http://www.hstreasures.com/rc/booklist.html 1879 McGuffey Primer 1879 McGuffey First Reader Nursery Rhymes - Various Authors The Life of George Washington - Josephine Pollard 1879 McGuffey Second Reader The Tale of Jolly Robin - Arthur Scott Bailey The Tale of Solomon Owl - Arthur Scott Bailey Our Hero General Grant - Josephine Pollard The Tale of Paddy Muskrat - Arthur Scott Bailey The Bobbsey Twins at School - Laura Lee Hope Childhood's Happy Hours - Various Authors Columbus and The Discovery of The New World - Pollard The Bible for Young People - Josephine Pollard Fifty Famous Stories - James Baldwin Four Naval Heroes - Mabel H. Beebe The Rover Boys on The Great Lakes - Arthur M. Winfield The Rover Boys on The River - Arthur M. Winfield Five Little Peppers and How They Grew - Margaret Sidney Five Little Peppers Midway - Margaret Sidney The Rover Boys at College - Arthur M. Winfield Tom Swift and His Airship - Victor Appleton The Rover Boys on The Ocean - Arthur M. Winfield Tom Swift and His Air Scout - Victor Appleton The Adventures of Pinocchio - C. Collodi The Rover Boys on a Tour - Arthur M. Winfield The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle - Arthur M. Winfield Ben Pepper - Margaret Sidney Uncle Remus - Joel Chandler Harris The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island - Arthur M. Winfield Aesop's Fables - Aesop The Rover Boys in Southern Waters - Arthur M. Winfield Joel Pepper - Margaret Sidney Heidi - Johanna Spyri The Rover Boys on Land and Sea - Arthur M. Winfield Tom Swift and His Motor Boat - Victor Appleton Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggins The Rover Boys Down East - Arthur M. Winfield Do and Dare - Horatio Alger Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll The Rover Boys on a Hunt - Arthur M. Winfield Uncle Remus Returns - Joel Chandler Harris Jack's Ward - Horatio Alger 1879 McGuffey Third Reader Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates - Mary Maples Dodge Boy Knight: A Tale of the Crusades - G. A. Henty Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat - Victor Appleton Little Women - Louisa May Alcott Bob, Son of Battle - Alfred Ollivant Little Men - Louisa May Alcott 1879 McGuffey Fourth Reader The Pied Piper - Robert Browning The Life of Lafayette - Henry C. Watson Brave and Bold - Horatio Alger Facing the World David Crockett, Scout - Charles Fletcher Allen Up from Slavery - Booker T. Washington Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling Told By Uncle Remus - Joel Chandler Harris The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle Uncle Remus and His Friends - Joel Chandler Harris 1879 McGuffey Fifth Reader Picturesque America #1 - William Cullen Bryant Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift Tom Sawyer - Samuel L. Clemens - (Mark Twain) Memoirs of U. S. Grant Vol#1 - Ulysses S. Grant The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling The Second Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling The Pathfinder - James Fenimore Cooper Memoirs of U. S. Grant Vol#2 - Ulysses S. Grant Life of Washington Vol#1 - Washington Irving The Song of Hiawatha - Longfellow The Prince and the Pauper - Samuel L. Clemens Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan Life of Washington Vol#2 - Washington Irving Poems of Kipling - Rudyard Kipling 1879 McGuffey Sixth Reader Life of Washington Vol#3 - Washington Irving The Spy - James Fenimore Cooper Picturesque America #2 - William Cullen Bryant Diaries of George Washington Vol#1 - Washington The Law - Frederic Bastiat Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson Diaries of George Washington Vol#2 - Washington Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Franklin Pudd'nhead Wilson - Samuel L. Clemens Diaries of George Washington Vol#3 - Washington Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes - Oliver Wendell Holmes Afloat and Ashore - James Fenimore Cooper Diaries of George Washington Vol#4 - Washington David Crockett's Autobiography - David Crockett Not Yours to Give - David Crockett The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith Economic Sophisms - Frederic Bastiat Life of Lincoln - L. P. Brockett The Friendly Arctic - Vilhjalmar Stefansson What has Government Done to