The Santa Claus' Book of Games and Puzzles by John H. Tingley/Project Gutenberg

See here.

K- Elementary Topic: Homes/Children Around the World

Elementary Geography, 1915, pages 1-17 Mid-elementary reading level, but could be read to child.

Home Geography, 1915, Our Homes

How We Are Sheltered

Primary Education, Building Homes

St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls,1907

The Kindergarten for Teachers and Parent(ideas to expand on)

Teachers Magazine, 1909: The Eskimo Home and the Shepherds of Tibet

Classics Old and New: A Series of School Readers : A Third Reader, 1906, includes colored illustrations of children from around the world and their homes.

Child Life in Many Lands, 1903

The Lands of the Rising Sun: A Talk with English Boys and Girls about China, Korea and Japan, 1895

Child Life in All Lands, 1906

Children of the Cold, 1899

Big People and Little People of Other Lands, 1900

The Wide Awake Reader, 3rd grade

Little People Everywhere Series

Child Life in Many Lands: A Third Reader, Book 3

The Seven Little Sisters, 1887

Big People and Little People of Many Lands, 1900

The Twin Series

Little Cousins Series

Homes of Many Lands printable paper doll cut-outs - Arab tent and Plains Indian tepee.

Exploring Caves Multi-grade Study

Click here.

Multigrade Composition Lessons

Handbook of Composition by Edwin Campbell Woolley, D.C. Heath & Co., 1907

The Progressive Composition Lessons: 7th and 8th Years, by Ida M. Brautigam;Silver, Burdett and Co., 1914

Practical Lessons in the Use of English by Mary F Hyde, D.C. Heath & Co., 1887

Composition for Elementary Schools, James Fleming Hosic, Cyrus Lauron Hooper, and Rand, McNally & Company, 1916

Pinneo's Guide to Composition: A Series of Practical Lessons: Designed to Simplify the Art of Writing Composition: for Beginners, by Timothy Stone Pinneo, Sargent, Wilson & Hinkle, 1864

New Composition and Rhetoric for Schools by Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon; Scott, Foresman and Company, 1911; 508 pages(middle school-high school)

English Composition for College Freshmen, by Wilbur Owen Sypherd, 1915.

More to come....

Young Children's Lesson Plan Ideas for March

I'll try to fill this out with links and cut-and-paste March images in the next few days. From a 1915 Primary Education periodical:

Poems

Signs of the Seasons — Hathaway.
The Wind. Sun's Travels — Stevenson.
Written in March — Wordsworth.
March — H. H. Jackson.
March. Little Gustava(very sweet!). Song of Easter — Thaxter.
One Bird — Van Dyke.
The Swallows — Arnold.
Little White Lily — Macdonald.
The Little Plant — Kate Brown.

Stories

The Ugly Duckling, Little Ida's Flowers — Andersen
The Foolish Weather Vane — Published by Rand, McNally & Company.
The Winds — Burnham.
March's Call, Half a Hundred Stories — Published by Milton Bradley Company.
Legends — Proserpine, Wind and Sun, Sleeping Beauty, Siegfried and Brunhilde; What Annie Saw — Published by Educational Publishing Company.

Pictures For Study
St. Anthony of Padua — Murillo.
He is Risen — Plockhorst.
Spring — Corot.
Chorister Boys — Anderson.
Robin Redbreast — Munier.
Swallows. A Resting Place — Laux.
Sparrows — Laux.

Morning Talks And Occupation Work

Signs of spring; color of sky; position of sun; the brook waking up; frogs; turtles; woodchucks; returning birds.

Make chart. Upon it note arrival of first robin; bluebird; blackbird; barn swallow; chipping sparrow; song sparrow;woodpecker; meadow lark. Take time each morning throughout the month to hear about any bird that has returned.

Keep descriptions of birds in little booklets. If possible, illustrate each page with picture of bird in color.

Winds; use of; what each brings.

Use sand table to model things which the wind does. Have a large weather vane in the center modeled by one of the older boys. Around it have miniature sailboats, windmills, kites, lines of clothes, etc.

Poem for illustration with charcoal or by paper cutting:

Twilight of mad March evening
Wee Robert was snug in bed.
"And what has the wind been doing?"
To mamma he sleepily said.

The pine trees outside were singing,
She heard their wild lullaby.
"The wind has been busy since morning,"
She said, "when we heard it pass by.

"It turned every wind mill it came to,
It speeded the boats on the sea,
It fluttered the clothes on the clothesline
Until they were dry as could be.

"It caught a man's hat and whirled it
Away down the long white street.
And everyone laughed and wondered
If man or March wind would beat.

"It came where some boys were flying
Their kites of every hue
And carried one up to cloud land.
Did that kite belong to you?

