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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)
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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
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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?
🌍 🇲🇺 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Aapravasi Ghat in Mauritius
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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 historic Aapravasi Ghat (immigration depot) in Mauritius.
📜 HOMESCHOOL LIBRARY LESSONS: A Free Course on the Book of Kells
Here’s a treat for homeschool history and art students: a free course on one of the world’s most famous books, The Book of Kells, from Trinity College in Ireland.
🗡 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY & LITERATURE: ”Beware the Ides of March“
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Let Shakespeare help you and your students remember one of the most famous dates in ancient history: the Ides of March in 44 B.C.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 10 March 2024
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Unheeded warnings, Einsteinian birthdays, liberated cities, Irish celebrations, rocket revolutions, Mauritian waterfalls, a toast to cleverness, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Texas, Malta, Mauritius, 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: Texas, Malta, the Marshall Islands, Mauritania, and Mauritius. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🎻 HOMESCHOOL MUSIC: Introducing Barber’s Adagio and Agnus Dei
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Today is the birthday of the great American classical composer Samuel Barber (1910–1981). Introduce your homeschool students to one of his most famous works this week and give them a new treasure for life.
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Sirius and Canis Major for March
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Make the acquaintance of the brilliant nearby star Sirius, “the dog star,” in the constellation Canis Major this month — the brightest star in earth’s night sky — and make it your homeschool friend for life.
🖋 🔭 WONDERFUL WORDS: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
“Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, / In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, / Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.” (Our contrary homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Walt Whitman, for John Herschel and Albert Einstein.)
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Shrikes and Vireos
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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 predatory Shrikes and the plain but voluble Vireos.
🌍 🇲🇼 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Lake Malawi National Park in Malawi
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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: Lake Malawi National Park in Malawi.
📚 LEARNING THE LIBRARY: The Scientific 500s
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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 Scientific 500s.
📸 PHOTO CHALLENGE for March: “Courthouse” and “Gray”
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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 “Courthouse” and “Gray.” Take a look!
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 3 March 2024
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Leonine terms, amazing artists, skeptical poems, brilliant stars, Dewey decimals, time warps, Malian rivers, a toast to the Alamo, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Florida, Malawi, Mali, 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: Florida, Malawi, Malaysia, the Maldives, and Mali. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🌏 🌑 🌞 HOMESCHOOL SCIENCE: Solar Eclipse on 8 April 2024
Invite your young homeschool astronomers to view the solar eclipse coming up on Monday, 8 April 2024, all across North America.
