Creative Commons, Author at Homeschool Base
Homeschool Commons was created to serve as a central juncture for finding free resources to use in personal and commercial ventures.
More information about the Homeschool Commons project can be found here - Home School Creative Commons Resources.
Children’s Nature Books by Elizabeth Gordon
Posted in Elementary, Home School Creative Commons Resources, Nature Studies, Preschool on May 3, 2015
This series of books by Elizabeth Gordon have fun, colorful illustrations and short little poems that could be used as a literature and nature study, handwriting practice, or just reading. The poems are not particularly educational as these are picture books for younger children. You can find all of these books on archive.org, but I Read More »
The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning
Posted in Elementary, Home School Creative Commons Resources, Kindergarten, Literature, Preschool, Public Domain, Reading on May 3, 2015
“Please your honours,” said he, “I’m able, By means of a secret charm, to draw All creatures living beneath the sun, That creep or swim or fly or run, After me so as you never saw! And I chiefly use my charm On creatures that do people harm, The mole and toad and newt and Read More »
Free Ebooks To Study Ancient Greece
Posted in Ancient History, Elementary, High School, Middle School, Mythology, Public Domain, Western Civilization on April 23, 2015
One of the great things about studying ancient cultures in your homeschool is that there are plenty of public domain books available. In our home we try to cover history in a 4-year cycle. That way when we read about the Greeks and Romans when our youngest is 5, we will cover that time period Read More »
The Library of Work and Play
Posted in Elementary, Health, High School, Hobbies and Crafts, Home Economics, Home School Creative Commons Resources, Middle School, Public Domain, Scouting And Survival on March 24, 2015
Hobbies and Life Skills for Children Here we have an entire library, with a guide, of useful books to teach children skills and hobbies they will use for a lifetime. The Library of Work and Play contains 9 volumes, not including the guide and index. These could be used as a guide for everything from Read More »
Free Ebooks to Study Japan
Posted in Culture, Eastern Civilization, Elementary, High School, Middle School, Mythology, Public Domain on March 12, 2015
Japanese History and Culture As Japan consists of five hundred and eighteen islands it is often called the Island Empire. In the days of mythology and legend it was named The Country in the Midst of the Luxuriant Reed Plains; later it was The Mountain Portal, while during the Middle Ages the Chinese called it Read More »
