The Herald of Spring: Spring:The Hyacinth(Multi-grade Lessons)/Google Books

Nature Study in Elementary Schools: First Reader(Hyacinth Bulb)

Outlines of Lessons in Botany(elementary - middle school)

Gardening For Children(The Hyacinth)

When Mother Lets Us Garden; A Book for Little Folk Who Want to Make Gardens(Hyacinths in Water)

The World Book

The Spartan, Myth of the Hyacinth(Elementary - Middle school)

School and Home Gardens




More coming soon....

Image from my garden.

A Short History of the World by H. G. Wells/Project Gutenberg

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The Naval History of the United States: Blue Jackets of '76/Google Books

Title The Naval History of the United States: Blue Jackets of '76
Author Willis John Abbot
Publisher Peter Fenelon Collier, 1890
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Grades K-12 Free Printable Short Classic Literature Excerpts with Worksheets and Audio(Human-read MP3)

Click on banner, grades K-12 available.

Stories of the Civil War/Google Books

Title Stories of the Civil war: adapted for supplementary reading
Author Albert Franklin Blaisdell
Publisher Lee and Shepard, 1890
Length 245 pages
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Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental by Charles John Tibbitts /Project Gutenberg

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Suggested History Readings for February, Grades Three and Four

From Primary Lessons, 1909:

SUGGESTED READINGS

"Young George Washington," and "Early Life of Abraham Lincoln," Eggleston's First Book of American History.

"The American Flag,"' Joseph R. Drake, Moore's "Songs and Ballads of the Revolution."

"Story of Washington," "Boyhood of Washington," "Story of Lincoln," F. A. Owen Co.'s Five Cent Classics.

Abbot's "Blue Jackets of '76."

Extracts from Preble's "History of the Flag."

Lossings "Pictorial History of the Civil War."

Blaisdell's "Stories of the Civil War."

Extracts from Henty's "With Lee in Virginia."

Moore's "Lyrics of Loyalty."

Simm's "War Poetry of the South."

The New Civics: A Textbook for Secondary Schools/Google Books

Title The New Civics: A Textbook for Secondary Schools
Author Roscoe Lewis Ashley
Publisher The Macmillan company, 1917
Length 420 pages
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Early European Civilization: a Textbook for Secondary Schools(Prehistory to Reformation)

Title Early European Civilization: a Textbook for Secondary Schools
Author Roscoe Lewis Ashley
Publisher Macmillan, 1916
Length 719 pages
See here.

St. Valentine's Day Children's Stories, Songs, Crafts, and Activities

Stories and Lesson Plans:

In the Child's World:Kindergarten - elementary school level story.

Kindergarten at Home. Story.

Child-garden Story: Four Letters, a St. Valentine's Day Story. Early elementary read-aloud. Read-alone: advanced elementary level reader.

"Tell it Again" Stories: Elaine's Valentine's - reading level about third grade.

Read-aloud story: Elementary School

Elementary school poem.

Beginning Reader: The Story of St. Valentine.

The story of St. Valentine from the third grade Standard Catholic reader , and another from the The Haliburton Second Reader.

St. Valentine Story with comprehension questions. About a third grade reading level, and another for about a second or third grade reading level.

Three Valentine's Day Stories (read-aloud)

Click and print Valentine's Day poem for little girls.

A Book of Programs - St. Valentine's Day Lesson Plan - Kindergarten and up , and here as well.

Crafts:

Suggestions for Handwork in School and Home(crafts) Blackline templates for cupid angel card and more. This is the best! Many designs with instructions and card greetings.

More templates for St. Valentine's Day Cards.

Manual Training - Occupations(crafts)

Blacklines for cupid and little girl with heart, pages 84-85.

Bumped up from 2008.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave(Audiobook)/Other

The male narrator has a great voice - very clear, and the sound quality is excellent.

Click here to FreeAudio.org. This link includes background history for students. Audio comes in three parts and a zip file with all is available. At the link, Click on audio in order to listen online and/or right click, and "save file as" to download.

Chandra in India/Google Books

Title Chandra in India(A Geographical Reader)
Little People Everywhere
Author Etta Austin Blaisdell McDonald
Publisher Little, Brown, and Company, 1916
Length 111 pages
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Wild Flowers Every Child Should Know/Google Books

Title Wild Flowers Every Child Should Know: Arranged According to Color, with Reliable Descriptions of the More Common Species of the United States and Canada
Author Frederic William Stack
Publisher Doubleday, Page and Company, 1914
Length 411 pages

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A Guide for the Study of Animals/Project Gutenberg

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Natural History Object Lessons: A Manual for Teachers

Title Natural History Object Lessons: A Manual for Teachers
Author George Ricks
Publisher D.C. Heath, 1891
Length 352 pages
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Saints and Festivals of the Christian Church/Google Books

Title Saints and Festivals of the Christian Church
Author H. Pomeroy Brewster
Publisher F. A. Stokes, 1904
Length 558 pages
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How Our Grandfathers Lived/Google Books

Title How Our Grandfathers Lived
Authors Albert Bushnell Hart, Annie Bliss Chapman
Publisher Macmillan, 1916
Length 371 pages
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Broad Stripes and Bright Stars: Stories of American History /Google Books

Title Broad Stripes and Bright Stars: Stories of American History
for the Children's Hour Series
May G. Quigley collection
Author Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Publisher Milton Bradley company, 1919
Length 240 pages
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Stories of the Nibelungen(Germanic/Old Norse Tales) for Young People/Project Gutenberg

Read and download here.

Excerpt:

YOUNG SIEGFRIED

In the good old days of Long Ago, when kings had absolute power over all their subjects, even in the matter of life and death, there dwelt in the city of Santum, on the beautiful Rhine River, a great and good king named Siegmund.

He was very powerful, and ruled over the kingdom of Niederland so wisely and so well that he was[8] loved and honored by all his people. He shared his throne with Siegelinda, his beautiful wife, who also was noble and kind of heart.

The Recollections of a Drummer-Boy(Civil War)/Google Books

Title The Recollections of a Drummer-Boy
Author Harry M. Kieffer
Published 1911
Here.
From the preface:"Several years ago the writer prepared a brief series of papers for the columns of St. Nicholas, under the title of "Recollections of a Drummer-Boy." It was thought that these sketches of army life, as seen by a boy, would prove enjoyable and profitable to children in general, and especially to the children of the men who participated in the great Civil War, on one side or the other; while the belief was entertained that they might at the same time serve to revive in the minds of the veterans themselves long-forgotten or but imperfectly remembered scenes and experiences in camp and field. In the outstart it was not the author's design to write a connected story, but rather simply to prepare a few brief and hasty sketches of army life, drawn from his own personal experience and suitable for magazine purposes. But these, though prepared in such intervals as could with difficulty be spared from the exacting duties of a busy professional life, having been so kindly received by the editors of St. Nicholas, as well as by the very large circle of readers of that excellent magazine, and the writer having been urgently pressed on all sides for more of the same kind, it was thought well to revise and enlarge the "Recollections of a Drummer-Boy," and to present them to the public in permanent book form. In the shape of a more or less connected story of army life, covering the whole period of a soldier's experience from enlistment to muster-out, and carried forward through all the stirring scenes of camp and field, it was believed that these "Recollections," in the revised form, would commend themselves not only to the children of the soldiers of the late war, but to the surviving soldiers themselves; while at the same time they would possess a reasonable interest for the general reader as well."