Our Money? - Murray Rothbard The Song of Roland - Unknown Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt On That Day Began Lies - Leonard Read The Holy War - John Bunyan The Soldier in Our Civil War Vol#1 - Frank Leslie Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood - George MacDonald Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne Heather and Snow - George MacDonald The Life of Stonewall Jackson - R. L. Dabney The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne The White Company - Arthur Conan Doyle Environmental Overkill - Dixie Lee Ray & Lou Guzzo The Heart of the Antarctic Vol#1 - E. H. Shackleton Tom Sawyer: Abroad, Detective - Samuel L. Clemens The Soldier in Our Civil War Vol#2 - Frank Leslie The Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt - Roosevelt Oliver Twist - Dickens Huckleberry Finn - Samuel Clemens Memoirs of William Tecumseh Sherman - Sherman Don Quixote - Cervantes Life on the Mississippi - Samuel Clemens Cicero's Orations - Cicero The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton The Heart of the Antarctic Vol#2 - E. H. Shackleton Julius Caesar - Shakespeare Of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals - William Harvey United States Historical Documents The Enterprising Americans - John Chamberlain My African Journey - Winston Churchill The War Between the States - Alexander Stephens Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens The Health Hazards of Not going Nuclear - Peter Beckmann Rise and Fall of the Confederate Gov Vol#1 - Jefferson Davis Faraday's Lectures - Faraday Flat Money Inflation in France - Andrew Dickson White Caesar's Gallic War - Julius Caesar Lincoln's Speeches and Letters - Lincoln The World Crisis - Winston Churchill Rise and Fall of the Confederate Gov Vol#2 - Jefferson Davis Fifty Years in the Royal Navy - Admiral Sir Percy Scott King Henry V - Shakespeare Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana Common Sense of the Exact Sciences - W. K. Clifford Paradise Lost - John Milton Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith Paradise Regained - John Milton Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol#1 - John Calvin The Prince - Nicolo Machiavelli Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - Shakespeare Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol#2 - John Calvin The Ultimate Resource II - Julian Simon Access to Energy - Arthur Robinson An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Vol#1 - John Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Vol#2 - John Locke Observations on Daniel and St. John - Isaac Newton Bellum Civile - Julius Caesar De Bello Gallico - Julius Caesar The Mechanical Universe - Olenick, Apostol, and Goodstein Answers to the Mechanical Universe Beyond the Mechanical Universe Answers to Beyond the Mechanical Universe Supplementary Physics Problems - Foster Strong Statistical Mechanics - Norman Davidson Chemical Principles - Gray, and Haight Dickerson Thermodynamics - Lewis and Randall Nuclear War Survival Skills - Cresson H. Kearny Supplemental Reading list - All Fiction Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple - Sophie May Dotty Dimple at Play Dotty Dimple At Home Dotty Dimple Out West Dotty Dimple's Flyaway Dotty Dimple at her Grandmother's Little Prudy's Sister Suzy Ruth Fielding of The Red Mill - All by Alice B. Emerson Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall Ruth Fielding At Snow Camp Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm Ruth Fielding and The Gypsies Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Ruth Fielding at College Ruth Fielding in The Red Cross Ruth Fielding at The War Front Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound The Bobbsey Twins in the Country - Series all by Laura Lee Hope The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook The Bobbsey Twins at Home The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island The Bobbsey Twins on the Deep Blue Sea The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle - Victor Appleton Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout Tom Swift and His Wireless Message Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera Young Salesman - Horatio Alger Strive and Succeed Slow and