Thursday, May 8, 2008

Wild Animals I have Known by Ernest Seton/Various Sources

The Baldwin Project : "A stirring account of the lives of eight wild animals, including Lobo, the king of Currumpaw; Silverspot, the story of a crow; Raggylug, the story of a cottontail rabbit; Bingo, the story of a dog; the Springfield fox; the pacing mustang; Wully, the story of a yaller dog; and Redruff, the story of the Don valley partridge. Ages 11-14"

Plain Text at Project Gutenberg.

Google Books with drawings.

The Wild Animal Play for Children, meant to go along with the book.

Speech Training for Children/Google Books

Click here.

First Lessons on Natural Philosophy(science), for Children

Click here. Only Part Two available.

The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children/Google Books


Click here.

The Stars and Their Stories: A Book for Young People/Google Books

Click here.

The Geography of the Heavens and Class Book/Google Books

Click here.

Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory/Google Books

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Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory/Google Books

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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

Click here.

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.

Click here.

Complete Graded Arithmetic: 5th Grade

Click here.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

New Audio Book at Librivox: Great Artists: Volume 1

"Biographies of Raphael Santi, Murillo, Peter Paul Rubens, and Albrecht Durer. This is a wonderful tool for art study as there are references for further study, as well as ideas for language arts to incorporate into the study." Summary by Laura Caldwell.

Click in title.

Friday, April 4, 2008

Spring Multigrade Story Printables for April and May

All are free and in public domain. Printing Google Books: Follow the link, right click on the image of the page, and print picture. It will print as a full sized page. Entire books are also downloadable.


The Lincoln Fourth Grade Reader: Voices of Spring Poem by William Wordsworth.

Games and Songs of American Children: Flower Games and the Birch Broom.

Standard Catholic Fourth Grade Reader: The Daisy and the Lark by Hans Christian Anderson

The Little Girl's Own Book of Games and Activities: May Morning.Elementary school.

Three Years with the Poets: A Text-book of Poetry - First grade: Verses from the Song of Solomon and Pippa's Song by Robert Browning. Second grade: April, the Runaway Brook and Little May Spring, Song of the Fairy by William Shakespeare More here, pages 70-76.
Third grade: pages 103-105 and 131-138.

A little about the Flower Festivals in Japan from The World and Its People.

For the Story Teller: Story Telling and Stories to Tell: The Selfish Giant. Elementary school.

Reading-literature: Fourth(Grade) Reader Apollo and Daphne

Nature Study in Elementary Schools - Second Grade: April - May Teacher's manual: April through May Synopsis and April - May course of study.

Language Lessons from Literature(high school): Rhoecus

The New Barnes Third Grade Reader: Rhoecus

The Classic Myths in English Literature(high school): Rhoecus and here.

Junior High School Literature Book Three(ninth grade): Rhoecus Poems: Lines Written in Early Spring, Wordsworth, the Call of Spring, Noyes and April North Carolina.

Stories from the Poets: A Reader for the First Grade: Rhoecus

Day by Day in the Primary School(early elementary) : April and May.

The Child's World Fourth Grade: Rhoecus

Children's Literature: A Story of Springtime(Myth) and The Miraculous Pitcher(Philemon and Baucis) by N. Hawthorne

Elson Primary Fourth Grade School Reader: The Miraculous Pitcher(Philemon and Baucis) by N. Hawthorne

The Progressive Road to Reading Fifth Grade: The Miraculous Pitcher(Philemon and Baucis) by N. Hawthorne

The Young and Field Literary Readers: Old Pipes and the Dryad.

A Fourth Grade Reader: Old Pipes and the Dryad.

Spring Nature Study(elementary school)

Farm Life Fourth Grade Reader: The Little Brown Seed(poem)

The Robin Reader - A First Reader: Two Little Seeds

The Sprague Classic Second Grade Reader: The Story of a little Plant,Pussy Willow Has Come, and Spring.

Good English, Oral and Written Fourth Grade: Baby Seed Song(poem)

Live Language Lessons: Springtime Stories, Persephone(middle school)

Songs of Happy Life: April music sheet.

New Fifth Grade Reader: Spring(poem) and Early Spring, Tennyson(poem)

The Heart of Oak Books Sixth Grade: The Dandelion(poem).

Story Land - A Second Reader: Baby Seed's Song(poem) and A Spring Folic.

Poems and Verses By Mary Mapes Dodge:
Now the Noisy Winds Are Still.

Nature Study and the Child: Work for April

St. Nicholas By Mary Mapes Dodge: The Hyacinths

Kindergarten Stories and Morning Talks: April - May.

