Friday, March 28, 2008

Historic Boyhoods by Rupert Sargent Holland/Project Gutenberg

A little fluffy, but good for peaking the interest of younger readers.

Contents:
Christopher Columbus The Boy of Genoa
Michael Angelo The Boy of the Medici Gardens
Walter Raleigh The Boy of Devon
Peter the Great The Boy of the Kremlin
Frederick the Great The Boy of Potsdam
George Washington The Boy of the Old Dominion
Daniel Boone The Boy of the Frontier
John Paul Jones The Boy of the Atlantic
Mozart The Boy of Salzburg
Lafayette The Boy of Versailles
Horatio Nelson The Boy of the Channel Fleet
Robert Fulton The Boy of the Conestoga
Andrew Jackson The Boy of the Carolinas
Napoleon Bonaparte The Boy of Brienne
Walter Scott The Boy of the Canongate
James Fenimore Cooper The Boy of Otsego Hall
John Ericsson The Boy of the Göta Canal
Garibaldi The Boy of the Mediterranean
Abraham Lincoln The Boy of the American Wilderness
Charles Dickens The Boy of the London Streets
Otto Von Bismarck The Boy of Göttingen

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Monday, March 24, 2008

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Children's Lent, Holy Week and Easter Printables

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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