Sure Phil, the Fiddler Erie Train Boy Young Acrobat Making His Way Only an Irish Boy Sam's Chance Andy Gordon Paul, the Peddler Charlie Codman's Cruise Joe's Luck Frank's Campaign Andy Grant's Pluck Hector's Inheritance The Cash Boy Luke Walton Walter Sherwood's Probation Bound to Rise Jed, the Poor House Boy Risen from the Ranks The Tale of Reddy Woodpecker - A.S. Bailey The Tale of Chirpy Cricket - A.S. Bailey The Tale of Old Dog Spot - A.S. Bailey Elsie Dinsmore - Martha Finley Elsie's Girlhood Mildred and Elsie Elsie's Children Border Boys in the Canadian Rockies - Fremont B. Deering The Border Boys Across the Frontier Dick Hamilton's Fortune - Howard R. Garis Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days From Office Boy to Reporter Harry Watson's High School Days - Frank V. Webster The Boy Pilot of the Lakes The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies - Frank Gee Patchin The Pony Rider Boys in Montana The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico Camping out Days at Putnam Hall - Arthur M. Winfield The Rover Boys in Camp The Rover Boys in The Air The Haunted Mine - Harry Castleman The Wonder Island Boys - The Castaways - Roger Finlay The Wonder Island Boys - Capture and Pursuit
Here's an even better one. TEXT BOOKS 1879 McGuffey Readers, all seven books by William H. McGuffey Phonics Program, Sentence Building Program, 1000's of Copywork assignments to choose from. Written by Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg: Graded Lessons in English, Higher Lessons in Grammar, Word Building, and Word Lessons The Palmer Method of Business Writing The Art of Writing by Robert Lewis Stevenson ECONOMICS Economic Sophisms by Frederic Bastiat Fiat Money Inflation in France by Andrew Dickson White Wealth of Nations, Books 1-5 by Adam Smith HISTORY World History: A Short History of The World, H.G. Wells A Child's History of England, Charles Dickens Beacon Lights of History, John Lord China and the Manchus, Herbert A. Giles American History: History of the United States, Life of George Washington, and Our Naval Hero's by Josephine Pollard- One Syllable Books. Life of Abraham Lincoln, Harriett Putman- One Syllable Book. American History Stories, Volumes 2 and 4 by Mara L. Pratt The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boone, John Filson David Crockett; His Life and Adventures, John S. C. Abbott. Davy Crockett You Have No Right, by Davy Crockett First Across The Continent (The Story of Lewis & Clark) by Noah Brooks Ben Franklin Autobiography - Ben Franklin Democracy In America; Volumes 1 & 2, Alexis De Tocqueville Chronicles of America Series: The Chronicles of America Series was published by Yale University between 1919 and 1922. Each work was written by an expert in the field. Vol. 01 The Red Man's Continent Vol. 05 Pioneers of the Old South Vol. 08 The Quaker Colonies Vol. 10 The Conquest Of New France Vol. 11 The Eve of the Revolution Vol. 12 Washington And His Comrades In Arms Vol. 13 The Fathers of the Constitution Vol. 15 Jefferson and his Colleagues Vol. 16 John Marshall and the Supreme Court Vol. 18 The Old Southwest Vol. 19 The Old Northwest Vol. 21 Paths of Inland Commerce Vol. 26 The Passing of the Frontier Vol. 28 The Anti-Slavery Crusade Vol. 29 Abraham Lincoln and the Union Vol. 30 The Day of the Confederacy Vol. 31 Captains of the Civil War Vol. 32 Sequel of Appomattox Vol. 34 The American Spirit in Literature Vol. 36 The Old Merchant Marine Vol. 37 The Age of Invention Vol. 38 The Railroad Builders Vol. 39 The Age of Big Business Vol. 40 The Armies of Labor Vol. 43 The Boss and the Machine Vol. 44 The Cleveland Era Vol. 45 The Agrarian Crusade Vol. 46 The Path of Empire Vol. 49 The Canadian Dominion Vol. 50 The Hispanic Nations Of The New World Founding and Other Important Documents: Frederick Douglas Narrative, Douglas Articles of Confederation Common Sense Daniel Leonard - John Adams Interchange Jan 1775 Declaration of Independence Rough Draft Federalist Papers Jefferson's Addresses George Washington's Farewell Address Resolutions of the Stamp Act The American Crisis The Declaration of Independence The Maryland Toleration Act The Mayflower Compact The Monroe Doctrine The Northwest Ordinance The Rights of Man The United States Constitution