SEAT WORK AND SENSE TRAINING MOUNT Class Book. LRjS^' s«**'i^ ^ ^ Coiiyriglrtl^". :/ -O copypiGHT deposit; uie; oo V SEAT WORK AND SENSE TRAINING BY CHRISTIANA S. MOUNT EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY BOSTON New York Chicago San Francisco Copyright, 1910 BY CHRISTIANA S. MOUNT ©GLA273*j:?8 CONTENTS Introduction 7 FIRST DAY Seat Work 1 1 Sense Training (The Cat) ii Poem (Three in a Bed) 13 Game (To London) 14 SECOND DAY Seat Work 15 Sense Training and Language (Birds) 15 Finger Play (Little Birdie) 17 THIRD DAY Seat Work 19 Sense Training Game 19 Language (Observation and Com- parison) 20 FOURTH DAY Seat Work 21 Game 21 Language (The Cow) 22 Poem (The Cow) 22 FIFTH DAY Seat Work 24 Sense Training and Language (The Pear) 24 Game 25 Riddle (The Pear) 25 SIXTH DAY Seat Work 26 Sense Training and Language (The Dog) 26 Game 28 Poem (Fido and His Master) 28 Device for Word and Sound Drill 29 SEVENTH DAY Seat Work 30 Device for Drill 30 Motion Song 31 EIGHTH DAY Seat Work 32 Sense Training and Language (Fruit) 32 Device for Word or Sound Drill 33 Song (Bean Bag) NINTH DAY Seat Work 34 Language (Right and Left) 34 TENTH DAY Seat Work 37 Sense Training (Right and Left) 37 Game and Device FOR Drill 38 Song (Hold Up the Right Hand) . . 39 ELEVENTH DAY Seat Work 40 Sense Training (Back and Front) 40 Device for Drill 40 Song (Hold Up the Right Hand) . . 41 TWELFTH DAY Seat Work 42 Sense Training (East and West) . . 43 Game 44 Device for Drill 44 THIRTEENTH DAY Seat Work 45 Sense Training and Language . . 46 Device for Drill 46 FOURTEENTH DAY Seat Work 47 Sense Training and Language . . 47 Game (Cat and Mice) 47 Device for Drill 48 FIFTEENTH DAY Seat Work 49 Sense Training and Language (North) 49 Device for Drill 50 SIXTEENTH DAY Seat Work 51 Sense Training Game 51 Device for Drill 52 SEVENTEENTH DAY Seat Work 53 Sense Training (Comparison) 54 Game (What Children Can Do) ... 55 EIGHTEENTH DAY Seat Work 58 Language (Wheat) 59 Device for Review 59 Game and Song (JollyjMiller) ... 60 Rhyme 60 NINETEENTH DAY Seat Work 61 Game (Little Boy Blue) 61 Device for Drill 62 TWENTIETH DAY Seat Work 63 Game (The Frolicsome Man) ... 63 TWENTY-FIRST DAY Seat Work 65 Sense Training and Device for Drill (Hearing) 65 Game (The Mill) 66 Poem (The Mill Wheel) 67 TWENTY-SECOND DAY Seat Work 68 Sense Training (Touch) 69 Language 69 Device for Reading Drill .. 69 TWENTY-THIRD DAY Seat Work 70 Sense Training and Language . 70 Game (Gathering Apples) 71 Device for Drill 71 Song (The Apple) 72 3 CONTENTS TWENTY-FOURTH DAY Seat Work 73 Sense Training (Observation) . 73 Device for Drill 73 Rhyme (Days of the Week) 74 TWENTY-FIFTH DAY Seat Work 75 Motion Song (Out of the Window) 75 Device for Drill 76 TWENTY-SIXTH DAY Seat Work 77 Sense Training 77 Game (The Ball) 77 TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY Sense Training Game (Hide and Seek) 78 Language (Days of the Week) ... 78 TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY Seat Work 79 Sense Training and Language . 79 Game (Town Musicians) 79 TWENTY-NINTH DAY Seat Work 8 Sense Training (Touch) 8^ Game (Spin the Platter) 8^ Device for Drill 82 THIRTIETH DAY Seat Work 83 Language (Use of Saw) 8^ Song Game (Rabbit in the Hollow) 8^ THIRTY -FIRST DAY Seat Work 85 Sense Tkaining (Touch) 85 Game and DRILL 85 THIRTY-SECOND DAY Seat Work 87 Game and Drill 87 Mntion Song 88 THIRTY -THIRD DAY Seat Work 89 Sense Training Game (Touch) . . 89 Device for Drill 9° THIRTY-FOURTH DAY Seat Work 9i Language (The School) 9i Game (Birds) 92 THIRTY-FIFTH DAY Seat Work 93 Sense Training (Hearing) 93 Device for Drill 93 Stanza (Autumn) 94 THIRTY-SIXTH DAY Seat Work 95 Sense Training and Drill (Memory Test) 95 Language - 95 Finger Play (Rhyme of the Week) 96 THIRTY-SEVENTH DAY Seat Work 99 Sense Training and Language (Leaves) 99 Poem (Sleepy Leaves) 100 THIRTY-EIGHTH DAY Seat Work loi Sense Training Game (Hearing) loi Device for a Reading Drill . . . 102 THIRTY-NINTH DAY Seat Work 103 Sense Training 103 Language (Comparison of Adjec- tives) 103 Game (The King's Chest) 104 FORTIETH DAY Seat Work 106 Game and Drill 107 Language (Reproduction) 107 FORTY-FIRST DAY Seat Work 108 Sense Training (Comparison) . 108 Game 109 Device for Drill no FORTY-SECOND DAY Seat Work in Sense Training (Concentration) in Game in Device for Drill 112 Poem (Autumn) 112 FORTY-THIRD DAY Seat Work 113 Language (The Question) 113 Game (Follow My Leader) 114 FORTY-FOURTH DAY Seat Work 115 Sense Training (Hearing, Mem- ory) IIS Device for Drill 116 Game (I Spy) 116 FORTY-FIFTH DAY Seat Work 117 Sense Training 117 Game (Red and Blue) 118 FORTY-SIXTH DAY Seat Work (Color) 119 Sense Training and Language (Color ) 119 Device for Drill 119 FORTY-SEVENTH DAY Seat Work 120 Game (Colors) 121 FORTY-EIGHTH DAY Seat Work 123 Sense Training and Language (Color Continued) 123 Device for Drill 123 CONTENTS FORTY-NINTH DAY Seat Work 124 Sense Training (Color) 124 Device for Drill 125 FIFTIETH DAY Seat Work 126 Sense Training and Language (Tints) 126 FIFTY-FIRST DAY TO FIFTY- FIFTH DAY Seat Work 127 Language (The Word) 127 Memory Gem 127 FIFTY-SIXTH DAY Seat Work (Color) 130 Language (The Soldier) 130 Game (Soldiers) 130 FIFTY-SEVENTH DAY Seat Work 131 Motion Song (Fife and Drum) .. 131 FIFTY-EIGHTH DAY Seat Work 133 Sense Training (Direction) 133 Language (Picture Lesson) 134 Poem (The Row Boat and the Water Lilies) 135 FIFTY -NINTH DAY Seat Work 137 Language (The Horse) 137 Emperor William's Maxims . . . 138 Device for Drill 139 SIXTIETH DAY Seat Work 140 Device for Drill 140 SIXTY-FIRST DAY Seat Work 140 Sense Training (Touch, taste, smell) 141 Device for Drill 141 Riddles 141 SIXTY-SECOND DAY Seat Work 144 Language (The Rain) 144 Action Poem 145 Song (The Rain) 146 SIXTY-THIRD DAY Seat Work 147 Device for Drill 147 SIXTY-FOURTH DAY Seat Work 148 Device for Drill 148 SIXTY-FIFTH DAY Seat Work 194 Sense Training (Measurement) . . 149 Language (The Farmer's Work) 149 Game (Farmer's Daughter) 151 SIXTY-SIXTH DAY Seat Work 153 Sense Training (Touch) 153 Language (Snow) 153 Device for Drill 154 The Weaver (Poem) 154 SIXTY-SEVENTH DAY Seat Work 155 Device FOR Drill 15s The Snow Storm (Motion Piece) 155 SIXTY-EIGHTH DAY Seat Work iS7 Sense Training 157 Language (The Months) 157 Poem (The Procession of the Months) 158 SIXTY-NINTH DAY Seat Work 159 Game (The Months) iS9 Device for Drill 160 SEVENTIETH DAY Seat Work 161 Game 161 SEVENTY-FIRST DAY Seat Work 162 Sense Training (Hard Touch and Soft) 162 SEVENTY-SECOND DAY Seat Work 163 Sense Training (Taste and Smell) 163 Finger Play (The Cake) 163 SEVENTY-THIRD DAY Seat Work 165 Language (The Sheep) 165 Game (Shepherd and His Flock) . . 166 SEVENTY-FOURTH DAY Seat Work 167 Sense Training (Sight and Touch) 167 Device for Drill 167 Nursery Song 168 SEVENTY-FIFTH DAY Seat Work 169 Sense Training and Language . 169 Game (Simon says "Thumbs Up") 169 Device for Drill 169 SEVENTY-SIXTH DAY Seat Work 170 Language (The Seasons) 1 70 SEVENTY-SEVENTH DAY Seat Work 171 Sense Training (Comparison) . 171 Song of the Seasons 172 Game 173 Device FOR Alphabet Drills .. 173 CONTENTS SEVENTY-EIGHTH DAY Seat Work 174 Language (Color) 174 Device 17S Song of the Cotton 175 SEVENTY-NINTH DAY Seat Work 177 Game (Round the Valley) 177 EIGHTIETH DAY Seat Work 179 Sense Training 179 Language (Use of Pronouns) 179 Song (A-rowing) 180 EIGHTY-FIRST DAY Seat Work 182 Sense Training 182 Language (The Bee) 182 Poem (The Busy Bee) 183 EIGHTY-SECOND DAY Seat Work 184 Game 184 Device for Drill 184 EIGHTY-THIRD DAY Seat Work 185 Language (See and Saw) 185 Device for Review 185 Action Poem (The Rosebud) . . . 185 EIGHTY-FOURTH DAY Seat Work 188 Game (Tit-tat-toe) 188 Device for Drill 188 Our Sunbeam 189 EIGHTY-FIFTH DAY Seat Work 192 Language (This — that) 192 EIGHTY-SIXTH DAY Seat Work 193 Language (Kindness to the Aged) 194 Device for Review 194 EIGHTY-SEVENTH DAY Seat Work 195 Language (Kindness to Animals) 19s Game (Potota Race) 195 Device 19S Action Poem (The Poppies) 196 EIGHTY-EIGHTH DAY Seat Work 197 Language 197 Device for Review 197 EIGHTY-NINTH DAY Seat Work 198 Language (A Memory Ciem) — 198 NINETIETH DAY Seat Work 200 Language (The Fish) 200 Device for Drill 202 NINETY-FIRST DAY Seat Work 203 Action Poem (The Three Little Fishes) 203 NINETY-SECOND DAY Seat Work 205 Sense Training 205 Language (The Dandelion) 205 NINETY-THIRD DAY Seat Work 208 Device for Drill 208 Poem (The Dandelion) 208 NINETY-FOURTH DAY Seat Work 210 Sense Training and Device for Review 210 Language (The Dragon Fly) ... 210 NINETY-FIFTH DAY Seat Work 213 Device for Drill 213 NINETY-SIXTH DAY Seat Work 214 Language Game 214 Device for Drill 214 Ninety-Seventh Day Seat Work 215 Language (Birds) 215 Device for Drill 216 The Ten Birds (Finger Play) .. 216 NINETY-EIGHTH DAY Seat Work 217 Sense Training (Hearing) 217 Language (Time) 217 Game (The Clock) 217 NINETY-NINTH DAY Seat Work 219 Language (The Clock Continued) 219 Device for Drill 219 Memory Gem 220 ONE HUNDREDTH DAY Seat Work 221 Language (The Butterfly) 221 Device for Drill 222 Action Poem (Butterflies) 222 Poem (Butterflies) 223 INTRODUCTION Seat Work " The busy have no time jor tears''^ The problems of the teachers of ungraded schools are many, but the most difficult is to devise profitable and suitable employment for the pupils during their leisure hours. The seat work must be interesting, full of purpose and attractive. It must test the child's knowledge and skill in connection with his former lessons. If it results in a clearer perception of some past lesson, or added develop- ment of the faculties, it is good ; if it only fills up time, it is useless. Sense Training Sense training plays an important part in primary work. Pupils form their later concepts from their earlier per- cepts. These sense products become the foundation for the images of memory and imagination, so that by train- ing the child's senses we add materially to the clearness and strength of the thoughts and judgments which help him to become a more perfect product in after life. 7 8 Introduction Games Sense training may be made more interesting by means of games. In order to have any educational value these games must require mental efforts and have a hygienic and recreative value. Some of the games in this book are to be played out of -doors; others in the school-room. A few are for relaxation, but the majority have for their purpose the development of some faculty or the enlarge- ment of some sphere of thought. Paper Cutting Paper cutting is valuable to the development of the child because it aids him to form clearer images of the objects cut, trains the eye, and develops the muscles of the hand. Sewing, folding, drawing, and modelling help to de- velop the idea of form. The power to use material leads to a feeling of independence in thought and action which will later result in a self-reliant attitude toward the prob- lems of life. Suggestions Spool boxes or manila envelopes are invaluable for preserving material. Chalk boxes form excellent receptacles for scissors. Wooden butter plates make good platters for passing lentils, split peas, pegs, etc. Backs of pads are excellent for mounting paper cuttings. As new words are developed write them upon small cards and give them to each child for his vocabulary box. The hektograph will be of great assistance in pre- Introduction 9 paring this work. Older pupils will gladly aid the teacher. As soon as the smaller pupils begin to write well allow them to prepare their own work. Care must be taken to inspect the work before it is placed in the boxes. Number each box and its contents to avoid confusion. Select pupils for monitors who have earned the right by excellent lessons and good behavior. Try to throw as much responsibility upon the pupils as possible. Explain the seat work carefully so that pupils may know what is required of them. Take time to look over it before it is put away. A glance or a word of admonition or praise will be sufficient, but it will make each pupil feel that his efforts have not been wasted. Never continue a lesson or a game after the majority of pupils have become proficient in it. It may be ad- visable to return to it again, but there must be steady progression in school work as in all other walks of life. Insist upon diligence and attention with no waste of materials or time. There must be prompt action and independent work, with no dawdling. Enforce the rule against copying or interfering with the neighbors. Make every lesson count in increased skill and independence of thought, and action, and discipline will be reduced to a minimum. It is not intended that all the material given is to be used in one day. The teacher must select that which will be of use to her in her daily work. Thanks are due to the Educational Publishing Com- pany, the American Book Company and Miss Eleanor Smith for the use of poems, games and motion songs. SEAT WORK AND SENSE TRAINING FIRST DAY Seat Work Cut along the blue lines of writing paper. Outline with pegs or lentils the new word which the teacher has written in a large hand on cardboard or thick wrapping paper. Prick the outline of the new word, which has been written on paper or heavy wrapping paper. Preserve these cards which the children prick, to be used as sewing cards later. Sense Training "The Cat" Ask the pupils to bring pictures of cats, or try to secure a pet cat. 12 Seat Work and Sense Training Outline Sight General appearance Head Eyes — shape — color — keenness of vision Mouth — teeth — tongue — uses Nose — keen sense of smell Whiskers — uses Body Covering — color Legs Feet — toes, etc. Touch Smooth, soft Hearing Mewing — growling — purring — Reasons for the different sounds Care of the Young Habits Language (In connection with the sense training.) Question to obtain the following: The boy has He has I see The girls have There is It is oem Seat Work and Sense Training 13 Three in a Bed Gay little velvet coats, One, two, three! Any home happier Could there be? Topsy and Tabby And Sleepy-head Purring so cozily — Three in a bed! Woe to the stupid mouse Prowling about. Old Mother Pussy Is on the lookout, Little cats, big cats, All must be fed. In the sky-parlor. Three in a bed! Mother's a gypsy puss — Often she moves. Thinking much travel Her children improves High-minded family, Very well-bred. No falling out you see! Three in a bed! 14 Seat Work and Sense Training Game To London Pupils select a queen, her court, a cat, and a very small child for the mouse. The queen seats herself in state surrounded by her court. The mouse enters and runs around unobserved. The cat pays a visit to the queen, discovers the mouse and frightens it under the queen's chair. The queen and court run to their seats. The cat leaves the room. The mouse steals away. Pupils call "Come Puss, Puss, Puss." {Puss enters) Pupils sing ''Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, where have you been?" Cat "I've been to London to see the queen." Pupils " Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, what did you there ? " Puss 'T frightened a little mouse under her chair." Pupils {shaking their fingers at Puss) 0-0-0 — naughty Pussy, Pussy, Pussy! SECOND DAY Seat Work Give each pupil a ruler. Show the pupils an inch. Let them lay sticks an inch apart, either horizontally or perpendicularly. Pupils outline with pegs or lentils a large numeral which the teacher has written upon cardboard or heavy wrapping paper. Be care- ful to make a cross at the proper place for the pupil to begin. Cut figures from fashion books, furniture, seed and flower catalogues. Object — the training of the muscles of the eye and hand. Sense Training and Language Review the lesson on the cat. or Qualities of birds discovered by the senses. Obtain a tame pigeon or a canary. Outline Sight Appearance IS i6 Seat Work and Sense Training Size Shape Color Covering Head Eyes Ears Bill — reasons for shape Body Wings — tail — their uses Feet Legs — number of claws — Reasons for shape — Use Touch Soft — smooth Hearing Its call Language Question to obtain the following statements: The bird can fly — walk — sing, etc. I have seen There are We have The bird is Seat Work and Sense Training 17 Colored pictures of birds. Show each one separately to the children. Require them to state: The number of birds (three will be sufficient at first). Color of the birds. Order in which they were shown, etc. Insist upon complete statements. Try to vary the form as much as possible. Finger Play Once a little birdie {Raise right thumb) Sat upon a tree. {Hold out arm) I asked the little birdie To come and live with me. {Look up and beckon) You shall have a pleasant home, And a cage both clean and sweet, {Make a cage with -fingers) There'll be seeds and many good things Just for you to eat. There'll be some nice smooth perches Like the branches of the trees, {Hold out fingers) And a tiny swing to sway you. Just like a summer breeze. {Sway hand back and jorth) 1 8 Seat Work and Sense Training Little birdie looked at me, {Thumb peep over the fingers) And gently shook his head. {Shake thumb) "Thank you very kindly, But I'd rather not," he said. "I love the pretty cool green trees, The lovely summer day." Then birdie spread his pretty wings. And swiftly flew away. {Motion oj flying) THIRD DAY Seat Work Try to cut squares. Place these squares in horizontal