Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The Crescent Moon: Child-poems/Google Books

The crescent moon: child-poems
Author Sir Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher Macmillan, 1914
Length 82 pages
Overview

Poetry and stories from India.

Monday, February 15, 2010

The Eclectic Physiology for Use in Schools/Google Books

The eclectic physiology for use in schools
Author Eli F. Brown
Publisher Van Antwerp, Bragg & co., 1884
Length 183 pages
Overview

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Canadian Readers, Book 4

Canadian readers, Book 4(fourth grade)
W.J. Gage & co.'s educational series
Author John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
Publisher W.J. Gage, 1883
Length 320 pages
Overview

Unfortunately, only one grade found.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Life of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary: Duchess of Thuringia/Google Books

Life of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary: duchess of Thuringia
Author Charles Forbes Montalembert (comte de)
Publisher Longmans, Green, 1904
Length 493 pages
Overview

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

The Philippine Chart Primer

The Philippine chart primer
Authors Mary E. Coleman, Margaret A. Purcell, Orlando Schairer Reimold, John Woodside Ritchie
Publisher World book company, 1906
Length 53 pages
Overview

Monday, February 8, 2010

The Step-by-step Primer: a Self-instructor in Reading

The step-by-step primer: a self-instructor in reading by the use of Burnz' pronouncing print
Author Eliza Boardman Burnz
Publisher Burnz, 1892
Length 94 pages
Overview

Saturday, February 6, 2010

A Short History of Scotland/Google books

A short history of Scotland
Author Peter Hume Brown
Publisher Oliver and Boyd, 1908
Length 618 pages
Overview

Thursday, February 4, 2010

American Indian Story and Primer/Google Books

Kwahu, the Hopi Indian boy
Author George Newell Moran
Publisher American Book Company, 1913
Length 237 pages(color illustrations)
Download or read online here. Free and in public domain. Reading level about middle school and up.


Hopi paper dolls(1922) here.


For younger children, The Indian Primer, 1906. Readable online and downloadable.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Johnson's Primer/Google Books

Johnson's primer
Authors Henrietta H. Richardson, Blanche Wynne Johnson
Publisher B.F. Johnson Pub. Co., 1898
Length 46 pages
Overview

Monday, February 1, 2010

The Wonder Book of the Atmosphere/Google Books

The wonder book of the atmosphere
Author Edwin James Houston
Publisher F.A. Stokes company, 1907
Length 326 pages
Overview

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Graphics: a Manual of Drawing and Writing/Google Books


Graphics: a manual of drawing and writing, for the use of schools and families
American Culture Series, Art and Architecture collection
Author Rembrandt Peale
Publisher J. P. Peaslee, 1835
Length 86 pages
Overview

Friday, January 29, 2010

Art Appreciation/Google Books

The Appreciation of Pictures
Author Russell Sturgis
Publisher The Baker & Taylor co., 1905
Length 298 pages
Overview

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Preschool Picture Book


Cut and paste, or just for reading, The Children's Object Picture Book, Published/Created: London; New York: F. Warne & Co., [188-?]. Free and in public domain from the U.S. Library of Congress. Fully downloadable or readable online as HTML pages.

Features a home in 19th century London, England.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

First Book of Drawing/Google Books



First book of drawing: being exercises for children and young persons
Chamber's educational course
Author Robert Chambers
Publisher William and Robert Chambers, 1840
Length 11 pages
Overview

High School English/Google Books

Elements of High School English

Author Maude Morrison Frank
Publisher Longmans, Green, and co., 1915
Length 290 pages
Overview

Constructive Exercises in English
Author Maude Morrison Frank
Publisher Longmans, Green, and co., 1909
Length 154 pages
Overview

High School Exercises in Grammar
Author Maude Morrison Frank
Edition 5
Publisher Longmans, Green, and Co., 1915
Length 202 pages
Overview

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales/Google Books


Mighty Mikko: a book of Finnish fairy tales and folk tales
Author Parker Hoysted Fillmore
Publisher Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922
Length 314 pages
Overview

Friday, January 22, 2010

The Children's Book: A Collection of the Best and Most Famous Stories and Poems in the English Language/Google books


The children's book: a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language
Author Horace Elisha Scudder
Compiled by Horace Elisha Scudder
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin, 1907
Length 444 pages
Overview

Canterbury Chimes, or Chaucer Tales Retold for Children/Google Books

Canterbury chimes, or Chaucer tales retold for children
Authors Francis Storr, Hawes Turner, Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher Roberts, 1896
Overview

Printable Chaucer paper doll here.

Friday, January 15, 2010

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

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

The First Steps in Algebra/Google Books

The first steps in algebra
Author George Albert Wentworth
Publisher Ginn & company, 1908
Length 233 page
Overview