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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 March.
🖋 🏔 WONDERFUL WORDS: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
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“The river is moving. / The blackbird must be flying.” (Our imagistic homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Wallace Stevens, for the earliest birds of spring.)
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Tyrant Flycatchers and Becards
![[Homeschool Science & Nature Study]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/birds-tyrannids-150x99.png)
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 Tyrant Flycatchers and the Becards.
🗓 🌱 🐰 HAPPY HOMESCHOOL MARCH from the River Houses!
Happy homeschool March! Here are some little lessons, teaching traditions, and wonderful educational opportunities you and your students can watch for this month.
🗓 🦁 LEO TERM and the River Houses Homeschool Year
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We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms in the River Houses. Today is the first day of Leo Term, our spring term, named for the Great Lion of the Heavens. Leo Term runs from March through May.
🎉 📖 WONDERFUL WORDS: Happy Dord Day!
“Lexicógrapher. n.s. [λεξικὸν and γράφω; lexicographe, French.] A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.” (A humorous homeschool holiday, for all lovers of words and dictionaries.)
🌍 🇱🇺 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Old City of Luxembourg
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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 Old Quarters and Fortifications of Luxembourg City.
🚀 🌕 FLY YOUR HOMESCHOOL to the Moon (Really!)
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Your homeschool can fly along on NASA’s VIPER mission to the moon this year. Here’s how to add your name. (Deadline 15 March 2024.)
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 25 February 2024
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Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Grand Canyons, great poets, intercalary days, old cities, funny words, ornithological poems, Lithuanian rivers, a toast to the Great Hunter, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Michigan, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, 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: Michigan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, and Madagascar. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🌕 HOMESCHOOL “CITIZEN SCIENCE” PROJECTS for February
Our February 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: Parrots
![[Homeschool Science & Nature Study]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/birds-parrots-150x108.png)
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 Old World Parrots and the African and New World Parrots.
🔭 WONDERFUL WORDS: Watchers of the Skies
“Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes / He star’d at the Pacific — and all his men / Look’d at each other with a wild surmise — / Silent, upon a peak in Darien.” (Our visionary homeschool poem-of-the-week, from John Keats, for all homeschool stargazers.)
🇺🇸 PRESIDENTIAL ADVICE: “Drink not nor talk with your mouth full”
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“Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad Company.” (The future President Washington has some advice for your homeschool students.)
🌍 🇱🇸 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Maloti-Drakensberg Park in Lesotho
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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: Maloti-Drakensberg Park in Lesotho.
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – February 2024
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Our February 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 three items this month, on homeschooling vs. unschooling; homeschooling in Indonesia; and homeschool internship programs. In addition, we take note of the new “Homeschool Hub” for research at Johns Hopkins University.
☀️ 🌍 HOMESCHOOL SCIENCE & HISTORY: Copernicus and His Revolutions
On Copernicus’ birthday, introduce your homeschool students to one of the most important books ever published: “On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres” (1543).
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 18 February 2024
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Bird counts, dead parrots, great composers, landmark decisions, full moons, Lebanese rivers, a toast to General Washington, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Arkansas, Lebanon, Libya, 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: Arkansas, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, and Libya. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🚀 “THE RIVER HOUSES” is Exploring Mars!
NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars three years ago, and “The River Houses” went along for the ride — and so did ten million other earthly travelers.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Caracaras and Falcons
![[Homeschool Science & Nature Study]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/birds-caracaras-150x100.png)
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 and fast-flying Falcons and Caracaras.
🔭 HOMESCHOOL SCIENCE & HISTORY: The Starry Messenger
Remembering one of the great minds of history, the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), on the anniversary of his birth.
🖋 🌠 WONDERFUL WORDS: The Truly Great
“Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun / And left the vivid air signed with their honour.” (Our transmigrational homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Stephen Spender, for the great birthdays of February.)
🌏 🇱🇦 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Megalithic Jars of Xiengkhuang in Laos
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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 Megalithic Jars of Xiengkhuang in Laos.
📚 LEARNING THE LIBRARY: Dewey Detectives at Home
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Did you know there are secret Dewey Decimal numbers hidden in the books on your very own bookshelves? It’s true! Send your homeschool students on a treasure hunt to find them.
🇺🇸 🦋 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Lincoln and Darwin (and Horace)
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).
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 11 February 2024
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Bird counts, coloring books, great artists, great scientists, great poems, fast flyers, ancient tombs, Laotian rivers, a toast to love, and more!