or perpen- dicular lines. Fold a window, or a shawl, or a book. Outline the figure of a boy. Find his name in the vocabulary box. (The teacher must write it on the board in order to assist the pupils in recognizing it.) Paste the name under the outlined figure. Sense Training Game Observation — Concentration Show several cards containing the new words or sounds. Have the children visualize care- fully. Send a few from the room. Allow some of the remaining pupils to hide the cards. Recall the pupils who were sent out. They are to find the cards. As soon as each pupil has discovered a word he takes his seat. When all or the majority have found the cards have 19 20 Seat Work and Sense Training them taken from their hiding places. Each pupil must repeat the one he has found or call upon someone else to do so. Continue hiding and finding the cards until the interest flags. Language {Observation and comparison of some object) Type Lesson Ask the pupils to bring fans to school. Question to find what can be done with the fan. Color — material. How the fans resemble each other. How they differ. FOURTH DAY Seat Work Outline triangles of diffeient sizes and shapes. Cut triangles. Make a border of them. Make a border of squares and triangles. Outline or prick some of the new words. The teacher must write them in a large hand upon cardboard or heavy wrapping paper for this work. Select the difficult words for this. Game [To cultivate quickness of action.) Teacher counts i, 2, 3, etc. The pupils rise by rows, one after the other in regular order. The row which completes the exercise first, wins. The head one may choose a prisoner from the losing side. Reverse the order some- times by giving the order to rise in a body, then seat themselves by rows from left to right. The row seated first wins. 21 22 Seat Work and Sense Training Language Picture of a cow. Card containing articles obtained from the cow and its kind, such as buttons, comb, ^gg spoon, leather, glue, etc. Perhaps a sample of milk, cheese, cream and butter upon the teacher's desk. If the pupils live in the country they will be able to tell by Sight — Shape, size and color of the cow. Hearing — Sound made by the cow. Touch — Whether the hide is smooth or soft. Smell — Of the butter, cheese, milk. Taste — Of the milk, butter, cheese. Mother Goose Rhyme Hey diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle, etc. oem The Cow Thank you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soak my bread; Every morn and every night, Warm and sweet, and pure and white. Do not chew the hemlock rank, Growing on the mossy bank, Seat Work and Sense Training 23 But the yellow cowslip eat, That will make it very sweet. Where the bubbling water flows, Where the purple violet grows, Where the grass is fresh and fine, Pretty cow, go there and dine. FIFTH DAY Seat Work Cut oblongs. Sort colored sticks according to size. Place all duplicate words or sounds together. Make with sticks or lentils a house or a barn, or a door, or a window. Give each pupil a hektographed picture of the reading lesson. Call upon one of the older pupils to help the little ones arrange the lesson from the words in their boxes. Sense Training and Language Qualities of the pear discovered by the senses: Sight — The color, shape, general appearance. Hearing — Detect difference in sound made by dropping from one hand to another or from hand to the desk, etc. Smell — Fragrant. Touch — Smooth, cold, hard, soft. Taste — Sweet, sour. Insist upon complete statement. By skillful questioning the answers may be varied and the pupils led to make the following statements: 24 Seat Work and Sense Training 25 This is a pear. It grew — Its color is The boy has Game Pupils stand in a circle holding hands. The teacher stands outside the circle. The children dance round singing : We dance around in a circle, We are so bright and gay, Oh, which one is the fairest? Please, teacher, teacher, say. The teacher names the fairest. The chosen one turns and faces outward. The children move round again singing: Pretty , pretty , Turn thy pretty face away, Pretty , pretty , If you're good you may stay. The circle continues to revolve until all have been chosen. Riddle I am fragrant, juicy, fair, I've a taste so rich and rare; My coat is sometimes green, Sometimes yellow it is seen. I've a heart with you to share, With brown seeds hidden there. Who will guess me? Now take care. I'm one — but still — a pear. SIXTH DAY Seat Work Outline boat, chairs, tables and different arti- cles of furniture with sticks. Measure and cut squares and oblongs. Make borders of the squares, oblongs, triangles already made. Sew the principal object depicted in the reading lesson. For instance, if it is a dog — • first sew the figure of the dog, then his house, his collar, the dish for his food. Fold a kennel. Match sentences. Sense Training {Observation — Comparison) Ask the pupils to bring pictures of dogs. Try to secure a pet dog. Outline Size, shape Resemblance to a cat Difference 26 Seat Work and Sense Training 27 Head Its parts Compare with the head of a cat Compare eyes, teeth, ears, tongue Compare heads of different breeds of dogs by means of pictures Body Its parts — covering Tail Compare body of cat and dog Sounds made by dogs — meaning of different sounds — as anger, pleasure, etc. Habits of dogs Dogs of other countries Try to bring out the characteristics of dogs. Their intelligence, fidelity, gratitude, obedience Rhyme "Old Mother Hubbard." Stories " Story of Gelert." " Story of Barry." Language Question to obtain the following statements: Here is Its head is It is my Its color is The dog can The feet are 28 Seat Work and Sense Training Game Select a dealer and a buyer. Give each member of the class the name of a dog. If the class is large repeat the names. Buyer I wish to buy a dog. Dealer What kind of a dog? Buyer A greyhound. As soon as the name is mentioned the child having that name runs to a certain point. If the buyer catches him before he reaches the goal, the ''dog" takes the dealers' place. FiDO AND His Master "Come, come, my pretty Fido, Come, come here, I say." ''No, no, my little master, Do please let me stay; Here on the warm rug I Lie softly and snugly, A sleeping, sleeping, sleeping with Tray." "Come, come, my pretty Fido, Stand up for some sport 1" "No, no, my little master, I'd much rather not, I hate such a riot. Do let me be quiet, A dreaming, dreaming, dreaming so sweet." "Come, come, my little Fido, Come here for some meat!" "Yes, yes, my little master, It smells good and sweet. Seat Work and Sense Training 29 I long to begin it, I come, then, this minute, I think it, think it, think it a treat." Device for drill on words or sounds Tell each child to draw a bag upon his paper. The teacher draws a large bag upon the board. The pupils name words from a list upon the board or from cards. If a pupil repeats a word correctly each child must write it in his bag; if the pupil fails, the teacher writes the word in her bag. At the close of the drill each child who failed must try to take his word out of the teacher's bag by repeating it correctly. SEVENTH DAY Seat Work Cut oblongs and write a figure in each. Sort colored worsted according to color. Make triangles and turn them into tents by cutting flaps. Outline and sew the principal object in the lesson. Sense Training Repeat some one of the former lessons. Language Continue the lesson on the dog. Device for drill on words or sounds Draw a tight-rope on the board. Write words or sounds upon the rope. Pupils walk across 30 Seat Work and Sense Training 31 by repeating the words or sounds. If they miss they are supposed to fall off. Motion Song (Music in "Motion Songs" published by Educational Publishing Company.) Clap, clap altogether, ^ Clap, clap away; This is the way we exercise In our public school to-day. Shoot, shoot altogether, Shoot, shoot away; This is the way we exercise In our public school to-day. (The song continues, using the motions of turning, wav- ing the hands, marking time, etc.) EIGHTH DAY Seat Work Draw and cut out circles. Make a horizontal row of circles. Make a perpendicular row of circles. Measure and cut squares of given dimensions. Sew some of the words pricked in the previous lessons. Sense Training and Language Comparison between fruits. Ask the pupils to bring fruits. Compare the fruit as to Size Shape Color Taste Odor Notice the similarity — the difference. Require complete statements for answers. Qualities discovered by the senses — sight, taste, smell. 32 Seat Work and Sense Training 33 Ask the pupils to close their eyes and detect the fruit by touch, taste, smell. Device for drill on words or sounds Give a beanbag to one child — cards contain- ing sounds to another. The child holding the beanbag throws it to a pupil. At the same time the child holding the cards shows one. The child to whom the bag is thrown must catch it and re- peat the word or sound, or pay a forfeit. The work must be rapid, otherwise the pupils will lose interest. Song Bean bag, bean bag, Play a game of bean bag; Throw it first to little B, Then to , then to me. Bean bag, bean bag, Play a game of bean bag. NINTH DAY Seat Work Sew some of the words pricked in the previous lessons. Measure and cut strips of paper into given lengths — fold into inches. Make a simple design with sticks. Fold a booklet — paste a few of the sounds or words in it. Language {Lesson on Right and Left) Teacher You may bring me a pencil, Ella. Teacher With what did Ella bring me the pencil, John ? Child Ella brought you the pencil in her hand. Teacher {to first Child) Show me the hand which brought the pencil. Child This is the hand which brought the pencil. Teacher You may face me, Ella. Raise the hand which brought the pencil. You may all raise the same hand. {The child must face the 34 Seat Work and Sense Training 35 same way as the class, otherwise the pupils will become confused.) Teacher (to another child) You may show me your pencil. Show me the hand you used. Teacher (to a hoy) You may show me your knife. Which hand held the knife ? Boy This hand held the knife. Continue giving directions until the children's attention is concentrated upon the right hand. Continue — How many hands have you ? You may all raise your hands. The children will naturally raise the right hand. That is not the hand I want. Why did you not raise the hand I wanted .? Elicit that the pupils did not know which hand the teacher wanted. Draw from them that each hand must have a name. Give the term "Right." Ask pupils to repeat the name. Write it upon the board. Have each pupil raise his right hand and re- peat, ''This is my right hand." Continue — What do you do with your right hand ? 36 Seat Work and Sense Training Each time the pupil replies he must hold up his right hand and make a complete statement. Give thorough drill upon the right hand. Language Require complete statements. Vary the an- swers by skillful questioning. TENTH DAY Seat Work Lay some of the letters of the alphabet with sticks — M T A See how many times the pupil can find a cer- tain word on a page or in a list. Teach them how to look carefully and systematically. Make squares, oblongs, triangles, and write a figure in each. Sense Training Review the work of the right hand. Give the term left. Drill on it as for the right hand. Continue. Show me your right hand. Pupils do so stating, "This is my right hand." Teacher Show me your right ear. Which is your left ear ? Point to your left eye. Show me your right one. 37 38 Seat Work and Sense Training Continue naming the different parts of the body until the pupils do so rapidly. Further drill Point to the right side of your desk. Point to the right side of the room. Who sits at your left ? Who sits at your right } Walk to the left side of the room. Name the things on the left side of the room. On which side of the room is the door .? Close with a rapid drill on left and right. Game and device for word or sound drill Draw a large square upon the board. Divide it into sections. Write a different word or sound in each section. Send two or three pupils to the board with pointers. Tell them to close their eyes. The class sings: Tit, tat, toe. Around the square they go, Hit or miss, Stop at this. While the class is singing the pupils have moved their pointers over the square. At the Seat Work and Sense Training 39 word "This" the children attempt to place the pointers upon a word or sound. The one who succeeds pronounces it, then chooses another pupil to take his place. Song Hold Up the Right Hand (From "Motion Songs," Educational Publishing Com- pany.) Hold up the right hand, Hold the left hand, Now hold up both. Then clap, clap, clap. Now let the blacksmith strike on the anvil, Now let the cobbler give his rap, tap, tap. ELEVENTH DAY Seat Work Weave a mat or make round one by coiling and sewing shoe-strings. Draw a flight of stairs or a ladder. Write a word or a sound upon each step. Just be- fore the work is put away ask the pupils to run up and down, to carry someone half way, to go to the top and bring someone down, etc. Sense Training Continue the drill upon left and right. Find objects on the left side of the room — the right. Introduce back and front in a lesson similar to those given for the development of right and left. Require complete statements. Device for word or sound drill Draw lanterns on the board. Place a word or sound in each. The pupil who can read the word or sound correctly is said to blow out the lantern. 40 Seat Work and Sense Training 41 Song Hold Up the Right Hand (From "Motion Songs," Educational Publishing Com- pany.) Repeat the first verse. Teach : Cross arms to elbows, Straight keep the feet, The head upright. Now see the sailor pull at the rope, boys. Now watch the woodman wield his ax so bright. Chorus Clap, clap, bang, bang, rap, tap, tap, Clap, clap at play. Joyous and gay, Bang, bang. Rap, rap. Work, work away. TWELFTH DAY Seat Work Fold a book. Write the sounds, with a word containing each, as : f — fan; s — sit, etc. Lay pegs as follows: 11+11 = 1111 +11= III etc. If the Grube method is not used substitute some exercises from the regular method em- ployed. Sense Training and Language {continued) This lesson is not to be given unless the majority of pupils are reasonably sure of the terms left and right. Review right and left in every conceivable way. Send a pupil to the table to find the right and left sides. 42 Seat Work and Sense Trainir^ 43 Change her position. Tell her to show the right and left side again. Class note the differ- ence. Place two children facing each other. Tell them to go to the right. Call attention to the fact that they each moved in an opposite direc- tion. Send a child to the board. Ask him to point to the right. Change his position. Tell him to point to the right. Give many examples and lead the pupils to conclude that right and left depend upon the position in which they stand and that there must be certain fixed terms in order to locate places and things. Speak of the early morning in winter — the darkness. The reason for the darkness. After a while it becomes light. Why.? Ask how many have seen the sun rise. How many can point to the place. If they cannot, tell them. Give the name East if they are unable to do so. Drill on it. Pupils point to the east. Say, "We are point- ing to the east." Pupils walk to the east. Say, "We are walk- ing to the east." Pupils point to the east side of the room. Tell what is on the east wall. Face the east. 44 Seat Work and Sense Training Continue the drill until the majority of them understand. Summary The sun seems to rise in the east. Game Players arrange themselves as for London Bridge. Sing Now the rain is falling down, falling down, falling down, Now the rain is falling down. And it's caught you. Instead of the tug-of-war at the end the pupils may have a grand march. Each half moving in opposite directions and weaving a chain when they meet. Device for word or sound drill A paper plate full of words. Pupils sing "Little Jack Horner," while they take turns in representing Jack. At the line, '*He put in his thumb," Jack selects a word. If he can read it he keeps it until the plate is empty. Each repeats his word and returns it to the plate. Failure to read a word involves finding the word in the lesson and trying to make out its meaning by reading the sentence. If he cannot the class may tell him. THIRTEENTH DAY Seat Work Cut or draw squares or circles. Mount and arrange as follows: one one OO two Copy some of the new words having similar endings. 