The Junior Classics Library I

By popular demand, today and tomorrow we bring back this wonderful story collection for your kids summer reading enjoyment! The Junior Classics Library (PDF ebooks) – Published in 1907, the...

Leaves and Flowers + Little Wanderers

Two wonderful nature study classics today for your summer time learning! Leaves & Flowers (PDF ebook) Today’s first resource is this great vintage book of short nature studies on plants for young...

Educational Songs Jukebox

EDUCATIONAL SONGS JUKEBOX Here’s a site full of children’s songs that teach ideas and basic concepts in Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Foreign Language, Geography, Geology, History, Language Arts,...

Adventures in Electricity

ADVENTURES IN ELECTRICITY! (PDF comic books) Produced by General Electric in the 1940s, these educational comic books explain how electricity has changed and improved our world. While these are...

Children’s Story Record Collection!

CLASSIC CHILDRENS’ RECORD ALBUMS Here’s a huge archive of downloadable vintage children’s albums, featuring “Tale Spinners” dramatizations of classic living books and stories, Let’s Pretend, Golden...

Beautiful Girlhood

BEAUTIFUL GIRLHOOD by Mabel Hale (audiobook & online ebook) The transitioning years between girlhood and womanhood are an exciting time for a girl, as well as tumultuous and confusing. Beautiful...

Ends tonight – “FAR ABOVE RUBIES” sale

“Far Above Rubies” by Lynda Coats is a classic unit study based curriculum for Jr. High and high school aged young ladies (ages 12-13 through high school) based on Proverbs 31: 10-31, designed to...

The First Book of Trees

THE FIRST BOOK OF TREES (PDF ebook) Wonderful middle grades book all about the different trees native to America and how to identify them, with many lessons and studies on how trees grow,...

The First Book of Water

The First Book of Water by Jo & Ernest Norling (PDF ebook) Today’s resource is a GREAT science picture book for young readers all about water – what it is, what it does, why it is so important for...

Space Weather, Manga Style!

S.T.E.L. SCIENCE COMIC BOOKS Here’s a fun manga comic book series about space and earth weather put out by the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory at Nagoya University in Japan. The...

Postcards from Jess

Knees and feet sore, but spirits high. Meeting many new friends on the camino. Wonderful people and amazing places. 100 km down, 700 to go! Learning how to debone fish from a friendly retired...

Far Above Rubies SAMPLER

Far Above Rubies SAMPLER “Far Above Rubies” by Lynda Coats is a classic unit study based curriculum for Jr. High and high school aged young ladies (ages 12-13 through high school) based on Proverbs...

Practical Pages Freebies!

PRACTICAL PAGES Nadene is a homeschooler from South Africa who is passionate about homeschooling and has really enjoyed her homeschool journey with her two daughters. She has created a wonderful...

Johnny Crow’s Garden

“Johnny Crow’s Garden” (PDF ebook) – Today we feature this absolutely delightful vintage children’s picture book illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke, featuring all kinds of animals cavorting in this...

Rip Van Winkle x2

RIP VAN WINKLE If you enjoyed yesterday’s story, then you’ll also enjoy these two audio versions of another classic Washington Irving tale. First, listen to Walter Houston narrating this delightful...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow x 2

The quiet Dutch community of Sleepy Hollow lay in the Adirondack mountains on the western shore of the mighty Hudson River in America’s colonial period. The solitude of the woods was breathtaking,...

Time Out. Journey begins. A poem.

Hi friends, we’re taking a brief time out from posting to get caught up with some pressing matters here. We’ll be back on Wednesday. In the meantime, we thought we’d share with you this note from...

Weird Everyday Space Physics

Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Chris Hadfield demonstrates the physics of everyday stuff in space aboard the International Space Station in these delightful short youtube videos. Your kids will...

A Poem for Today: George

GEORGE Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions When George’s Grandmamma was told That George had been as good as gold, She promised in the afternoon...

A Homeschool that Handles the Hard Times

A Homeschool that Handles the Hard Times: A Guide for Christian Homeschoolers (PDF ebook)by Tammy Cardwell Do you want to know now that you will be able to continue homeschooling even when times...

Cherry Pie: Recipe for a Successful Christian Homeschool

Cherry Pie: Recipe for a Successful Christian Homeschool (MP3 Audio) by Tammy Cardwell In her excellent “Cherry Pie: A Recipe for a Successful Christian Homeschool” workshop, Tammy shares valuable...

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LIGHT UP YOUR BRAIN

Light Up Your Brain – Audio Stories & Brain Teaser Games Light Up Your Brain is a fun site for kids featuring 14 new and classic audio stories (MP3 format) well recorded by Chuck Brown, along with...

A Poem for Today: Leisure

LEISURE What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where...

See? I Told Me So!

See, I Told Me So! Homeschool Veterans Declare You Can Stop Worrying (PDF ebook) edited by Tammy Cardwell Twenty homeschool graduates and parents unite to present one of the most life-changing...

A Poem for Today: Keep a Watch on Thy Words

Keep a Watch on Thy Words Keep a watch on your words, my darling, For words are wonderful things; They are sweet like the bees’ fresh honey, Like the bees they have terrible stings; They can bless...

Gabriel and the Hour Book

Gabriel and the Hour Book, by Evaleen Stein (PDF ebook) Today’s resource is this wonderful character-building story set in 15th century France – before the invention of the printing press – about a...

A Poem for Today: The Reading Mother

The Reading Mother by Strickland Gillilan (1869–1954) I had a mother who read to me Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea. Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth; “Blackbirds” stowed in the hold...

Everyday Number Stories

Everyday Number Stories (PDF ebook) Here’s a wonderful math problem book, filled with with delightful nostalgic illustrations from a long ago, simpler America (which the teacher probably will enjoy...

A Poem for Today: Hurt No Living Thing

HURT NO LIVING THING Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing, Nor cricket chirping cheerily, Nor grasshopper so light of leap, Nor dancing gnat, nor beetle fat, Nor...