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The Three Bears of Porcupine Ridge by Jean M. Thompson/ Project Gutenberg
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THE THREE BEARS OF PORCUPINE RIDGE
“WOOF, woof, woof,” called the little black mother bear gruffly, turning over a rotten log with her snout and uncovering a fine ant’s nest.
“Woof, woof,” answered back the two round black balls of animated fur—the cubs, as they scrambled eagerly and clumsily over the log, and began to feed greedily upon their mother’s find.
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Monday, December 31, 2012
Yule-Tide in Many Lands/Google Books
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Play Life in the First Eight Years/Google Books
"The tendency toward the American disease neuritis is increased by the excitement of confusing noise and motion. Let the child, dressed in a bathing suit, dig and wade, build forts and hollow out tunnels, make molds with pails and pattypans, bury himself in the sand and wriggle out, sprinkle "sugar" through a funnel made of heavy paper or through a tin sieve, or run a sand mill. One toy should be used at a time and its possibilities almost exhausted before another one is supplied.
All the excursions, whether to country or seashore, should aim to promote the child's love of nature and to arouse a desire for understanding it rather than just collecting facts about it. Information can
be imparted when the child's curiosity is aroused or when he needs it to help him in his play; the "how" and "why" of facts that he can discover for himself should never be supplied, but every opportunity should be given him to find answers to his own questions.
A child of four or five may have a definite object for his walk—to watch the blacksmith or to look at the fire engine. His walks should make him acquainted with his neighborhood; if in the city, he should know its buildings, its streets, and the shops in the vicinity; if in the country, he should know the kind of trees and crops near the house as well as the design of fence and gate. By the time he is six he should be able to find his way home from any point within a radius of at least half a mile. He should gain some idea of the points of the compass. This is the real beginning of the study of geography."
Monday, May 7, 2012
Science Lessons for Elementary/Google Books
Title Science Lessons for Elementary(Object Lessons for Infants, Volume 3)
Author Vincent T. Murché
Publisher Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1896
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Author Vincent T. Murché
Publisher Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1896
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Language Arts Lessons for Grades K - Eight Focusing on Composition and Art
Saturday, March 24, 2012
English Spoken and Written: Lessons in Language, Literature, and Composition/Google Books
Authors Henry Pendexter Emerson, Ida C. Bender
Publisher Macmillan, 1908 Click here .
Table of Contents
Plan of the book's three parts.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Dictation Day by Day: A Modern Speller/Google Books
Title Dictation Day by Day: A Modern Speller
Author Kate Van Wagenen
Publisher Macmillan Co., 1909
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Author Kate Van Wagenen
Publisher Macmillan Co., 1909
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The Advanced Reader/Google Books
Title The Advanced Reader(middle school and up)
Nelson's School Series
Publisher T. Nelson and Sons, 1866
Length 400 pages
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Page 9:
PLEASURES OF KNOWLEDGE.
It is Noble to seek Truth, and it is Beautiful to find it. It is the ancient feeling of the human heart, that knowledge is better than riches; and it is deeply and sacredly true. To mark the course of human passions as they have flowed on in the ages that are past; to see why nations have risen, and why they have fallen; to speak of heat, and light, and the winds; to know what man has discovered in the heavens above and in the earth beneath; to hear the chemist unfold the marvellous properties that the Creator has locked up in a speck of earth; to be told that there are worlds so distant from our own, that the quickness of light, travelling from the world's creation, has never yet reached us; to wander in the creations of poetry, and grow warm again with that eloquence which swayed the democracies of the Old World; to go up with great reasoners to the First Cause of all, and to perceive, in the midst of all this dissolution and decay and cruel separation, that there is one thing unchangeable, indestructible, and everlasting;—it is worth while in the days of our youth to strive hard for this great discipline; to pass sleepless nights for it; to give up for it laborious days; to spurn for it present pleasures; to endure for it afflicting poverty; to wade for it through darkness, and sorrow, and contempt, as the great spirits of the world have done in all ages and all times.
Nelson's School Series
Publisher T. Nelson and Sons, 1866
Length 400 pages
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Page 9:
PLEASURES OF KNOWLEDGE.
It is Noble to seek Truth, and it is Beautiful to find it. It is the ancient feeling of the human heart, that knowledge is better than riches; and it is deeply and sacredly true. To mark the course of human passions as they have flowed on in the ages that are past; to see why nations have risen, and why they have fallen; to speak of heat, and light, and the winds; to know what man has discovered in the heavens above and in the earth beneath; to hear the chemist unfold the marvellous properties that the Creator has locked up in a speck of earth; to be told that there are worlds so distant from our own, that the quickness of light, travelling from the world's creation, has never yet reached us; to wander in the creations of poetry, and grow warm again with that eloquence which swayed the democracies of the Old World; to go up with great reasoners to the First Cause of all, and to perceive, in the midst of all this dissolution and decay and cruel separation, that there is one thing unchangeable, indestructible, and everlasting;—it is worth while in the days of our youth to strive hard for this great discipline; to pass sleepless nights for it; to give up for it laborious days; to spurn for it present pleasures; to endure for it afflicting poverty; to wade for it through darkness, and sorrow, and contempt, as the great spirits of the world have done in all ages and all times.
Friday, March 9, 2012
The School and Family Primer/Google Books
Title The School and Family Primer
Harper's school and family series
Author Marcius Willson
Publisher Harper & brothers, 1860
Length 48 pages
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Harper's school and family series
Author Marcius Willson
Publisher Harper & brothers, 1860
Length 48 pages
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Sunday, March 4, 2012
The Boston Tea Party, and Other Stories of the American Revolution, Relating Many Daring Deeds of the Old Heroes/Google Books
Title The Boston Tea Party, and Other Stories of the American Revolution, Relating Many Daring Deeds of the Old Heroes
Author Henry Clay Watson
Publisher Lee and Shepard, 1889
Length 222 pages
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Author Henry Clay Watson
Publisher Lee and Shepard, 1889
Length 222 pages
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