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๐Ÿ—“ Homeschool Holidays & History: Little Lessons for the Whole Year

Great homeschool teaching tips 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! ๐Ÿ˜Š

๐ŸŽต HOMESCHOOL MUSIC: Happy Birthday Bach!

21 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Take a few homeschool minutes to introduce your students to a tiny musical masterpiece by one of the world’s great composers, Johann Sebastian Bach, born on this day in 1685.

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History

๐ŸŽญ HOMESCHOOL HISTORY & LITERATURE: “Lend Me Your Ears!”

16 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Why not wrap up this special Julius Caesar Week in your homeschool by viewing and discussing several versions of a famous Shakespearean speech with your students.

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature

๐Ÿ—“ ๐Ÿ—ก HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: โ€œThe Ides of March are comeโ€

15 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Remembering the Ides of March, the famous date on which the Roman politician, general, and dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44ย B.C.

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History

๐Ÿ“ก JOIN A โ€œCITIZEN SCIENCEโ€ PROJECT for Einstein’s Birthday

14 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

You and your young science students can join the search for undiscovered pulsars in deep space, right from the comfort of your own homeschool living room. (Really!) How cool is that?

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Holidays & History, Lunar Society Bulletins

๐Ÿ—ก HOMESCHOOL HISTORY & LITERATURE: โ€Beware the Ides of Marchโ€œ

14 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Let Shakespeare help you and your students remember one of the most famous dates in ancient history: the Ides of March in 44 B.C.

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature

๐ŸŽป HOMESCHOOL MUSIC: Introducing Barberโ€™s Adagio and Agnus Dei

9 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Today is the birthday of the great American classical composer Samuel Barber (1910โ€“1981). Introduce your homeschool students to one of his most famous works this week and give them a new treasure for life.

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History

๐ŸŽ‰ ๐Ÿ“– WONDERFUL WORDS: Happy Dord Day!

28 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Lexicรณgrapher. n.s. [ฮปฮตฮพฮนฮบแฝธฮฝ and ฮณฯฮฌฯ†ฯ‰; lexicographe, French.] A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.” (A humorous homeschool holiday, for all lovers of words and dictionaries.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Books & Libraries, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature

โ˜€๏ธ ๐ŸŒ HOMESCHOOL SCIENCE & HISTORY: Copernicus and His Revolutions

19 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

On Copernicus’ birthday, introduce your homeschool students to one of the most important books ever published: “On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres” (1543).

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Books & Libraries, Homeschool Holidays & History

๐Ÿ–‹ โ˜„๏ธ WONDERFUL WORDS: The Truly Great

15 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Born of the sun, they travelled aย short while toward the sunย / And left the vivid air signed with their honour.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Stephen Spender, for the great birthdays of February.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

๐Ÿ”ญ HOMESCHOOL SCIENCE & HISTORY: The Starry Messenger

15 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Remembering one of the great minds of history, the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (1564โ€“1642), on the anniversary of his birth.

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Books & Libraries, Homeschool Holidays & History

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿฆ‹ HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Lincoln and Darwin (and Horace)

12 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Our recommended homeschool history encyclopedia is just the thing you need on a notable anniversary like today: the birthday of both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin (in the same year, 1809).

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History

๐Ÿ–‹ โค๏ธ WONDERFUL WORDS: โ€œUnwind the solemn twine, and tie my Valentine!โ€

8 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine!” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Emily Dickinson, for Valentine Week.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Books & Libraries, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

๐Ÿ—“ โš—๏ธ HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DMITRI! (Mendeleev, that is)

8 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

The father of the Periodic Table of Elements, the great Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, was born on this day in 1834 near Tobolsk, Siberia. Here are some clever educational ways to remember him in your homeschool.

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History

โšโ€Š๐Ÿ– HOMESCHOOL CALENDARS: Happy Groundhog Day!

2 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Happy mid-point of astronomical winter to homeschoolers everywhere! In other words, Happy Groundhog Day!

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Terms & Calendars

๐ŸŽต HOMESCHOOL MUSIC: Happy Birthday Mozart!

27 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Happy birthday to one of the greatest musical composers of all time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born on this day in 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. Here are some little Mozart lessons that you can share with your homeschool students this week.

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History

๐Ÿ–‹ ๐ŸŒŠ HOMESCHOOL HISTORY & LITERATURE: Remembering Challenger

22 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,ย / And allย I ask isย a tall ship andย a star to steer her by.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from John Masefield, for the Challenger Seven of 1986.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Astronomy, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

๐Ÿ–‹ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): Lift Every Voice and Sing

15 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Let our rejoicing rise / High as the listening skies, / Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from James Weldon Johnson, for Martin Luther King’s birthday.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽญ TWELFTH NIGHT and the End of Holiday Music Month 2022โ€“2023

5 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Long long ago the world begun,ย / With aย hey, ho, the wind and the rain.ย / But that’s all one, our play is done,ย / And we’ll strive to please you every day.” (Shakespeare helps us bring the Christmas Season, and our own Homeschool Holiday Music Month, to a close.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽ‰ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: The Old Year Now Away is Fled

1 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

“Let’s merry be this day,ย / And let us now both sport and play,ย / Hang grief, cast care away,ย / God send you aย happy new year!” (An ancient new-year carol sung to the tune “Greensleeves,” by the great countertenor Alfred Deller, for Homeschool Holiday Music Month.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History

๐Ÿ–‹ ๐Ÿ”” WONDERFUL WORDS (and Sounds!): Ring Out, Wild Bells!

31 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“Ring out the old, ring in the new, / Ring, happy bells, across the snow: / The year is going, let him go; / Ring out the false, ring in the true.” (Join Tennyson and some skillful bell-ringers to ring in the new year.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

๐Ÿ–‹ ๐Ÿป WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): Auld Lang Syne

30 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“We two once ran along the hills and picked the daisies fine; / But we’ve wandered many a weary foot since those days of long ago.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Burns, for auld lang syne.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

๐Ÿ—กโ™— HOMESCHOOL HISTORY: Murder in the Cathedral

29 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Take five minutes today to teach your students the story of Archbishop Thomas Becket, whose murder on this day in the year 1170 has loomed large in the Western imagination for nearly a thousand years.

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature

๐ŸŒŠ WONDERFUL WORDS: โ€œIt was a short, cold Christmasโ€

25 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Herman Melville reminds us that even on Christmas Day, somewhere in the world there are ships and sailors heading out to sea.

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature

๐Ÿ–‹ ๐ŸŽ… WONDERFUL WORDS: โ€™Twas the Night Before Christmas

22 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“The children were nestled all snug in their beds;ย / While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Clement Clarke Moore, for Christmas Eve of course!)

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

๐Ÿ“ก ๐ŸŽ… ๐ŸฆŒ HOMESCHOOL HOLIDAYS: NORADโ€™s Santa Tracker is Up!

20 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Want to know when Santa will deliver your Christmas presents? Don’t ask Amazon, ask the North American Air Defense Command! (And maybe even learn a little world geography along the way.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & History, Homeschool Maps & Geography

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽ„ Aย CHRISTMAS EVE INVITATION: Carols from Kingโ€™s College

18 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

The beautiful Festival of Lessons and Carols from King’s College at Cambridge University is broadcast every year on Christmas Eve to millions of people around the world. You and your homescholars can join them.

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History

๐ŸŽต MARVELOUS MUSIC: It’s Beethoven’s Birthday!

16 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Take a few minutes out of your homeschool schedule today to celebrate an annual international musical milestone, to wit, Beethoven’s Birthday!

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & History

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