Sunday, March 16, 2008

Children's Lent, Holy Week and Easter Printables

To print/save pages: follow link, right click on image of the book page only, print picture or save picture. Entire books can be downloaded as well - see download button at link(upper right on sidebar).


Open Sesame!: Poetry and Prose for School-days, middle school: Lent, Good Friday, and Easter hymn.

The Every-day Book and Table Book, 1839 London: Good Friday discussion of traditions, high school.

A History of English Literature, discussion of Easter dramas/pageantry during the middle ages and Renaissance, high school.

Stories to Tell to Children, Robert of Sicily, a king who finds redemption at Easter, elementary school.

Monumental Christianity: Or, The Art and Symbolism of the Primitive Church , Jesus as Sufferer Passover, high school.

The Christ Story By Eva March Tappan, elementary school.

The Catholic children's magazine, Passion Flowers and Snowdrops, elementary school.

Poems by Grades: A Song of Easter, third grade.

Educating by Story-telling: The Rabbit and the Easter Eggs(Bavarian Folk Tale) and The Easter Eggs, a story in ethics.

Elson Second Grade Reader: The Easter Rabbit, Teacher's Manual for this story.

The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holy Days , high school

The Book of Easter, for young and old, stories and poems.

Good English:Easter customs, third grade.

Festival Poems: Eastertide, young and old.

Games of Dutch Children, Easter, elementary school.

One Year of Sunday School Lessons for Young Children: Easter

Lesson Stories for the Kindergarten Grades of the Bible: Easter

In My Nursery: The Easter Hen, a poem, early elementary school.

The Nursery Magazine for Young People: Hunting for Easter Eggs, early elementary school.

For the Children's Hour : Easter stories, including the Snowdrop, elementary school.

Elson Primary School Reader: Easter Play(German tale)

Outlines for Kindergarten and Primary Classes: Easter/Spring/April, some of the recommended reading resources are in public domain available at GoogleBooks.

The American Normal Readers Second Grade(Catholic): Palm Sunday, Easter, The Easter Lily, The Lily.

Child-garden Story, Song, Play: The First Easter, elementary school.

First Poems: Easter Lily, elementary school.

The Goose Quill
: Easter lesson, what the Bible says about lilies, elementary school.

An Easter Surprise(Lesson 15, pages 150-151), Kindergarten or preschool.

A Thought for Passion Week, and Easter Message, and The Children's Easter Hymns.

The Children's Hour: More About Easter Eggs, elementary school.

Stories for Sunday Telling: Bunny Bobtail's Easter, The Wonder Egg, and Harold's Happy Easter, early elementary school.

Stories for Every Holiday: Finding Easter, elementary school.

World Stories Retold for Modern Boys and Girls: The First Easter Day, elementary school.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Our Lady in Art/Google Books


Click here.

A Child's Book of Saints/Google Books


Click here.

Dutch/Holland/Netherlands Literature for Children



Rollo in Holland

The Hero of Harleem Lit2go Site sometimes down on weekends.






Dutch Lullaby, second grade poem.

Wide Awake Third Grade Reader, pages 20-25, two dutch tales.

Third grade lesson plan: Life in (old) Holland.

The Story of Dutch Paintings from the St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls


Social studies for early elementary: Holland

Beautifully illustrated easy reader(about third grade level): Windmills and Wooden Shoes.

Wooster Fourth Reader: Holland or Netherlands.

Third grade, Stepping Stones to Literature: A Boy Hero.

Fourth Grade Reader: Holland(2 parts)

Fifth grade reader: Skating in Holland

Educating by Story-telling: Wilhelmina's Wooden Shoes, about Rembrandt

Dutch diorama and story, early elementary school

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Free Printable Short Stories, Audio Read-Along Option with Mini-Worksheets

Click in title.

Reading Guides by Grade

From The Baldwin Project and Yesterday's Classics Pageant of History(on my sidebar), helpful reading lists by grade for public domain books:

Baldwin Project grades K through six.

Yesterday's Classics years 0 - 6(Charlotte Mason).

Not in public domain, but a helpful reading list of children's historical novels along a timeline. See Bethlehem Books Living History Library offered through Seton Educational Media.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Story Hour Readings: Fifth Year/Google Books


Google has this incorrectly titled as year seven, but the front cover indicates this is for fifth grade. Click here.

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Little People: An Alphabet(Children of the World in Alphabet)/Google Books


U for United States.
The States are full of mush and pie
And houses twenty stories high,
Saw-mills and millionaires and bustle;
The people there "have got to hustle."
The business of the States is done
Ex-clu-sive-ly by telephone;
And that is why the people say,"I guess we're 'cute in U. S. A."

Click here.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

A History of Art for Beginners and Students/Google Books


Click here. Appropriate for middle school and up. Clear, concise, and interesting introduction to art history published in 1887.

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Fifth Reader/Google Books

Click here.

Teacher's Manual The Boys' and Girls' Readers(4th-6th grade)/Google Books

Published in 1919, this reader is divided into three sections for fourth, fifth and sixth grades. The table of contents is arranged alphabetically by reading selection, author, and by grade. Many classic reading selections. Click here.

Monday, January 7, 2008

Child's Illustrated First Book in French/Google Books


Published in 1880, this book is a structured language program focusing on grammar and vocabulary with conversational stories for learning the spoken language. Reading level is about fourth or fifth grade. Click here.

The Child's German Book/Google Books

Published in 1870, a learning German book for children. It begins easily with letters and progresses to poetry and stories for about the fourth and fifth grade level. Some of the stories were so wonderful that I found myself wanting to learn, and reading along. I found this book to be a much more interesting way to learn a language compared to modern texts which tend to be rather dry and skeletal.

The book teaches German using the beautiful older German letters. Click here.

Friday, January 4, 2008

How to Amuse Yourself and Others: The American Girl's Handy Book


"These descriptions of leisure-time activities for Victorian girls were designed to cultivate their curiosity and inventiveness, and to help them gain self-confidence regarding their competence and talents." Click here. Read contents first, some activities are not wholesome by conservative Christian or other conservative religious standards.

First Lessons in English/Google Books


Click here. Covers thou, thy and thine which is handy to know for Bible reading.

The Chart Primer and First Reader/Google Books


Introduction to early readers, teacher's manual included. Click here.
First Reader. Click here.
These two go together.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

The Child's Fourth Book Most stories are interesting, although a few are a bit harsh by modern day standards. I copied one, Filial Affection with the comprehension questions to Google Documents. Click and print here.