45 46 Seat Work and Sense Training Sense Training and Language Review right and left. Review east. Develop West, using the same method as for east. Require complete statements. Device for word or sound drill Divide the class as for a spelling match. Write the words quickly upon the board or show the perception cards. The pupils take turns in repeating the words as in a regular spelling match. A failure allows the captain of the winning side to choose from the losing side. The one who fails writes the word or sound neatly. At the close of the game the losers must recite correctly the words which they missed. FOURTEENTH DAY Seat Work Fold a piece of paper in columns of equal widths. Copy the words of the reading lesson neatly in the columns. Cut, and arrange in the sentences of the lesson. (Caution: Be sure to allow a few pupils to read the lesson aloud before placing the words in the vocabularly boxes.) Sense Training and Language Review east and west. Teach South. Kjame The Cat and the Mice Select several of the smallest pupils for mice; a large one for cat. The mice retire to the clothing closet. The cat enters the room, walks around, then curls down in a corner to sleep. The mice creep out and play about. The cat suddenly awakes, creeps forward and tries to catch one of the mice. The one caught becomes the cat. 47 48 Seat Work and Sense Training Device for drill on words or sounds Draw boxes upon the board. Write a word or sound in each. Tell the pupils the words are Jack-in-the-Boxes. The boxes may be opened by repeating the word or sound cor- rectly. Mother Goose Rhyme "Hickory, Dickory, Dock." FIFTEENTH DAY Seat Work one two Place all the words having the same sound together. The one who finishes first, wins. Try to copy the new words. Give each pupil a page from an old primer mounted on cardboard and an envelope con- taining duplicate words. Pupils match the words in the envelopes with the words on the page. Sense Training and Language Continue the review of east, west and south. Teach North. 49 50 Seat Work and Sense Training Device for word or sound drill Draw railroad tracks. Write words upon the tracks. Pupils pretend they are engines or trains. Mark off certain distances as stations. Tell a pupil to travel a certain distance or to a certain station — that is — repeat the words within a certain space. As soon as the first pupil stops another must take his place. Change the words often. Sometimes have two or three travel together. SIXTEENTH DAY Seat Work Sew some of the cards pricked in the previous lessons. Make a border with tablets. Draw triangles, circles, or squares as follows: 0+0=00 one and one are two A A+AA = two and two are A AAA four 52 Seat Work and Sense Training Sense Training Game Send some of the pupils to the front of the room. Whisper a sound or word to each. Pupils take turns in performing actions which represent the sounds — the dove flaps its wings and coos, the engine puffs, the dog growls. The remainder of the pupils are to select the proper sounds from the cards which have been arranged along the blackboard ledge, and hand the card to the child who has impersonated the sound. Language in connection with the game The boy said . Nora said . Cora was an engine and said Device for word drill Trolley poles with words upon the wires to represent birds. The "Birds" fly away when named. SEVENTEENTH DAY Seat Work Give each pupil a small picture cut from some reader — mount, find the name in the vocabulary box, and paste or write it under the picture. The finished page or card will appear like this: drum kite ball cup * star cat flag pig 53 54 Seat Work and Sense Training Require each pupil to copy his name, then sign the paper. Sense Training Give a sHp containing one of the old words to each of several pupils. Write a list of these words upon the board, or place the cards upon the blackboard ledge. The pupils compare their slips with the Hst of cards, then go to the board and point to the word which corresponds to the slip, saying: I found . My word is . This word is . or Another pupil may say: Katie found . John's word is , etc. Game (Sung to the tune of "The Mulberry Bush") (Divide the hoys and girls) Teacher Oh, what can all the girls do? The girls do, The girls do? Oh, what can all the girls do, I should like to know. Seat Work and Sense Training 55 Girls (Motions oj sewing) Oh, we can sew and we can bake, We can sew and we can bake, Oh, we can sew and we can bake, And that's what we can do. Each girl pointing to the one next to her That's her work and my work. That's her work and my work. That's her work and my work, And we help mother too. {Motions oj stirring a cake) This is the way we make a cake. Make a cake, Make a cake, This is the way we make a cake, Just so, so, so. First girl to second Is there anything else that you can do, You can do. You can do ? Is there anything else that you can do? Because I'd like to know. Second {Motions oj washing) This is way I wash my clothes. Wash my clothes. Wash my clothes, This is the way I wash my clothes. Do you think I wash them right? 56 Seat Work and Sense Training First You wash them very nicely, Nicely, Nicely, You wash them very nicely, As well as I could do. Third Girl to Boys Now tell us what the boys can do, Boys can do, Boys can do, Now tell us what the boys can do, For we should like to know. Boys (matching) We can march and we can sing, We can march and we can sing, We can march and we can sing. And what do you think of that? Girls We like to see the marching. The marching, The marching. We like to see the marching, For you do it well Boys (shooting and fighting) We can shoot and we can fight. We can fight. We can fight. We can shoot and we can fight. And that's what you can't do. Seat Work and Sense Training 57 Girls Girls weren't made to be soldiers, Soldiers, Soldiers, Girls weren't made to be soldiers. They were made to keep house. {Continue in this way, bringing in different actions jor the girls and hoys.) At last the teacher sings And is that all the children can do, Children can do, Children can do? Come tell me now. Children We can study every day. We know how to laugh and play; This is how we laugh and play, Ha! Hal Ha! {Dance in a circle.) EIGHTEENTH DAY Seat Work Select words having a certain number of letters. Make a list of them, using the vocabulary boxes. Arrange the names of the objects as follows: The boy has a ball. The apple is red. hen Is the hen eating ? Seat Work and Sense Training 59 Language (Lesson on Wheat) Material Several heads of wheat, articles made from wheat, straw, etc. Facts Belongs to the grass family. Hollow stems. Spring wheat sown in the spring; winter wheat in the autumn. Heads — some bearded, some without beards. Green at first, but change to yellow as they ripen. When ripe, it is reaped, and tied into sheaves. Threshed — kernels beaten out of their shells. Shells called chaff. Stems Straw. Uses of straw. Kernels ground into flour. Outside of the kernels — bran. Ask pupils to bring articles made from wheat. Device for review Tents. Each tent containing a word which represents a soldier. If the pupils can repeat the words correctly, the soldiers may come out of their tents. 6o Seat Work and Sense Training Game Jolly Miller Pupils march by twos in a circle. One representing the miller walks outside. As they utter the word ''grab" each one on the outside takes the partner behind. The miller must try to get a partner. If he succeeds the one bereft becomes the miller. Song There was a jolly miller, Who lived by himself, And all the money that he earned, He put upon a shelf. One hand on his wheel, One hand on his bag, As the mill wheel turns He makes his grab. Story ("The Little Red Hen") Rhyme Blow, winds, blow, And go, mill, go; That the miller may grind the wheat, Then the baker will take it And into bread make it. And bring it to us to eat. NINETEENTH DAY Seat Work Make little problems as follows: One cup and one cup are two cups. Cut string into certain lengths. Language Continue the lesson on Wheat. Kjame Little Boy Blue Pupils form a circle around one of their number who pretends to be asleep. Sing the nursery rhyme, "Little Boy Blue." Little Boy Blue awakens, touches one of the children, who must leave his place in the circle and run to the right. Boy Blue runs to the left. The object is to see which can reach the vacant place first. 6x 62 Seat Work and Sense Training Device for drill heard where put every what J Place difficult words on the steps. Pupils climb up by twos and threes. When they reach the top, they must read the sentence very quickly in order to get down. Change the words very often. TWENTIETH DAY Seat Work Stick laying as a drill upon the numbers Two and Three. A 1 ^ Kjame {Children form a circle with one oj their number in the center.) The one in the center sings Hurrah, I am a frolicsome man A frolicsome man, A frolicsome man, Say can I fiddle ? Oh, yes I can, Yes I can, Fiddle dee deel Fiddle dee dee! Hum! Hum! Hum! 63 64 Seat Work and Sense Training Second Pupil Turn ye, twist ye, rum, turn, turn! Turn ye, twist ye, rum, tum, tum! Third Pupil Say can he fiddle? Oh, yes he can. While the first child is singing he dances round and goes through the motion of playing upon a violin. The circle revolving at the same time. At "turn ye, " etc,, each child takes a partner and turns. When the third child speaks each pupil turns to his neighbor and repeats: Say can he fiddle? Oh, yes he can. TWENTY-FIRST DAY Seat Work Cut the figures with which they are familiar from old calendars. Arrange in regular order. Copy carefully. Write the name after each. (The teacher must place the names of the figures upon the board for the pupils to copy.) Sense Training and Device for Drill {Hearing) Send a few pupils to the front of the room. Remainder of the pupils close their eyes. The pupils in front repeat words or sounds from the perception cards or from a list. The remainder of the pupils take turns in telling the name of the pupil who recited, then open their eyes and find the word which was repeated. Language Require complete statements in the Sense Training. Vary these statements by questioning, as: 6s 66 Seat Work and Sense Training Who said "Boy"? What boy spoke or recited ? What did you hear ? Game The Mill Children form a wheel by clasping hands across. One child outside the wheel represents the miller. The wheel revolves while the miller walks round it. As the last line is sung the children unclasp hands, turn and clasp hands again. The miller tries to join hands with some one. If he succeeds the child who loses his partner becomes the miller. Song He's a jolly miller, No care he knows, As round his mill he gaily goes. Clack a clack, clack, so gaily it goes, Clack a clack, clack, so gaily it goes. (Pupils clap and turn) His work is useful, his work is right, And thus he keeps busy from morning till night. Clack- a- clack, clack, so gaily it goes, Clack-a-clack, clack, so gaily it goes, Come join in his labor and join in his song, And we will be merry all the day long. oem Seat Work and Sense Training 67 The Mill Wheel Round and round it goes, As fast the water flows, The dripping, dropping, rolling wheel, That turns the dusty noisy mill, Round and round it goes. Turning all the day. It never stops to play. The dripping, dropping, rolling wheel, But keeps on grinding golden meal, Turning all the day. TWENTY-SECOND DAY Seat Work Fold a box. Copy new and difficult words in columns. Cut and place in the boxes. As soon as each pupil can repeat the words in his box he may take it home. A piece of heavy paper or cardboard arranged as follows: The boy has a gun. Is the girl small ? See the bird fly! and an envelope containing the words written upon the card. Place the words from the envelope over the duplicate words upon the card, thus practically reconstructing the lesson. 68 Seat Work and Sense Training 6g Sense Training {Touch) Blindfold a few pupils. Distribute some of the coarsest sewing cards. The pupils are to endeavor to detect the figure upon the card by sense of touch. Language Colored pictures of animals. Pupils state the name of each animal, what it can do, what it eats, etc. Example Teacher {showing a picture of a horse) "What is this?" Pupil *'It is a horse." Or, "That is a horse." Teacher "What can it do .?" Pupil "It can run." Teacher " What does it eat ? " Pupil "It eats hay." Device for reading drill Pupils select their favorite lessons. Read the favorite of the greatest number. TWENTY-THIRD DAY Seat Work Sew, cut, draw, model an apple. Make a border of apples. Pupils select words or phrases from their reading lessons, using a list written upon the board for a guide. Write carefully on paper and place the number of the line beside it. This will necessitate a careful examination of the reading lesson. Example Line i — Kate. Line 5 — shall. Lines 4 and 6 — will have. Sense Training and Language Select apples from other fruit by sense of touch, taste, smell, sight. Require complete statements for answers. 70 Seat Work and Sense Training 71 G ame A few children with arms upraised to repre- sent trees. Others with baskets on their arms or aprons held up. The trees sway in the wind. Some of the children jump lightly to catch imaginary branches, others pretend to knock them off with sticks, some shake the trees, some gather the apples in imaginary aprons, or baskets, then empty into imaginary bushel baskets. Device for drill A tree with words or sounds for apples. Pupils pick by repeating correctly. Song "The Apple'' (See next page) 72 Seat Work and Sense Training The Apple Alice E. Allen Caryl B. Rich '£-•- — f ^±=:t; EEaSE =1: 1^-1=^ is- i Oh, once there was a bios- som, A dain - ty lit - tie ^1 N I N r ^ . . — jiT-M ^ — N-r-A-A- 1^ -^— N -A — I- m 3= elf; It dwelt up -on the tree- top, All day it swung it __, — ^-p-A — ^ N-p-p^ — ^- -H •— I — I Kni-^ — dVhH 1- self. It left the sun - ny or-chard Where rob-in red-breasts in a dark,old bar - rel.Such streaks of red and y el-low Its 1=^ m tr- ill — ' pret - ty cheeks do dap - pie — Now it is a =t --t lit - tie, mel- low,Roundand ro - sy ap - pie TWENTY-FOURTH DAY Seat Work Each pupil select his favorite lesson and make all or parts of it with his word cards. Copy the first three days of the week. Simple work in arithmetic. Sense Training (Observation) Pupils close eyes. The teacher passes quickly around the room and tells a few children to make some changes in the room. They do so quickly, then resume their seats. The other pupils open their eyes and tell what has been done. Language The days of the week. Insist upon com- plete statements. Device for word or sound drill Draw tops on the board. Write a word or sound in each. The children spin the tops by repeating the words or sounds correctly. 73 74 Seat Work and Sense Training Rhyme Monday's child is fair of face; Tuesday's child is full of grace; Wednesday's child is merry and glad; Thursday's child is sour and sad; Friday's child is loving and giving; Saturday's child must work for his living; But the child that is born on the Sabbath Day Is bright and bonny and good and gay. TWENTY-FIFTH DAY Seat Work Cut paper dolls from fashion magazines. Cut dresses, hats, etc., from mail order catalogues. Write the name upon each article, or, if that is not possible, mount on pad backs and write the name under each. Find the longest and shortest sentences in the reading lesson. (This will necessitate count- ing.) Copy the sentences. Motion Song Out or the Window (Music in ''Motion Songs," published by the Educa- tional Publishing Company.) Out of the window over the way, Saw I a cobbler, mending to-day. Thump went the hammer on 's shoe, *' Humph," said the cobbler, "I guess you'll do." Out of the window over the way, Saw I a tailor, sewing to-day. How did he do it? Why, to and fro. Ran his great needle through the cloth — so. 75 76 Seat Work and Sense Training Out of the window, over the way, Saw I the children in school to-day. What were they doing ? Why, don't you know ? Writing straight letters on pages of snow. Out of the window, over the way, Soon will be closing the gates of the day, Then will the children in robes of white Sleepily murmur, "Good-night, Good-night." Device for word and sound drill Lanterns on the board. Light each lantern by repeating and writing a word or sound from a list or from the cards. TWENTY-SIXTH DAY Seat Work Distribute duplicate pictures of one of the reading lessons. The pupils must find the lesson in their reader to which the picture be- longs and make it with his word cards. If the lesson is long, make only a portion. At the conclusion call upon some of the dull pupils to read the lesson. Sense Training Ask the pupils to bring balls to school. Add a few colored ones. Pupils describe — compare — notice similar- ity — difference. Distinguish by sense of touch. Detect differ- ence in sound when dropped. Game {Two lines of pupils) Throw the ball back and forth using both hands. Throw the ball up, catch it, then throw to the opposite child. (This work must be done rapidly.) 