Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Washington, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, and Sweden.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Wood-Warblers (Part I)
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 tiny and colorful Wood-Warblers (Part I).
🖋 🏰 HAPPY FATHER’S DAY WEEK from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A whisper, and then a silence: / Yet I know by their merry eyes / They are plotting and planning together / To take me by surprise.” (Our paternal homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, for Father’s Day, the third Sunday in June.)
🇺🇸 HOMESCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Happy Flag Day!
Flag Day (June 14th every year) celebrates the date in 1777 when Congress established the Stars & Stripes as the national flag of the new United States.
🌍 🇪🇸 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Burgos Cathedral in Spain
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: Burgos Cathedral in Spain.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 11 June 2023
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Flag Days, ancient eclipses, Pyrrhic victories, paternal poems, splendid scientists, remarkable recipes, Somalian rivers, a toast to Old Glory, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Montana, Somalia, Spain, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Montana, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, and Spain.
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Spica and Virgo for June
Make the acquaintance of the young blue-white giant Spica in the constellation Virgo the Virgin this month, one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere sky, and make it your homeschool friend for life.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Finches, Longspurs, and Snow Buntings
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 small and familiar Fringillid Finches, and the Longspurs and Snow Buntings.
📺 HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARIES for Your Homeschool Summer
Ten multi-part masterpieces of the documentarian’s art that you and your homeschool students can watch together and discuss over the summer. (Or at any other time of year!)
🖋 🇺🇸 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): “O! say can you see?”
“Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, / In full glory reflected now shines on the stream — / ‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave / O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.” (Our American homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Francis Scott Key, for Flag Day, the 14th of June.)
🌍 🇸🇮 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Architecture of Jože Plečnik in Slovenia
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 Architectural Works of Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
📚 LEARNING THE LIBRARY: The Literary 800s
Explore your local library and the whole universe of knowledge with our annual homeschool tour of the Dewey Decimal System. This month: the Literary 800s.
🇫🇷 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Learning About D-Day 1944
Learn about the World War II Allied invasion of Normandy, France, on 6 June 1944, using live news broadcasts from that day.
📸 PHOTO CHALLENGE for June: “Tents” and “Seven Prismatic Colors”
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 “Tents” and “Seven Prismatic Colors.” Take a look!
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 4 June 2023
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: New terms, Revolutionary resolutions, decisive days, patriotic poems, great stars, Slovakian rivers, a toast to liberty, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: South Dakota, Singapore, Solomon Islands, and More
Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: South Dakota, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the Solomon Islands.
🌕 HOMESCHOOL “CITIZEN SCIENCE” PROJECTS for June
Our June full-moon report on the real “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!
🔭 WATCHERS OF THE SKIES: Homeschool Astronomy for June
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 June.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Wagtails and Pipits
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 ground-loving Wagtails and Pipits.
🖋 🌞 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): “Sumer is i-cumin in”
“Loudly sing, cuckoo!” (Our ancient homeschool poem-of-the-week, anonymously, for the beginning of our summer term.)
🗓 🍃 🏸 HAPPY HOMESCHOOL JUNE from the River Houses!
Happy homeschool June! Here are some little lessons, teaching traditions, and wonderful educational opportunities you and your students can watch for this month.
🗓 💪 HERCULES TERM and the River Houses Homeschool Year
We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms in the River Houses. Today is the first day of Hercules Term, our summer term, named for the Great Hero of the Heavens. Hercules Term runs from June through August.
🖋 🎂 WONDERFUL WORDS: Happy Birthday to Walt Whitman
“Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, / Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love, / A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother, / Chair’d in the adamant of Time.” (Happy birthday to the great American poet Walt Whitman, born on this day in 1819.)
🌍 🇷🇸 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Studenica Monastery in Serbia
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 medieval Studenica Monastery in Serbia.
🗓 NEW CALENDARS & PLANNERS for the 2023–2024 Homeschool Year
Print your own set of free homeschool planners and educational calendars for the new homeschool year that begins in September.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 28 May 2023
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Memorial Days, new terms, relativistic predictions, vocal virtuosos, amazing ascents, Sierra Leonean rivers, a toast to heroes, and more!