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The annual spaghetti harvest in Ticino, Switzerland, is one of Europe’s great cultural traditions. Every well-educated homeschooler should know about it!
🖋 ☔️ WONDERFUL WORDS: “Whan that Aprill…”
“And smale foweles maken melodye / That slepen al the nyght with open ye / (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages).” (Our ancient homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Geoffrey Chaucer, for April showers.)
🗓 ☔️ 🌸 HAPPY HOMESCHOOL APRIL from the River Houses!
Happy homeschool April! Here are some little lessons, teaching traditions, and wonderful educational opportunities you and your students can watch for this month.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 31 March 2024
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Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Spaghetti harvests, April poems, alien visitors, famous writers, cute birds, Dewey decimals, Namibian rivers, a toast to long life and prosperity, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: California, Myanmar, Nepal, and More
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Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: California, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, and Nepal. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🖋 🕊 WONDERFUL WORDS: George Herbert’s “Easter Wings”
“O let me rise / As larks, harmoniously, / And sing this day thy victories: / Then shall the fall further the flight in me.” (A special soaring homeschool poem-of-the-week, from George Herbert, for Easter.)
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Larks and Swallows
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Come along on our homeschool tour of North American birds and pick up some great science and natural history lessons along the way. This week: the terrestrial Larks and the aerial Swallows.
🌍 🇲🇿 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Island of Mozambique
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Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week and learn some great history and geography along the way. This week: the Island of Mozambique.
🌸 HOMESCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Visit the Cherry Blossoms in Washington, D.C.
On March 27th in 1912, the city of Tokyo presented a gift of 3000 cherry trees to the United States to line the banks of the Potomac River and other sites in Washington, D.C., where they and their successors may still be seen today.
🌕 HOMESCHOOL “CITIZEN SCIENCE” PROJECTS for March
Our March full-moon report on the many “citizen science” projects around the world that you and your students can participate in from the comfort of your little home academy. Pick one and get started today!
🎨 HOMESCHOOL ARTS: Introducing William Morris (1834–1896)
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Take a few homeschool minutes this week to learn about William Morris, one of the great artistic polymaths of the nineteenth century, on the anniversary of his birth.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 26 March 2023
Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Cherry blossoms, famous farmers, picture books, land deals, student projects, great writers, Moroccan rivers, a toast to honesty, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Wisconsin, Mongolia, Mozambique, and More
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Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Wisconsin, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, and Mozambique. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🖋 🌱 WONDERFUL WORDS: Nothing Gold Can Stay
“Nature’s first green is gold, / Her hardest hue to hold.” (Our ephemeral homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for his birthday and for the first signs of spring.)
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Crows and Jays (Part II)
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Come along on our homeschool tour of North American birds and pick up some great science and natural history lessons along the way. This week: the garrulous and gregarious Crows and Jays (Part II).
🎵 HOMESCHOOL MUSIC: Happy Birthday Bach!
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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.
🌎 🇲🇽 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Rock Art of Baja California in Mexico
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Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week and learn some great history and geography along the way. This week: the ancient Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco in Mexico.
🗓 🌷 SPRING IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)
Spring is here! If you’re in the northern hemisphere, that is. If you’re in the southern hemisphere, fall is here! Happy March equinox to homeschoolers everywhere!
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – March 2024
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Our March roundup of some recent academic research and news about home education in the United States and around the world, with links to sources. We have two items this month, on homeschooling in China; and on science, politics, and religion in homeschooling.
🐦 HOMESCHOOL NATURE NOTES: The Great Backyard Bird Count in Review
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Last month’s Great Backyard Bird Count has entered the history books. More than 600,000 people from over 200 countries participated! Were you and your homeschoolers among them?
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 17 March 2024
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Vernal equinoxes, evacuation days, stirring speeches, magnificent musicians, literary birthdays, spring poems, Mexican rivers, a toast to unity, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Iowa, Mexico, Monaco, and More
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Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Iowa, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, and Monaco. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🎭 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY & LITERATURE: “Lend Me Your Ears!”
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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.
🗓 🗡 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: “The Ides of March are come”
Remembering the Ides of March, the famous date on which the Roman politician, general, and dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 B.C.
🖋 🗡 WONDERFUL WORDS: The Ides of March
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“And if you can’t curb your ambitions, / at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. / And the higher you go, / the more searching and careful you need to be.” (Our admonitory homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Constantine Cavafy, for the Ides of March. Beware!)
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Crows and Jays (Part I)
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Come along on our homeschool tour of North American birds and pick up some great science and natural history lessons along the way. This week: the Crows and Jays (Part I), garrulous residents of town and country.
📡 JOIN A CITIZEN-SCIENCE PROJECT for Einstein’s Birthday
You and your young science students can join the search for undiscovered pulsars in deep space, right from the comfort of your own homeschool living room. (Really!) How cool is that?
