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Our April 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!
🇺🇸 WEEKLY AMERICAN HERITAGE: Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
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For America’s 250th anniversary, discover the history and landscape of the United States with your homeschool students. This week: Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Wisconsin.
🗓️ ☔️ 🌸 HAPPY HOMESCHOOL APRIL from the River Houses!
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Happy homeschool April! Here are some little lessons, teaching traditions, and wonderful educational opportunities you and your students can watch for this month.
🗓️ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 29 March 2026
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Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Spaghetti harvests, April poems, student projects, tremendous transactions, celestial sights, Montenegrin rivers, a toast to good eating, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Wisconsin, Mongolia, Mozambique, 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: Wisconsin, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, and Mozambique. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Crows and Jays (Part II)
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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 garrulous and gregarious Crows and Jays (Part II).
🇺🇸 WEEKLY AMERICAN HERITAGE: Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
For America’s 250th anniversary, discover the history and landscape of the United States with your homeschool students. This week: Herbert Hoover National Historic Site and Birthplace in Iowa.
🎨 HOMESCHOOL ARTS: Introducing William Morris (1834–1896)
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Take a few homeschool minutes this week to learn about William Morris, one of the great artistic polymaths of the nineteenth century, on the anniversary of his birth.
🌸 HOMESCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Visit the Cherry Blossoms in Washington, D.C.
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On March 27th in 1912, the city of Tokyo presented a gift of 3000 cherry trees to the United States to line the banks of the Potomac River and other sites in Washington, D.C., where they and their successors may still be seen today.
🖊️ 🌱 WONDERFUL WORDS: Nothing Gold Can Stay
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“Nature’s first green is gold, / Her hardest hue to hold.” (Our ephemeral homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for his birthday and for the first signs of spring.)
🗓️ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 22 March 2026
Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Cherry blossoms, famous farmers, stirring speeches, delightful designers, amazing magicians, picture books, great writers, Mexican rivers, a toast to honesty, 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 MUSIC: Happy Birthday Bach!
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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.
🗓️ 🌷 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!
🦅 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.
🐦 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 a million people from around the world participated! Were you and your homeschoolers among them?
🇺🇸 WEEKLY AMERICAN HERITAGE: Big Bend National Park
For America’s 250th anniversary, discover the history and landscape of the United States with your homeschool students. This week: Big Bend National Park in Texas.
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS for March
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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.
🎭 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.
🖊️ 🗡 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!)
🗓️ 🗡 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.
🗓️ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 15 March 2026
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Revolutionary victories, vernal equinoxes, dramatic dates, magnificent musicians, literary birthdays, rocket science, Mauritanian rivers, a toast to liberty, 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!
📡 JOIN A CITIZEN-SCIENCE PROJECT for Einstein’s Birthday
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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?
🌟 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.
🦅 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.
🗡 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.