The Library Winnie-the-Pooh ~ Free eBook 4 Jan 20224 Jan 2022 January 2022 brings a fun and familiar read into the public domain in the US: Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne with original illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard! If you happen…
Tools Things to Do: September 2021 30 Aug 202130 Aug 2021 We have updated our September learning calendar for 2021. September brings the fresh and new — from the points on our pencils to the smell of new crayons. So we…
Tools 10 Favorite Unit Studies {2020–2021} 12 Jul 2021 Ten reader-favorite unit studies from the archives: 1. Free Nature Studies: Our Wonderful World 2. The Horse: A Unit Study 3. Around the World in 80 Days: A Unit Study…
How-To Interacting With Literature: Idioms 19 Apr 2021 Idioms are figures of speech that we hear or use every day that are not meant to be taken literally. They make it easy to say something in a meaningful…
The Library Orphan Trains ~ Free eBook With Go-Along Resources 15 Mar 202123 Aug 2021 Big Brother by Annie Fellows Johnston, author of the Little Colonel series, is an easy introduction to the Orphan Trains of the 1800s. Like the passel of other children on…
The Finds Gail Gibbons Educator Guides ~ Free! 13 Jan 2021 We have always enjoyed books by Gail Gibbons! Her science books explain sometimes difficult concepts in an easy to understand way. And they are always beautifully illustrated. Now you can…
The Library For the Birds {Free eBook} 12 Oct 2020 For the Birds is a free publication from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that encourages backyard bird watching: As you learn to enjoy the beauty of birdlife around their…
Online Poetry Anthology "The Pedigree of Honey" by Emily Dickinson 8 Oct 2020 The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocracy. Poems by Emily Dickinson (1891) | Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) Online Poetry Anthology Suggestions…
Online Poetry Anthology "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus 1 Oct 202028 Sep 2021 Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the…
Online Poetry Anthology "Great, Wide, Beautiful, Wonderful World" by William Brighty Rands 17 Sep 202027 Aug 2021 Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,With the wonderful water round you curled,And the wonderful grass upon your breast—World, you are beautifully drest.The wonderful air is over me,And the wonderful wind is…
Online Poetry Anthology "The Skylark" by John Clare 31 Aug 2020 Above the russet clods, the corn is seen Sprouting its spiry points of tender green, Where squats the hare, to terrors wide awake, Like some brown clod the harrows failed…
Tools Things to Do: September 2020 27 Aug 2020 We have updated our September learning calendar for 2020. This time of year everything is fresh and new — from the points on our pencils to the smell of new…
Online Poetry Anthology "The Sandpiper" by Celia Thaxter 20 Aug 2020 Across the narrow beach we flit,One little sandpiper and I,And fast I gather, bit by bit,The scattered driftwood bleached and dry.The wild waves reach their hands for it,The wild wind…
Online Poetry Anthology "L'oiseau bleu" by Coleridge 13 Aug 2020 The lake lay blue below the hill.O'er it, as I looked, there flewAcross the waters, cold and still,A bird whose wings were palest blue.The sky above was blue at last,The…
Online Poetry Anthology "Boats Sail on the Rivers" by Christina G. Rossetti 6 Aug 2020 Boats sail on the rivers,And ships sail on the seas;But clouds that sail across the skyAre prettier far than these.There are bridges on the rivers,As pretty as you please;But the…
Online Poetry Anthology "Fog" by Carl Sandburg 23 Jul 2020 The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg (1916) | Carl Sandburg…
Online Poetry Anthology "The Lamb" by William Blake 16 Jul 2020 Little lamb, who made thee?Does thou know who made thee,Gave thee life, and bid thee feedBy the stream and o’er the mead;Gave thee clothing of delight,Softest clothing, woolly, bright;Gave thee…
Tools 10 Favorite Unit Studies {2019–2020} 13 Jul 2020 Ten reader-favorite unit studies from the archives: 1. Free Nature Studies: Our Wonderful World 2. The Horse 3. Around the World in 80 Days: A Unit Study 4. The First Moon Landing: A Unit…
Online Poetry Anthology "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer 9 Jul 2020 I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree.A tree whose hungry mouth is prestAgainst the earth's sweet flowing breast;A tree that looks at God all day,And…
Online Poetry Anthology "A Bird Came Down the Walk" by Emily Dickinson 18 Jun 2020 A bird came down the walk:He did not know I saw;He bit an angle-worm in halvesAnd ate the fellow, raw.And then he drank a dewFrom a convenient grass,And then hopped…
Site Updates Free Nature Studies Updated — 32 Lessons Free 12 Mar 2020 Just in time for spring, we are nearly finished updating our free nature studies! With 32 weeks of lessons you will have plenty of material for a full year of…
Site Updates Laura Ingalls Wilder Unit {Updated} 24 Jan 2019 We have extensively updated our Laura Ingalls Wilder unit! Among our favorite read-alouds were the books in the Little House series. We've actually been through them more than once (and…
Tools 12 Favorite Christmas Read-Aloud Books 10 Dec 20188 Dec 2021 Want to start a new Christmastime tradition? Pick out a few favorite Christmas stories to read aloud each year. We'll get you started with our 12 favorite Christmas read-aloud books!…
The Library Historic Inventions {Free eBook} 26 Nov 2018 Historic Inventions by Rupert Sargent Holland takes a look at 16 inventions and their inventors. While there is no shortage of books about inventions, Historic Inventions is told in story…
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