This is the second of today’s freebie resources.

Amy Pak at Home School In The Woods has put together a fun-filled unit study on Christmas, sure to make your holiday special! Learn the science of crystal snowflakes (and make them!) and the history of many traditions we use today! Also included are printables, recipes, links, and a list of many ways you can give back to your community–a wonderful way to teach your children about servanthood!

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Classic Thanksgiving Recipes: Over 200 Traditional Thanksgiving Dishes (PDF ebook) – Today’s resource is this great cookbook collection of recipes covering all the courses of a traditional holiday meal! If it’s Thanksgiving-y, you’ll probably find it in this collection! Sorry, the original editor did not include an index to this book, but you’ll get lots of great ideas for goodies by browsing these pages and printing out the ones you want to try. Save some dark meat for me!

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Today, November 19th is the 145th anniversary of one of the greatest, shortest, and most quoted speeches in American history: “The Gettysburg Address” given by Abraham Lincoln in 1863.

We challenged your kids to memorize it.

Here are the results!

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Chapters from BIBLE BATTLES by Lettice Bell & Jessica Erskine (PDF ebook) – Check out these chapters from our soon to be released book “Bible Battles” (yes, a real physical paper and ink book), retelling the stories of Joshua, Gideon and Saul and the wars and exploits described in the Old Testament. These are exciting, faithfully told stories that really bring the scriptural accounts of these battles to life for young readers. This new book also has a neat interactive tool to get your kids into the scriptures themselves (take a look at the PDF, you’ll see what we mean).

If you can, be sure to join us here Thursday for our big “Publication Celebration” for this great new resource! We’ll also have a bunch of extra resources & goodies that will be offered with this for a limited time, which you won’t want to miss.

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The Path of Praise (mp3 audio) - This is our favorite annual Thanksgiving program from over at our sister site, HomeschoolRadioShows.com, one that will give your family a much deeper appreciation of our Thanksgiving holiday. “The Path of Praise” is a great “history” of the celebration of Thanksgiving, very poetic and stirring… In it you will hear a warm moment from the Pilgrims’ first Thanksgiving celebration… learn the reason behind General George Washington’s original Thanksgiving proclamation… and discover Abraham Lincoln’s reason for finally declaring Thanksgiving a national holiday. There’s also some wonderful music on this program too, which is probably our all-time favorite Thanksgiving-themed radio show. This program was first broadcast on “Cavalcade of America” on November 20, 1951. Enjoy!

If you like this, be aware we are also running some other Thanksgiving-themed programs this week and next at HomeschoolRadioShows.com!

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An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott (PDF ebook) - In this delightful short story, the author of “Little Women” tells this classic tale that re-captures the celebration of Thanksgiving as it was
observed in the early 1820s in rural New England. It is a tale full of family, fun, humor, long-lost traditions, and the smells and tastes of a Thanksgiving day “way back when”.

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Frontier Fighters: The Story of Buffalo Bill Cody (mp3 audio + PDF study guide) – Today’s resource is a great episode of the classic series “Frontier Fighters”, spotlighting the amazing story of Buffalo Bill Cody, following his career from a 14-year-old Pony Express Rider to becoming a legendary guide, Indian fighter and buffalo hunter. This is a classic old time western story, full of action and adventure! Included with this audio is a PDF study guide that you can use to make the audio into a history lesson too.

If you like this, be sure to check out our classic collection of the complete Frontier Fighters series plus tons of other Western history and adventure programs.

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Stops; Or How To Punctuate by Paul Allardyce (PDF ebook) – Today’s resource is this fine, concise guide to proper punctuation, originally published in 1895 but just as applicable today as ever.

From the introduction:

“Punctuation is a device for marking out the arrangement of a writer’s ideas. Reading is thereby made easier than it otherwise would be. A writer’s ideas are expressed by a number of words arranged in groups, the words in one group being more closely connected with one another than they are with those in the next group. An example will show this grouping in its simplest form: He never convinces the reason, or fills the imagination, or touches the heart. To understand what is written, the reader must group the words together in the way intended by the writer; and in doing this he can receive assistance in various ways. Partly by the inflection of the words; partly by their arrangement; partly also by punctuation….”

Excellent reference to have on hand any time you have a punctuation question!

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Little Hands Folded In Prayer (PDF ebook) – Today’s resource is this beautiful little collection of prayers especially for children, originally published in the 1880s. Simple and easily remembered, these would be wonderful for devotional use and memorization. Prayers for morning, evening, mealtime and special occasions.

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