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![[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: Everglades National Park in Florida.
📜 HOMESCHOOL LIBRARY LESSONS: A Free Course on the Book of Kells
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Here’s a treat for homeschool history and art students: a free course on one of the world’s most famous books, The Book of Kells, from Trinity College in Ireland.
🎻 HOMESCHOOL MUSIC: Introducing Barber’s Adagio and Agnus Dei
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Today is the birthday of the great American classical composer Samuel Barber (1910–1981). Introduce your homeschool students to one of his most famous works this week and give them a new treasure for life.
🖊️ 🔭 WONDERFUL WORDS: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
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“Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, / In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, / Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.” (Our contrary homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Walt Whitman, for John Herschel and Albert Einstein.)
🗓️ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 8 March 2026
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Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Unheeded warnings, Pi days, Einsteinian birthdays, English antiquarians, computer visionaries, Malawian rivers, a toast to cleverness, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Florida, Malawi, Mali, 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: Florida, Malawi, Malaysia, the Maldives, and Mali. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🔭 WATCHERS OF THE SKIES: Homeschool Astronomy for March
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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 March.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Tyrant Flycatchers and Becards
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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 Tyrant Flycatchers and the Becards.
📸 PHOTO CHALLENGE for March: “Town Entrances” and “Three Wheelers”
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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 “Town Entrances” and “Three Wheelers.” Take a look!
🇺🇸 WEEKLY AMERICAN HERITAGE: Isle Royale National Park
For America’s 250th anniversary, discover the history and landscape of the United States with your homeschool students. This week: Isle Royale National Park in Michigan.
📚 LEARNING THE LIBRARY: The Scientific 500s
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Explore your local library and the whole universe of knowledge with our homeschool tour of the Dewey Decimal System. This month: the Scientific 500s.
🌕 HOMESCHOOL CITIZEN-SCIENCE PROJECTS for March
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Our March 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!
🖊️ 🏔️ WONDERFUL WORDS: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
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“The river is moving. / The blackbird must be flying.” (Our imagistic homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Wallace Stevens, for the earliest birds of spring.)
🗓️ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 1 March 2026
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Leonine terms, lunar eclipses, ingenious inventors, clever poems, amazing agronomists, Dewey decimals, Madagascan rivers, a toast to the Alamo, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Michigan, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, 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: Michigan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, and Madagascar. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🗓️ 🌱 🐰 HAPPY HOMESCHOOL MARCH from the River Houses!
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Happy homeschool March! Here are some little lessons, teaching traditions, and wonderful educational opportunities you and your students can watch for this month.
🗓️ 🦁 LEO TERM and the River Houses Homeschool Year
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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.
🏡 WELCOME! (Pinned Post)
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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 subscribe to our free homeschool newsletter! (It’s just one message a week with no spam.)
There’s a wealth of wonderful material here on the River Houses 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! 😊
🇺🇸 Special Note: There are hundreds of America 250 events taking place all across the United States this year that will present exceptional opportunities for homeschoolers. Bookmark the state-by-state listings from America250.org and see what will be coming up near you!
🌞 🌏 🌕 WONDERFUL WORDS: “The stellar gauge of earthly show”
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“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.)
🌞 🌏 🌕 TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE: 2–3 March 2026 (Monday–Tuesday)
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Invite your young homeschool astronomers to view the total lunar eclipse coming up on 2–3 March 2026 (Monday–Tuesday night).
🎉 📖 WONDERFUL WORDS: Happy Dord Day!
“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.)
🦜 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Parrots
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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 Old World Parrots and the African and New World Parrots.
🇺🇸 WEEKLY AMERICAN HERITAGE: Hot Springs National Park
For America’s 250th anniversary, discover the history and landscape of the United States with your homeschool students. This week: Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas.
🔭 WONDERFUL WORDS: Watchers of the Skies
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“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 visionary homeschool poem-of-the-week, from John Keats, for all homeschool stargazers.)
🗓️ QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 22 February 2026
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: National parks, great poets, blue jeans, landmark decisions, funny words, famous sonnets, Liberian rivers, a toast to the homecoming, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Arkansas, Lebanon, Libya, 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: Arkansas, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, and Libya. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🚀 “THE RIVER HOUSES” is Still Exploring Mars!
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When NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021, “The River Houses” went along for the ride — and so did ten million other earthly travelers.