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🗓 Quick Freshes for Homeschool Families (Recent Posts)

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

—Shakespeare

A collection of posts offering great homeschool teaching ideas for the week ahead, from the River Houses Homeschool Network. (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 and get posts like these delivered right to your mailbox every week. 😊

🗓 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!

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🗓 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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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 20 November 2022

20 November 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Thanksgiving Days, magical poems, excellent equations, celestial composers, phamous philanthropists, Czech rivers, a toast to two American birds, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 13 November 2022

13 November 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Shooting stars, meteoric poems, shore-loving birds, famous geologists, marvelous musicians, Gettysburg Addresses, Cuban rivers, a toast to freedom, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 6 November 2022

6 November 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Lunar eclipses, Veterans Days, falling stars, Mayflower compacts, caffeinated landscapes, Colombian rivers, a toast to remembrance, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 30 October 2022

30 October 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Spooky days, gunpowder plots, deciduous poems, religious reformations, drifting continents, Chinese rivers, a toast to Hallowe’en, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 23 October 2022

23 October 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Crispin’s Days, momentous visions, star sapphires, American singers, Welsh poets, aquatic birds, Canadian rivers, a toast to Agincourt, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 16 October 2022

16 October 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Splendid surrenders, October songs, tiny birds, incandescent lights, Mole Days, amazing architects, Bruneian rivers, a toast to peace, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 9 October 2022

9 October 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Norman conquests, wondrous whirlpools, famous flights, leading lexicographers, lacustrine battles, Botswanan rivers, a toast to the Navy, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 2 October 2022

2 October 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Calendrical confusion, animal authors, perfect games, new stars, momentous battles, Bhutan rivers, a toast to all creatures great and small, and more!

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

25 September 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Fall poems, learnèd linguists, liberty ships, marvelous musicians, Nobel laureates, Bangladeshi rivers, a toast to Autumn, and more!

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

18 September 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Piratical days, autumnal equinoxes, falling fish, remote islands, ancient emperors, pleasing punctuation, Australian rivers, a universal toast, and more!

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

11 September 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Constitution days, migrating monarchs, star-spangled banners, poetical lessons, children’s writers, Argentinian rivers, a toast to lunar societies, and more!

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

4 September 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Celebrated circumnavigations, notable novelists, Elizabethan eras, stellar treks, Algerian rivers, a toast to health and freedom, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 28 August 2022

28 August 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Freedom philosophers, notable novelists, splendid sluggers, celebrated calendars, Parisian peace, the Great River of the Heavens, a toast to free rivers, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 21 August 2022

21 August 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Open rebellions, earth-shattering kabooms, notable naturalists, famous Frenchmen, farewell poems, the father of all rivers, a toast to fair winds, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 14 August 2022

14 August 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Strange signals, momentous amendments, colossal compositions, stout ships, August poems, Antarctic rivers, a toast to strange new worlds, and more!

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🗓 QUICK FRESHES for Homeschool Families – Week of 7 August 2022

7 August 2022 by Bob O'Hara

Great homeschool teaching tips and little lessons for the week ahead, including: Revolutionary generals, possible Perseids, leaning towers, marvelous museums, ancient calendars, Zambian rivers, a toast to worth, wealth, & wisdom, and more!

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