🌬 THE RIVER and the World

The 2023–2024 homeschool year has reached its end. As the great river meets the world ocean, we propose one final toast for any of our friends who may be embarking on new voyages — it’s a traditional maritime offering for all sailors bound away:

Fair winds and following seas. 🥂

A new River Houses homeschool year begins tomorrow, September 1st, the first day of Cygnus Term 2024–2025.

❡ Toasting traditions: Toasts can be a wonderful educational tradition for your homeschool lunch or dinner table. We offer one each week in our regular Quick Freshes post — you can take it up, or make up one of your own (“To North American dinosaurs!”), or invite a different person to come up with one for each meal (“To unpredictability in toasting!”). What will you toast in your homeschool this week? 🥂

❡ Homeschool calendars: We have a whole collection of free, printable, educational homeschool calendars and planners available on our main River Houses calendar page. They will help you create a light and easy structure for your homeschool year. Give them a try today! 🗓

❡ Support our work: If you enjoy our educational materials, please support us by starting your regular Amazon shopping from our very own homeschool teaching supplies page. When you click through from our page, any purchase you make earns us a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you for helping us to keep going and growing! 🛒

❡ Join us! The aim of the River Houses project is to create a network of friendly local homeschool support groups — local chapters that we call “Houses.” Our first at-large chapter, Headwaters House, is now forming and is open to homeschoolers everywhere. Find out how to become one of our founding members on the Headwaters House membership page. 🏡