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“Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find / Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, / Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind.” (Our bountiful homeschool poem-of-the-week, from John Keats, for fall.)
📚 LEARNING THE LIBRARY: The General 000s
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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 General 000s.
🗓 🍁 🎃 HAPPY HOMESCHOOL OCTOBER from the River Houses!
Happy homeschool October! 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 September 2024
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Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Remarkable rocketeers, famous sonnets, Dewey decimals, Gregorian calendars, historic farms, leggy birds, Benin rivers, a toast to autumn, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Connecticut, Belgium, Bhutan, 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: Connecticut, Belgium, Belize, Benin, and Bhutan. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🗓 HOMESCHOOL CALENDARS: “Thirty days hath September . . .”
“. . . April, June, and November.” (There’s no better week than this to teach your students the ancient calendrical verse that every young homeschooler should know.)
🦃 🐓 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: “Gallinaceous” Birds
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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 chicken-like “Gallinaceous” birds, including New World Quail, Curassows, Guans, Partridges, Grouse, Turkeys, and Old World Quail.
📚 HOMESCHOOL BOOKS: Dover Thrift Editions for Your Students
The Dover Thrift Editions are a great way to build up an inexpensive library of classic literature for your homeschool students.
🇺🇸 WEEKLY AMERICAN HERITAGE: Andersonville National Historic Site
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For America’s 250th anniversary, discover the history and landscape of the United States. This week: Andersonville National Historic Site in Georgia.
📚 LIBRARY LESSONS: Getting to Know the Library of Congress
As the new homeschool year gets going, why not get (re)acquainted with the Library of Congress, the world’s largest library. It’s a rich source of free educational materials for homeschoolers and a place every American should know.
🖋 🍃 WONDERFUL WORDS: “Our Summer made her light escape”
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“And thus, without a Wing / Or service of a Keel / Our Summer made her light escape / Into the Beautiful.” (Our wistful homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for the end of summer.)
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 22 September 2024
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Autumnal equinoxes, learnèd linguists, liberty ships, marvelous musicians, Nobel laureates, Roman emperors, Belarusian rivers, a toast to twilight, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: Georgia, Bahrain, Belarus, 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: Georgia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, and Belarus. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🗓 🍂 FALL IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)
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Fall is here! If you’re in the northern hemisphere, that is. If you’re in the southern hemisphere, spring is here! Happy September equinox to homeschoolers everywhere!
🦆 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Ducks, Geese, & Swans (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 familiar Ducks, Geese, and Swans (Part II).
📚 HOMESCHOOL LIBRARY LESSONS: Discovering Dictionaries
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On your next library visit, show your homeschool students the many wonderful kinds of dictionaries that are available to them — a lot more than they may realize!
🇺🇸 WEEKLY AMERICAN HERITAGE: Morristown National Historical Park
For America’s 250th anniversary, discover the history and landscape of the United States. This week: Morristown National Historical Park in New Jersey.
🇺🇸 📜 THE U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES and Constitution Day
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The National Archives in Washington has a wealth of free teaching materials available that are ideal for homeschoolers. Why not pay them a visit this week to celebrate the signing of the U.S. Constitution on 17 September 1787.
🌕 HOMESCHOOL CITIZEN-SCIENCE PROJECTS for September
Our September 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 — it’s a great way to begin the new homeschool year!
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – September 2024
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Our September 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 three items this month, on homeschooling research itself; homeschooling demographics; and homeschooling during COVID.
🌞 🌏 🌕 PARTIAL LUNAR ECLIPSE Tuesday Night (17 September 2024)
Invite your young homeschool astronomers to view the partial lunar eclipse coming up on Tuesday–Wednesday night (17–18 September 2024).
🖋 🦋 WONDERFUL WORDS: The Tuft of Flowers
“‘Men work together,’ I told him from the heart, / ‘Whether they work together or apart.’” (Our encouraging homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for late-summer mowing, the Monarch butterfly migration, and all of us working together, whether we work together or apart.)
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 15 September 2024
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Lunar eclipses, Constitution days, autumnal equinoxes, legendary lexicographers, flying fish, American spies, Bahamian rivers, a toast to rhoticity, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: New Jersey, Australia, the Bahamas, 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 Jersey, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, and the Bahamas. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Deneb for September and the New Homeschool Year
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Get the new homeschool year off to a stellar start by making a new friend this month: the giant star Deneb in the constellation Cygnus the Swan, one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere night sky.
🦢 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Ducks, Geese, & Swans (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 familiar Ducks, Geese, and Swans (Part I).
⚔️ HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Marathon, 490 B.C.
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The Battle of Marathon, fought on the eastern coast of mainland Greece in 490 B.C., was one of the most consequential battles in the history of the Western world. It’s an event every homeschool student should know.
