Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
A Beginner's History of Philosophy
Volume Two.
A Beginner's History of Philosophy
Author Herbert Ernest Cushman
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
When Mother Lets Us Sew/Google Books
Begin reading.
Overview.
When Mother Lets Us Sew
Virginia Ralston
Moffat, Yard and company, 1910
83 pages
Sunday, July 5, 2009
General Science/Project Gutenberg
WILLIAM PENN HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS,
PHILADELPHIA NEW YORK - CINCINNATI - CHICAGO
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY, 1912
Click here.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Builders of Democracy/Google Books
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
The Wooster Fourth Reader/Google Books
Monday, June 29, 2009
Our Hero, General U. S. Grant/Google Books
Saturday, June 27, 2009
History of Russia for Younger Children/Google Books
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Stories from Don Quixote/Google Books
Monday, June 22, 2009
The Arithmetic Reader for Second Grade Pupils
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Changes at Google Books
Or copy and paste: http://books.google.com/books?output=html into your browser.
Clickable link to go directly to Google Books in HTML mode.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
A History of Mathematics/Google Books
By Florian Cajori
Published by Macmillan & Co., 1893
422 pages
Begin reading here.
Main page.
This would be appropriate for advanced high school students
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Boys of Other Countries/Internet Archives
BOYS OF OTHER COUNTRIES
STORIES FOR AMERICAN BOYS
BY BAYARD TAYLOR
NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
182 FIFTH AVENUE
1876
STORY I.
THE LITTLE POST-BOY
STORY II.
THE PASHA'S SON
STORY III.
JON OF ICELAND
STORY IV.
THE Two HERD-BOYS
STORY V.
THE YOUNG SERF
Click here.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Heroic Legends/Google Books
Main page.
Begin reading here.
Elementary - early middle school.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Everyday Classics: Seventh Reader : American Life and Literature /Google Books
By Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike
Published by Macmillan Co., 1918
424 pages
Main page.
Begin reading here.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Rollo on the Rhine
Main page.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Heroes of Progress: Stories of Successful Americans/Google books
Main page
Begin reading here.
CONTENTS
John James Audubon, Lover and Student of Birds i
Mark Hopkins, President of Williams College . . . .11
Cyrus H. McCoRM1CK, Inventor of the Reaper .... 20
Charles Goodyear, a Man who Persevered .... 30
William T. G.morton, Master of Pain 39
Elias Howe, Inventor of the Sewing-Machine .... 47
Maria Mitchell, Astronomer and Teacher 54
Henry Oscar Houghton, Printer and Publisher . . .61
Cyrus W. Field, the Manwho Laid the Atlantic Cable. . .71
Jean Lou1s Rodolphe Agassiz, Beloved Teacher of Science . 79
Julia Ward Howe, Author of the "Battle Hymn of the Repub-
George Thorndike Angell, Knight of Kindness to Animals 97
Luther Burbank, Plant-Breeder 106
Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the Telephone . .115
John Wanamaker, Founder of the Departme.nl Store . . .122
Frances E. Willard, Temperance Reformer 132
Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross . . . 140
Booker T. Washington, Founder of Tuskegee Institute . . 147
Augustus Saint-gaudens, Greatest American Sculptor . .157
James Jerome Hill, Builder of Railroads 168
John Muir, the Man who Loved Trees and Mountains . .179
Theodore Thomas, the Man who Taught us to Love Music . 189
Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor 199
Edwin Austin Abbey, Illustrator and Painter .... 208
Samuel Pierpont Langley, Inventor of the First Heavier-than-
Andrew Carnegie, the Man who Would not Die Rich . . 228
William Crawford Gorgas, who Made the Canal Zone
Robert E. Peary, Discoverer of the North Pole .... 245
Monday, June 1, 2009
European Hero Stories/Google Books
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Hero Stories of France/Google Books
Begin reading here.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
The Butterfly Vivarium; or, Insect Home/Google books
The butterfly vivarium; or, insect home: or, insect home
By Henry Noel Humphreys
Published 1858
Original from Oxford University
Digitized Sep 8, 2006Main page.
Begin reading here.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Learning to Read; a Manual for Teachers Using the Aldine Readers: A Manual and Readers/Google Books
Begin reading here.
Main page
Aldine Readers:
The Aldine Readers Primer(Internet Archives)
The Aldine Readers: Book One
The Aldine Readers: Book Two
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Rollo's Experiments/Google Books
Friday, May 22, 2009
The New Century Third Reader/Google Books
By Henry S. Tibbits
Edition: revised
Published by Rand, McNally, 1899
238 pages
Main page.
Begin reading here.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Stories of Patriotism: A Patriotic Reader for the Intermediate Grades
Begin reading here.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Opera Stories from Wagner/Google Books
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Art Studies for Schools/Goggle Books
Being a Boy/Google Books
Popular literature for boys at the turn of the century. Excerpts of this book were published in fifth grade readers. This book is about a boy growing up on a farm in Massachusetts.
Main page.
Begin reading here.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Blend Phonics Reading Program
This includes blend phonics supplements(scroll down at link).
