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๐Ÿ—“ Homeschool Holidays & Anniversaries (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! ๐Ÿ˜Š

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

15 January 2021 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 & Anniversaries, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽญ HAPPY TWELFTH NIGHT!

5 January 2021 by Bob O'Hara

“Long long ago the world begun, / With a hey, ho, the wind and the rain. / But that’s all one, our play is done, / And we’ll strive to please you every day.” (Shakespeare helps us bring the 2020โ€“2021 Christmas Season, and our Homeschool Holiday Music Month, to a close.)

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

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

29 December 2020 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 & Anniversaries

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

25 December 2020 by Bob O'Hara

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

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

๐ŸŽ„ ๐Ÿฆฆ HAVE YOURSELF AN OTTERIFIC CHRISTMAS

24 December 2020 by Bob O'Hara

Our mascot Horace the River Otter wishes you and yours, and homeschoolers everywhere, a merry, peaceful, and positively otterific Christmas.

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & Anniversaries, Our River Houses Mascots

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

22 December 2020 by Bob O'Hara

Want to know when your Christmas presents will arrive? Don’t ask Amazon, ask NORAD! (And maybe even learn a little world geography along the way.)

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

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

20 December 2020 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 & Anniversaries

๐ŸŽต ๐Ÿฝ THANKSGIVING MEMORIES: โ€œWe Gather Togetherโ€

25 November 2020 by Bob O'Hara

Take a just moment this week to introduce your homeschool students to a beautiful four-hundred-year-old Dutch folk tune that has become a Thanksgiving classic.

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

๐ŸŽต ๐Ÿก THANKSGIVING MUSIC: โ€œRise up, follow me, I will lead you homeโ€

24 November 2020 by Bob O'Hara

“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.)

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

๐Ÿ–‹ ๐Ÿฆƒ WONDERFUL WORDS: Delicious โ€œThanksgiving Magicโ€

22 November 2020 by Bob O'Hara

“Oh, some like magic made by wands, / And some read magic out of books, / And some like fairy spells and charms / But I like magic made by cooks!” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Rowena Bastin Bennett, for Thanksgiving!)

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

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ SEVEN SCORE and Seventeen Years Ago

19 November 2020 by Bob O'Hara

“What place is this? Where are we now?” (Marking the 157th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, with help from Ken Burns and Carl Sandburg.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & Anniversaries, Homeschool Language & Literature, Homeschool Museums & Monuments

๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES: The Veterans History Project

10 November 2020 by Bob O'Hara

You and your homeschool students can contribute to an important historical documentary project by interviewing American military veterans in your family or community for the Library of Congress.

Filed Under: Homeschool Books & Libraries, Homeschool Holidays & Anniversaries, Lunar Society Bulletins

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