The general feeling about Jacopo Robusti is perhaps summed up by Giorgio Vasari in his "Lives." "He is a great lover of the arts," says our gossip; "he delights in playing on various musical instruments; he is a very agreeable person, but as far as painting is concerned he has ...
Since we couldn't take a lot of our toys with us on our move, my kids have been discovering how to make all kinds of toys out of household items.
One of their favorite pastimes is making things from our recycled materials. We have to recycle everything "clean" here - plastic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
For children who don't quite understand epic poetry yet, here is a book that narrates eleven of Longfellow's poems into a story form.
This would work well during a poet-study. It could be used alongside A Day With Longfellow. You could read the poem first and then compare it to the ...
It is not difficult to imagine how mankind first conceived the idea of making use of floating structures to enable him to traverse stretches of water. The trunk of a tree floating down a river may have given him his first notions. He would not be long in discovering that ...
Maybe dogs aren't your particular cup of tea - and you prefer cats instead.
Have no fear, there are plenty of public domain ebooks about cats, kitties, and the like!
Cats & Kittens
Stories About Cats
Kittens and Cats: A Book Of Tales
The Little Pussy Cats: What They Did & What They Tried To ...
I think I read somewhere that most modern kids don't hear the nursery rhymes that were staples of past generations.
Ask a child today who Humpty Dumpty is and he might guess it is a new video game protagonist.
But some families love reading nursery rhymes with their kids. Classical and Charlotte Mason homeschoolers are ...