Gettysburg Address Hero Tales From American History, by Henry Cabot Lodge And Theodore Roosevelt Kennedy Inaugural by John F. Kennedy Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant Vol. I & II by Grant The Dollar Bill, Anonymous Slavery in Massachusetts, by Henry David Thoreau The Art of War by Sun Tsu< The Prince by Machivelli MATH Worksheet Generator (non-text) Counting to Pre-Algebra-text, "Steps to Mastering Arithmetic" Elements of Abstract and Linear Algebra by E. H. Connell SCIENCE Kindergarten to 12th grade course of study- (topics that are generally taught in each grade level) READING BOOKS: A Girl of The Limberlost, Song of the Cardinal, At The Foot Of The Rainbow, and Freckles By Gene Stratton-Porter The Jabberwocky, Alice In Wonderland, Hunting of the Snark, and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving Uncle Remus His Songs and His Sayings, Joel Chandler Harris Little Men and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Complete Poetic Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Wreck Of The Hesperus, and Paul Reveres Ride by Longfellow Lincolns Yarns and Stories by Colonel Alexander K. McClure Cast Upon The Breakers, Ballads, Driven From Home, Frank's Campaign, Joe The Hotel Boy, Paul Prescotts Charge, Paul The Peddler, Phil The Fiddler, Struggling Upward, The Cash Boy, and The Errand Boy by Horatio Alger Jr. Aesops Fables by Aesop Gullivers Travels, Jonathan Swift Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe The Bobbsey Twins at Home, The Bobbsey Twins At School, The Bobbsey Twins In The Country, The Outdoor Girls At Rainbow Lake, and The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge by Laura Lee Hope Tom Swift Among The Fire Fighters, Tom Swift Among The Diamond Makers, Tom Swift and his Aerial Warship, Tom Swift and His Air Glider, Tom Swift and His Air Scout, Tom Swift And His Big Tunnel, Tom Swift And His Electric Locomotive, Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle, Tom Swift And His Motor-Boat, Tom Swift And His Sky Racer, Tom Swift And His Submarine Boat, Tom Swift And His Undersea Search, Tom Swift And His War Tank, Tom Swift And His Wizard Camera, and Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders - all by Victor Appleton Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge Heidi By Johanna Spyri Just So Stories and The Jungle Book by Ruyard Kipling Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin Swiss Family Robinson by J.D. Wyss Tales of Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb The Adventures of Pinocchio, C. Collodi With Lee in Virginia, G. A. Hently The Rover Boys In New York and The Rover Boys In Business by Arthur M. Winfield Literature Authors Also Include: Oliver Goldsmith, George MacDonald, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Jane Austin, Dana, Bulwer, Frederick Douglas, Steven Crane, James Lincoln, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emerson, Hubbard, Melville, Moore, Edgar Allan Poe, Prescott, Mark Twain, Wallace, Walt Whitman, Baum, Bierce, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Cather, Jack London, Millay, Norris, Phillips, Sandburg Wright, Chaucer, Spencer, Behn, Bunyan, John Milton, Crane, Dreiser, Henry Lewis, Burke Cleland, Booker T. Washington, Rinehart, Coleridge, Gay, Gray Paine, Swift, Wollstonecraft, Abbott, Bronte, Browning,Burnett, Burton Byron, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eliot, Hardy, Keats, Kipling, Lang, Scott, Shelley Stoker, Tennyson, Trollope, Oscar Wilde, Barrie, Buchan, Burnett, Butler, Conrad etc.. Philosophy Authors Include: Epictetus,Lucretius, Machiavelli, Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke Pascal, Perkeley, Hume, Kant, Paine, Rousseau, Voltaire, James Leibniz, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Plotinus, Augustine, Plato and Aristotle
Nice List... printing it out in hard copy... I picked up American Education Publishing's Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills for each of the grades... covers reading, english, reading comprehension, math and spelling... turns out its the same book my daughter's school is using to supplement their own curriculum.... great for her to come home and review and get ahead.... Thanks for posting...