"It turned the proud vane on the steeple.
It tossed roaring waves on the shore;
Then gently it sang at twilight
For my babe when the day was o'er."

Trees and buds.

Study twigs. Force sprigs of lilac, cherry, willow, beech, and horse chestnut by placing in fresh water in the sunshine.

Maple trees; sap; sugar. How trees are tapped; how sap is carried to sugar house; sap making in olden time.

Make brush drawings of twigs. Cut barn from dark red paper. Take the silver gray pussies from the twigs and paste in position about barn as if a whole family of kittens were at play there. Add heads and tails with pencils.

In connection with study of maple sugar, cut sap buckets, sugar house, boiling kettle and pans.

The Herald of Spring: Spring:The Hyacinth(Multi-grade Lessons)/Google Books

Nature Study in Elementary Schools: First Reader(Hyacinth Bulb)

Outlines of Lessons in Botany(elementary - middle school)

Gardening For Children(The Hyacinth)

When Mother Lets Us Garden; A Book for Little Folk Who Want to Make Gardens(Hyacinths in Water)

The World Book

The Spartan, Myth of the Hyacinth(Elementary - Middle school)

School and Home Gardens




More coming soon....

Image from my garden.

Suggested History Readings for February, Grades Three and Four

From Primary Lessons, 1909:

SUGGESTED READINGS

"Young George Washington," and "Early Life of Abraham Lincoln," Eggleston's First Book of American History.

"The American Flag,"' Joseph R. Drake, Moore's "Songs and Ballads of the Revolution."

"Story of Washington," "Boyhood of Washington," "Story of Lincoln," F. A. Owen Co.'s Five Cent Classics.

Abbot's "Blue Jackets of '76."

Extracts from Preble's "History of the Flag."

Lossings "Pictorial History of the Civil War."

Blaisdell's "Stories of the Civil War."

Extracts from Henty's "With Lee in Virginia."

Moore's "Lyrics of Loyalty."

Simm's "War Poetry of the South."

St. Valentine's Day Children's Stories, Songs, Crafts, and Activities

Stories and Lesson Plans:

In the Child's World:Kindergarten - elementary school level story.

Kindergarten at Home. Story.

Child-garden Story: Four Letters, a St. Valentine's Day Story. Early elementary read-aloud. Read-alone: advanced elementary level reader.

"Tell it Again" Stories: Elaine's Valentine's - reading level about third grade.

Read-aloud story: Elementary School

Elementary school poem.

Beginning Reader: The Story of St. Valentine.

The story of St. Valentine from the third grade Standard Catholic reader , and another from the The Haliburton Second Reader.

St. Valentine Story with comprehension questions. About a third grade reading level, and another for about a second or third grade reading level.

Three Valentine's Day Stories (read-aloud)

Click and print Valentine's Day poem for little girls.

A Book of Programs - St. Valentine's Day Lesson Plan - Kindergarten and up , and here as well.

Crafts:

Suggestions for Handwork in School and Home(crafts) Blackline templates for cupid angel card and more. This is the best! Many designs with instructions and card greetings.

More templates for St. Valentine's Day Cards.

Manual Training - Occupations(crafts)

Blacklines for cupid and little girl with heart, pages 84-85.

Bumped up from 2008.

January Multi-grade Stories and Lessons/Google Books

Continental Third Grade Reader: The Little Lapp(Lapplanders of northern Scandinavia, AKA: Sami).

Reindeer Traveling, excerpted from Northern Travel by Bayard Taylor, The New century: 4th-5th Reader.

Boys of Other Countries: Stories for American Boys - Jon of Iceland(late elementary- early middle school)

St. Nicholas magazine, The Stars for January

Good English, Oral and Written, Book 1-3: January (early elementary)

School Education: The Nuthatch
Our Winter Birds

New-Year and Midwinter Exercises, for Children of Ten to Fifteen Years(recitation, poetry, drama): January

The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture:Quotations, January Calendar(birthdays, events, and study) and The Story of January.

Nature Year Book, January(prose and poetry for each day of the year)

Agoonack, the Esquimau[Eskimo] Sister

Early elementary sewing card(click on image to enlarge and save):








Nature Study by Grades: a Textbook for Higher Grammar Grades(poses questions for research)
- Sixth grade winter study
- Seventh grade winter study

Trees in Winter. Identifying trees and their fruit in winter(dry technical book, but good pictures and illustrations.)

Winter(nature study)"The author points out the sights and sounds of winter, and discusses the how and why, so that children may come to love winter for its own sake."(early-mid elementary)





More later.....

