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🎵 🚋 HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: Walla Walla, Wash., an’ Kalamazoo!

12 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“Antelope cantaloupe, ’lope with you!” (A happy homeschool family sing-a-long from Walt Kelly, for Holiday Music Month.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music

🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 11 December 2022

11 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: New almanacs, holiday music, first flights, last moonwalks, halcyon days, pensive poems, Finnish rivers, a toast to peace, and more!

Filed Under: Quick Freshes

🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Kentucky, Eswatini, Finland, and More

11 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Take a homeschool tour of the U.S. states and the countries of the world with the River Houses. This week: Kentucky, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, and Finland.

Filed Under: Homeschool Geography, States & Countries

🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Aldebaran and Taurus for December

10 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Make the acquaintance of the ancient red giant Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus the Bull this month — one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere sky — and make it your homeschool friend for life.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Monthly Great Stars

🎵 🎄 HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: Introducing Vince Guaraldi

9 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

The American jazz musician Vince Guaraldi (1928–1976) wrote some of the best-loved Christmas music of our time. Why not introduce your homeschool students to his wonderful work this month.

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music

🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers (Part I)

9 December 2022 by Horace the Otter 🦦

Come along on our homeschool tour of North American bird families and pick up some great science and natural history teaching tips along the way. This week: the strong-flying Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers (Part I).

Filed Under: Friday Bird Families, Homeschool Natural History

🖋 📖 WONDERFUL WORDS: Happy Birthday to Emily Dickinson!

8 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“He ate and drank the precious Words — / His Spirit grew robust.” (Our literary homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for her birthday.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

🌕 HOMESCHOOL “CITIZEN SCIENCE” PROJECTS for December

7 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Our December 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!

Filed Under: Lunar Society Bulletins

🌎 🇸🇻 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Joya de Cerén in El Salvador

7 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

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 Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site in El Salvador.

Filed Under: Homeschool Geography, Weekly World Heritage

🎵 🎄 HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: What Sweeter Music

6 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“Dark and dull night, fly hence away, / And give the honor to this day, / That sees December turned to May.” (A modern Christmas masterpiece, with ancient words by Robert Herrick and new music by John Rutter, for Homeschool Holiday Music Month.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Language & Literature

📚 LEARNING THE LIBRARY: The Religious 200s

6 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Explore your local library and the whole universe of knowledge with our annual homeschool tour of the Dewey Decimal System. This month: The Religious 200s.

Filed Under: Discovering Dewey, Homeschool Books & Libraries

🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 4 December 2022

4 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Martian occultations, holiday music, Revolutionary engineers, visionary inventors, national parks, Nobel laureates, Estonian rivers, a toast to music, and more!

Filed Under: Quick Freshes

🌍 🇪🇬 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Wadi al-Hitan (Whale Valley) in Egypt

30 November 2022 by Bob O'Hara

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: Wadi al-Hitan (Whale Valley) in Egypt.

Filed Under: Homeschool Geography, Weekly World Heritage

🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 27 November 2022

27 November 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Winter terms, holiday music, famous novelists, Alabama meteorites, oceanic birds, memorial poems, Egyptian rivers, a toast to the chase, and more!

Filed Under: ARCHIVES

🌞 🌏 🌕 WONDERFUL WORDS: “The stellar gauge of earthly show”

7 November 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“Is such the stellar gauge of earthly show, / Nation at war with nation, brains that teem, / Heroes, and women fairer than the skies?” (An extra astronomical homeschool poem-of-the-week, a sonnet-masterpiece from Thomas Hardy, for this week’s lunar eclipse.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

🌞 🌏 🌕 LUNAR ECLIPSE Monday–Tuesday Night (7–8 November 2022)

6 November 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Invite your young homeschool astronomers to view the total lunar eclipse coming up on Monday–Tuesday night (7–8 November 2022).

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy

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