Friday, May 15, 2009
A Practical System of Modern Geography/Google Books
Another interesting geography book, pre-Civil War. It's actually general enough to still be of use, and interesting for historical period study. The language suggests middle elementary school, easy to read and understand. Lovely illustrations throughout which could be used for projects and time lines. Comprehension questions included.
A practical system of modern geography, or A view of the present state of the world ...: Revised and illustrated by a new enlarged atlas
By Jesse Olney
Edition: 60
Published by Pratt, Woodford & co., 1849
Main page
Begin reading here.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
An Accompaniment to Mitchell's Map of the World/Google Books
Main page.
Downloadable map can be found here .
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Free Math Courses Online
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Pollard's Synthetic Second Reader
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Pollard's Synthetic First Reader
Thursday, May 7, 2009
First Book for Little Folks(phonics)/Google Books
First book for little folks
By Rebecca Smith Pollard
Published by American Book Co., 1898
Main page.
Begin reading here
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
Geography: or, A Description of the World/Google Books
Dated, but still useful.
Main page.
Begin reading here.
Friday, May 1, 2009
The Historical Geography of the Holy Land/Google Books
The historical geography of the Holy land: especially in relation to the history of Israel and of the early church
By George Adam Smith
Edition: 9
Published by A. C. Armstrong and son, 1897
713 pages
Main page.
Rollo's Vacation/Google Book
The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children
The stories Mother Nature told her children
By Jane Andrews
Published by Ginn & Company, 1888
161 pages
Begin reading here.
Main page.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Persia/Google Books
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The Seven Champions of Christendom /Google Books
The seven champions of Christendom: a new version from the most ancient chronicles and records, all other authentic and reliable sources of information especially adapted for the enlightenment, edification, and instruction of the rising generation
By William Henry Giles Kingston, Richard Johnson, Sampson Low, Son & Co, Sampson Low, Son, and Co
Illustrated by John Franklin, T. L.
Contributor Sampson Low, Son & Co, Sampson Low, Son, and Co, D. Appleton and Company, Chiswick Press, Whittingham and Wilkins
Published by Sampson Low, Son, and Co., 1861
235 pages
Main page.
Begin reading here.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Stories from English History/Google Books
Saturday, April 25, 2009
English Fairy Tales Retold/Google Books
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The Discovery of the Old Northwest/Google Books
Begin reading here.
Late elementary, early middle school.
Rollo at School/Google books
The Alhambra /Google Books
Begin reading here.
Monday, April 20, 2009
The Boys of '76/Google Books
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Stories of Famous Pictures/Google books
Early elementary, educational art reader.
Stories of Famous Pictures
By Ella Marie Powers
Published by Educational publishing company, 1904
Main page.
Begin reading here.
Friday, April 17, 2009
The Cave Twins/Google Books
Legends of Charlemagne/Google Books
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Rollo at Play/Google Books
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
The "Little folks" painting book : a series of outline engravings for water-colour painting/Internet Archives
Unfortunately these Kate Greenway pictures have already been water colored, but they may be still paintable if printed out black and white. There are stories to go along with each engraving.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Studies of Great Composers/Google Books
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Shop Mathematics/Google Books
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
The Story of a Plush Bear/Google Books
Begin Reading here.
Monday, April 6, 2009
The Child's Pictorial Preceptor /Google Books
Quite old, but timeless. Pages would make nice mottoes for the classroom, or for framing.
Main page.
Begin reading here.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Easter Lily Stories and More
Second grade reader: Tom's Easter Lily
Second grade, American Reader: The Easter Lily
Second Grade, Sprague Classic Reader: The Easter Lily.
How to fold an Easter lily.
A Paper Easter, girl's crafts: Easter lily, and others here.
Also see: Children's Lent, Holy Week and Easter Printables
School and Home Gardens/Google Books
Main page.
School and home gardens
By William Herman Dietrich Meier
Published by Ginn and company, 1913
319 pages
Friday, April 3, 2009
Rollo Learning to Work
Thursday, April 2, 2009
The Art Crafts for Beginners/ Google Books
Main page.
Begin reading here.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Little Arthur at the Zoo(Birds)/ Google Books
Click here to read.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Count up the sunny days : a story for girls/Internet Archives
Click here.
Devotional Poetry for the Children/Internet Archives
Sunday, March 22, 2009
The Children's Six Minutes/Project Gutenberg
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1922,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
THE CHILDREN'S SIX MINUTES. II
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Click here.
Mini-sermons for children with Scripture(Methodist Church)
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Favorite Songs and Hymns for School and Home/Google Books
Main page.
Begin reading here.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
A History of Spain for Young Persons/Google Books
By Bennett George Johns
Contributor Joseph Masters, W. & E. Pickering
Published by Joseph Masters, 1849
212 pages
Main page.
Read here.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Third Grade Unit Study to be used with the Little Cousins/Twins Series and/or Peeps from Many Lands Series
for the countries of Holland, Germany, Japan, and France. Also includes children's book recommendations for further reading at the end of each section.