77 TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY Seat Work Matching words. Arrange figures cut from calendars in regular order. Sort and place all duplicate figures together. Continue copying the days of the week. Sense Training Game Send one pupil from the room. Two pupils hide. The first pupil returns. First he must tell what pupils have hidden. Then he must find them. The class meanwhile sings, "Little Bo-peep.'" Language (The days of the week) Repeat. How many are there ? What is done on each day? Require complete statements. Game and Song (*'The Mulberry Bush"') 78 TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY Seat Work Find the new words. Copy the sentences containing them. Copy the days of the week. Copy some of the addition combinations. Sense Training and Language Colored pictures of fruit, animals and flowers upon the blackboard ledge. Select a few pupils, give each the name of an animal, flower, etc. The pupils are to select their picture from the others and make a statement about it. Vary by requiring them to ask questions of the pupils in their seats as: "What have I ? What is this ?" Game The Town Musicians (Translated from the German) Pupils stand in a line one hack oj the other. Leader faces the others and sings I am a fine musician and out of Bremen come I can blow so, so. {Imitates action oj blowing a horn) 79 8o Seat Work and Sense Training Second pupil {turning to the third) He is a fine musician and has from Bremen come. He can blow so, so. {Repeating the action of the leader) Third I can fiddle so, so. {Action of playing on a violin) Fourth I can drum so, so. {Drumming) Trumpets I blow. {Blowing on a trumpet) {Continue in this way using the name oj different instru- ments.) Then altogether {marching) We are all fine musicians and out of Bremen come; We can blow, so so. We can fiddle so, so. Trumpets we blow, etc. {The first time the pupils all make the same gestures; the second time they each imitate a different instrument.) TWENTY-NINTH DAY Seat Work Cut flat irons, brooms, tubs, etc., from house- hold catalogues. Mount and write the names under each. Write the days of the week and place some article symbolical of the days beside each name. Monday Tuesday Sense Training {Touch) Recognize objects in the room by sense of touch. Require complete statements. 8i 82 Seat Work and Sense Training Game Choose sides as for a spelling match. Pin or give the name of a color to each pupil. If two children receive the same color the inter- est is heightened. The leader spins a tin or wooden plate and calls out the name of two colors. The owners of the colors must grasp the plate before it stops spinning. Failure to catch the plate before it stops results in a mark against the losing side. The object is to keep the score as low as possible. This may be varied by holding up a color or colors. The owners must recognize them and try to catch the plate. This demands quick- ness of perception. Device for word or sound drill A pupil stands at the front of the room. Word cards are distributed to the remainder of the class. They rise in turn and show their cards to the pupil at the front. He remains there until he has repeated a certain number of words correctly or until he fails. If he repeats all the words correctly he may choose his successor. THIRTIETH DAY Seat Work Copy short sentences containing the days of the week. Write the numbers as far as they know them. Put together puzzles made by cutting up ad- vertising cards. Language Game (Use of '*Saw'') Show the class some familiar object. What do you see ? Remove the object. What did you see ^. The pupil selects an object, and holds it up. What do you see in 's hand } Remove the object. What did you see in 's hand ? Send a pupil to the door. Whom do you see ? Tell the pupil to leave the room. Whom did you see t Continue until the interest flags. 83 84 Seat Work and Sense Training Song Game The Rabbit in the Hollow (From ''Songs and Roundels. " Educational Publishing Company.) {Children form a circle. One in the center for the rabbit. Rabbit must close his eyes.) The circle moves around singing Rabbit in the hollow sits and sleeps, Oh, poor rabbit, are you ill. That you cannot roam at will? (Rabbit opens his eyes) Rabbit, hop! Rabbit, hop! Rabbit, hop! (Rabbit hops around) Rabbit, beware of the dog to-day, For his teeth are sharp they say, Better, better run away Rabbit, run! Rabbit, run! Rabbit, run! (Rabbit runs around circle) (The hunters enters the circle.) Rabbit, from the hunter hide. He will kill you with his gun. If you do not hide or run, Rabbit, hide! Rabbit, hide! Rabbit, hide! (Rabbit runs pursued by hunter. Ring tries to hold him, Ij he gets through he may choose the next rabbit) THIRTY-FIRST DAY Seat Work After the lesson has been read write part of it on the board, omitting the new words. The pupils must find the omitted words in their vocabulary boxes, then copy the lesson, supply- ing these words. The teacher may vary this by making a list of the new words for the pupils' use instead of requiring them to use the vocabu- lary boxes. Sense Training Objects from the Kindergarten Gifts — the cube, the sphere, etc. Ask one or two pupils to close their eyes and place their hands behind them. Give each child a form. He must recognize it by the sense of touch, give its name, and the name of some object that resembles it. Require complete statement. Game and device for drill Pin a word upon each pupil. Arrange the children in a circle with one child in the center holding a pointer. 85 86 Seat Work and Sense Training Pupils dance around and sing: We children form a ring, No one goes in or out. We skip around so lightly The word turns about. Before the last line is sung, the pupil in the center points to some child in the ring. This must be done quickly or the interest will lag, and the game will be spoiled. THIRTY-SECOND DAY Seat Work Envelopes with short questions and answers on the outside. Words contained in the sen- tences in the envelopes. Pupils arrange the words in the order of the sentences on the en- velopes. Game and device for drill Place a row of word or sound cards on the blackboard ledge or write a list upon the board. Select two or three pupils for runners. Give a beanbag or ball to another child. Ask one of the pupils to call out one of the words or sounds. As she does so the child with the ball or bag throws it to some member of the class. The runners must try to get the word before the return of the bag or ball. The one who wins selects someone to take his place. 87 88 Seat Work and Sense Training Motion Song (From "Motion Songs," published by the Educational Publishing Company.) Sides, waist, shoulders, head, clap, head: Sides, waist, sides, waist, clap, clap, clap. Hands on the waist, backward, forward, Now in the armpits, down, up, down. Left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot, Now on tiptoe, then down low we go. Left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot, Now on tiptoe, then down low. THIRTY-THIRD DAY Seat Work Repeat the drill on the days of the week. The pupils must write the day of the week at the top of their papers every day. Make little spelling books. Write some of the most difficult words in them. Paper cutting of some simple objects men- tioned in the lesson or appropriate to the time of the year. Sense Training Game {Touch) Send two or three pupils to the front of the room. Blindfold a couple of others. Change the position of the children. The blindfolded children must seek to recognize the others by sense of touch. Rhyme {Review) "Monday's child is fair of face/' etc. 89 90 Seat Work and Sense Training Device for drill Call upon several pupils to give as many of the words they have learned as they can re- member. Write them in different places upon the board. Select four pupils. Call them North, East, South and West winds. Pretend the words are leaves. Arm the "winds'* with erasers. One member of the class repeats a word, the winds try to find it and see who can erase the word first. THIRTY-FOURTH DAY Seat Work Arrange the words of the lesson according to the number of letters they contain. on = 2 can = 3 in = 2 for = 3 an = 2 see = 3 Distribute sentences made from familiar words, being careful to see that the sentences are not like those in the primer or reader. Each pupil is to copy his sentence, then try to read it to himself. At the conclusion ask the pupils to read all the sentences. Language ("The School") The class — its name. The name of the school. The street on which it stands. The teacher's name. 91 92 Seat Work and Sense Training The principars name. The lessons. Care of the books and other school property. Game (Select a keeper, a buyer. The remainder of the pupils are to receive names of birds and are to stand in a row.) Keeper {walking up and down) Many kinds of birds have I, Come, people, come and buy. Birds Bird Buyer We are birds so bright and gay, Catch us ere we fly away. Birds I'll buy, birds I'll buy, And from me you'll never fly. {He selects a bird) (The keeper claps his hands and the bird flies away. The buyer tries to catch it. If he succeeds he puts it in a corner and proceeds to buy more birds. If he fails he becomes a bird.) THIRTY-FIFTH DAY Seat Work Copy the name of the school. Write — I go to school. school is my school. Copy and arrange in sentences some of the difficult words from the lesson which have been scattered over the blackboard. Sense Training {Hearing) Several pupils rap upon articles in the room, while the class observes carefully. The pupils then close their eyes while the others repeat the raps. The pupils whose eyes are closed en- deavor to name the objects rapped upon. Language Repeat the lesson upon The School." Device for word or sound drill A circle to represent a target, containing many difficult words or sounds. Arm two or 93 94 Seat Work and Sense Training three pupils with pointers for guns. A pupil repeats word or sound. The pupils with point- ers are to see which can find it the first. Stanza High and low the autumn winds blow, They drive the bees and blossoms away, And whirl the dry leaves over the ground ; They shake the branches of all the trees, And scatter apples and nuts around. THIRTY-SIXTH DAY Seat Work Cut oblongs of a certain length and width. Write phrase as: "I have'' or "It is" in each: I have It is Copy a short list of nouns in a column. Write them in another column and add "S." Sense Training and Drill {Memory Test) Show a word or sound card, then place at the back of the pack. Call upon a pupil to give the word or sound after the card has disap- peared. If perception cards are not used the words may be written upon the board, visualized and erased. Language The pupil's name. The number of the house and street. Review the lesson on school. Drill on the name of the city. Require complete statements in every instance. 95 96 Seat Work and Sense Training Finger Play A Rhyme of the Week (From Primary Education) (This may be given as a finger play or motion exercise by the whole school; or seven little maidens, appropriately gowned for each day, may each recite one section. At the close, let the speakers step forward or back to form couples or groups of three and walk happily around the room ''to church." Then, when they reach their seats again, let all join in singing some hymn.) Monday Rub, rub, rub I Wring, wring, wring! Rinse, rinse, rinse! While we gaily sing. Take the clothes outdoors! Hang them on the line! Oh how white they look! Washing day is fine! Tuesday Sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle! Fold and roll and press! Lay them in the basket, Towel, sheet, and dress. Flat-iron's hissing hot! Oh but this is fun! Merrily we'll work Till our ironing's done. Scat Wcrk and Sense Training 97 Wednesday Stir, stir, stir! Beat, beat, beat! Roll, roll, roll! Such good things to eat! Cookies, cake, and pies, Bread and doughnuts, too; Oh, but baking day is great! Baking's pleasant to do. Thursday Shining little needle, Show us your bright eye! See the thread go through it! Sewing we will try. Pillow-case or apron. Pretty gown or sheet, How we love to sew them With our stitches neat! All the world in rags might stay Were it not for sewing day! Friday Sweep, sweep, sweep! Nooks and corners all Must be free from dust and lint Ere the shadows fall. Busily we ply our brooms! When our sweeping's done, Oh how nice our rooms will look, Every single one! 98 Seat Work and Sense Training Saturday Scrub, scrub, scrub! Floors are cleaned to-day: Merrily we scour and rub; 'Tis as good as play. When we work with all our might, Rest is coming soon. JoUiest times in all the week come Saturday afternoon. Sunday Kling, kling, klingl Bells up in the steeple Swing and swing, Calhng to the people, "Smooth away the marks of care; Don a pretty gown! 'Tis the time to go to church In country or in town. Sunday is the sweetest day; Tis the time to praise and pray. — Bertha E. Bush THIRTY-SEVENTH DAY Seat Work Ask the pupils to bring different kinds of leaves to school. Each pupil sews, cuts, or draws two. Fasten the cut leaves to strings stretched across the room, so that they may dance in the wind. Color the leaves and write a sentence about each. Sense Training and Language Observation of leaves. Comparison — differ- ence. Select one type for study. Compare it with the other leaves. Show the similarity — the difference. Compare the color, arrangement of veins, mid-rib, stem, indentations. The answers must be given in sentences. Avoid the use of "I see." Question to obtain a different expression from each pupil. Device A memory test. Write a word upon the blackboard. Pupils visualize. Erase. Ask for 99 loo Seat Work and Sense Training the word. Write two words — erase — call for the words. Continue until the list is exhausted. Po em Sleepy Leaves (From Primary Education) The leaves are growing very tired, They want to go to bed; They're wearing pretty gowns, All yellow trimmed with red. They'll have a frolic with the wind Before they go to sleep. Then slower, slower still they'll whirl Until they're in a heap. He'll sing them all a lullaby So sweet and soft and low; Then far away to Slumberland Each little leaf will go. — £. P. ikf. THIRTY-EIGHTH DAY Seat Work Copy carefully: The day of the week. The name of the school. The name of the street on which it stands. The name of the street on which the pupil lives. The name of the city. Give each pupil a hektographed list of words to cut and arrange according to a model given by the teacher. Sense Training Game {Hearing) Pupils play watch dog. Close eyes and pre- tend to sleep. One or two pupils designated by the teacher quietly leave the room. The remaining members open their eyes and en- deavor to tell how many and who have left the room. If they are unable to tell, the pupils who went out may call once or twice. Care must be taken to keep all the pupils from talking at once. lOI I02 Seat Work and Sense Training Device for a reading drill Name some of the pupils for the nouns in the lesson. Stand the class in line. Children take turns In reading. As each noun is mentioned the pupil having that name turns as in stage- coach. At the close of the reading period the pupils run on tip-toe to their seats. The last to reach his seat is "It" and must pay a forfeit subject to the decision of the class. THIRTY-NINTH DAY Seat Work Pupils make a list of the objects named in the lesson. Cut a few of the objects and write the name upon each. Copy a sentence containing each. Sense Training Draw upon the blackboard the pictures of some of the objects mentioned in the lesson. Children visualize carefully. Write the names of the objects in a list, being careful not to place them in the same order as the drawings. Pupils copy the names in the same order as the draw- ings or select the names from their vocabulary box and arrange in regular order. Language Place a number of objects or pictures in a line. Pupils make statements about them, as: "There is a horse." "This is a wagon." Ask them to name the largest, the smallest, the prettiest, the one they like best, the one they do not like; the color; uses. 103 I04 Seat Work and Sense Training Game The King's Chest Select a leader or a king. He doubles his fist, leaving the thumb sticking up, and places it on the desk. The next player grasps the king's thumb. The second player's thumb is grasped by the third, and so on until the tower is completed. The king then says What's that? The second player replies "A club." The king Take it off or I'll knock it off. {He continues asking and receiving the same answer until only his own hand remains.) They all question him What's that? King My chest. What do you keep in it? Bread and cheese. Where's our part? The mice ate it. Where are the mice? In the walls. What walls? The walls of the house. Whose house? My house. Where is the house? The fire burned it. Where is the fire? The water put it out. Where's the water? Seat Work and Sense Training 105 The ox drank it. Where's the ox? The farmer killed it. Where's the farmer? Gone to town. " Mum- mum, for plum who speaks first or laughs must pay a forfeit. I am the king, I speak when I will." All must keep silent while the king tries to make them laugh or speak. If he succeeds the unlucky one must pay a forfeit. FORTIETH DAY Seat Work Cut furniture from catalogues. Mount and write the name under each. Or, cut the printed names from the catalogue and paste underneath. Draw or cut from a catalogue or old readers pictures of some objects. Write the new words over, around and in the pictures. The paper will appear as follows: bird girl ( ^^^-^^ run see ( flower ) has ^"^ table Write the following sentences: Head is in the cap. Flower is in the jar. Bo is under the cap, etc. io6 Seat Work and Sense Training 107 Game and drill Select one pupil for a postman. Let him dis- tribute a word or sound card to each. These "letters" may be posted by repeating the words correctly. Language (Reproduction of Fable) 1. Repeat the fable or story slowly and care- fully several times. 2. Use short sentences and simple language. 3. Illustrate if possible. 