Summer is here! (If you’re in the northern hemisphere, that is. If you’re in the southern hemisphere, winter is here!) Happy June 2022 solstice to homeschoolers everywhere!
🔭 Homeschool Astronomy (Recent Posts)
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken.
A collection of great homeschool teaching ideas, resources, and little lessons on stars, planets, constellations, comets, meteors, galaxies, space exploration, and other astronomy-related topics from the River Houses Homeschool Network. Add your name to our free River Houses mailing list and get posts like these delivered right to your mailbox every week! 😊
❡ Star bright: This Homeschool Astronomy collection also includes our special series of monthly Great Star posts that introduce you and your students to twelve of the brightest stars of the northern hemisphere night sky. 🌟
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Spica for June
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.
📺 HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARIES for Your Homeschool Summer
Ten multi-part masterpieces of the documentarian’s art that you and your homeschool students can watch together and discuss over the summer.
🔭 WATCHERS OF THE SKIES – June 2022
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 June 2022.
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Polaris for May
Make the acquaintance of the pole star Polaris in the constellation Ursa Minor this month, one of the most important stars in the northern hemisphere sky, and make it your homeschool friend and landmark for life.
🌞 🌏 🌕 WONDERFUL WORDS: “The stellar gauge of earthly show”
“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 homeschool poem-of-the-week, a sonnet-masterpiece from Thomas Hardy, for this week’s lunar eclipse.)
🌞 🌏 🌕 LUNAR ECLIPSE Sunday–Monday Night (15–16 May 2022)
Invite your young homeschool astronomers to view the total lunar eclipse coming up on Sunday–Monday night (15–16 May 2022).
🔭 WATCHERS OF THE SKIES – May 2022
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 May 2022.
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Regulus for April
Make the acquaintance of “the little king” Regulus in the constellation Leo the Lion this month, one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere sky, and make it your homeschool friend for life.
🖖 HAPPY FIRST CONTACT DAY!
“Sure on this shining night / I weep for wonder wand’ring far alone / Of shadows on the stars.” (On this day in the year 2063, in a remote area near Bozeman, Montana, a Vulcan survey ship will make first contact with the human race. And some of today’s homeschoolers will probably be around to see it!)
