“Through the air there’s a calling from far away, / There’s a voice I can hear that will lead me home.” (Some lovely music and words from Stephen Paulus and Michael Dennis Browne, for homeschool Thanksgiving.)
๐ Homeschool Holidays & History (Recent Posts)
A collection of great homeschool teaching ideas, resources, and little lessons on history, holidays, anniversaries, and notable events from the River Houses Homeschool Network. Print your own homeschool calendar for the whole year on our main River Houses calendar page and follow along with us, and add your name to our free River Houses mailing list to get posts like these delivered right to your mailbox every week! ๐
๐ต ๐ฝ HOMESCHOOL THANKSGIVING: We Gather Together
Take just a minute this week to introduce your homeschool students to aย beautiful four-hundred-year-old Dutch folk tune that has become aย Thanksgiving classic.
๐ต MUSICAL INTRODUCTIONS: Thomas Tallis, Master of Polyphony
Why not give thanks in your homeschool this Thanksgiving week for the life of Thomas Tallis, the grand master of early polyphonic music, who died on this day in 1585.
๐ ๐ฆ WONDERFUL WORDS: Delicious โThanksgiving Magicโ
“Oh, some like magic made by wands,ย / And some read magic out of books,ย / And some like fairy spells and charmsย / But Iย like magic made by cooks!” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Rowena Bastin Bennett, for Thanksgiving!)
๐บ๐ธ HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Seven Score and Nineteen Years Ago
“What place is this? Where are we now?” (Marking the 159th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, with help from Ken Burns and Carl Sandburg.)
๐ ๐บ๐ธ STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES: The Veterans History Project
You and your homeschool students can contribute to an important historical documentary project by interviewing American veterans in your family or community for the Library of Congress.
๐ THE ELEVENTH DAY of the Eleventh Month: We Will Remember Them
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: / Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. / At the going down of the sun and in the morning / We will remember them.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Laurence Binyon, for Veterans Day and Armistice Day.)
โ๏ธ HOMESCHOOL SCIENCE & HISTORY: Happy Birthday to Marie Curie!
Happy birthday to the great physicist, chemist, and two-time Nobel laureate Marie Skลodowska Curie, born on this day in 1867.
๐ ๐บ๐ธ WONDERFUL WORDS: Americaโs Choosing Day
“These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships.” (An extra homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Walt Whitman, for the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.)
๐ป HOMESCHOOL SPOOKIDAYS: Quoth the Raven, โNevermoreโ
Light a candle, turn out the lights, and let Edgar Allan Poe entertain you and your homeschool students this Halloween.