Re: Books & OUTSTANDING LINKS/INFO. to share... Looks GOOD Melbo! ; ) Are you a HOMESCHOOLIN' PARENT... If so, good for you!!!! I actually have an on-line HOMESCHOOL GROUP, and we regularly get together with locals in our part of the country. It's heaps of FUN! Just scanned through your list... Did you mention all of the LAURA INGALLS WILDER BOOKS? Those are OUTSTANDING, and they do ALOT of talkin' about the "SIMPLE TIMES" which is beyond educational. Over here we are very much "ECLECTIC" doing a bit of everything. The McGuffey Readers are WONDERFUL, The Harvey's Grammer Books are as well, and then RAY'S ARITHMETIC, WOO HOO!!!! GREAT EDUCATIONAL STUFF, most people probably have very little knowledge with regards to their contents, sadly. : ( Here's a LINK to where one can get some of the above mentioned: http://www.mottmedia.com/ You also forgot, A HIGH-QUALITY Dictionary like a MERRIAM-WEBSTERS COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY (which is great for all ages if you are into THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX) Here's a good place http://homeschooling.about.com/od/m...hods_Finding_a_Method_thats_Right_for_You.htm to learn about "HOMESCHOOL METHODS" for those who are thinking about it or just starting out. and a few others to share... SMOKEY THE BEAR SITE http://www.smokeybear.com/resources.asp THE WOODSEY OWL SITE http://www.fs.fed.us/spf/woodsy/ When it comes to PHYSICAL FITNESS We promote ALOT of OUTDOORS/PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES. For example, tending to the animals (which we raise for food), garden/orchard, archery, survivalism/primitive techniques, harvesting firewood, & etc. As for HEALTH, (& PREPAREDNESS) here are some LINKS to what we teach/promote & some which others may find useful: "Recommendations to the U.S. Dietary Committee" from the W.A.P. Basically their recommendation is to "ABANDON THE U.S.D.A'S FOOD PYRAMID & Dietary Guidelines Concept" and RETURN THE DIETARY GUIDELINES TO A PLAN THAT STRESSES HIGH QUALITY FOODS FROM THE FOUR BASIC FOOD GROUPS. You can read more @ the LINK below: http://bachlab.balbach.net/wap_senate2005.pdf Know your Fats Are you confused about GOOD & BAD FATS? http://tinyurl.com/hho2u Children's Health Important things you should know... http://tinyurl.com/y9fhrr Modern Diseases & etc. & How to protect yourself from cancer with food... http://tinyurl.com/gmjuv Real Milk A campaign for REAL HEALTHFUL MILK http://www.realmilk.com/ Nutrition & Physical Degeneration A wonderful book of great importance... http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0203CAT/020305ppnf/PPNF.HTML Learn how to cook Traditional Healthful Healing Foods like grandma use to make... How to make FOOD your medicine! http://www.rejoiceinlife.com/media/mediaRelease/sdsales.php SOY ALERT! Confused About Soy? Click here to read more.... http://tinyurl.com/2elom Attack of the Killer Bean! Beware of a commonly eaten food which is harming people left and right. Spread the word and keep people safe!!!! http://www.roex.com/Articles/killerbeanarticle.htm The Soil & Health On-Line Library Another wonderful source of information to share... lots of good reading. http://www.soilandhealth.org/ Local W.A.P. Chapters A place where you can find natural healthful foods for sale in your area. (<--GREAT for those who have no interest in doing for themselves, or those who do, but aren't there yet! : ) http://www.westonaprice.org/localchapters/index.html Dr. Mercola's site Another site for health information http://www.mercola.com/index.htm EMERGENCY WAR SURGERY http://www.bordeninstitute.army.mil/emrgncywarsurg/default.html Where Women Have No Doctor Very Useful Info.... http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php#wwhnd Midwifery, A Book For Midwives Very useful Info. http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php#midwives Where There Is No Dentist Free on-line info. which is very important for those who want to be sustainable or do for themselves when there are no other options. http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php#dentist Where There Is No Doctor Free on-line book full of very useful/important info. you may need one day. http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php#wtnd WILDERNESS WAY - PRIMITIVE SKILLS & EARTH WISDOM (FEATURED ARTICLES of Interest) http://www.wwmag.net/features.htm Human Anatomy Online Illustrated guide to the body's major systems: skeletal, nervous, digestive, cardiovascular, muscular, lymphatic, endocrine, and reproductive. http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html The "FEMALE Reproductive" System http://www.teenshealth.com/teen/sexual_health/changing_body/female_repro.html The "MALE Reproductive" System http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/general/body_basics/male_reproductive.html "Sex Education Programs" - Definitions & Point-by-Point Comparison http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/rrr/definitions.htm Sexually Transmitted Diseases http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/infections/std/talk_child_stds.html