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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 tiny and colorful Wood-Warblers (Part II).
🔭 ☄️ HOMESCHOOL ASTRONOMY: The Most Beautiful Objects in the Universe
Happy birthday to the great French astronomer Charles Messier (1730–1817), who cataloged some of the most beautiful nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies in the universe — so he could ignore them.
🇺🇸 WEEKLY AMERICAN HERITAGE: Craters of the Moon National Monument
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For America’s 250th anniversary, discover the history and landscape of the United States with your homeschool students. This week: Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve in Idaho.
🖋 🚂 WONDERFUL WORDS: “It was late June”
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“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.)
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 22 June 2025
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Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Cosmic catalogues, censored scientists, children’s authors, extraordinary explorers, momentous struggles, Syrian rivers, a toast to your local birds, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Idaho, Switzerland, Tajikistan, 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: Idaho, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, and Tajikistan. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🌳 🗺️ LOCAL & FAMILY HISTORY PROJECTS for Homeschoolers
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Local history and geography, and family history (genealogy), are ideal educational subjects to explore in every homeschool, especially during the summer months.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Wood-Warblers (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 tiny and colorful Wood-Warblers (Part I).
🗓 ⛱ SUMMER IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)
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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!
🇺🇸 WEEKLY AMERICAN HERITAGE: Mount Rainier National Park
For America’s 250th anniversary, discover the history and landscape of the United States with your homeschool students. This week: Mount Rainier National Park in Washington.
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS for June
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Our June 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 four items this month, on homeschooling and college; homeschooling in Malaysia; the meaning of success in homeschooling; and homeschooling and music.
🖋 🏰 HAPPY FATHER’S DAY from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“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.)
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 15 June 2025
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Father’s Days, brave battles, summer solstices, paternal poems, old schools, Great Seals, Swedish rivers, a toast to the men of Bunker Hill, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Washington, Sri Lanka, Sweden, 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: Washington, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, and Sweden. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🇺🇸 HOMESCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Happy Flag Day!
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.
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Spica and Virgo for June
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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
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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 small and familiar Fringillid Finches, and the Longspurs and Snow Buntings.
🪙 FREE HOMESCHOOL TEACHING MATERIALS from the U.S. Mint!
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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.
🌕 HOMESCHOOL CITIZEN-SCIENCE PROJECTS for June
Our June 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: Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
For America’s 250th anniversary, discover the history and landscape of the United States with your homeschool students. This week: Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana.
📜 📚 SUMMER PROJECTS from the Library of Congress and National Archives
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?”
“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 8 June 2025
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Flag Days, ancient eclipses, paternal poems, Great Charters, celebrated committees, splendid scientists, South African rivers, a toast to Old Glory, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Montana, Somalia, Spain, 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: Montana, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, and Spain. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🔭 WATCHERS OF THE SKIES: Homeschool Astronomy for June
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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 June.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Wagtails and Pipits
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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 ground-loving Wagtails and Pipits.
🇫🇷 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Learning About D-Day 1944
Learn about the World War II Allied invasion of Normandy, France, on 6 June 1944, using live news broadcasts from that day.