Main page
Socializing the Child: A Guide to the Teaching of History in the Primary Grades
By Sarah Ann Dynes
Published by Silver, Burdett and company, 1916
302 pages
To be used with any of these reading resources: Peeps from Many Lands, The Twins Series, and the Little Cousins Series:
Our Little Dutch Cousin
Our Little French Cousin
The Japanese Twins
Our Little German Cousin(mislabeled title by Project Gutenberg as simply, "Bertha", just ignore this and click through.)
Also see other graded resources for geography and social studies at An Old Fashioned Education.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
Brooks's Readers Second Grade/Google Books
Begin reading here.
Main page.
Brooks's Readers Fourth Grade/Google Books
Main page.
Begin reading here.
Brooks's Readers
By Stratton Duluth Brooks
Published by American Book Co., 1906
Sunday, March 15, 2009
"Say Fellows-": Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues/Project Gutenberg
Lesson Treatments in The Sunday School Times,
by permission of the Editors.
Fleming H. Revell Company
1921
Click here.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Saint Patrick and Irish Children's Stories, Activities and Music
Stories of Saints, 1880, about a fourth grade reading level and up.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, 1866, detailed history for older children.
The Every-day Book and Table Book , Saint Patrick biography for older students
Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints: With Reflections for Every Day in the ... - Page 171 , middle elementary grade reading level.
The Seven Champions of Christendom: A New Version from the Most Ancient , Saint Patrick, middle elementary reading level and up.
Children's Stories and how to Tell Them, BARNEY NOONAN'S FAIRY HAYMAKERS (Re-told from the Irish) .
World Stories Retold for Modern Boys and Girls: One Hundred and Eighty-seven ... - Page 86 , Saint Patrick and the Snakes.
Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland
The Mary Dawson game book: a manual of original games and guessing contests, didactic games, good for unit studies.
Child-garden: Story, Song, Play, The Four-Leaved Clover, Kindergarten
The World and Its People, Ireland where the Shamrock Grows, fifth grade
The American Normal Readers: Fourth Grade, An Irish legend.
Golden Rod Fairy Book, THE FIELD OF BOLIAUNS
The Red Fairy Book, THE BLACK THIEF AND KNIGHT OF THE GLEN.
Irish Fairy Tales
Celtic Fairy Tales
Poems by Grades: Containing Poems Selected for Each Grade of the School , seventh grade, Song of the Clover(not specifically Irish)
An Elementary Class-book of General Geography, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The Old-fashioned Fairy Book, THE LEPERHAUN. A Legend of the Emerald Isle.
The King Nobody Wanted/Project Gutenberg
"In a very real and interesting way, The King Nobody Wanted tells the story of Jesus. Where the actual words of the Bible are used, they are from the King James Version. But the greater part of the story is told in the words of every day.
Since you will certainly want to look up these stories in your own Bible, the references are given on pages 191 and 192. You will discover that often more than one Gospel tells the same story about Jesus, but in a slightly different way. In The King Nobody Wanted, the stories from the Gospels have been put together so that there is just one story for you to read and understand and enjoy."
Begin reading here. Main download page.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Mother Carey's Chickens/Google Books
Main page.
Mother Carey's Chickens
By Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911
355 pages
Mother Carey's Chickens
Amazon review: . Another heartwarming tale from the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. In this story the reader follows a strong-willed widow, Nancy Carey, as she struggles for the future of her beautiful daughters Nancy and Kitty and her beloved son Peter. Good humor and folksy grit help Mother Carey keep poverty and the wrong fellows for her daughters at bay.
An old fashioned story with old fashioned values - uplifting and edifying fiction.
Monday, March 9, 2009
The Boy of Mount Rhigi/Google Books
The Boy of Mount Rhigi
By Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Published by Crosby and Nichols, 1862
252 pages
Main page
Begin reading here.
Review:
"Senior High to Adult: Besides fishing in the beautiful wooded hills of Mount Rhigi, Massachusetts, Harry Davis and Clapham Dunn have little in common as far as their upbringing. Harry can hardly relate to the brutal existence that Clapham endures every day—which has molded his character and produced tormenting frustration and fear in his heart. Emotionally and spiritually bankrupt, Clapham, like a magnet, is drawn to the love and acceptance of the Davises. But one sad day he is seized and threatened to do that which is unthinkable. Long, miserable, dark days follow. But though sorrow endures for the night, the healing balm of truth brings joy in the morning.
About the author...
Both the public and her contemporaries regarded Catharine Maria Sedgwick highly. Catharine was actually one of the first American female authors to gain fame. She gained her recognition through writing stories with Christian morals such as were popular during her day."
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Elementary Composition/Google Books
Stories of the Pilgrims/Google Books
Begin reading here.
Stories of the Pilgrims
By Margaret Blanche Pumphrey, Lucy Fitch Perkins
Published by Rand, McNally & Company, 1912
241 pages
This book has been republished by Christian Liberty Press, and is a part of their fourth grade curriculum. Yesterday's Classics also has this in reprint. See main page for all book links.
(Thanksgiving)