The Visable Embryo The Visible Embryo is a visual guide through fetal development from fertilization through pregnancy to birth... http://www.visembryo.com/ My husband has also taken a "MASTER HERBALIST COURSE" from a very prominant school which also has on-line courses available. Through them when have gained much knowledge & quite an outstanding collection of books which are beyond useful. One of the BEST THINGS is to know WHAT GROWS WILD amongst you, HOW TO IDENTIFY IT, HOW TO PREPARE & USE IT if need be -from MOTHER NATURE'S FREE PHARMACY! Very useful if the S.H.T.F. or if there were a catastrophic event which changed life as we know it and you HAD TO DO FOR YOURSELF permanently. Ok, that's all for now, I shall try and post more GOODIES TO SHARE @ a later date. Have a GREAT WEEKEND everyone & HAPPY HOMESCHOOLING! ~Wildernessgal~ P.S.- This could also be useful : How To Legally Avoid Unwanted Immunizations Of All Kinds As you read this work and put its principles into practice, there are two basic axioms you never want to forget. They are the rock upon which all your actions are based. 1 - Nobody, anywhere or any time and under any circumstances has the right or power in this country to immunize you or your children against your will and conviction. If they attempt to do so, you can legally charge them with "assault with a deadly weapon" and have the full resources of our laws behind you. 2 - At all times in attempting to avoid unwanted immunization, you have the Law of the Land behind you. Those who would try to vaccinate you against your will are on very shaky ground. Into every compulsory immunization law in America are written legal exceptions and waivers which are there specifically to protect you from the attempted tyranny of officialdom. It is not only your right, but your obligation to use them, if this is what your conscience tells you....You can read more @ the LINK below: http://www.mercola.com/article/vaccines/legally_avoid_shots.htm I also like this site very much. Has some good reading... The Alliance for Separation of School & State The Case for Separation America was a free and thriving country, the envy of the world, well before compulsory state schooling was instituted. Take a deeper look here at how the state came to control education, why it shouldn't, and how millions of people are taking back their educational freedom. http://www.schoolandstate.org/case.htm
Re: Almost forgot!?!?! LOL Here are some of our FAVORITES: ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS By SCOTT O'DELL An outstanding survivalist/subsistence story about a real place (St Nicholas Island off the coast of CA.)& a real person who lived alone with wild dogs on an island for many years.. BRIGHTY OF THE GRAND CANYON BY MARGUERITE HENRY A great story abut a real donkey who lived in the Grand Canyon. THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA BY C.S. LEWIS ...And we are getting ready to read the JULIE OF THE WOLVES TREASURY (3 IN 1 BOOKS FROM A SERIES) BY JEAN CRAIGHEAD GEORGE It's another survivalist/subsistence type story about an Alaskan girl in the wilderness... Two books which have been beyond helpful in our HOMESCHOOLING ADVENTURES are: HOMESCHOOL YOUR CHILD FOR FREE More than 1,200 Smart, Effective, and Practical Resources for HOME EDUCATION on the Internet & Beyond BY LAURA MAERY GOLD & JOAN M/ ZIELINSKI and THE EDUCATED CHILD - A PARENTS GUIDE BY AUTHOR WILLIAM J. BENNET There, I'm sure I'll think of many more goodies which I have forgotten upon sending this in... But those will have to wait for a later date!? LOL ~Wildernessgal~
This is a great program to teach your kids to read. No pictures that tell the story, just words and learning the property way to sound out and read the words. We started this program with my daughter when she was 4.5 and at 7 she is reading the Little House books....basically she is reading at a 3rd grade level and higher. My son is starting the program right now. http://www.turboreader.com/
Julie of the Wolves Trilogy ( AK Survival Story ) Hello there! Well I haven't been on S.M. in AGES! Yep, I know, I know... but I could not help it, as we get pretty busy with all that we do over here (including homeschooling). Plus sometimes I get "too tired" for the darn computer ya know! Anyway, some time ago (months back) I had written that we were getting ready to read Julie of the Wolves as part of our homeschooling. Well to make a loooooong story short, our version is "THREE BOOKS IN ONE" (A Trilogy) and we read it all (it was one very thick book indeed) 1 day shy of 3 weeks! YAHOO!!! [/IMG] What an AWESOME SURVIVAL STORY.... WE DEFINATELY RECOMMEND IT!!!! In the beginning it may be a bit slow for those of you who may not like details on animal behaviour, but after that it really flows, and you'll have trouble putting the book down, as we did! ha,ha This is a very good book for homeschoolers... young & old alike! Just thought I'd share... ~W~ (a very busy backcountry homesteadin' homeschoolin' survivalist mom ) P.S.- HAPPY READING everyone!