4. Question pupils for the main points. FORTY-FIRST DAY Seat Work Distribute to each pupil a slip containing a number of words. Pupils read silently. Select the words from their vocabulary boxes and arrange in the order of the words on their sHps. Find sentences in the previous lessons con- taining the words. Arrange the sentences with the words from the vocabulary boxes. Vary by copying the words or sentences. At the close of the lesson the pupils must read the sentences to the teacher or one of the older pupils. Those who repeat the words and sentences correctly must write their names upon the paper, carefully adding a large E, and hand the paper to the teacher. Sense Training A cube, a sphere, a cylinder. Children com- pare objects in the room with one or another of io8 Seat Work and Sense Training 109 the forms — objects similar — objects composed of two forms. Insist upon complete statements. Language Continue the reproduction of the fable or short story. Repeat the fable again. Question the pupils. Write the answers upon the board. The pupils may not recognize every word, but they will be interested. Game Four pupils take their places as for London Bridge. The remainder of the class forms a line and marches under the bridge singing — We're looking for a {naming a flower), We're looking for a {name oj flower) And here's one now. The pupil caught chooses a captain and stands next to him. The next one caught joins hands with the first prisoner and helps to lengthen the arch. Vary by naming a pupil for each flower. The cap- tains have three chances to guess the flower name of the person caught. If they fail she is free to go on marching. At the close have a grand march or a grand chain as in the Lanciers. no Scat Work and Sense Training Device for drill Distribute the cards as on the fortieth day. Pupils copy the words. When it is time to collect the cards call for them in the order in which they are arranged in the book — that is, suppose the words taught are arranged as follows: apple, an, it, is. The teacher calls for apple first, then an, then is. This will save much tiresome sorting after school. FORTY-SECOND DAY Seat Work The pupils who received "E" on the forty- first day are to receive a slip of another color containing a certain number of words. Those who failed receive the white slip again. Con- tinue the work as for the previous day. Sense Training {Concentration, Memory) Pupils memorize a short stanza containing familiar words in given time. Method 1 Read the stanza to the pupils. 2 Write it on the blackboard. 3 Visualize the first line. 4 Erase — repeat. 5 Visualize second. 6 Erase — repeat. 7 Repeat first and second. Continue in this way until stanza is completed. Allow only a short time. Ill 112 Seat Work and Sense Training Game Sunbonnet Baby postals illustrating the days of the week. One child selects a card and shows it to the class. The pupils sing the appropriate verse from the *' Mulberry Bush." Language Oral reproduction of "iEsop's Fables" or the short story. Device for word or sound drill Sky-rockets upon the board. Write a word or sound on each rocket. The pupils send the rockets up by repeating the word or sound correctly. Poem Autumn The trees are now all yellow and red, And the nuts fall down to the ground, The children go shuffling through the leaves, They like the rustling sound. And since the school year is still young, The books are clean and new. The boys and girls must study hard, For holidays are few. FORTY-THIRD DAY Seat Work Copy all words ending in a certain sound. Count the number of words in all the short sentences. Write the figure corresponding to the number. The pupils are familiar with the period by this time, so that they may be required to count the number of periods. Sense Training Repeat some of the previous lessons. Language Ask the pupils questi«"n > that are in the reader. Write some of them upon the board. Pupils find in the lesson. Call attention to the mark at the end. Tell them its name. Ask them to find more. To read sentences that end with the mark. Give each row a different page of an old lesson. Request them to find the ques- tions and copy. 113 114 Seat Work and Sense Training Game Follow My Leader Children follow teacher or a chosen leader around the room, imitating his actions. At the close of the game each pupil places his hands upon the shoulders of the pupil in front of him, and plays train. The pupil at the head represents the locomotive. This is rather a noisy game more suitable out-of-doors than in the school- room. Device for drill on words or sounds Pretend the words or sounds are squirrels which run away when repeated or erased. FORTY-FOURTH DAY Seat Work Make a list of words in the lesson according to the number of letters, as: do dog bark is he you not tree kill, etc Sense Training The teacher hums the air of a song. As soon as she stops the pupils sing the words, or, the teacher repeats the words and the pupils sing the air. Language Review the work on the question. Lead the pupils to ask questions about the objects in the room, colored pictures of flowers, animals, etc. "5 ii6 Seat Work and Sense Training Device for drill on words or sounds Distribute to each pupil a paper containing a word or sound. Call upon each to repeat his word. As the words are repeated write them rapidly upon the board. When all have recited some of the pupils (preferably the dull ones) must be asked to go to the board, repeat a word, or sound, and erase it. Game \To quicken perceptive faculties) Allow some of the pupils to hide small ob- jects. Select others to see how many they can find in a short time. FORTY-FIFTH DAY Seat Work Cut oblongs of a certain measurement. Write a different combination on each, with the an- swer on the back, as: 3+2 Sense Training Tell a pupil to walk quickly to the clothing closet, teacher's closet, or a companion's desk. Return and tell what he saw. Allow other children to tell what the first child said. (En- courage a variety of expressions. Assist by careful questioning. Language Continue the work on The Question." 117 ii8 Seat Work and Sense Training ^ame Pupils stand in two rows. Call one the Reds, the other the Blues. The side next to each row is its goal. The teacher calls out "Red" or "Blue." The children in the line having that name run to their goal. The children in the other line must try to catch them before they reach it. Those caught are the prisoners. Continue playing until all or most of the pupils of a line have been made prisoners. FORTY-SIXTH DAY Seat Work To supplement the language lesson. Pupils sort the standard colors. Mount in the order of the spectrum. Write the name beside each. Sense Training and Language Throw the spectrum upon a sheet of white paper or a white wall. Pupils name the familiar colors. Call atten- tion to the arrangement. Give the names of the unfamiliar colors. Tell the pupils that the sunlight is made up of all these colors, and that the reason we see the green of the leaves is because the leaves take up all the colors except green. This green they give back to us. Device for word or sound drill A tree with sounds or words for nuts. Chil- dren pretend to gather the nuts for winter by naming the word or sound. Game Repeat the game from forty-first day, sub- stituting colors for flowers. 119 FORTY-SEVENTH DAY Seat Work Continue the work with the standard colors. Allow the spectrum to play upon the white paper or cardboard. The pupils must arrange their colored papers or tablets in the order of the spectrum. Copy the names correctly be- side each color. Added interest may be given to this if the name of each color is written in colored chalk. After the work has been com- pleted the pupils must study silently until they can name the colors in their order. Sense Training and Language Review the work on the prism again. Pupils select their favorite colors. Name something that has that particular color. Name some- thing that has a color designated by the teacher. Match the colors with the teacher's colors. Require complete statements each time. 1 20 Seat Work and Sense Training 121 Game Game of Colors (Give each pupil the name of a color, or pin colored paper upon them, or make colored caps for them.) Dance in a ring and sing We are six little fairies Sent by Father Sun. We kiss the tiny rain-drops And then our work is done, Leader Little Fairy Red, tell me, I pray, What you are doing the livelong day? Red answers I fly to the cherry, rose and peach. And leave a kiss on the cheek of each. Red turns to Yellow Little Fairy Yellow, I wish you would say What yoU'Ve been doing the livelong day. Yellow answers Down in the green grass I play With dandelions, daisies and buttercups gay. Joins hands with Red and they both say to Orange Little Sister Orange, bright and gay. What is your work every day? Orange Away in the south when the days are fair, I paint the coats of the oranges there. 122 Seat Work and Sense Training Yellow to Blue Little Fairy Blue, tell us, we pray. What did you do all this bright day ? Blue Way up in the sky and in flowers on the ground, My color you'll see I've scattered around. Blue and Yellow to Green Fairy Green, Fairy Green, look this way, Tell us your work this lovely day Green All day long I'm busy as bees Coloring the grasses and the leaves on the trees. All Colors to Violet Violet, Violet, tell us, we say. What has your work been to-day ? Violet I smile on pansy faces as they look at the sun : I shine in the clouds when the day is done. Leader Little Color Fairies, playing here together, What do you do in stormy weather? Colors After the rain when the sun gives its light We form in line to make a rainbow bright. {Form in spectrum. Dance round and sing first stanza again,) FORTY-EIGHTH DAY Seat Work Continue drill on standard colors. Sort and arrange colored papers, tablets. Simple statements in arithmetic, as: 3 — I = 3 — ,? = I, etc. Sense Training and Language Match the colors with papers held by the teacher. Match colors with each other. Find their own colors on the color chart. Require complete statement for answers. Device for word or sound drill Draw ears of corn upon the blackboard. Write a word or sound in each. Pupils eat the corn by repeating the words or sounds correctly. Game Repeat the color game from the Forty-seventh Day. 123 FORTY-NINTH DAY Seat Work Repeat some of the work from the previous lessons, selecting something that has proved diffi- cult. If a phonic system of reading is used copy the sounds which have been learned and place a word containing the sound beside it. The pupils must examine the pages of the reader for these words. Sense Training Exercise Place the color chart before the class. Call upon the best pupils to select two others. One takes the pointer, the other a colored slip. The one with the colored slip shows it to the child with the pointer, then to the class. The one with the pointer points to the same color on the chart. The class affirms or negatives his at- tempt. These two children then select two more if the color has been matched correctly. Vary by calling upon three pupils — one to point, another to hold the colored slip, and a third to write the word in colored chalk. 124 Seat Work and Sense Training 125 Device for word or sound drill Pupils represent pigeons. The word cards are the food. Game Continue the Color Game. FIFTIETH DAY Seat Work Pupils measure two inch squares. Write a name of a color in each. Lay questions from the lesson with word cards. Copy the questions. Sense Training and Language If the majority of the pupils are reasonably familiar with the standard colors, take up the simplest tints and shades. It will not be neces- sary to go into the matter very deeply. Roll a sheet of colored paper like a cylinder. Call attention to the fact that the side turned away from the light is darker than the real color. Show the pupils the color and its tints and shades. Ask them to select all the lighter colors. Repeat with the other standard colors. Give the word Tints. Require complete statements: This is a tint of red. This is a tint of green, etc„ Game The Color Game. 126 FIFTY-FIRST DAY TO FIFTY-FIFTH DAY Seat Work Sew, cut, draw, color kite, wind-mill, weather- vane, trees bending in the wind. Cut clothes on a line blowing in the wind, boys chasing hats or anything suggestive of the winds work. Lay a kite and a wind-mill with sticks. Make pinwheels. Sense Training Review the points of the compass. (See lesson for Twelfth Day.) Language C*The Wind'') Name things that tell us the wind is blowing. (Smoke, clouds, leaves, weather-vane, etc.) Winds named from the direction from which they come. What each wind tells us. (North wind — cold; South Wind — warmth, etc.) 127 128 Seat Work and Sense Training Uses of the winds Spring Wind Soft and gentle. Blows away the dead leaves and branches. Purifies the air. Tells the birds to come back, the seeds to come up5 turns the girls' pinwheels, flies the boys kites. Summer Wind Soft and gentle, too. Blows the clouds in great heaps, so that we have heavy showers; makes cool breezes, blows the sail-boats along, etc. Autumn Wind Scatters seeds. Shakes the nuts and fruit down from the trees, tells the birds to fly south; scatters the leaves over the earth to make better soil and to form a blanket for the seeds and roots. North Wind Rough and boisterous. Brings the Ice King. Comes from the North and makes people gather close around the fire. Helps Jack Frost freeze the ponds. Seat Work and Sense Training 129 Other uses Dries up the roads after the rain. Dries the clothes. Turns the mill to grind the corn. Turns the wheel on the water tower. (Show pictures of windmills of Holland.) Blows the ships along — speak of Columbus, Pilgrims, Henry Hudson. General effect Changes the appearance of the land par- ticularly along the coasts. Sand-storms, sand-hills, tornadoes, cyclones, etc. Memory Gem Whichever way the wind doth blow, Some heart is glad to have it so; So blow it east, or blow it west, The wind that blows — that wind is best. Story "The Wind and the Sun." Suggestion Keep a small weather-vane upon the desk and ask the pupils to turn it in the right direction each day. FIFTY-SIXTH DAY Seat Work Give to each pupil an envelope containing the standard colors with their tints and shades. He must select all the tints and place them to- gether; then all the shades. Lastly arrange a color scale according to a model made by the teacher. Language Read Stevenson's "Dumb Soldier" to the class. Give a brief talk upon the duties of a soldier: — what each pupil can learn from the soldier, his obedience, neatness, etc. Try to make the pupils see that all are good soldiers and that each has his battle to fight. Teach the first part of the poem. Game Select a leader. Pupils march about the room. The leader or teacher gives orders which must be obeyed instantly. Failure to do so results in loss of place or a forfeit. 130 FIFTY-SEVENTH DAY Seat Work Introduce small alphabet cards. Make the new words with the cards. Copy short sentences from the blackboard. The teacher must be careful to give more ques- tions than statements as most children have difficulty with the former. Sense Training Show color scale. Pupils visualize. Remove the scale. Pupils make with tablets. Language Continue the lesson on the soldier and the teaching of the poem. Motion Song Fife and Drum (Marching Song) (Tune— "Nancy Lee") (From "Motion Songs." Published by Educational Publishing Company.) (A part of the school sing at first. Let the pupils drum 131 132 Seat Work and Sense Training upon the desks in the places where it is appropriate and march at the words, "Ho, there's the merry, merry fife," continuing the marching as long as it rests and pleases them. Let all begin to sing at the words, " Oh yes, we all can hear it now." Drum sojtly at first.) Hark! hark! we thought we heard a drum, A drum, a drum, a drum, a drum. Oh yes, we can all hear it now, Hurrah, the merry, merry drum ! Now louder, louder, louder, yet the gay sound grows; Perhaps they're coming up this way, who knows, who knows ? Oh rub-a-dub-dub, a-dub-dub a-dub, the old drum goes, Rub a-dub, a-dub, a-dub, Ho, there's the merry, merry, merry fife so gay Calling us away, calling us away; The dear old drum says come, we come, O you jolly, jolly fife and drum. (Repeat Second Strain) Oh rub-a-dub-dub, a-dub, dub, a-dub, dub, dub, dub, old drum, old drum; We've run away for a holiday, we come, we come. We'll follow, follow, follow you, it is such fun. You jolly, jolly fife and drum. (Let the children clap at ''Hurrah.^') — Blanche Konkle FIFTY-EIGHTH DAY Seat Work Each pupil examine a different page for words contained in a list upon the board. Count the number of times each word appears. Copy each word once. Envelopes with duplicate letters of the alpha- bet. Pupils sort and place all duplicates to- gether. Measure strips of paper, write the number of inches upon each. Sense Training and Language Pupils station themselves in different parts of the room. Teacher Where is .? Pupil is on the east side of the room. Teacher What is she doing ? Pupil She is jumping, or singing. Teacher Where is and what is she doing ? Third Pupil is on the east side of the room and she is . 