(2) Expressive Activities : Draw or paint pictures illustrating the different parts of the poem. Cut the animals out of paper. Model the animals in clay. Make on the sand table a picture of the whole. Read the first stanza again. Who is speaking? To whom? Read each stanza and tell who is speaking and to whom. Who did steal the bird's nest ? Are the cow and the dog and the sheep telling the truth? What proofs do they give? Do you think they are good proofs ? What should be done to any one who would steal a bird's nest? How did the boy who stole it feel? Do you think he will do it again? Can he do anything to repay the bird? Written Exercise: Write sentences answering the questions asked above. Be careful to use capitals correctly and to put periods after the statements. (3) Rhymes Do you like rhymes? Why? Which can you remember better, sentences with rhymes or those without? Write in a list the pairs of words that rhyme in the first four stanzas. Write some other words that rhyme with each of these pairs. If you can, make rhymes with your own names. What makes a good rhyme? Written Exercise : When you have agreed upon a statement as to what makes a good rhyme, copy it in your notebook. XV THE FROG AND THE OX Sentences that ask Questions (1) Read: An ox once feeding in a meadow chanced to put his foot among a company of little frogs that were basking in the sun. He almost stepped upon them and frightened them nearly to death. One of the little frogs hopped home to his mother as quickly as he could go. Oh, 66 mother," he said, "we were sitting in the meadow when a great beast, the biggest I ever saw, put his foot right down among us and nearly stepped on us." "How big was he?" said the old frog. I?" "Oh, much bigger," said the little frog. "As big as "As big as I am now?" and the old frog puffed herself out to make herself look larger. 66 Oh, much bigger yet," said her son. "As big as this?" and she puffed herself out still more. “Oh, ever so much bigger. If you should swell until you burst, you would not be so big," said the little frog. Then the old frog tried once more to puff herself up until she should be as big as the ox, and burst herself indeed. Tell the story in class. Conversation : Talk the story over, telling what you think it means. Answer these questions in sentences for your teacher to write on the blackboard:What did the ox do? What did the little frog do? What did he say to his mother? What happened then? Find answers to the same questions, in the story in the book. Which do you like better, your answers or those in the book? Why? Expressive Activities: Illustrate the story on the blackboard. (2) Sentences that ask Questions What do sentences do? Do all of the sentences in this fable make statements? What is the first sentence that does not make a statement? What does it do? We see that sentences do more than one thing. 1. Sentences make statements. 2. Sentences ask questions. Copy these statements in your blank book. How many sentences in this fable are of the first kind? How many are of the second kind? What mark is placed after a question sentence? Copy in your blank book: Sentences that ask questions have this mark (?) at the end. It is called a question mark. Sentences that ask questions begin with capital letters. Do other sentences begin with capital letters? Let one of the class be the old frog and one the little frog and act the story. XVI THE GAMBOLS OF CHILDREN Names Memorize : Capitals Down the dimpled greensward dancing Bud-lipt boys and girls advancing, Love's irregular little levy. Rows of liquid eyes in laughter, How they glimmer, how they quiver! Like bright ripples on a river. Conversation: GEORGE Darley. What are the children in the picture doing? Do you think any one of them is not happy? Why? Tell of all the different things that you see in the picture. Give a name to each child. Written Exercise: Go to the blackboard and write the names that you have given. After your teacher tells you that they are right, copy them all just as they are on the board. With what kind of letter does each name begin? |