Also see: Multi-grade Winter Homeschooling Lessons

December Multi-grade Stories and Lessons/Google Books and Others

Seventh Grade December Ethics Lessons

Children's December Picture Study(Holy Family) (very short)

Children's 1916 Christmas Memory Gem(early elementary)

December Christmas Picture Study(long, pages 56-73): Corregio, Murillo, and others

Early Elementary Short Story: The Legend of Saint Christopher and the Christ Child

A Free Printable Christmas(Story of Christ) Unit Study 

The Princess's Pearls - a young spoiled girl learns the true meaning of Christmas.

Children's Christmas Cut and Pastes 

Poinsettia Study(elementary school)

Christmas Bells Poem

Children's Christmas Cut-out Bible Story

Christmas Themed Fifth and Sixth Grade Children's Literature/Google Books

Baldwin Online Christmas Stories(numerous)

Easy Star Lessons-December

Handbook of Nature Study: for Teachers and Pupils in Elementary Schools/December Birds in Northern States

A Second Reader: Designed to Teach Animated, Expressive, Oral Reading/December readings pages 67-86.

Sunday Morning in the Kindergarten, pages 142-153: Birth of Jesus, Story of the Shepherds, and The Wisemen.

Thanksgiving and Christmas Lessons - Early Elementary - Middle School

Thanksgiving and Christmas Lessons - High School.

Stories and Legends of Winter, Christmas, and New Year's Day(The Pearl Story Book)

Elementary Geography, "Zones and Their Boundaries(December)"





With Mr.Pickwick at Christmas, eighth grade reader

Poulsson, Emilie: A Legend of Mercy (Top of the World Series). 

Miller, Mrs. H.: Christmas in a Baggage Car, Lottie's Christmas Tree (Kristy's Rainy Day Picnics). 

Christmas and New Year in Mexico, Metropolitan magazine, 1906


Las Posadas(Mexican Christmas festival), Boys' Life, 1974, readable online only - two page article with color photos.


The Christmas Tree, The Basket Woman: a Book of Fanciful Indian Tales for Children
By Mary Hunter Austin.

......more later.

All Google Books are linked in HTML, so pages may be printed, if desired. Simply right click of the image of the pages at the links, and save.

November Multi-grade Short Stories, Poems, and Clip Art

Teachers Magazine, 1909(early - late elementary): Memory Gems for November

Early English Exploration with comprehension questions(older children)

Ways of Flowers 

Homes in Other Lands: Eskimos

The Pilgrims with a spelling and writing list
.
Nature Stories, Winter is Coming

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The Transfiguration by Raphael, Art Study(middle school and up)

STORIES OF THE PILGRIMS

(School Classics)

Stories of the United States
By Anna C. Davis, 1896
The Pilgrims and the
First Thanksgiving Day—two chapters.
221pp.

Stories of Colonial Children
By Mara L. Pratt, 1894
3d—4th Grades. Chapters on Pilgrims, In-
dian Visitors and First Thanksgiving.
Illus. 223 pp.

When the Birds Go North Again — Higginson.
The Pumpkin. The Corn Song — J. G. Whittier.
Death of the Flowers. — Bryant.
A Day — Emily Dickinson.

Blackboard Lessons for
Thanksgiving
Maude M. Grant

The Pilgrims were good people.
They lived in England.
The Pilgrims liked to go to church.
Their king was not kind to them.
He would not let them go to their own church.
So they left England and went to Holland.
The Pilgrims lived in Holland.
They lived there for twelve years.
They saw the wind-mills.
The wind-mills grind the corn.
The wind-mills pump the water.
The Dutch people live in Holland.
The Dutch boys and girls wear wooden shoes.
The Dutch people were kind to the Pilgrims.
The Pilgrims did not wish to live in Holland always.
They wanted a land of their own.
So they sailed across the sea.
The name of their boat was the Mayflower.
It was not a large boat.
The great green waves tossed the Mayflower about.
The Pilgrims sailed a long time over the sea.
The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.
It was winter and very cold.
There were no houses.
The Pilgrims went into the woods.
They cut down trees and made log houses.
They made a church and a schoolhouse.
The Pilgrims met the Indians.
The Indians were kind to them.
They taught them how to hunt.
They taught them how to fish.
The Indians gave corn to the Pilgrims.
They showed them how to make corn bread.
The Pilgrims had to work very hard.
The winter was very long and cold.
The Pilgrims lived in log houses.
These houses were not warm.
Food was very scarce.
Sometimes the Pilgrims did not have enough to eat.
After awhile the Pilgrims did not have so hard a time. Their corn and vegetables grew and they had a fine harvest.
They caught wild turkeys in the woods.
Soon their barns were full.
They said, "Let us have a day of Thanksgiving.
Let us thank God for His blessings."
So they had the first Thanksgiving Day.

Poetry of the Seasons, A November Goodnight.

