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🗓 Quick Freshes: Your Weekly Homeschool Almanac

I’ll not show him
Where the quick freshes are.

— Shakespeare, The Tempest

Easy homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for every week of the homeschool year. (Caliban won’t show you, but we will!) Pick one or two (or more!) of the items in each week’s "Quick Freshes" post and use them to enrich the educational life of your homeschool. Add your name to our free River Houses mailing list to get posts like these delivered right to your mailbox every week. 😊

🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 28 May 2023

28 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Memorial Days, new terms, relativistic predictions, vocal virtuosos, amazing ascents, Sierra Leonean rivers, a toast to heroes, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 21 May 2023

21 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: American philosophers, graduation poems, marvelous messages, inimitable investigators, ancient eclipses, Swedish naturalists, Samoan waterfalls, a toast to blissful days, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 14 May 2023

14 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Mother’s Days, space stations, horse races, famous poems, nautical mysteries, ancient instruments, Rwandan rivers, a toast to every mom, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 7 May 2023

7 May 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Golden spikes, maternal poems, tall buildings, marvelous musicians, mocking birds, Portuguese rivers, a toast to the early bird, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 30 April 2023

30 April 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Migrating birds, penny postage, precise predictions, four-minute miles, Russian composers, Peruvian rivers, a toast to the world’s farmers, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 23 April 2023

23 April 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Shakespearean birthdays, American inventors, marvelous molecules, celebrated composers, falling stars, ancient rivers, a toast to the running tide, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 16 April 2023

16 April 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons for the week ahead, including: Embattled farmers, midnight rides, American revolutions, Italian explorers, cherry trees, memorable rivers, a toast to old heroes, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 9 April 2023

9 April 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Cross-quarter days, polymathic painters, presidential anniversaries, celebrated cosmonauts, tiny birds, American poems, Dutch rivers, a toast to the plow, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 2 April 2023

2 April 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: April poems, alien visitors, famous writers, cute birds, leonine stars, Dewey decimals, Nepalese rivers, a toast to long life and prosperity, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 26 March 2023

26 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Cherry blossoms, April prologues, spaghetti harvests, land deals, circulatory systems, Mongolian rivers, a toast to good eating, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 19 March 2023

19 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Vernal equinoxes, geodetic arcs, stirring speeches, fabulous farmers, literary birthdays, Moldovan rivers, a toast to happy days, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 12 March 2023

12 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Unheeded warnings, Einsteinian birthdays, liberated cities, Irish celebrations, rocket revolutions, space walks, Mauritanian rivers, a toast to cleverness, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 5 March 2023

5 March 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Leonine terms, amazing artists, skeptical poems, brilliant stars, Dewey decimals, time warps, Malawian rivers, a toast to remembrance, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 26 February 2023

26 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Leonine terms, lexicographical lapses, marvelous mapmakers, thirteen ways, American poets, tyrannical birds, Madagascan rivers, a toast to homecoming, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 19 February 2023

19 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Backyard birds, amazing astronomers, splendid sonnets, ancient cities, dead parrots, Liechtenstein rivers, a toast to The General, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 12 February 2023

12 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Bird counts, coloring books, great artists, great scientists, great poems, ancient tombs, Kyrgyz rivers, a toast to love, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 5 February 2023

5 February 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Coloring books, American inventors, student projects, splendid sluggers, red giants, amatory verses, Korean rivers, a toast to ingenuity, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 29 January 2023

29 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Coloring books, winter poems, groundhog days, American emperors, long valleys, fishing birds, Japanese rivers, a toast to warmth, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 22 January 2023

22 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Tall ships, gold mines, Rocky Mountains, classical composers, wise birds, Irish rivers, a toast to lucky labor, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 15 January 2023

15 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Patriotic songs, imperial accessions, romantic prophecies, American originals, majestic birds, Indian rivers, a toast to freedom, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 8 January 2023

8 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Caesarean crossings, cross-quarter days, Aurigan stars, volcanic islands, long-legged birds, Icelandic rivers, a toast to the year ahead, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 1 January 2023(!)

1 January 2023 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: New Years, Twelfth Nights, calendrical revolutions, new moons, missing planets, winter poems, Dewey decimals, Guatemalan rivers, a toast to the new year, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 25 December 2022

25 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Holiday music, Revolutionary victories, scientific birthdays, remarkable remonstrances, pelagic birds, German rivers, a toast to Christmas, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 18 December 2022

18 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Winter solstices, Christmas carols, courageous crossings, celebrated poems, Georgian forests, French rivers, a toast to warm hearts, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 11 December 2022

11 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: New almanacs, holiday music, first flights, last moonwalks, halcyon days, pensive poems, Finnish rivers, a toast to peace, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 4 December 2022

4 December 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Martian occultations, holiday music, Revolutionary engineers, visionary inventors, national parks, Nobel laureates, Estonian rivers, a toast to music, and more!

Filed Under: Quick Freshes

🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 27 November 2022

27 November 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Winter terms, holiday music, famous novelists, Alabama meteorites, oceanic birds, memorial poems, Egyptian rivers, a toast to the chase, and more!

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