![[The River Houses]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/arms-icon-100x100.png "The River Houses"){kind=icon}
![[Homeschool American Heritage]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/america-250-150x120.jpg)
For America’s 250th anniversary, discover the history and landscape of the United States with your homeschool students. This week: Olympic National Park in Washington.
🖊️ 🚂 WONDERFUL WORDS: “It was late June”
![[Blackbird Stamp 1966]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/blackbird-stamp-uk-1966-150x90.jpg)
“And for that minute a blackbird sang / Close by, and round him, mistier, / Farther and farther, all the birds / Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.” (Our timely homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Edward Thomas, for late June and the birds of summer.)
🗓️ ⛱️ SUMMER IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)
![[Equinoxes & Solstices]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/equinox-solstice-150x100.png)
Summer is here! If you’re in the northern hemisphere, that is. If you’re in the southern hemisphere, winter is here! Happy June solstice to homeschoolers everywhere!
🗓️ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 21 June 2026
![[Weekly Homeschool Almanac]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/calendar-2-150x85.jpg)
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Father’s Days, summer solstices, June poems, marvelous mathematicians, Messier objects, Sudanese rivers, a toast to merry hearts, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Washington, Sri Lanka, Sweden, and More
![[Washington State Seal]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Seal_of_Washington-150x150.jpg)
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. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Wood-Warblers (Part I)
![[Homeschool Science & Nature Study]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/birds-warblers-150x98.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 tiny and colorful Wood-Warblers (Part I).
🇺🇸 WEEKLY AMERICAN HERITAGE: Glacier National Park
For America’s 250th anniversary, discover the history and landscape of the United States with your homeschool students. This week: Glacier National Park in Montana.
🖊️ 🏰 HAPPY FATHER’S DAY from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
![[Longfellow Stamp]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/longfellow-stamp-136x150.jpg)
“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!
![[Betsy Ross Stamp]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/betsy-ross-flag-stamp-1968-150x97.jpg)
Flag Day (June 14th every year) celebrates the date in 1777 when Congress adopted the Stars & Stripes as the national flag of the new United States.
🗓️ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 14 June 2026
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Flag Days, Great Charters, consequential battles, ancient eclipses, paternal poems, splendid scientists, Somalian rivers, a toast to our native land, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Montana, Somalia, Spain, and More
![[Montana State Seal]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Seal_of_Montana-150x150.jpg)
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. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Spica and Virgo for June
![[Virgo Star Chart]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/virgo-chart-150x127.png)
Make the acquaintance of the young blue-white giant Spica in the constellation Virgo 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
![[Homeschool Science & Nature Study]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/birds-fringillids-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 small and familiar Fringillid Finches, and the Longspurs and Snow Buntings.
🪙 FREE HOMESCHOOL TEACHING MATERIALS from the U.S. Mint
![[U.S. Mint]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/mint-logo-150x150.png){kind=logo}
The U.S. Mint has a wide variety of free printable educational materials that you can easily drop into your homeschooling schedule this summer. Why not look them over and expand your students’ numismatical horizons.
🇺🇸 WEEKLY AMERICAN HERITAGE: Badlands National Park
For America’s 250th anniversary, discover the history and landscape of the United States with your homeschool students. This week: Badlands National Park in South Dakota.
📜 📚 SUMMER PROJECTS from the Library of Congress and National Archives
![[Library of Congress]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/library-of-congress-150x150.png)
Explore some of the educational projects that are available to your homeschool students this summer (or at any time of year) from the U.S. National Archives and the Library of Congress. They’re just the thing to help your students develop independent study skills for college or career.
🖊️ 🇺🇸 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): “O! say can you see?”
![[Star-Spangled Banner]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/star-spangled-banner-150x116.jpg)
“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.)
🗓️ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 7 June 2026
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Revolutionary resolutions, celebrated committees, patriotic poems, phamous physicists, great stars, Solomonian rivers, a toast to Old Glory, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: South Dakota, Singapore, Solomon Islands, & More
![[South Dakota State Seal]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Seal_of_South_Dakota-150x150.jpg)
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. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🔭 WATCHERS OF THE SKIES: Homeschool Astronomy for June
![[Homeschool Astronomy]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/emoji-telescope-large-150x150.png)
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.
🇫🇷 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Learning About D-Day 1944
![[D-Day Stamp]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/d-day-stamp-1994-150x98.jpg)
Learn about the World War II Allied invasion of Normandy, France, on 6 June 1944, using live news broadcasts from that day.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Wagtails and Pipits
![[Homeschool Science & Nature Study]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/birds-wagtails-150x90.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 ground-loving Wagtails and Pipits.
🌳 🗺️ LOCAL & FAMILY HISTORY PROJECTS for Homeschoolers
![[Tree]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/tree-emoji-150x150.png)
Local history and geography, and family history (genealogy), are ideal educational subjects to explore in every homeschool all throughout the year.
📸 PHOTO CHALLENGE for June: “Street Food” and “Bokeh”
![[Homeschool Photography]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/emoji-camera-flash-2-150x143.png)
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 “Street Food” and “Bokeh.” Take a look!
📺 HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARIES for Your Homeschool Summer
Twelve 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!)
🇺🇸 WEEKLY AMERICAN HERITAGE: Theodore Roosevelt National Park
For America’s 250th anniversary, discover the history and landscape of the United States with your homeschool students. This week: Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota.
📚 LEARNING THE LIBRARY: The Literary 800s
![[Dewey Decimal Classes]](https://riverhouses.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/dewey-decimal-classes-2-150x90.jpg)
Explore your local library and the whole universe of knowledge with our homeschool tour of the Dewey Decimal System. This month: the Literary 800s.