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“What place is this? Where are we now?” (Marking the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, with help from Ken Burns and Carl Sandburg.)
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 17 November 2024
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Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Leonid meteors, Gettysburg Addresses, amazing astronomers, legendary lyricists, excellent equations, ethereal music, Cypriot rivers, a toast to freedom, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: North Carolina, Cyprus, Djibouti, 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: North Carolina, Cyprus, Czechia (Czech Republic), Denmark, and Djibouti. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🖋 🌠 WONDERFUL WORDS: Of Poems and Meteors
“Stars, I have seen them fall, / But when they drop and die / No star is lost at all / From all the star-sown sky.” (Our sublunary homeschool poem-of-the-week, from A.E. Housman, for the annual Leonid meteor shower.)
🌕 HOMESCHOOL CITIZEN-SCIENCE PROJECTS for November
Our November 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!
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Lapwings, Plovers, & Jacanas
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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 leggy Lapwings, Plovers, and Jacanas.
🌠 🦁 HOMESCHOOL ASTRONOMY: Leonid Meteors for November
Take your young astronomers outside this week and look to the constellation Leo for the annual Leonid meteor shower.
🇺🇸 WEEKLY AMERICAN HERITAGE: Saratoga National Historical Park
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For America’s 250th anniversary, discover the history and landscape of the United States. This week: Saratoga National Historical Park in New York.
📚 🇺🇸 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: The Veterans History Project
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.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 10 November 2024
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Veterans Days, eleventh hours, magical movies, Mayflower Compacts, artistic birthdays, wading birds, Cuban rivers, a toast to remembrance, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: New York, Costa Rica, Cuba, 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: New York, Costa Rica, Cote d’Ivoire, Croatia, and Cuba. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Algol and Perseus for November
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Make the acquaintance of the strange variable star Algol this month — “the demon star” in the constellation Perseus the Hero and one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere sky — and make it your homeschool friend for life.
🖋 🕊 THE ELEVENTH DAY of the Eleventh Month: We Will Remember Them
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“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.)
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Stilts, Avocets, & Oystercatchers
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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 long-legged Stilts, Avocets, and Oystercatchers.
⚗️ HOMESCHOOL SCIENCE & HISTORY: Happy Birthday to Marie Curie!
Happy birthday to the great Polish-French physicist, chemist, and two-time Nobel laureate Marie Skłodowska Curie, born on this day in 1867.
🇺🇸 WEEKLY AMERICAN HERITAGE: Jamestown National Historic Site
For America’s 250th anniversary, discover the history and landscape of the United States. This week: Jamestown National Historic Site in Virginia.
📚 LEARNING THE LIBRARY: The Philosophical 100s
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Explore your local library and the whole universe of knowledge with our homeschool tour of the Dewey Decimal system. This month: the Philosophical 100s.
📸 PHOTO CHALLENGE for November: “Sidewalk” and “Panning”
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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 “Sidewalk” and “Panning.” Take a look!
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 3 November 2024
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Choosing days, falling stars, chess champions, leggy birds, Dewey decimals, celebrated chemists, Congolese rivers, a toast to America, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Virginia, Colombia, Congo, 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: Virginia, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Kinshasa), and Congo Republic (Brazzaville). Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🔭 WATCHERS OF THE SKIES: Homeschool Astronomy for November
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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 November.
🖋 🇺🇸 WONDERFUL WORDS: America’s Choosing Day
“These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships.” (Our electoral homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Walt Whitman, for the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.)
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Limpkins, Rails, Gallinules, Coots, & Cranes
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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 Limpkins, Rails, Gallinules, Coots, and Cranes.
🗓 🥧 🦃 HAPPY HOMESCHOOL NOVEMBER from the River Houses!
Happy homeschool November! Here are some little lessons, teaching traditions, and wonderful educational opportunities you and your students can watch for this month.
🎃 🦇 👻 🏚 HAPPY HOMESCHOOL HALLOWEEN from Horace the Otter!
Horace the Otter, our River Houses mascot, hopes all his riverside neighbors and friends will have a Happy Halloween!
🇺🇸 WEEKLY AMERICAN HERITAGE: Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
For America’s 250th anniversary, discover the history and landscape of the United States. This week: Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park in New Hampshire.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 27 October 2024
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Spooky days, momentous visions, historic heists, American artists, Martian invaders, furtive birds, Chinese rivers, a toast to trick-or-treat, and more!
