Happy homeschool April! Here are some little lessons, teaching traditions, and wonderful educational opportunities you and your students can watch for this month.
🗓 The Homeschool Year: Seasons, Months, Terms, & Calendars
Here — said the Year —
Homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons about the months, the seasons, and the four terms that make up the River Houses year (Cygnus, Orion, Leo, and Hercules). Download and print your own educational calendars and planners on our main homeschool calendars page, and add your name to our free River Houses mailing list to get posts like these delivered right to your mailbox every week! 😊
🗓 🌷 SPRING IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)
Spring is here! If you’re in the northern hemisphere, that is. If you’re in the southern hemisphere, fall is here! Happy March equinox to homeschoolers everywhere!
🗓 🌱 🐰 HAPPY HOMESCHOOL MARCH from the River Houses!
Happy homeschool March! Here are some little lessons, teaching traditions, and wonderful educational opportunities you and your students can watch for this month.
🗓 🦁 LEO TERM and the River Houses Homeschool Year
We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms in the River Houses. Today is the first day of Leo Term, our spring term, named for the Great Lion of the Heavens. Leo Term runs from March through May.
⏚ 🐖 HOMESCHOOL CALENDARS: Happy Groundhog Day!
Happy mid-point of astronomical winter to homeschoolers everywhere! In other words, Happy Groundhog Day!
🗓 💕 💐 HAPPY HOMESCHOOL FEBRUARY from the River Houses!
Happy homeschool February! Here are some little lessons, teaching traditions, and wonderful educational opportunities you and your students can watch for this month.
🗓 🗡 HAPPY CROSS-QUARTER DAY of Orion 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 is the cross-quarter day of Orion Term, our winter term in the River Houses. How are things going in your homeschool?
🗓 🎉 ❄️ HAPPY HOMESCHOOL JANUARY from the River Houses!
Happy January and Happy New Year! Here are some little lessons, teaching traditions, and wonderful educational opportunities you and your students can watch for this month.
🎵 ❄️ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: In the Bleak Midwinter
“Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; / Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, / In the bleak midwinter, long ago.” (A frosty carol from Christina Rossetti and Gustav Holst, for Homeschool Holiday Music Month and the winter solstice.)
🗓 ⛄️ WINTER IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)
Winter is here! If you’re in the northern hemisphere, that is. If you’re in the southern hemisphere, summer is here! Happy December solstice to homeschoolers everywhere!
🖋 🍂 WONDERFUL WORDS: The End of a Season
“The leaves are all dead on the ground, / Save those that the oak is keeping / To ravel them one by one / And let them go scraping and creeping / Out over the crusted snow, / When others are sleeping.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Frost, for the end of fall.)
🗓 🎄 🎅 HAPPY HOMESCHOOL DECEMBER from the River Houses!
Happy homeschool December! Here are some little lessons, teaching traditions, and wonderful educational opportunities you and your students can watch for this month.
🗓 🗡 ORION TERM and the River Houses Homeschool Year
We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms in the River Houses. Today is the first day of Orion Term, our winter term, named for the Great Hunter of the Heavens. Orion Term runs from December through February.
🗓 🥧 🦃 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.
🗓 🦢 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?
🗓 🍁 🎃 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.
🗓 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.)
🗓 🍂 FALL IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)
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 all homeschoolers everywhere!
🖋 🍃 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 homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for the end of summer.)
🗓 📓 ✏️ HAPPY HOMESCHOOL SEPTEMBER from the River Houses!
Happy homeschool September! Here are some little lessons, teaching traditions, and educational opportunities you and your students can watch for this month.
🗓 🦢 CYGNUS TERM and the New River Houses Homeschool Year
We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms in the River Houses. Today is the first day of Cygnus Term, our fall term, named for the Great Swan of the Heavens. Cygnus Term runs from September through November.
🏡 🎉 A NEW HOMESCHOOL YEAR BEGINS: Let the River Run!
Welcome to a brand new River Houses homeschool year! Let all the dreamers wake the nation.
🗓 😎 ☀️ HAPPY HOMESCHOOL AUGUST from the River Houses!
Happy homeschool August! Here are some little lessons, teaching traditions, and wonderful educational opportunities you and your students can watch for this month.
🗓 💪 HAPPY CROSS-QUARTER DAY of Hercules 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, July 16th, is the cross-quarter day of Hercules Term, our summer term in the River Houses. How are things going in your homeschool?
🌝 KNOW YOUR MOONS 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑
For this month’s anniversary of the first moon landing, why not teach your homeschool students the phases of the moon. You can even use emojis to do it!
🗓 🎆 🇺🇸 HAPPY HOMESCHOOL JULY from the River Houses!
Happy homeschool July! Here are some little lessons, teaching traditions, and wonderful educational opportunities you and your students can watch for this month.
🗓 ⛱ 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!