October Squirrels Multi-grade Stories

The Wide Awake Third Reader, The Baby Squirrels(science)

Elson Primary School Reader: Book 4, The Squirrels at Walden

St. Nicholas, Volume 12, Part 2, The War with the Little Red Skins

The Merrill Reader, First Grade, We Play with the Squirrels

Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children - Page 226

The Character Building Reader: Second Grade - Page 116

Fourth Year Language Reader

Teacher's Magazine, In Nutland and Nature Stories

Stanley and the Squirrels, Heath Second Grade Reader, 1903

The Squirrel's Pilgrim's Progress: a Book for Boys and Girls, 1915

Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers, 1900

Wild Animals at Home, 1913

Farm Friends and Farm Foes, 1910

All the Year Round: a Nature Reader, Part One: Autumn

Activities:

Squirrel lacing craft

Preschool squirrel cut and find

Squirrel paper doll

More soon...

War-time and Peace, the Role of the Carrier Pigeon/ Multi-Grade Selections

Read here.

Multi-grade Rain Poems and Short Stories

See here.

Fourth of July Readings - Multiple Grades/Google Books

Jones Seventh Grade Reader, The First Fourth of July

Jones Fifth Grade Reader, The First Fourth of July

Many more here at my Google Books library.

Mother's Day Literature: Short Stories and Poems

Click here for multigrade selections.

Multi-grade Winter Homeschooling Lessons

In the Child's World, Winter(K and Early Elementary)Multi-page.

Stories for Summer Days and Winter Nights(middle school and up)

Three years with the poets: a text-book of poetry(elementary school),(various, see calendar)

Winter Fun. From 'St. Nicholas' magazine'(elementary school)

Our Winter Birds: how to know and how to attract them(reference, and middle school and up)

Winter Evening Tales(Christian, middle school and up)

A Book of Winter Sports(reference, middle school and up)

All the Year Round: a Nature Reader: Part II : Winter(elementary school)

Winter Camping(reference, high school and up)

Pilgrim Stories, Winter in Holland(middle elementary)

Everyday Birds: Elementary Studies, Winter Pensioners

Bird world: a bird book for children, Winter Birds(Elementary School)

Independent fifth reader Instruction in Winter
and here, pages 301-304.

Botany: an elementary text for schools, Winter Buds, pages 36-41.

The Nursery(Preschool-Early Elementary): The Snowball Fight, Winter Scenes on the Hudson, Winter Evening Games, and Peter's Mishap.

Holmes' Third Reader, Winter Sleepers, and Children in Winterland

Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, The Study of Birds' Nests in Winter.

Our American Neighbors, Winter in Canada(fourth grade).

Lessons with Plants, Characters in Winter Plants(high school).

The Beginner's Garden Book: a Textbook for the Upper Grammar Grades, Going into Winter Quarters.

Live Language Lessons, The First Winter of the Pioneers of Utah(late elementary, early middle school)

Junior High School Literature, The Great Blizzard more here(Table of Contents under Winter)

Story Hour Readings, Book 7(Seventh grade), The Snowstorm

Life and Literature Readers: First Reader, Winter

Nature Study in Elementary Schools: Reader, Winter Stories and Poems

The Children's First reader, Book 3(third grade), Daisy's First Winter

Fifth Reader, How the Trees look in Winter.

Golden Treasury Readers: Fourth Reader, Woods in the Winter

American Poems: Whittier, Snowbound(high school)


Day by Day in the Primary School: The Winter Months(lesson plans)

The Sprague classic readers: Book Two(second grade), Edith's Idea of Winter

A fourth Reader, A Boisterous Winter Evening

Tell Me A Story: Winter - The Gray Hare Count Lyof N. Tolstoi 162;The Snow Image . Adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne 164;The Fire That Would Not Burn 173.

Knowles' Elocutionist: Employment of Winter Evenings by the Young(Middle school)

The Children's friend, Winter Birds(Mormon periodical)

The Guyot Geographical Reader and Primer: A Series of Journeys Round the World, In the Cold Countries of the North.(late elementray, early middle school)

Elementary Geography: A Text-book for Children, The Four Seasons


The Globe Geography Readers, The Seasons and Cold Lands(third or fourth grade)

Complete Geography(about fifth or sixth grade), In Eskimo Land

Graded Literary Readers(fourth)The Little Postboy, Swedish winter tale.

The Wide Awake Reader(third grade), Eskimo Children

Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow

Fall/Autumn Nature Study, Literature, and Poetry

Click here.

Reading Selections on Fish Migration

These free public domain resources were used to develop an essay with leveled reading selections from multiple grades(third through eighth grade).

Sharing here.

Children's Saint George's Day Ebook Links

Click on title.