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Thanksgiving: Its Origin, Celebration and Significance

Thanksgiving Its Origin, Celebration and Significance
as Related in Prose and Verse
By Robert Haven Schauffler
This free historical book, written in 1915, features over 200 pages of information (in the form of stories and poems) the American Thanksgiving Day.  It would be a great addition to any November curriculum!
Download this entire book for free here.

Historical Games and Songs of American Children

Games and Songs of American Children By William Wells Newell
This book, written in 1884 and available for free download here, is a gem of a find!  Don’t we all remember little games we played with our friends as children?  History buffs will especially love this book!
Sometimes the game is described in detail (with reference to [...]

Daily Weather Poster & Free Weather Cards

Daily Weather Poster & Free Weather Cards

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Help your child develop weather recognition with this 
FREE DAILY WEATHER POSTER
 from Homeschool Fever.
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(Instructions included in the PDF file)
 

Children’s Games for November (and Other Free Goodies)

Primary Education
This adorable (and very long!) public domain book, which can be downloaded and printed out for free here, offers a variety of games, songs, poems for children. Activities are broken up week by week and into subjects (hygeine, phonics, music, drawing, and even seatwork).
Children’s music score sheets, coloring pages, detailed articles about teaching [...]

Dolch Sight Words List - Alphabetical Order

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Edward William Dolch, PhD, originally published this list of sightwords in his book Problems in Reading in 1948.
The list was based on children’s books of his era. It contains 220 words that must be easily recognized in order to achieve reading fluency. The compilation excludes nouns, which comprise a separate 95-word list.
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Free Dolch Sight Word Flashcards (A-B)

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Edward William Dolch, PhD, originally published this list of sightwords in his book Problems in Reading in 1948.
The list was based on children’s books of his era. It contains 220 words that must be easily recognized in order to achieve reading fluency. The compilation excludes nouns, which comprise a separate 95-word list.
Many of the 220 [...]

B is for Ball

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A is for Apple

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Practice writing the letter A in both capital and little letter form
on this colorful worksheet from Homeschool Fever.

Using Usborne Books in the Homeschool

Are you looking for a quality publisher that has wonderful non-fiction living books that you can add to your home collection?
Usborne Publishing is the leading provider of colorful, children-friendly “teaching” picture books. While non-fiction learning is their main priority, they also provide many colorful fictional books, including classics, puzzles, games, and early reader books.
Popular “living [...]