Brooks's Seventh Grade Reader: Spring(Poem) and April and May poems, pages 131-132.

Cyr's Fourth Grade Reader(mislabeled on Google): Biography of Tennyson. Two of his spring poems: Early Spring and The Progress of Spring.

The Elson Eighth Grade Reader: Flowers in the Crannied Wall, Tennyson. Same in fifth grade reader.

A School Second Grade Reader: Ceres and Propserpine.

Lessons in Art - A Book for Class-work: Ceres and Proserpine.

American Primary Teacher: Lesson Plans for April - May.

Evenings with Grandpa: A May Morning, Milton and The Story of the Season Proserpine.

The Fifth Grade Reader: An April Day

Flower Children - Little Cousins of the Field

Songs of Happy Life: See bottom of table of contents - Natures and Seasons

Little Flower Folks(nature science - botany)

In celebration of Shakespeake's birthday on April 23th:

Three Years with the Poets(second grade): Lullaby for Tatiana

The Jones Fourth Grade Reader: Voice of Spring(Poem) and The Magic Juice(Midsummer's Night's Dream)

Shakespeare for Children.

Also see my daffodil post.

Sunday, March 30, 2008

The Literary World Seventh(Seventh Grade) Reader/Project Gutenberg

Clcik here.

The Book of Art for Young People/Project Gutenberg


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Journeys Through Book Land with Teacher's Guide/Project Gutenberg

"Journeys Through Bookland is what the title signifies, a series of excursions into the field of the world’s greatest literature. Accordingly, the base of the work is laid in those great classics that, since first they found expression in words, have been the education and inspiration of man. But these excursions are taken hand-in-hand with a leader, whose province it is to explain, to interpret, to guide and to direct. Suiting his labors to the age and acquirement of the readers he helps them all, from the child halting in his early attempts to interpret the printed page to the high school or college student who wishes to master the innermost secrets of literature. In no small sense is this leadership a labor of love, for it follows an experience of twenty years of personal instruction in the public schools and among the teachers of the country." ~ The Guide

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8

Volume one was not available.


The handy supplementary book list

History of the United States/Project Gutenberg

by Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard. Click here.

Scandinavian Children's Stories(Folklore and Fairy Tales)

Click on title.

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

The National Reader/Google Books

No grade indicated, but appears to be at least a fifth grade reading level. Pre-Civil War school book with stories of a high moral tone. Christian and biblical selections. Click here.

The Fifth Reader(fifth grade)/Google Books

Clikc here.

The First Reader/Google Books


Sight words and some phonics. Click here.

The First Reader Series Fifth Grade/Google Books

Click here.

The Historical Reader/Google Books

Christian historical reader from Creation to The Battle of New Orleans. Click here.

Elson Grammar School Reader First Grade

Click here.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Children's Lent, Holy Week and Easter Printables

To print/save pages: follow link, right click on image of the book page only, print picture or save picture. Entire books can be downloaded as well - see download button at link(upper right on sidebar).


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

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Our Lady in Art/Google Books


Click here.

A Child's Book of Saints/Google Books


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Dutch/Holland/Netherlands Literature for Children



Rollo in Holland

The Hero of Harleem Lit2go Site sometimes down on weekends.






Dutch Lullaby, second grade poem.

Wide Awake Third Grade Reader, pages 20-25, two dutch tales.

Third grade lesson plan: Life in (old) Holland.

The Story of Dutch Paintings from the St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls


Social studies for early elementary: Holland

Beautifully illustrated easy reader(about third grade level): Windmills and Wooden Shoes.

Wooster Fourth Reader: Holland or Netherlands.

Third grade, Stepping Stones to Literature: A Boy Hero.

Fourth Grade Reader: Holland(2 parts)

Fifth grade reader: Skating in Holland

Educating by Story-telling: Wilhelmina's Wooden Shoes, about Rembrandt

Dutch diorama and story, early elementary school

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Free Printable Short Stories, Audio Read-Along Option with Mini-Worksheets

Click in title.

Reading Guides by Grade

From The Baldwin Project and Yesterday's Classics Pageant of History(on my sidebar), helpful reading lists by grade for public domain books:

Baldwin Project grades K through six.

Yesterday's Classics years 0 - 6(Charlotte Mason).

Not in public domain, but a helpful reading list of children's historical novels along a timeline. See Bethlehem Books Living History Library offered through Seton Educational Media.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Story Hour Readings: Fifth Year/Google Books


Google has this incorrectly titled as year seven, but the front cover indicates this is for fifth grade. Click here.