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🗓 The Homeschool Year: Seasons, Months, Terms, & Calendars

Here — said the Year —

— Emily Dickinson, “Answer, July”

Homeschool teaching tips and wonderful little lessons about the months, the seasons, and the four terms that make up the River Houses year (Cygnus, Orion, Leo, and Hercules). Download and print your own educational calendars and planners on our main homeschool calendars page, and subscribe to our free homeschool newsletter to get more great teaching tips delivered right to your mailbox every week. 📫

🗓 🦁 HAPPY CROSS-QUARTER DAY of Leo Term

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We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms, and the midpoint of each term (following old calendrical tradition) is called the “cross-quarter day.” Today, April 15th, is the cross-quarter day of Leo Term, our spring term in the River Houses. How are things going in your homeschool?

🗓 🗡 HAPPY CROSS-QUARTER DAY of Orion Term

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We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms, and the midpoint of each term (following old calendrical tradition) is called the “cross-quarter day.” Today is the cross-quarter day of Orion Term, our winter term in the River Houses. How are things going in your homeschool?

🖋 🔔 WONDERFUL WORDS (and Sounds!): Ring Out, Wild Bells!

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“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 in your homeschool.)

🗓 🦢 HAPPY CROSS-QUARTER DAY of Cygnus Term

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We divide the homeschool year into four three-month terms, and the midpoint of each term (following old calendrical tradition) is called the “cross-quarter day.” Today, October 16th, is the cross-quarter day of Cygnus Term, our fall term in the River Houses. How are things going in your homeschool?