Would you like so large a family, if you were a mother? Do you think the mother hen minds? Could you love so large a family? Oral Exercise : Tell a story about what you think the mother and the child are saying to each other. V PROVERBS AND SAYINGS The Sentence· Capital and Period Read: A stitch in time saves nine. Time and tide wait for no man. It is a long road that has no turning. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Many hands make light work. A rolling stone gathers no moss. Each of these sayings is a sentence. Each sentence tells something. To tell something is to make a statement. Talk these sayings over in class. Tell what each one means. With what kind of letter does each one begin? What mark is placed at the end of each? Find other sentences in your language book or reader. To the Teacher. Do not attempt to frame a definition of a sentence, but discuss the children's selections with them and make sure that only sentences are chosen. Cover and case, close locked together, Open the box-you'll need no key Oh! pretty green case, did you grow for me? 'Twas only the other day I said, "I must make my dolly a feather bed;" Conversation: What is it? What do the first two lines of the poem describe? What does the third line tell you to do? Which line asks a question? Who is talking? What is she talking to when she asks the question? What did the little girl say she must do? Which two lines describe what she was going to use? What is it that is softest, fluffiest, silky, and white? Why did the little girl think the seeds would make a good feather bed for her dolly? To the Teacher. See note B, page 298. Expressive Activities: Illustrate by free-hand cutting out of paper, or by painting with ink or water colors, the following pictures: "The cover and case, close locked together." The little girl opening the box. The little girl filling the doll's feather bed. The little girl making her dolly a bed. Memorize: (2) THE MILKWEED POD Making Sentences Dainty milkweed babies Conversation and Observation: Have you seen milkweed growing? When? Where? Visit the place, if possible, and bring to the schoolroom two or three plants. If you can, get plants with leaves, flowers, and pods. Break the stem of the plant which has no pod and compare it with the broken stem of one with pods. Which has little or no "milk"? Why has one plant used more milk than the other? Watch carefully for several days and see which plants become dry first. Why are the stems and leaves of the plants with pods turning yellow and brown? Hang a ripe pod in the schoolroom for two or three days and watch it as it discharges its seeds. Where did the pod open first? What makes the seeds come out of the pod? What helps to carry them away? Make sentences in answer to the above questions. Read and tell : Little Effie had never seen a milk weed pod. One day her big cousin Jack THE MILKWEED PLANT gave her one. It was dry and yellow. Effie broke it open and the seeds began to fly through the air. "Oh," cried Effie, clapping her hands, "see the pretty white wings! I think these must be plant angels!" VII HOPSCOTCH Capital and Period Draw on paper or on the blackboard a diagram of a game of hopscotch. Write in the diagram what each space is called. Conversation : How many people can play the game? What makes a good player? Who wins? Is an umpire necessary? Give rules for playing the game. Expressive Activities: Illustrate on the sand table or blackboard, or with brush and water colors, a game of hopscotch, or some other game that you play. Write on the blackboard sentences giving the rules of the game. After your teacher has said that they are correct, copy them in your notebook. To the Teacher. Any other game that the children play may be substituted. |