Exploring Nature With Your Child
Posted in Animals, High School, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Nature Studies, Plants, Preschool, Public Domain, Reading, Upper Elementary on April 16, 2012
An Introduction to the Enjoyment and Understanding of Nature You are going to love this book! Written in 1952, Exploring Nature With Your Child is an awesome companion to any nature study. It contains 470+ pages of information on studying all aspects of nature with your children. Some of the topics covered: Birds Fish Flowers Read More »
Stories of Abraham Lincoln
Posted in American History, College Prep, High School, Kindergarten, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Public Domain, Reading, Upper Elementary on April 10, 2012
Lincoln was perhaps our finest president, according to some. The story of his life is an amazing tale of moral character and achievement through thoughtful choices. Read about the man who went from a log cabin to the White House and changed the course of history: The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln The Story of Read More »
How to Attract the Birds
Posted in Animals, Lower Elementary, Nature Studies, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on April 9, 2012
If we realized how carefully and how hopefully our gardens and orchards are scrutinized every spring, and on what details judgment upon them is passed by the sharp-eyed inspectors, we might, so easily, with a little forethought, arrange them to the taste of the home seekers. This book is a narrative on how to attract Read More »
Little Busybodies: The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies
Posted in Animals, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Nature Studies, Public Domain, Reading, Upper Elementary on April 3, 2012
And we who wrote this book? Well, we, too, have been children. We used to climb trees and turn somersaults; why—But that is another story! And we remember so well what it used to be like to have to learn dull things we did not wish to know. So we said to ourselves, as we Read More »
Richard the 3rd
Posted in College Prep, High School, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary, Western Civilization on March 25, 2012
King Richard the Third, known commonly in history as Richard the Usurper, was perhaps as bad a man as the principle of hereditary sovereignty ever raised to the throne, or perhaps it should rather be said, as the principle of hereditary sovereignty ever made. Richard III only reigned for two years. But his rise to kingly Read More »