Snake & Reptile Nature Ebooks
Posted in Animals, High School, Lower Elementary, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on April 20, 2013
Last week someone on the Homeschool Commons Facebook page asked if I had seen any free ebooks about snakes. While she was looking for material to read to her younger son, I found mostly adult books. But I still wanted to share them here in case there are any older snake and reptile lovers out Read More »
Bird World; A Bird Book For Children
Posted in Animals, Lower Elementary, Nature Studies, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on April 11, 2013
I’ve had this nature reader in my bookmarked list for quite some time. In fact, it was near the top. For some reason or another I hadn’t shared it with you. But when I went looking for resources this week I happened once again upon it. It has everything a living book needs – beautiful color images, Read More »
Daddy Takes Us To The Garden
Posted in Home Economics, Lower Elementary, Nature Studies, Public Domain on March 24, 2013
This book would be fun to read as part of a home economics or gardening unit. This is a fun story of two children who help their father in the garden, but it also has a lot of detail on the actual science and art of gardening. There aren’t too many illustrations in the book, Read More »
The Quadrupeds of North America
Posted in Animals, High School, Middle School, Public Domain, Science, Upper Elementary on March 21, 2013
Amazing illustrations and descriptions of quadrapeds (four-legged animals) that are common to North America by none other than J. W. Audubon himself! Each species has a detailed illustration, synopsis of it’s looks, and a description of it’s habits and where it can be found. Download The Quadrupeds of North America from archive.org.
Flowers Shown To The Children
Posted in High School, Lower Elementary, Middle School, Nature Studies, Plants, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on March 7, 2013
Dear Children,—If you were old enough to go to the bookseller and ask for a book that would tell you about the flowers you see growing in the woods and fields in spring and summer-time, you would find there were already a great many books which had been written with that purpose. If you examined Read More »