133 134 Seat Work and Sense Training This may be varied by the pupil asking, *' Where am I? Where am I?" Or Place the following picture upon the board: The Lesson What is in the picture ? What is on the water ? What kind of a boat is on the water ? For what is it used ? Where is it going, etc. ? What do you think is in the water? (Fish, shells, sea-weed.) Seat Work and Sense Training 135 If this were real what colors would you see ? What would you hear ? (Ripple of the water, men's voices, flapping of the sails, call of the night birds, etc. Movements — of the water, the boat, the buoy, clouds, birds, etc. If it were night, what would you see ^ (Moon, stars, night birds, moths, lights on the shore, etc.) Poem The Row-boat and the Water Lilies (A Finger Play) (From Primary Education) Let's play our seats are pretty boats. How many boats there are! And see, here are our trusty oars, (Arms extended at sides oj desk) To row them near and far. Now rowing, rowing, rowing so, (Move arms as if rowing) All in the bright June weather, We row, and row, and row, and row, And dip our oars together. (Move arms as ij rowing) Now let us rest awhile right here, (Hands folded on desks ) And pick the lilies v/hite, (Motions as if picking lilies) 136 Seat Work and Sense Training How pure they are with golden hearts, Now dainty, sweet, and bright. See, all the flowers are picked, and now We'll tie them up and then, {Motion to tie up bouquet) We'll take our trusty oars once more, And row back home again. (Repeat rowing motion) — Maude M. Grant FIFTY-NINTH DAY Seat Work Sew, cut, draw, color a horse. Sew, cut, draw, color a wagon. Sew, cut, draw, color things to be carried in the wagon. Place five difficult consonants with words containing them in envelopes. Pupils match consonants to its word, copy and write a sen- tence for each one. If the pupils cannot write original sentences allow them to look in their readers. The papers should appear as follows: r-rat. The rat is brown, m-man. See the strong man. Sense Training Repeat some of the former lessons. Language ("The Horse") Ask the pupils to bring pictures of horses. Size. Color. 137 138 Seat Work and Sense Training Limbs. Hoofs — the shoeing of a horse. Tail — use — cruelty of docking. Head Face — nose. Mouth — teeth — manner of drinking. Ears. Eyes. Food. Bed. Habits. Care. Emperor William's Maxims Don't pound or beat me. Cover me when I am too warm or too cold. Don't stand me in a draft. Don't cut my feet too much when I am shod. Don't overload me. Don't work me when I am sick. Don't overdrive or underfeed me. Remember that I have feelings. Don't water me when I have been driven a long distance, until I am cool. Sponge out my mouth first. Speak to me kindly. Treat me as you would like to be treated if you were a horse. Seat Work and Sense Training 139 Device for drill Draw a number of cages upon the board. Write a word or sound in each. The words are birds which are set free when repeated cor- rectly. Rhyme *T had a Httle pony," etc. Found in " Mother Goose Rhymes." SIXTIETH DAY Seat Work Write some of the blend words in diflferent places upon the board. The pupils are to copy the words, arranging them in families as they write. That is — all the words containing "in" in one list; all those containing "an" in an- other. Sense Training and Device for Drill To train the ear, assist with spelling and de- velop a vocabulary. Provide each pupil with a strip of paper, send a bright pupil to the board. Dictate as follows: Think of "an" and write "can.'' Pupil at the board and pupil in the seats write "can." Think of ''an" and write "man." When this combination has been exhausted, take up another and continue until all the com- binations have been exhausted, or until the time has expired. Language (Continue the lesson on The Horse") 140 SIXTY-FIRST DAY Seat Work Sew, cut, draw, color or model fruits. Write the correct names upon each. Cut fruits from seed catalogues. Make little booklets. Paste a different fruit on each page. Write the name and a sentence under each. Cherry The cherry is red. Plum The plum is purple. Sense Training Game and Language Pupils distinguish between different fruits by sense of touch, smell and taste. Device for drill Scatter some of the words from the pupils' vocabulary boxes on the desks. Tell the chil- dren the room is an orchard. The cards are fruit. The pupils gather the fruit by repeating the words correctly. Riddles Oh, once I was a blossom, A dainty little elf, I dwelt upon the tree-top, 141 142 Seat Work and Sense Training All day, I swung myself. I left the sunny orchard Where robin redbreasts carol, To winter in the cellar, Deep in a dark, old barrel. Such streaks of red and yellow My pretty cheeks do dapple — - I'm a merry little, mellow Little, round, rosy — Apple! Round, and as purple As purple can be, Steeped in warm sunshine, You surely know me. I make rare jellies Of shimmering shapes. Just help yourself to A big bunch of — Grapes! I am fragrant — juicy — fair, I've a flavor, rich and rare, Tough, thick coat of green I wear, With a jolly, jaunty air. I've a heart with you to share. Smooth black seeds are hidden there, Who will guess me? Have a care. Though I'm one, I'm called a — Pear! With skin of soft velvet, with pulp sweet as honey, I grew in the orchard in days warm and sunny, 'Tis said that I have but a stone for a heart, But I'll make you a dumpling, or fine, flaky tart, Seat Work and Sense Training 143 Take a sniff — smack your lips — I'm just out of reach, Now, guess, if you can. I'm — a — plump — pinky — Peach! I'm a gay, saucy fellow, and I bring good prices, Just pare me, and quarter me, and cut me into slices, I'll make such a sauce, rich enough for any prince. Though I'm nothing at all but a commonplace — Quince! I'm a very little fruit in a very little corner. You always think of me when you do of Jack Horner, I'm going in a cake — if you'll put in your thumb, I'm sure you will find me — a little red — Plum! SIXTY-SECOND DAY Seat Work Sew, cut, draw umbrellas. Fold an umbrella (see directions in Primary Education). Make a border of umbrellas. Give each pupil a card containing a picture and several new words. The pupils are to make sentences about the picture, using the new words. Give each pupil a number of pictures with the names attached, and several duplicate words. Pupils match the words and the picture. Paste the border of umbrellas upon paper and write the rhyme, **Rain, rain, go away," under the border. Language (A lesson on "Rain") The Weather Bureau at Washington, D. C, will send pictures of the various clouds correctly named. Condense steam on slate. Refer to the win- dows on wash day. By illustrating show that the more vapor and the colder the slate or win- 144 Seat Work and Sense Training 145 dow the greater the condensation. The small drops form larger ones and become so heavy that they run down the slate or pane. In the same way the cold winds touch the vapor and rain results. Effects of rain upon the earth — springs, rivers, etc. Drink for plant and people. What does the sky look like during a rain storm ? Where does the sun go ? Where do the people go ? What animals like rain ^ Action Poem Where do you come from, Little drops of rain? Fitter patter, pitter patter, Down the window-pane. I cannot go outside to play, I've nothing else to do, But just sit here the livelong day Wishing I could play with you. {Repeat the -first stanza) Motions First Stanza Lines i and 2. Hold out the hand and look up. Lines 3 and 4. Tap lightly on the desk. 146 Seat Work and Sense Training Second Stanza Lines i and 2. Shake head; shrug shoulders. Line 3. Elbow on the desk. Pretend to look out of an imaginary window. Song The Rain Helen Ware fe^^.^= -Jtzzjtzni. H^— ^'^— i^-^-^-- ?^— ^ -Z5Hr -^- atzii 1. The mer - ry rain is knock-ing at the door 1 Its 2. In float-ing clouds the rain-drops have their home ; Their 3. The rain is friend to ev - 'ry liv - ing thing ; It i =J: :i ^ 9^^ a -^r -&- "^- -&-* ~Gh -Gh -r-r -*— -2^- -25*- ^— ^ S fin - ger tips play-mates are wa - ters all =1=== are sound - ing on the pane ; the hap - py winds that blow ; the droop - ing, thirst - y flow'rs ; :i 9i ^ -^ --=1: Seat Work and Sense Training 147 m 1^ M=zM: 3S AII^ The And now we hear the hurry-ing wa - ters pour ; from the bend-ing skies they swift - ly come, To c„j„ :4-_ i.„ „„ »j.y wait - ing spring Thanks Down It finds its way to ev §^mm 1^ 11: -^- iT-^¥ -G\-- '<5A- .4 -&r-r- -TS -25'- -s^— ^ i ^=P^ rain ! cheer for — I- -y-r the the the H- mer - wait - nev - ry, ing er :^^E^I mer - ry rainl earth be - low. fail - ing showers. ;B 9i. -<«-;- ^ SIXTY-THIRD DAY Seat Work Write two sentences for each new word. Make the name of the city with the alphabet cards. Copy. Puzzle pictures — cut up Sonbonnet postals representing the days of the week. Pupils put them together and copy the names of the days. Language (Continue the lesson on the '^Rain") Game The Hunter Select one pupil for the hunter. Name several others for his things; cap, coat, gun, etc. The teacher must tell a story about going hunting. As she mentions each name the children rise as in Stage- coach, turn and come forward to the front of the room, where they stand in line. Without a moment's warning the hunter cries ''Bang!" The pupils must try to get to their seats as quickly as possible. The last one is "It" and has to perform some action suggested by the class. Device for Word Drill Drill on blends to tune of ''Yankee Doodle, as: c — an is can, t — an is tan. X48 SIXTY-FOURTH DAY Seat Work Cut paper doll baby, her clothes, toys, crib. Write the names on each. Each pupil lay a different paragraph with the word cards, then copy. Sense Training Detect the difference between the coins by sense of touch. Language Lesson on the common coins. Names — description of each — metals. Comparison as to size, color, general appear- ance. Teach United States money. Device for word or sound drill Arrange word or sound cards upon the black- board ledge. The teacher says: "Pick an apple." "Show me can." "Take the baby." The pupils select the cards containing the words called for, hold them up to the class and repeat. The class confirms the pupil's work. 149 SIXTY-FIFTH DAY Seat Work Sew, cut, draw a barn, animals, cart, farm implements. Fold a barn. Lay a fence. Cut pictures from agricultural catalogues. Mount and paste or write the names beside each. Sense Training Measure objects or strips of paper. Com- pare measurements. Language Review the farmer's work during the different seasons. Spring Preparation for planting. Work for the sun, wind and rain. Who sends them ? Summer Plants the farmer raises. Uses of these plants. 150 Seat Work and Sense Training 151 Autumn The harvest. To whom must we give thanks ? Winter Grain and vegetables all stored. Care of animals — all things protected from the cold. Benefit of snow. Game The Farmer's Daughter ' Father is a farmer, I'm his daughter, gay and free — A country Hfe's a happy Hfe, a country life for me. I ^ like to work about the farm, I also like to play — You can catch me if you can, I'm going to run away. 3 Run, run, run, run, Catch the farmer's daughter, Run, run, run, run. Catch the farmer's daughter. Directions A ring of girls, hand in hand. In centre, farmer's daughter marches round, hands behind. At 2, she dances round the ring, holding a handkerchief aloft, and at away she throws it over the shoulder of any girl in the ring, who then runs after her, till she is caught. 1 All march round in a ring. At me all clap hands once, turn quickly round to face outwards, and join hands again. 2 Dance round, hand in hand, facing outwards. 3 All let hands go. Turn faces towards ring, and clap hands to time, singing chorus till farmer's daughter is 152 Seat Work and Sense Training caught, when game begins again, with catcher as the farmer's daughter. — Kate F. Bremner The Farmer's Daughter ^r^ ii-^n^9-f- ^ Xr- i\-^ r^ -N-=l— ^ '^m M -» — =i-p— =1- T=^ -m — =1 — » — =1- P— ^I— ^- ^-:^ -^~N' 1^ -i^— -«i^«* H -r-s-\ - t^=:1^^=l?^ latzstzitzt i=fe V- ■F — I •- ■-i ~^ — ^-l a/— -# -Jv- ^Fa-theris a farmer,I'm his daughter gay and free, A like to work about the farm, I al - so like to play, Now 0i '-?+: :t=^: ^ ^_ -^. — » — # — ffi- -» — (» — ©- ES3=E -^=^^t^EE^ ^~^- -N-i |z:^=itjtib^- -« — I- -N — ^-i- country life's a hap-py life, A coun - try life for me. ^I you caia catch me if you can, I'm go - ing to run a-way. -9- -»- p^— -it » — & — »- — — +r-s-,i — "«— — -1? — »- tt '=t:=P=f:= -F: gf-gf ■E=F 'Run, run, run, run. Catch the far-mer's daugh-ter. lln-t- -I ^ M :t I SIXTY-SIXTH DAY Seat Work Sew, cut, draw skates, snow-crystals. If the snow-crystals are cut from white tissue paper and mounted on a dark background they will be more effective. Copy a list of words meaning one. Copy again and add ''S." Sense Training Detect articles of wood, iron, wool, etc., by sense of touch. Language ("Snow") Review Rain. Action of the cold winds upon the moisture in the air. Time of year in temperate climates — in cold countries. Found on the ground, roofs, fences, trees in temperate climate. All the time on the tops of mountains in warm and temperate climates. 153 154 Seat Work and Sense Training All over in cold countries. Speak of the depths in cold countries. Size of flakes. Shape — color — weight (a single flake very light — heavy in bulk. Damage done. Uses Warmth — combined with the leaves and grasses keeps the ground warm. Protects roots of plants and grasses. "Warmth for all the tender roots. Warmth for every living thing." Device for word or sound drill Words or sounds as snow-balls. Draw the balls on the board. Write a word or sound in each. If the pupils can repeat the words or sounds correctly the snowballs melt (are erased). The Weaver There is a wonderful weaver high up in tne air, He weaves a white mantle for cold earth to wear, With the finest of laces he decks bush and tree, On the brown barren meadows a cover lays he. But this wonderful weaver grows weary at last, The shuttle lies idle that once flew so fast. Then the sun looks abroad at the work he has done And says, "I'll unravel it just for fun." — Sel. SIXTY-SEVENTH DAY Seat Work Select letters from the letter cards illustrating the familiar sounds. Copy one word and sen- tence for each. Model — cl — clear. It is a clear day. Sense Training Repeat the lesson from the previous day. Language Continue the work on Snow." Device for drill A match between boys and girls to see which side can repeat the most words correctly. Motion piece The Snow Storm ^ All the sky was dark and gray, On that chilly, winter day; * In the woods and on the hill Every tree was bare and still. 155 156 Seat Work and Sense Training 2 Whirling, dancing, to and fro, Came the feath'ry flakes of snow, ^ Floating down — the pretty things! Just like birds with soft, white wings. ^ Covering everything from sight With a robe of purest white; ^ Where the flowers lay asleep, ^ Soon was spread a blanket deep ; ^ Warm and safe, they rest below While the howling north winds blow. Directions 1. Both arms slightly raised. Look upward. 2. Both arms raised straight overhead to imitate boughs of trees. 3. Arms held as in 2. Flutter fingers to imitate snow. 4. Float both hands slowly downward, fluttering fingers. 5. Hands held down at side with palms toward floor. 6. Look downward. 7. Hands, with palms downward toward the floor. Move outward with a spreading motion. 8. Drop head to side and rest cheek on both hands held palms together. Close eyes as if asleep. — Eleanor Cameron SIXTY-EIGHTH DAY Seat Work Copy ten specified words. Select five and copy a sentence from the book for each. Sense Training Repeat two lines of a poem. Test to see whether any pupil can repeat it. Insist upon strict attention. If this work is continued the pupils will soon learn to concentrate their attention and will learn any short poems in a given time. Language (A lesson on The Months") Begin with the present month. Ask for the preceding month. Try to get as much information from the chil- dren as possible, then supplement. Repeat the first three months. Insist upon complete statements. 157 158 Seat Work and Sense Training Poem The Procession of the Months Cold January's winds that rage and blow Will heap deep drifts and banks of snow. Pale February's melting snow and rain, Will make the streams o'erfiow again. March winds — like wand 'ring flocks of sheep The clouds across the sky will sweep. SIXTY-NINTH DAY Seat Work Copy the names of the first three months. Select the names of the first three months from cards made by cutting and mounting the head- ings of calendars. Sense Training Ask the pupils to bring whistles. Distinguish difference in sound. Language ( The yionxhs!'