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🔭 WATCHERS OF THE SKIES – March 2023

4 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

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 2023.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy

🖋 🌨 WONDERFUL WORDS: An Unexpected “Snow-Storm”

3 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“All friends shut out, the housemates sit / Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed / In a tumultuous privacy of storm.” (A bonus homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Ralph Waldo Emerson, for unexpected blizzards.)

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

🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Tyrant Flycatchers and Becards

3 March 2023 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 Tyrant Flycatchers and the Becards.

Filed Under: Friday Bird Families, Homeschool Natural History

🖋 🏔 WONDERFUL WORDS: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

1 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“The river is moving. / The blackbird must be flying.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Wallace Stevens, for the earliest migrants of spring.)

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

🌍 🇲🇬 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Royal Hill of Ambohimanga in Madagascar

1 March 2023 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 Royal Hill of Ambohimanga in Madagascar.

Filed Under: Homeschool States & Countries, Weekly World Heritage

🗓 🌱 🐰 HAPPY HOMESCHOOL MARCH from the River Houses!

1 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Happy homeschool March! Here are some little lessons, teaching traditions, and wonderful educational opportunities you and your students can watch for this month.

Filed Under: Homeschool Terms & Calendars

🗓 🦁 LEO TERM and the River Houses Homeschool Year

1 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

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.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Terms & Calendars

🏡 WELCOME! (Pinned Post)

1 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

First time visitor? We post a wide range of easy-to-use educational ideas and “little lessons” that will enrich your homeschooling schedule all through the year. Please add your name to our free mailing list! (Just one message a week and no spam.)

There’s a wealth of wonderful material here on our website — everything from homeschool astronomy to books and libraries to language and literature to geography, natural history, homeschool calendars, and more. The materials we’re developing are going to become the foundation for a new type of homeschool network made up of friendly local groups called “Houses” (just like in Harry Potter). Make yourself at home! 😊

Filed Under: Gauging Stations

🎉 📖 WONDERFUL WORDS: Happy Dord Day!

28 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“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.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Books & Libraries, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature

🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 26 February 2023

26 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Leonine terms, lexicographical lapses, marvelous mapmakers, thirteen ways, American poets, tyrannical birds, Madagascan rivers, a toast to homecoming, and more!

Filed Under: Quick Freshes

🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Michigan, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, and More

26 February 2023 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: Michigan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, and Madagascar.

Filed Under: Homeschool States & Countries

📚 LEARNING THE LIBRARY: Dewey Detectives at Home

25 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

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.

Filed Under: Discovering Dewey, Homeschool Books & Libraries

🦜 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Parrots

24 February 2023 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 ideas along the way. This week: the Old World Parrots, and the African and New World Parrots.

Filed Under: Friday Bird Families, Homeschool Natural History

🖋 🔭 WONDERFUL WORDS: Watchers of the Skies

22 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“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 homeschool poem-of-the-week, from John Keats, for all homeschool stargazers.)

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

🌍 🇱🇧 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Ancient Tyre in Lebanon

22 February 2023 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 ancient city of Tyre in Lebanon.

Filed Under: Homeschool States & Countries, Weekly World Heritage

🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – February 2023

21 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Our February 2023 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 five items this month: Derman & Gürlen (2023), Gilpin (2022), Johnson (2022), Lyalikova & Antonov (2022), and Stewart & McCracken (2023).

Filed Under: Homeschool Research & News

☀️ 🌍 HOMESCHOOL SCIENCE & HISTORY: Copernicus and His Revolutions

19 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

On Copernicus’ birthday, introduce your homeschool students to one of the most important books ever published: “On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres” (1543).

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Books & Libraries, Homeschool Holidays & History

🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 19 February 2023

19 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Backyard birds, amazing astronomers, splendid sonnets, ancient cities, dead parrots, Liechtenstein rivers, a toast to The General, and more!

Filed Under: Quick Freshes

🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Arkansas, Lebanon, Libya, and More

19 February 2023 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: Arkansas, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, and Libya.

Filed Under: Homeschool States & Countries

🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Caracaras and Falcons

17 February 2023 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 predatory and fast-flying Falcons and Caracaras.

Filed Under: Friday Bird Families, Homeschool Natural History

🖋 ☄️ WONDERFUL WORDS: The Truly Great

15 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun / And left the vivid air signed with their honour.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Stephen Spender, for the great birthdays of February.)

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

🔭 HOMESCHOOL SCIENCE & HISTORY: The Starry Messenger

15 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Remembering one of the great minds of history, the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), on the anniversary of his birth.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Books & Libraries, Homeschool Holidays & History

🌏 🇰🇬 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Silk Road Network in Kyrgyzstan

15 February 2023 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 Silk Road Network of the Chang’an–Tianshan Corridor in Kyrgyzstan.

Filed Under: Homeschool States & Countries, Weekly World Heritage

🇺🇸 🦋 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Lincoln and Darwin (and Horace)

12 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

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).

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History

🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 12 February 2023

12 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Bird counts, coloring books, great artists, great scientists, great poems, ancient tombs, Kyrgyz rivers, a toast to love, and more!

Filed Under: Quick Freshes

🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Missouri, Kuwait, Latvia, and More

12 February 2023 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: Missouri, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, and Latvia.

Filed Under: Homeschool States & Countries

🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Betelgeuse for February

11 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Make the acquaintance of the red giant Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion the Hunter this month — a strange, irregular, enormous variable star — and make it your homeschool friend for life.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Monthly Great Stars

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