The annual World Almanac and Book of Facts is one of the six reference books we recommend to every homeschool family. Our mascot Horace the River Otter recently got his 2020 edition – have you gotten yours?
📚 Homeschool Books & Libraries (Post Archives)
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Great homeschool teaching ideas, resources, and little lessons on books and libraries from the River Houses Homeschool Network. Add your name to our free River Houses mailing list and get posts like these delivered right to your mailbox every week! 😊
❡ Discovering Dewey: This Homeschool Books & Libraries archive also includes our special series of monthly Learning the Library posts that introduce your students to the Dewey Decimal System. 📚
📚 LEARNING THE LIBRARY: The Social 300s
It’s Homeschool Library Day! This week: exploring “The Social 300s” in the Dewey Decimal Classification, part of our year-long survey of the whole of knowledge. (Really!)
📚 BOOKS: A New World Almanac for the New 2020 Year
The 2020 edition of the World Almanac and Book of Facts is a one-volume desk encyclopedia that every homeschooling family should have.
📚 LEARNING THE LIBRARY: The Religious 200s
It’s Homeschool Library Day! This week: exploring “The Religious 200s” in the Dewey Decimal Classification, part of our year-long survey of the whole of knowledge. (Really!)
🇺🇸 SEVEN SCORE and Sixteen Years Ago
“What place is this? Where are we now?” (Marking the 156th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, with help from Carl Sandburg.)
📚 LEARNING THE LIBRARY: The Philosophical 100s
It’s Homeschool Library Day! This week: exploring “The Philosophical 100s” in the Dewey Decimal Classification, part of our year-long survey of the whole of knowledge. (Really!)
🗺 MARVELOUS MAPS: A Geology Lesson from the Library of Congress
Teach a little lesson on geology and plate tectonics this week with some beautiful maps from the collections of the Library of Congress.
⛏ NATURE NOTES: It’s National Fossil Day!
For National Fossil Day, why not explore a big collection of rare and beautiful books on paleontology made available by the Smithsonian Institution and the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
📚 LEARNING THE LIBRARY: The General 000s
It’s Homeschool Library Day! This week: exploring “The General 000s” in the Dewey Decimal Classification, part of our year-long survey of the whole of knowledge. (Really!)
📰 KAPOW! Comic Art at the Library of Congress
If you have comics-mad kids in your homeschool, why not take educational advantage of their interests with some help from the Library of Congress.
🇺🇸 CONSTITUTION DAY 2019 – Homeschool Teaching Resources
Pay a homeschool visit to the National Archives in Washington this week to celebrate the signing of the U.S. Constitution on 17 September 1787.
📚 LEARNING THE LIBRARY: Finding Local Libraries With WorldCat
It’s Homeschool Library Tuesday! Have you found all the libraries in your local area? There may be more than you realize, and the WorldCat Library Finder will help you and your students locate them.