My Side of the Mountain ~ By Author Jean Craighead George Book title: My Side of the Mountain By Author Jean Craighead George My Side Of The Mountain - Book Description In 1959, Jean Craighead George published My Side of the Mountain. This coming-of-age story about a boy and his falcon went on to win a Newbery Honor, and for the past forty years has enthralled and entertained generations of would-be Sam Gribleys. The two books that followed--On the Far Side of the Mountain and Frightful's Mountain--were equally extraordinary. Now all three books are available in one deluxe yet affordable volume for veteran devotees and brand-new fans alike. BOOK REVIEW on the above Book of Interest Three wonderful stories together in one stunning volume, February 7, 2001 <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>Review by </TD><TD>[URL='http://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...][B][COLOR=#0060bf]Isabel Harding[/COLOR][/B]</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Jean Craighead George's MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN is, quite simply, a masterpiece of children's literature. Almost half a century after its original publication, it is now available in this gorgeous hardcover edition, along with its two stunning sequels, ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN and FRIGHTFUL'S MOUNTAIN. Wendell Minor, illustrator of two of Ms. George's classic JULIE OF THE WOLVES books and many splendid picture books, has done the cover, and Ms. George herself did the fine line drawings for the three books. However, the true beauty of the volume lies with the words that grace its pages. In the first book, Sam is a young teenager who is tired of living in his crowded New York City apartment and steals away to the Catskill Mountains to live in seclusion among nature. There, he burns out a tree to make it his cozy home, learns about wild foods and how to find them, and captures a young peregrine falcon, Frightful, to train to hunt for him. The first book was written in the past tense from Sam's point of view, and is filled with details and entries from Sam's journal. Ms. George manages, in her usual way, to tell about and inspire readers about nature, without sentimentalizing it, and to develop young characters without underestimating them. The journal entries are written just as a kid would write them, in simple, yet interesting text. In fact, many readers have been led to believe that a thirteen-year-old boy actually did write the book. MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN won a Newbery Honor (later Ms. George was to be awarded a Newbery Medal for her truly magnificent JULIE OF THE WOLVES). The second book, ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN, is written, even more effectively, in the present tense, as Sam finds his way into more exciting adventures. He still enjoys a life in the mountains--but he is no longer alone, as his sister, Alice, has joined him. This book is written more realistically and in a more modern settting. For example, peregrine falcons are an endangered species, and Frightful must be confiscated by a conservation officer. However, Sam isn't so sure that he really is a legal government worker, and, along with his friend Bando, he takes off to find his beloved feathered friend. At about the same time, Alice disappears, and Sam must find two of the things that mean the most to him. The ending is very exciting, but the sequel never loses the charming, easygoing coziness of its predecessor. In the third book, FRIGHTFUL'S MOUNTAIN, Sam is forced to let Frightful free, as it is illegal to own an endangered species. Frightful, having lived nearly her whole life and depended almost entirely on humans for her survival, faces many challenges in her life in the wild. There are natural dangers--other birds of prey, hurricanes--but the book's basic story relies on Frightful's increasing conflicts with humans. Telephone wires cause an eletrocution threat, DDT poison weakens eggs, and Frightful faces a harrowing few days trying to raise young on a New York bridge. The result of all three books has changed my way of looking at the world. I have started a journal, I dream of living away from the strange world of humankind, I want to try dandelion salad and acorn pancakes, and I constantly watch the skies for peregrine falcons soaring above (there is only one nesting pair in Georgia this year but I am paying attention to conservation efforts to help Frightful and her kind). With this beautiful special edition of three incredible books, I look forward to sharing the story of Sam Gribley and Frightful with my own children someday. Whatever you choose to read... HAPPY READING TO ALL! ~W~