^ —continued) Repeat the names of the first three months. Drill on the second three. Require complete statements. Game Name pupils for the first six months. Choose a leader. The leader calls for the first month, the third month, etc. As each month is called the children having that name stand and say, "I ." A child who forgets to stand when 159 i6o Seat Work and Sense Training the number of his month is called must write the name and the number of the month upon the board. Device for word or sound drill Place word or sound cards along the black- board ledge. Send two children to the front of the room to take turns in naming, repeating the words or sounds. oem Repeat the three verses already learned. Continue. April brings the violet sweet, Scatters daisies at our feet. Apple blossoms come in May, But they soon fly away. June is queen among them all, Roses blossom at her call. SEVENTIETH DAY Seat Work Continue copying the names of the months. Build with letter cards. Language ( The Months'' — continued) Repeat the names of the months already learned. Teach the next three. Drill on all that have been taught. Game Pin the name of a month on each child. Spin a wooden or tin plate and call out the name of a month. The owner of the name must pick up the plate before it stops spinning or pay a forfeit. Increase the interest by calling more than one name. Poem Hot July brings storm and showers, Peaches, cherries and more flowers. In August the farmer rakes the hay, He works in the fields every day. In September the school-bells call To summon the children one and all. i6i SEVENTY-FIRST DAY Seat Work Copy sentences containing the names of the months. Sort and arrange in regular order the names of the months. (Use the headings of calendars for this.) Sense Training Use of hard and soft in connection with ob- jects. Language Complete the lesson on ( The Months")- Game Repeat the games of the preceding days. Review the poem of the months. Teach the concluding verses : October paints the pretty leaves, The corn is gathered into sheaves. Chill November waits to see December brings the Christmas tree. 162 SEVENTY-SECOND DAY Seat Work Write the alphabet in columns. Arrange the words of the lesson in alphabetical order. A — and. B — boy. C — can, etc. Sense Training Ask the pupils to bring spices and to recog- nize them by the sense of taste and smell. In- sist upon complete statements. Finger Play The Cake Do you want to make a cake? Be sure fresh eggs to take. ^ Break them open, one, two, three, For it must be rich you see. ^ Now begin to swiftly beat Eggs and butter, sugar sweet. Just a minute, please, now halt! 3 Don't forget a pinch of salt. ^ Raisins, currants, citron, spice. These will help to make it nice. 163 164 Seat Work and Sense Training ^ Gently now the sieve you lift And into the mixture sift ^ Flour enough to make it right, Not too heavy, not too light. ^ Next we take a buttered tin, ^ Quickly turn the batter in. ^ As you open the oven door, ^° Do not spill it on the floor. Now quickly shut it in, This nice batter in the tin. " Slowly rise and slowly bake, ^^ Then we'll have a lovely cake. Motions 1. Break eggs into an imaginary bowl. 2. Beat eggs, butter together. 3. Sprinkle salt. 4. Put in fruit. 5. Lift sieve and sift flour. 6. Stir. 7. Butter an imaginary tin. 8. Turn out mixture, scrape bowl. 9. Open imaginary oven door, put cake into oven. 10. Close door. 11. Pretend to clear up. 12. Open door — lift out cake. Nursery Rhymes "Pat-a-cake, pat-a -cake," etc. Story "The Gingerbread Boy." SEVENTY-THIRD DAY Seat Work String beads, placing a certain number of each color together. Sort before stringing to avoid too frequent counting by ones. Copy all the sentences in the reading lesson containing the word ''I.'' Language Lesson on The Sheep" Baa! Baa! black sheep, Have you any wool? No, sir. Yes, sir. Three bags full. One for my master; one for his dame; One for the little boy who lives in the lane. Toy Iamb, pictures of lamb, flock of sheep, shepherd, collie, articles made from wool. Points to he presented Sheep live in a flock. Father has horns — called a ram. Mother called a ewe. Baby, a lamb. Shepherd and dogs to take care of them. The sheep pen or fold. 165 1 66 Seat Work and Sense Training Sheep Appearance Body — Covering Limbs Number — Shape Feet cloven Head — Eyes, Nose, Ears Mouth — Teeth Food and habits. Call of the sheep. Compare with the cow. Difference in size and general appearance. Difference in habits. How the wool is obtained. Flesh — of the sheep — of the lamb. What the sheep gives the little boy — the little girl, the mother, the father. Game Choose a leader and two dogs. Each leader selects a certain number of pupils for his flock. After the selec- tion has been made the pupils mingle together. The leaders and their dogs at a signal begin to separate their sheep from each other. The one who finishes first wins. Any pupil who tells must be barred from further play. Rhymr "Little Bo-Peep." SEVENTY-FOURTH DAY Seat Work Sew, cut, draw a sheep. Make sheep pens with sticks according to certain measurements. Make Httle booklets and write short sentences about the sheep in each. Sense Training Select articles made of wool from those made of cotton. Language Continue the lesson on The Sheep" Device for drill Show two word or sound cards quickly. Place at the back of the pack. Ask the pupils to name the words or cards shown. As soon as the pupils become proficient in repeating two words, increase the number. 167 1 68 Seat Work and Sense Training oem Nursery Song As I walked over the hill one day, I listened, and heard a mother sheep say, In all the green world there is nothing so sweet As my little lammie, with his nimble feet; With his eyes so bright And his wool so white, Oh! he is my darling, my heart's delight." And the mother sheep and her little one Side by side lay down in the sun; And they went to sleep on the hillside warm, While my little lammie lies here in my arm. SEVENTY-FIFTH DAY Seat Work Copy all sentences containing the word "you." After the lesson on the orange has been given, let the pupils plant the seeds in egg shells or in small flower pots. These will grow, produce tiny plants which will grow and flourish for many years. Sense Training and Language Ask the pupils to bring orange-colored objects. Select orange-colored objects from others. Blend red and yellow to produce orange color. Make a color scale of red, orange and yellow. Or Qualities of the orange discovered by the senses. Game Simon says, ''Thumbs Up" (This is a very old game, but it develops quickness of perception.) Device for word or sound drill Draw a large wagon on the board. All pupils who can repeat a certain number of words correctly may ride in the wagon and go to a picnic. 169 SEVENTY-SIXTH DAY Seat Work Make a list of all the new words in the reading lesson. Make a list of ten old ones. Cut inch squares. Let each pupil select his favorite stanza or paragraph from one of the reading lessons. Write a word from the paragraph or stanza in each square. Shuffle and arrange correctly. Language Lesson on the Seasons. Review the months. Review the number of months in the year. Call attention to the kind of weather. Tell them the name of the season. (Very few first grade children will know this unless they have had kindergarten training.) Repeat the names of the months which make up the particular season. Drill on the name of the season. Story Repeat the story of the Twelve Wonderful Wise Men. 170 SEVENTY-SEVENTH DAY Seat Work Copy the name of the season taught and the months which make up that season. Build the name of the season with alphabet cards several times. Sense Training Give the term "small." Ask a pupil to select a small child. Place a smaller one beside him. Give the term *' smaller." Compare several in this way. Pupils say Mary is small; Jennie is smaller; or Jennie is smaller than Mary. Com- pare several children or objects. Cut strips of paper. Compare, **My paper is smaller than Jennie's paper," etc. Language Continue the study of the seasons. Drill on the names of the seasons and the months con- tained in each. 171 172 Seat Work and Sense Training Song SONG OF THE SEASONS C E. BOYD 1 . We're the bus - y sea - sons, Marching side by side, 2. We're the hap -py sea - sons, Of the year grown old, :=?^5Ei 3: I N- -^ We have come to help you Keep this Christ-mas - tide Spring in green, came smil - ing, Sum - mer brought the gold. !#'-•- K \ — -_^_:l' ^ # — s — — h~~ 1 f-^^^^-^E •^J — — -t^- — — 1 P- — ' s — ^ — See our col - ors flash - ing As we come and go, Au - tumn chose rich crim- son, Win - ter white, like snow. ^^i =1: d: For it takes all shades to make the year, you know. For it takes all shades to make the year, you know. CHORUS. Spring and Summer, Fall and Win - ter come and go» -N— zi^^-x ■0- I r\ . ]) . ""N ^ » m=^~ -1^ 1 ^ -0 — f -"7 • 1 - v)/ -^ \j 1^ " u ^ i For it takes all shades to make the year, you know. Seat Work and Sense Training 173 Game Pupils form a circle with one child on the out- side. The child on the outside runs quickly around the circle and touches one of the pupils. This pupil must leave his place and run in the opposite direction from the one on the outside. The object is to see which one can win the vacant place first. Device for drilling on the alphabet Distribute a letter card to each pupil. Write the letter "A'' upon the board. The pupil hav- ing the A card steps to the front of the room. The other pupils are to repeat the name of the letter, then find '^A" in a number of words. Take up *'B" in the same way. SEVENTY-EIGHTH DAY Seat Work Copy the names of all the seasons. Write the name of each season and the three months contained in each. Language Ask the pupils to bring articles made of cotton. Collect pictures of cotton fields, a small bale of cotton, a cotton boll. The Clark's O. N. T. cotton concern will send an excellent exhibit on application. Use this exhibit as the basis of the lesson. Obtained from a plant. The seeds are sown in rows, about four or five feet apart, late in March or April. The plant grows from four to six feet high. The blossoms are pale yellow or faint purplish color. The pods ripen in August or September. Process of preparation. Seeds separated from the cotton fibre by a machine called a cotton-gin, 174 Seat Work and Sense Training 175 Fibre packed in bales and sent to market. From market to the factories where it is spun into thread and woven into cloth. Raised in the warm parts of the United States, West Indies, South America, Africa, China, and India. Device for word or sound drill Pretend the room is a cotton field. The cards are the bolls. Pupils pick (take and name) a certain number of words in a given time. oem Song of the Cotton Sing, oh sing for the cotton plant! Bravely may it grow, Bearing in its seeded bolls Cotton white as snow! Spin the cotton into thread; Weave it in the loom; Wear it now, dear little child, In your happy home! When you've worn it well and long, Will it worthless be? No; a book made from this dress You yet, in time, may see. 176 Seat Work and Sense Training Sort the rags and grind to pulp; Weave the paper fair; Now it only waits for words To be printed there. Thoughts from God to man sent down May these pages show. Sing, oh sing for the cotton plant, Bravely may it growl May ten thousand cotton plants Spring up fresh and fair. That words of wisdom and of love O'er all the world shall bear. SEVENTY-NINTH DAY Seat Work Mount articles made from cotton or small pieces of cotton material. Mount and copy or write sentences under each piece. Example article — a piece of thread. Sentence, Thread is made of cotton. Pupils ask questions about the cotton boll. The teacher writes these questions on the board for the pupils to copy. Sense Training Distinguish articles made from cotton from those made from wool or silk. Language Continue the lesson on Cotton." Game "Round the Valley" Pupils take sides and raise and join hands as for London Bridge. One child goes in and out of the arches thus formed, until he finally chooses a partner. 177 178 Seat Work and Sense Training Song Go round and round the valley, Go round and round the valley, Go round and round the valley, As you have done before. Go in and out the window, Go in and out the window. Go in and out the window. As you have done before. Go in and face your partner. Go in and face your partner, Go in and face your partner. As you have done before. {The two then continue to weave in and out the arches,) EIGHTIETH DAY Seat Work Find and copy all the words containing a certain combination of letters. Copy or write original sentences containing the words. Sense Training Postal cards of a few of the most important buildings. Test the pupils' knowledge of these points of interest. In the more advanced grades the pupils may be required to locate the build- ings and write statements about them. Language (Use of the pronouns.) Teacher You may walk to the door, Ella. What did you do ? Ella I walked to the door. Teacher What did Ella do, Mary .? Mary Ella walked. Teacher Tell Ella what she did, John. John You walked to the door. 179 i8o Seat Work and Sense Training Teacher What did she do, Florence ? Florence She walked. Teacher You may walk, John. What did he do, Ella ? Ella He walked to the door. Teacher You may walk to the door, Ella and John. What did you do ? Pupils We walked. Ga me A-Rowing S^^fes^z^ — I- 9- ■^--f^- Hv — ^- ^- 'When the wind was blow-ing, I went out a-row - ing, :rfe m 4; ■S- -^E^. -i Seat Work and Sense Training i8i ^ --^: :4^ -^ :d2:ir i^ m -^ — --=\- A N ^ — jt=a!: :ai K- J= JN— d Pv- ^O - ver to left, and ^o - ver to right, And tlt- ::^ :i^ N 4 t -<5>- I down, ^up and down went she. -t :t. -(S- I -- Directions Children in a ring. 1. Dance round, hand in hand. 2. All stop. Time slow. Take a lunge to left with left foot and hands, as in illustration. Position. 3. Same to right. Position. 4. All join hands. Bend knees slightly in downward motion. 5. Raise joined hands. Arms upstretched. Rise on toes. Repeat 4 and 5. Chorus sung twice. — Kate F. Bremner EIGHTY-FIRST DAY Seat Work Sew, cut, draw bees. Cut, draw, sew or make with gummed dots the hive. Copy sentences containing the names of persons Sense Training and Language Materials The comb, some honey, and a piece of wax. Quahties of the honey discovered by the senses. Lesson on the Bee Family Queen — lays eggs. Drones, males — do no work, killed in time of famine. Workers Characteristics Longer tongue. Very large hind legs with pollen bas- kets, six pockets on the under side of the body from which wax may be excreted. 182 oem Seat Work and Sense Training 183 Duties of the workers Gather honey. Take care of the young. Feed the queen. Ventilate and keep the hive clean. Build the cells. Sense and sight very acute. The Busy Bee How doth the little busy bee, Improve each shining hour; And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. How skillfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads the wax. And labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labor and of skill I would be busy too; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play. Let my first years be passed. That I may give for every day Some good account at last. — Isaac Watts EIGHTY-SECOND DAY Seat Work Fold or lay with sticks the box-shaped hive. Fold a little book. Write a few sounds on each page. Write a word containing the sound after each. Language Continue the lesson on The Bee." Game Pupils take sides. One pupil stands in the middle. The teacher whispers the name of a flower to each child. The child in the middle says, "I am going into my garden to pick flowers. I shall pick roses and lilies." The two children having the names of the flowers mentioned change places. The child in the middle must try to slip into one of the vacant places. Vary by naming four flowers. After trying several times the leader says, "I picked all my flowers. The pupils must all change places. Device for word or sound drill A chalk box to represent a wtW. Place some of the difficult words in the box. Pupils draw the words out of the v/ell. EIGHTY-THIRD DAY Seat Work Copy all the questions from the lesson. Copy five statements. Language (Use of *'See" and "Saw") Hold up a box. Come here, Marie. What do you see in the box ? Go to your seat .? What did you see ? What did Marie see, children t You may look, George. What did you see ? What did George see .? Show to two children. What did you see .^ What did they see ? Device for review A spelling match. Motion Piece The Rosebud At first it was a ' round, hard ball ^ With two green leaves that wrapped it — so, i8S 1 86 Seat Work and Sense Training ^ It had no pretty red at all, But soon this ball "^ began to grow. And ^ slow and sure ^ it swelled each day, The ^ leaves that curled so close about ^ Began to softly draw away, ^ And soon a soft, red leaf peeped out. ^° One day the green leaves drew aside, " Bright crimson petals spread apart " To shed their perfume far and wide And let us see the rose's heart. Directions 1. Double up right hand into a tight ball. 2. Place hands and finger tips tightly together to shape a rosebud. Hold hands in a vertical position. 3. Emphasize by shaking hands. 4. Shape fist and hold it closely (do this at the be- ginning of the line). Look at the ball intently and then slowly unclose hand. 5. Continue the slow opening of the hand. The side or little finger end of the hand should be held down- ward. 6. Shape the two enclosing leaves as in motion No. 2. 7. Let the palms draw slightly away from each other, in order to give the bud an appearance of growing. 8. Slightly separate the finger-tips. 9. Look downward into the opening, made by the separation of the three central finger-tips. 10. Tightly close the right hand and place it with th^ Seat Work and Sense Training 187 knuckles downward) into the hollow of the left hand. Close the fingers of the left hand closely about the sides of the right hand. At the words, "One day the green leaves drew apart," slowly straighten out the fingers of the left hand. Make as good an imitation of sepals as possible. 