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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!
🦅 FRIDAY BIRD FAMILIES: Wood-Warblers (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 tiny and colorful Wood-Warblers (Part II).
🗓 ⛱ SUMMER IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)
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 WORLD HERITAGE: The Dambulla Temple in Sri Lanka
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Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week and learn some great history and geography along the way. This week: the Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple in Sri Lanka.
🔎 HOMESCHOOL RESEARCH & NEWS – June 2024
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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 the growth of homeschooling; homeschooling psychology; homeschooling in Lithuania; and homeschooling in China.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 16 June 2024
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Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Father’s Days, summer solstices, June poems, old schools, brave battles, Great Seals, Sri Lankan rivers, a toast to merry hearts, 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!
🖋 🏰 HAPPY FATHER’S DAY WEEK 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.)
🌅 HOMESCHOOL SEASONS: Watch the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge
Follow a live broadcast of the summer-solstice sunset and sunrise at Stonehenge, the ancient astronomical landmark in southern England.
🇺🇸 HOMESCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Happy Flag Day!
Flag Day (June 14th every year) celebrates the date in 1777 when Congress established the Stars & Stripes as the national flag of the new United States.
🦅 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).
🪙 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.
🌍 🇿🇦 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: The Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa
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Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week and learn some great history and geography along the way. This week: the Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa.
📜 📚 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.
📺 HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARIES for Your Homeschool Summer
Twelve multi-part masterpieces of the documentarian’s art that you and your homeschool students can watch together and discuss over the summer. (Or at any other time of year!)
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 9 June 2024
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Flag Days, ancient eclipses, paternal poems, splendid scientists, famous halls, consequential committees, Spanish 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!
🖋 🇺🇸 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.)
🌟 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.
📸 PHOTO CHALLENGE for June: “Mushroooms” and “Construction Sites”
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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 “Mushrooms” and “Construction Sites.” Take a look!
🇫🇷 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.
🌏 🇸🇧 WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: East Rennell in the Solomon Islands
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Pay a homeschool visit to a World Heritage Site from one of our countries-of-the-week and learn some great history and geography along the way. This week: East Rennell in the Solomon Islands.
📚 LEARNING THE LIBRARY: The Literary 800s
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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 Literary 800s.
🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 2 June 2024
Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: New terms, Revolutionary resolutions, decisive days, fabulous flights, patriotic poems, great stars, Slovenian rivers, a toast to liberty, and more!
🌎 🇺🇸 SUNDAY STATES: South Dakota, Singapore, Solomon Islands, & 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 Dakota, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the Solomon Islands. Open up your atlas and almanac and follow along with us!
🖋 🌞 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): “Sumer is i-cumin in”
“Loudly sing, cuckoo!” (Our ancient homeschool poem-of-the-week, anonymously, for the beginning of our summer term.)