Call of the Wild (A Better & Complete Original Version) Call of the Wild is another AWESOME CLASSIC! Over here we had several different ones, and then after researching we found "what we thought was THE BEST" for our child/family library. There's a new version of CALL OF THE WILD By Jack London, which was put out by Danial Dyer. This one is THE BEST!!!! WHY, you may be asking??? Well the above version has a "Readers Companion", Historical PHOTOGRAPHS from the actual REAL PLACES described in the story, and is also the REAL full version & not the CENSORED VERSION which was mass circulated (as they didn't want to offend readers) ... Here's what it says on the inside of the dust jacket (below): -------------------------------------------------------------------- THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London, is one of America's best-known novels. Currently published in more than twenty separate editions in English alone, this novel about the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896 to 1899 has been continuously in print since it first appeared in 1903. In his Reader's Companion to this new edition, Daniel Dyer provides a wealth of annotations explaining the book's many "sourdough" expressions and geographical references in order to help the modern reader see what London saw. Dyer also identifies characters in the novel-human and canine alike - whom London had known, and he spices his annotations with Northern Lore and tales from that astonishing time. Many of the editions of THE CALL OF THE WILD currently in print are distortions of the original text: The violence has been modified, the rough language sanitized, the punctuation and spelling modernized. This new edition duplicates THE ORIGINAL FIRST BOOK EDITION , which London himself edited and approved. In writing the novel, Jack London did not venture far from his own experiences in California and the Klondike, and indeed, each of the fifty place-names in the tale can be pin pointed on the maps that accompany this edition. Dyer (whose great-grandfather participated in the Gold Rush) followed in London's footsteps from Santa Clara, California, to Dawson City, Yukon, including a trek over the Northland's formidable Chilkoot Pass and cruises on the Yukon River. He accumulated dozens of photographs, maps, and other documents from libraries and archives throughout the United States and Canada, from the Library of Congress to the Yukon Archives in Whitehorse. This volume will be welcomed by all lovers of Jack London and the frozen North. For the uninitiated, it will open the door to a remarkable time now gone forever. --------------------------------------------------------- If you can find yourself a copy of the above described version, I'd say GO FOR IT/snatch it up if you can, 'cause it's OUTSTANDING with LOTS OF EXTRAS (INCREDIBLE PICS) which stimulate the mind! Even I LOVE it! HAPPY READING!! Wildernessgal & family (A homeschoolin' Mom....)
Tapestry of Grace - the classical, Christian homeschool curriculum for the whole family | Tapestry of Grace This is the curriculum we use in our homeschool. They have a great book list built into the program. This is a Christian curriculum that traces HIStory in history.
Educational Book Recommendations for Homeschooling Oh yes... here are a few others we also recommend: Title: Atlas of Life on Earth Contents as listed below PART 1 - IN THE BEGINNING PART 2 - THE EARLY PALEOZOIC PART 3 - THE LATE PALEOZOIC PART 4 - THE MESOZOIC PART 5 - THE TERTIARY PART 6 - THE QUATERNARY Then there is also... Title: INTRODUCING PREHISTORY Wow what a most AMAZING BOOK! It's been a GREAT educational tool as it explains carbon dating, the potassium-argon method & so on... Also here are some LINKS to "CARBON DATING" http://science.howstuffworks.com/carbon-14.htm & "THE POTASSIUM ARGON METHOD" if it interests anyone. http://archaeology.about.com/od/pterms/g/potassiumargon.htm Also here's a neat photo below... (one of our favorites) A very very aged "forever preserved" set of footprints said to be the oldest ever found, located in Africa The above image came out of a really good book called : LOVE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD By Author Christopher Miles & John Julius Norwich. Depending upon "ONE'S STANDARDS" this one could be for a much more mature audience/age group, as it has some nudity/provocative poses in some of the artwork within. As for myself , I am an artist who's worked with nude models...daughter and I have already gone through this book with no problems at all. She's going to be 8 here shortly, and we didn't want to make a big deal out of the human body/human nature/look at the worlds TRUE HISTORY & not the censored version... as I think that is part of the problem now a days. Just my 2 cents/opinion! But anyway, there are so many options/things to choose from.... all one needs to do is find what works best for themselves/family! Happy HOMESCHOOLIN' everyone! ~W~
Re: Great LINK for a K-12 Homeschool Curriculum... Here's a LINK of interest to share: https://www.homeschoolingbooks.com/ Here you can get the ORIGINAL MCGUFFEY READERS Set https://www.homeschoolingbooks.com/pages/itemdetail.asp?ItemID=2438 HARVEYS GRAMMER Set https://www.homeschoolingbooks.com/pages/itemdetail.asp?ItemID=2486 RAYS ARITHMETIC Set https://www.homeschoolingbooks.com/pages/itemdetail.asp?ItemID=2401 and so much more... Hope that ya find what ya need & HAPPY HOMESCHOOLING to all! Sincerely, ~Wildernessgal~