Books with author Margaret Fetty

A collection of parables by Margaret Gatty which includes the following: A Lesson of Faith, The Law of Authority and Obedience, The Unknown Land, Knowledge not the Limit of Belief, Training and Restraining, The Light of Truth, Waiting, A Lesson of Hope, The Circle of Blessing, The Law of the Wood, Active and Passive, Daily Bread, Not Lost, But Gone Before, Motes in the Sunbeam, Red Snow, Whereunto?, Purring When You're Pleased, The Voices of the Earth, The Master of the Harvest, The Deliverer, Inferior Animals, The General Thaw, The Light of Life, Gifts, Night and Day, Kicking, Imperfect Instruments, Cobwebs, and Birds in the Nest.

In Show Horses, young children will read thrilling narratives of highly skilled horses and their riders competing in national and international events of prowess. Show Horses details the different breeds of horses suited for various competitive events, and explains how horses and riders working together will win such competitions as dressage, jumping, and three-day eventing. Students also will learn how horses are selected for shows as they follow them through training to their first day in the show ring before an audience. Action photos and a rich narrative text emphasize the unique relationship forged between a horse and rider that produces a winning team.

With the increased focus on literacy in the classroom, it is more important than ever to provide students with interesting reading activities. The reading activities in Theme-Based Reading Comprehension help develop students' phonemic awareness, phonics skills, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. This book has been written thematically. The use of themes increases reading comprehension skills by focusing students' attention on one subject. Use the pages located within each theme as a unit or individually at different times throughout your school year. The themes are based on languages arts, math, social studies, science, and arts topics from the appropriate grade level. The activities within each unit reinforce comprehension skills such as finding the main idea, summarizing, inferencing, cloze procedure, compare and contrast, sequencing, cause and effect, story elements, classification, and more. The activities include a variety of multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, short answer, and long answer questions. A standards correlation chart and pre- and posttest are included to help assess the progress of your students.

"There are two books," says Sir Thomas Browne, in his Religio Medici, "from whence I collect my divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant, Nature-that universal and public manuscript that lies expanded unto the eyes of all: those that never saw Him in the one have discovered Him in the other."Each timeless story uses nature to reveal God in a beautiful way.This edition of Parables From Nature collects the first four series of Margaret Gatty's collection and re-orders them to fit in with the Ambleside Online homeschool curriculum.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... the opposite corner, I see the sentinel guard, who will never stir from his post, until the assembly has dispersed, unless he hears or sees symptoms of danger or interruption, and then he will dash out and fly among them, making his warning cry, so different from all others, that any one who has once heard it will recognize it again. We must whisper our remarks very softly then, or it may give notice of our presence here, and all the flock may forsake the field. How solemn and grave, yet how keen and attentive he looks! How patient and observant! Contented not to join the fun himself, so that he may but promote it. Unselfish, dark watchman, are you paid for your trouble, and if so, how? Or do you do it out of love and affection for your brethren, expecting love and affection from them in return, on some future occasion, when one of them will watch, and you be allowed to play? Play, I still say; but can this be only play indeed? Surely something graver and more important than play must have brought these different companies and families from their often distant homes, to this spot? Alas! how vain are my questionings! nature remains mute around me, and man is ignorant and unable to answer. Yes! ignorant and unable to answer, let him say what he will. Hear this, oh you philosophers,--you lights of the world, with your books and papers and diagrams, and collected facts, and self-confidence unlimited! You who turn the bull's eye of your miserable lanthorns upon isolated corners of the universe, and fancy you are sitting in the supreme light of creative knowledge! Hear this; you are ignorant and unable to answer; or disprove it if you can, by showing me that you do know this one simple thing which puzzles me now! Tell me what the rooks are...