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A favorite on many homeschool reading lists, The Real Mother Goose illustrated Blanche Fisher Wright, can now be downloaded as a free ebook. Published in 1916, The Real Mother Goose contains over two hundred nursery rhymes that many of us grew up with. Well known rhymes include: Baa, Baa Black Sheep Banbury Cross The Cat [...]
C-Span is offering educators tools for helping students understand the electoral college process. All tools are free downloads. 2012 Electoral Map Electoral College History Very nice chart showing modern electoral college results from 1900-2008. These results are also compared to the popular vote. 2012 Electoral College Map Activity Questions Opened ended research to spur thinking. [...]
Discovered in 1770 by Cook and founded in 1788 as a colony for criminals at Botany Bay, Australia is one of the most diverse and unique regions in the whole world. Australia is a rather unusual place. The land ranges from rainforests to deserts. It is home to some of the most unique creatures in [...]
Perhaps you, like myself, were one of those students who could get A’s in spelling without ever becoming a competent speller. The key to becoming a better speller is simple attention to spelling. Here are our 10 steps to build a better speller. Pull words from current work whether writing, dictation or copywork assignments. [...]
A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson is a wonderful introduction to poetry for the young child. These sweet poems about childhood provide a start in memorization and copywork. Happy Thought The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings. Other well-loved [...]
If you are enjoying nature study with your children, you may enjoy this 51-page free download from Notebooking Nook – Nature Study: Birds Notebooking Pages. These regular- and primary-lined pages will work for copywork, narration, descriptions, observations or any other thoughts your child wishes to record in a nature journal. The black and white illustrations [...]
A.A. (Alan Alexander) Milne was born in London on this day, January 18, in 1882. He graduated from Cambridge with a degree in Mathematics and thereafter began working for the magazine Punch as an assistant editor. His work was interrupted by his service in WWI as a signal officer. After the war he began writing [...]
Aesop Fables makes it onto many of our homeschool reading lists, and the version illustrated by Milo Winter is a favorite. Now this classic, The Aesop for Children, has made it into the public domain and can be downloaded cost-free. Favorite fables include: The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, The Lion and the Mouse, [...]
Many home educators are familiar with the Core Knowledge foundation founded by E. D. Hirsh Jr., author of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. Most homeschoolers are familiar with the What Your nth Grader Needs to Know from the Core Knowledge Series based on the Core Knowledge foundation guidelines for learning. These books [...]
Imagine riding through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado on horseback on a brisk autumn or early winter’s day in 1873. Now imagine that instead of being an American out on that ride, you are a cultured Englishwoman whose first taste of the continent came from the sunny shores of Hawaii. Sound like a bit of [...]
Christian Cottage is one of the prepared unit studies we recommend. Now you can download the Oceanography unit free through CurrClick. Oceanography: The Waters He Called Seas is a stand-alone 58-page, 10-week unit from Volume 1: In the Beginning God. The unit covers map studies, oceans and seas, salt water, tides, and waves. Activities include [...]
If you are planning to read through the Bible this year, you may appreciate this free digital version of the ESV Bible. This Kindle version available through Amazon allows you to navigate to any verse. Don’t have a Kindle? No problem. You can read the free digital version of the ESV on one of these [...]
Taking advantage of the many quality books in the public domain can save you not only dollars, but also having to re-invent the wheel. But where do you go to find these treasures? Of course, there are the large depositories, such as Project Gutenberg, Google Books, or Manybooks. But if you are looking for something [...]
There are many free daily planner downloads out there. Most of them offer spaces for daily routines, menus, to-dos, errands, calls to make, things to purchase, goals, memory verse, notes and places to check water consumed and exercise commenced. But among our very favorites is The Day’s Draft from Ann Voskamp. Amid the usual to-dos [...]
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