Friday, May 2, 2008

Wild Flower Study/ Google Books


Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents by ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK:

Hepatica, Yellow Adder's Tongue, Bloodroot, Trillium, Dutchman's Breeches and Squirrel Corn, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, The Violet, May Apple or Mandrake, Bluets, Yellow Lady's Slipper, or Moccasin Flower, Common Buttercup, Hedge Bindweed, Dodder, Milkweed, and Evening Primrose(Elementary - middle school).

Botany: An Elementary Text for Schools

The Fairyland of Flowers: A Popular Illustrated Botany(elementary - middle school). In addition to botany, this book contains poetry and literature relating to the flowers.

Reference Guides:

How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide

A Guide to the Wild Flowers

Southern Wild Flowers and Trees

Also see the cherry blossom post.

History Stories of Other Lands by Arthur Guy Terry/Google Books

The Normans - Constantinople(middle ages)

Age of Louis XIV - early 20th century(teens)

New Barnes Readers - Third Grade/Google Books


"NOBILITY True worth is in being, not seeming, In doing each day that goes by Some little good, not in dreaming Of great things to do by and by."

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Stories from the Poets - First Grade Reader/Google Books


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Japanese Fairy World: Stories from the Wonder-lore


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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Nature Study by Grades: A Text-book for Grades Fourth and Fifth

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Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers/Google Books

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Science for the Fifth Grade with Experiments/Google Books

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Teaching Poetry in the Grades(Grades 1-8)/Google Books

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Poems by Grades(Grades 5-8)/Google Books

MEMORY GEMS

FIFTH GRADE

Never lose an opportunity to see anything beautiful.
Beauty is God's handwriting.
CHARLES KINGSLEY.

Two men look out through the same bars ;
One sees the mud and one the stars.
LANGBRIDGE.

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Complete Graded Arithmetic: 5th Grade

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