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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: Virginia, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Kinshasa), and Congo Republic (Brazzaville). Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🔭 WATCHERS OF THE SKIES: Homeschool Astronomy for November
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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 November.
🖋 🇺🇸 WONDERFUL WORDS: America’s Choosing Day
“These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships.” (Our electoral homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Walt Whitman, for the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.)
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Limpkins, Rails, Gallinules, Coots, & Cranes
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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 Limpkins, Rails, Gallinules, Coots, and Cranes.
🗓 🥧 🦃 HAPPY HOMESCHOOL NOVEMBER from the River Houses!
Happy homeschool November! Here are some little lessons, teaching traditions, and wonderful educational opportunities you and your students can watch for this month.
🏡 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 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! 😊
🎃 🦇 👻 🏚 HAPPY HOMESCHOOL HALLOWEEN from Horace the Otter!
Horace the Otter, our River Houses mascot, hopes all his riverside neighbors and friends will have a Happy Halloween!
🇺🇸 WEEKLY AMERICAN HERITAGE: Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
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For America’s 250th anniversary, discovery the history and landscape of the United States. This week: Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park in New Hampshire.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 27 October 2024
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Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Spooky days, momentous visions, historic heists, American artists, Martian invaders, furtive birds, Chinese rivers, a toast to trick-or-treat, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: New Hampshire, Chad, China, 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: New Hampshire, the Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, and China. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
👻 HOMESCHOOL SPOOKYDAYS: Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore”
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Light a candle, turn out the lights, and let Edgar Allan Poe entertain you and your homeschool students this Halloween.
👑 “FROM THIS DAY to the ending of the world”
“This day is call’d the feast of Crispian.” (Celebrate some Shakespearean history in your home academy on this St. Crispin’s Day.)
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Swifts and Hummingbirds
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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 Swifts and Hummingbirds, aerial acrobats all.
⚔️ “THIS STORY shall the good man teach his son“
“He that shall live this day and see old age, will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, and say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispin’s.’” (A homeschool toast to offer from this day to the ending of the world.)
⚗️ HOMESCHOOL SCIENCE: Happy National Mole Day!
Homeschool science students from coast to coast will want to be sure to celebrate National Mole Day today (10/23) from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m. All hail the Count of Quaregna and Cerreto!
🇺🇸 WEEKLY AMERICAN HERITAGE: Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie
For America’s 250th anniversary, discovery the history and landscape of the United States. This week: Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park in South Carolina.
🖋 🌅 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): Turning Toward the Morning
“If I had a thing to give you, / I would tell you one more time / That the world is always turning / Toward the morning.” (Our reassuring homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Gordon Bok, for late October.)
🐦 HOMESCHOOL SCIENCE: Feed the Birds! (And Join Project FeederWatch!)
Setting up a bird feeder is one of the simplest and most educational homeschool activities you can do at any time of year. And by tracking the birds you see at your backyard feeder your students can make a real contribution to science through Project FeederWatch.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 20 October 2024
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Shakespearean speeches, marvelous microscopists, ingenious inventors, gospel singers, tiny birds, Cambodian rivers, a toast to heroes of olden times, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: South Carolina, Cabo Verde, Canada, & 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: South Carolina, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, and Canada. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🇺🇸 🇫🇷 HOMESCHOOL HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY: Yorktown 1781
Invite your American history students to remember the end of the American Revolution with the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, on this day in 1781.
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Cuckoos, Roadrunners, Anis, & Goatsuckers
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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 Cuckoos, Roadrunners, Anis, and Goatsuckers. (All birds with strange names!)
🌕 HOMESCHOOL CITIZEN-SCIENCE PROJECTS for October
Our October 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!
⛏ HOMESCHOOL BOOKS & NATURAL HISTORY: National Fossil Day!
For National Fossil Day, why not explore a big collection of rare and beautiful books on paleontology made available by the Smithsonian Institution and the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
🇺🇸 WEEKLY AMERICAN HERITAGE: Fort McHenry National Monument
For America’s 250th anniversary, discovery the history and landscape of the United States. This week: Fort McHenry National Monument in Maryland.
🗓 🦢 HAPPY CROSS-QUARTER DAY of Cygnus Term
We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms, and the midpoint of each term (following old calendrical tradition) is called the “cross-quarter day.” Today, October 16th, is the cross-quarter day of Cygnus Term, our fall term in the River Houses. How are things going in your homeschool?
🖋 🍏 🍎 WONDERFUL WORDS: After Apple-Picking
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“I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired.” (Our dreamy homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for apple season.)
