DIY Homeschooler
Tools for the Homeschool Handy-Mom
Here is one for older students interested in internal combustion engines: Gas and Petroleum Engines edited by A. G. Elliott. This free public domain work was part of the Whittaker's Electro-Mechanical …
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Bird Biographies by Alice E. Ball is a unique guidebook to 150 birds commonly found in the United States. Subtitled, A Guide-Book for Beginners: An Introduction to 150 Common Land Birds of the Eastern …
Mount Rushmore National Memorial: A Monument Commemorating the Conception, Preservation, and Growth of the Great American Republic was published by the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Society of …
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Down in a field, one day in June, The flowers all bloomed together, Save one, who tried to hide herself, And drooped, that pleasant weather. A robin who had soared too high, And felt a little …
Nat the Navigator: The Life of Nathaniel Bowditch for Young Persons is a biography of Bowditch written by his son. The book, pulling extensively from journals, covers Bowditch's life chronologically …
Full knee-deep lies the winter snow, And the winter winds are wearily sighing: Toll ye the church-bell sad and slow, And tread softly and speak low, For the old year lies a-dying. Old year, you must …
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Sir Robert S. Ball was an astronomer and mathematician and a popular lecturer at the Royal Institution and other venues in the late 1800s/early 1900s. In Great Astronomers he provides biographical …
Here is a wonderful (and free) book of poetry set up to provide one Scripture verse, one illustrative story or quote, and one related poem for each day of the year! A Year of Beautiful Thoughts …
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“It snows!” cries the School-boy—“hurrah!” and his shout Is ringing through parlor and hall, While swift, as the wing of a swallow, he’s out And his playmates have answered his call: It makes the …
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'Twas the night after Christmas, and all through the house Not a creature was stirring—excepting a mouse. The stockings were flung in haste over the chair, For hopes of St. Nicholas were no longer …
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be …
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December is a perfect month in which to look up at the stars! Starland by Sir Robert Stawell Ball makes a great guide. Starland: Being Talks with Young People About the Wonders of the Heavens really …
