for homeschool Thanksgiving.)

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

🎵 🍽 HOMESCHOOL THANKSGIVING: We Gather Together

24 November 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Take just a minute this week to introduce your homeschool students to a beautiful four-hundred-year-old Dutch folk tune that has become a Thanksgiving classic.

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

🎵 MUSICAL INTRODUCTIONS: Thomas Tallis, Master of Polyphony

23 November 2022 by Bob O'Hara

[Thomas Tallis historical marker]

Why not give thanks in your homeschool this Thanksgiving week for the life of Thomas Tallis, the grand master of early polyphonic music, who died on this day in 1585.

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

🖋 🦃 WONDERFUL WORDS: Delicious “Thanksgiving Magic”

22 November 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“Oh, some like magic made by wands, / And some read magic out of books, / And some like fairy spells and charms / But I like magic made by cooks!” (Our playful homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Rowena Bastin Bennett, for Thanksgiving!)

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

🇺🇸 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Seven Score and Nineteen Years Ago

17 November 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“What place is this? Where are we now?” (Marking the 159th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, with help from Ken Burns and Carl Sandburg.)

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

📚 🇺🇸 HOMESCHOOL OPPORTUNITIES: The Veterans History Project

10 November 2022 by Bob O'Hara

You and your homeschool students can contribute to an important historical documentary project by interviewing American veterans in your family or community for the Library of Congress.

Filed Under: Homeschool Books & Libraries, Homeschool Holidays & History, Lunar Society Bulletins

🖋 🕊 THE ELEVENTH DAY of the Eleventh Month: We Will Remember Them

8 November 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: / Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. / At the going down of the sun and in the morning / We will remember them.” (Our commemorative homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Laurence Binyon, for Veterans Day and Armistice Day.)

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

⚗️ HOMESCHOOL SCIENCE & HISTORY: Happy Birthday to Marie Curie!

7 November 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Happy birthday to the great physicist, chemist, and two-time Nobel laureate Marie Skłodowska Curie, born on this day in 1867.

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History

🖋 🇺🇸 WONDERFUL WORDS: America’s Choosing Day

5 November 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships.” (An extra electoral homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Walt Whitman, for the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.)

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

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