11. Slowly open the fingers of the right hand to form a cup shape imitation of an opened flower. The fingers should move gradually into shape. 12. Look into the "flower" that has just been shaped by the two hands. EIGHTY-FOURTH DAY Seat Work Envelopes with duplicate letters of the alpha- bet. Sort and place all duplicates together. Use stencil cards. Write the name under each. Copy a sentence for each. Language Continue the lesson on "See'' and ''Saw." Game " Tit-tat-toe " Draw a large tit-tat-toe for each row. Select two pupils from each row. At a signal they all start to play. The ob- ject is to see which couple will finish first. They may choose two others from their row. Device for review Draw a large circle on the board. Write words around the edge. Tell the pupils they may ride on the merry-go-round if they can re- peat the words correctly. 188 Seat Work and Sense Training 189 Motion Piece Our Sunbeam Dear little boys and girls are we — Each one working as hard as three. In the morning, when we rise, We think of Him beyond the skies — ' Of Him who keeps us thro' the night And ever helps us by His Might. Before we go to school, you know, We use soap and water — so — ^ Then necks and faces clean will be — ^ Ears and teeth, we must rub — see — "^ With a comb our hair we fix — ^ Some of us are up at six. With a knife, we clean our nails ^ So none of them can carry tales, Telling we've not tried to do What our teacher told us to. Handkerchiefs, so nice and white,^ We have with us day and night. Little bootblacks we must be — Rub, rub, rub — one, two, three, ^ Till heel and toe look nice and clean — ^ Brighter boots were never seen; — Boots as bright as each glad face And every button in its place. I go Seat Work and Sense Training Breakfast soon! Oh! we'll be there — Epxh one so polite, take care — ^° Don't be naughty, mean or bold So as to make dear mother scold. At the table we'll not cry If she should chance to pass us by. " Little boys must raise hats — on the street — " If a teacher they should meet. Always early — that's Our Rule In this pleasant, happy school. We don't forget that sweet word "Please," Our little friends we never tease. "Good-morning," and "Good-evening," say,'^ The first and last thing every day. When we are hig, big boys,^^ Too big for any little toys — Oh! how bright will each day seem If we make "Good Manners" our "Sunbeam." '^ Motions 1. Pupils point with right hand, heavenward. 2. Motion as if rubbing hands and face with soap. 3. Point to necks and faces. 4. Motion as if cleaning ears and rubbing teeth. 5. Motion as if combing hair. 6. Motion as if cleaning nails with a knife. 7. Children hold their handkerchiefs in right hand, 8. Motion as if rubbing boots with a brush. 9. Point to heel and toe, all together. Seat Work and Sense Training 191 10. Forefinger of left hand held up — as a warning. 11. Move right arm very slowly from the body to the right to denote "the passing by." 12. All the boys put their right hands to their heads as if they were about to raise their hats. 13. Children bow their heads very politely. 14. Hands extended to denote the height of a youth and higher to denote that of a man. 15. A lovely smile on each little face. — Lizzie E, Kelly EIGHTY-FIFTH DAY Seat Work Cut leaves and flowers from fruit and flower catalogues. Use them as models for freehand cutting. Underline the known words on pages cut from old First Readers. Language ( This — That ") Teacher {holding a hook in her hand) "This is my book." {Placing on the desk) "That is my book." {Taking up a pencil) "This is my pencil/' {Giving the pencil to a child) "That is my pencil." Repeat this with several articles. Then re- quire the pupils to do the same. Try the class first, then individual pupils. Mot ion roem Continue "Our Sunbeam." 192 EIGHTY-SIXTH DAY Seat Work Place a list of words along the top of the board, as: fan sit seat mat Pupils make lists that rhyme, using the words from their vocabulary boxes, or writing them on paper. They must be allowed to refer to their books, otherwise they may make up words. When the pupils have finished send one to the board to complete each list. The work on the board will appear as follows: fan sit seat mat man it eat fat ran pit meat pat, etc. Write or copy the numbers to five. Write out the combinations of the number five. Language Short talk on kindness to old people. 193 194 Seat Work and Sense Training Teach Be kind and be gentle To those who are old, For kindness is dearer And better than gold. Game Dramatize the reading lesson. Device for review Draw a labyrinth upon the board. Write words in various parts of it. See how many can go through it by repeating all the words correctly. Do not make the lines too compli- cated. EIGHTY-SEVENTH DAY Seat Work Pupils find difficult sight words in their read- ing lesson using a list written on the board by the teacher as a guide. Write the numerals from one to ten in a column and write the word for each beside it. Language Review the talk on kindness to old people. Begin talk on kindness to animals. Teach the following pledge: I promise to be kind to all the animals I can, In every place I can, In every way I can. Game A Potato Race Give two or three children a spoon. Place a potato on each. The children must start at a signal and run to a certain point without dropping the potato. Device (to turn blend words into sight words) Place a list of blend words upon the board. Sound them. Then call upon pupils to repeat without blending. 195 196 Seat Work and Sense Training The Poppies Quite early in the morning, when ^ the sun is shining bright, I go into the garden ^ where the slender poppies grow, And there I see them ^ standing in the pretty golden light, "^ All nodding, nodding, nodding to and fro. ^ And if you go at evening, when the sky is golden red, And look at ^ all the poppies as they stand so slim and gay, ^ You'll find each one is nodding still, a sleepy, heavy head. ^ I wonder what they dream about all day ! Directions 1. Spread out arms to show extent of sunshine or point toward the east. 2. Right hand, with palm downward, held about height of seat to show tallness of flowers. 3. Look downward. Body held slightly over to one side. 4. Nod heads sleepily. Say this line in a rather murmuring fashion with subdued and drowsy voices and retarded time. 5. Look up brightly as if addressing some one. 6. Look downward. Hand held out at side as before. 7. Nod heads as before. 8. Look up suddenly and recite the line in a wonder- ing manner. EIGHTY-EIGHTH DAY Seat Work Each child selects his favorite lesson and makes a list of the stock or blend words. Copy the questions and answers from the lesson. Language Name things that can run, grow, fly, sing, swim, walk, climb, melt, hiss, sail, ring, bite, twinkle. Require complete statements. Device for review Copy or write spelling. Each paper repre- sents a ticket. Only the holder of perfect tickets are to be allowed to leave at the first bell. Poem Repeat *'The Poppies/* 197 EIGHTY-NINTH DAY Seat Work Simple addition examples. Fold a schoolhouse. Write the names of all the things in the schoolhouse. Language (Study of a Memory Gem) Hands were made to be useful, If you teach them the way. Therefore, for yourself or your neighbor Make them useful every day. Show me your hands. Tell me what you mean by useful. Compare the pupils hands with the babies' hands — with the hands of an older person. Who teaches the babies' hands to be useful ? How can your hands be useful .? How can they be useful in school .? At home ? Once there was a poor old woman who was very thirsty. Three ladies were sitting beside a spring. When they saw the old woman they asked her to tell them which one 198 Seat Work and Sense Training 199 had the most beautiful hands. She asked for a drink of water. Two told her to help herself, the third gave her a drink. The old woman said the one who gave her the drink had the most beautiful hands. Whv ? See whether you can tell me what the verse means without any help. Poem Repeat some of the former poems. NINETIETH DAY Seat Work Write in words all the numerals from one to nineteen. Write in figures all the numerals from one to nineteen. Language ("The Fish") Material — A globe with a few goldfish. Notice how the fish moves about. What does he use in swimming .? How does he turn in the water 'i How many fins has he .? Position. With what is he covered ? Notice how he breathes. Explain that he cannot breathe out of water, because the gills become dry and close. Notice the eye, its shape. Has it any lids ? Outline to supplement the Observation Lesson Where do they live ? Shape — reason for that particular shape. General appearance. 200 Seat Work and Sense Training 201 Parts Head Eyes — no eyelids — dull when dead — beautiful when living. Ears — not visible — sharp hearing. Nose — keen scent — different shapes. Mouth — position — use — formation. Teeth — sides of jaw; upper jaw. Sometimes on tongue and throat. Double and single. Body — covered with scales — a bony struc- ture. Scales covered with slime which exudes from tiny tubes near the mouth. Enables fish to slip through the water easily. Scales — hard but of many pieces. Notice graceful movements. Fins — single — grow from the skin. Tail — a single fin — a rudder. Gills — extract air. An air bladder under the backbone helps the fish to float. Blood — cold. Produced — from eggs, laid in the sand, on stones, attached to weeds, float on water, in nests, in cases, sometimes carried in the father's mouth. 202 Seat Work and Sense Training Food Other fish. Insects. Seeds. Plants. Kinds Shell fish Oysters, clams, lobsters, crabs, mussels, etc. Fresh water fish Pickerel, trout, perch, etc. Deep sea fish Cod, halibut, blue fish, mackerel, etc. Uses Food. Glue, oil, fertilizer (menhaden). Shark — gelatine, leather. The Cossacks have small fish which they dry and use as a light. When it is no longer needed it is eaten. Americans were the first to preserve fish on ice. Device for review Words or sounds written upon small fish cut or drawn by the pupils. Place these fish in an imaginary pond. Each child selects a fish. If he can read the word written on it he may keep the fish. Whoever has the most fish at the end of the lesson wins. NINETY-FIRST DAY Seat Work Sew, cut, draw, a fish, a globe for the fish. Make a large spelling book in the shape of a fish. Write the new and difficult words in it. Language Continue the lesson on The Fish" Action Poem The Three Little Fishes Three queer little fishes lived down in the sea, ^ As blithe and happy as fishes could be; At night they slept soundly in one little bed, ^ Then up in the morning when darkness had fled ; They could not rise sooner, for twixt you and me, ^ They do not burn gas far down in the sea. ^ These little fishes liked nothing but fun, And swam about wildly till daylight was done; 5 They knew not their letters, A, B, C, and D, ^ They could not count twenty, nor spell M, E, Me. And as they grew larger more silly grew they, Still caring for nothing but frolic and play ; '^They laughed and they scampered and stood on their tails, 203 204 Seat Work cind Sense Training & ^And played many tricks on the slow water snails; One day as they frolicked up came a great whale, ^ And these silly fishes got under his tail. Their wise little playmates swam quickly away, ^° But these silly fishes went on with their play ; They climbed on his shoulder and over his head. And tickled his nostrils without any dread; They laughed and they shouted like boys in a boat, " Till the whale gave a snap, and they slipped down his throat. Motions 1. Imitate the action of swimming. 2. Hands in position and set upright. 3. Point with the finger and shake the head as if telling something serious. 4. Repeat as for i. 5. Shake the head and look sorrowful. 6. Express surprise. 7. Smile, move the hands quickly as for swimming, set hands upward. 8. Pretend to throw missiles at an imaginary snail. 9. Curved motion of the hand in the shape of a whale. 10. Left hand swim away. 1 1 . Left hand form whale's mouth — snap at the three fingers of the right hand and pretend to swallow them. NINETY-SECOND DAY Seat Work Copy all words ending with a certain letter. Copy and illustrate a list of words written by the teacher. Sense Training A list of the objects in the room upon the board. The teacher or some child points to a word and calls upon another pupil. The child must go to the object immediately. It is well to call upon the dull children for the large objects, reserving the smaller and less conspicuous things for the bright pupils. Vary by pointing to the object and requiring the pupil to find the word. Language ("The Dandelion") Material — A dandelion for each child. The whole plant if possible. 205 2o6 Seat Work and Sense Training Where found Yards. Parks. Roadside. Fields. Parts Long. The root. Thick. Contains milky juice. Takes in nourishment for the plant. Flower stalks Smooth. Brittle. Leafless. Hollow. Spring directly from the root. Contain a milky juice. Leaves Smooth. Bright shining green. Taper to a point. Many indentations. Used as salad. Seat Work and Sense Training 207 Buds Long. Green. Flower head Composed of many little flowers. Golden yellow. Close at night and during rain. Seed Very small. Attached to fine gray down. Distributed by the wind. Food Air, sun, rain. Use Make the fields look pretty. Leaves used as salad. Mild wine. Medicine. NINETY-THIRD DAY Seat Work Copy with sticks a simple design which the teacher has drawn upon the board. Copy a certain number of review words. Look through some of the advanced reading lessons for some of the old words. Language Continue "The Dandelion." Device for reviewing words The teacher writes a word upon the board, calling upon a pupil at the same time. She erases as soon as she has written the word. The pupil must spell the word immediately. Poem The Dandelion There's a dandy little fellow, Who dresses all in yellow — In yellow, with an overcoat of green : With his hair all crisp and curly. In the spring-time, bright and early, 208 Seat Work and Sense Training 209 A-tripping o'er the meadows he is seen. Through all the bright June weather, Like a jolly little tramp; He wanders where the grass is fresh and green. But at last this little fellow Doffs his dandy coat of yellow, And nodding in the sunlight he is seen. The little winds of morning Come a-flying through the grass. And clap their hands around him in their glee. They shake him without warning — His wig falls off, alas! And a little bald head dandy now is he. NINETY-FOURTH DAY Seat Work Sort and place all words together which be- gin with the same sound. Make a list. Sense Training and Device for Reviewing Words or Sounds Pupils visualize a list of words or sounds. After the list has been erased make the list with the letter cards. The list must be very short and composed of difficult words or sounds. Language ("The Dragonfly") The Dragonfly Its parts Body Shape, like a cylinder. Wings Oblong, gauzy Legs Crooked, six. 310 Seat Work and Sense Training 211 Head Oblong. Eyes Oval, very bright. Feelers Curved. Eggs Deposited upon stems of rushes or other water plants below the sur- face of the water. Hatched by the heat of the sun during the warm weather in summer. Larva or grub Resembles a bug with large eyes and six long legs. Very active — walking or swimming in the pond it inhabits. Eats the larva of mosquitoes and other insects. Aids in diminishing and removing swarms of obnoxious insects. The Pupa When the larva outgrows its skin, it splits at the back and the insect crawls out. 212 Seat Work and Sense Training Continues to live in water. Lives chiefly upon the larva of mos- quitoes. Pupa too large for its skin. Climbs up on stem of plant to the surface of the water. Skin splits and the insect emerges. Remains motionless for an hour or two. Body and wings harden. A powerful flyer. Can fly in all directions. Food The full-grown mosquito. Summary Eats mosquitoes and flies. Useful to man. Perfectly harmless — no sting as popularly supposed. NINETY-FIFTH DAY Seat Work Draw the objects in the lesson. Write their names. Copy sentences about them. Language Continue the lesson on The Dragonfly." Device for drill Cards on the desks of one or two aisles. Pupils on line. One child passes rapidly up the aisle repeating the words on the cards. He may stop an)rwhere along the line and call upon another to complete the work or he may con- tinue to the end of the row. Substitute new words very often. 213 NINETY-SIXTH DAY Seat Work Write the names of the objects in the picture. Select and copy words containing a certain number of letters. Language Game Write the following expressions upon the board: Is there — ^Was there — Are there — ^Were there There is no — There are no — There was no The teacher holds an object behind her back. The children question or make statements using the combinations upon the board, as: Is there an apple in your hand ? You have an orange behind your back, etc. Device for drill Scatter cards around the room. Tell children that they are little pigs which must be driven from the garden. 214 NINETY-SEVENTH DAY Seat Work Pupils look through supplementary readers for familiar words. Read some of the lesson in the supplementary books as a preparation for sight reading. Language ("The Birds") Material — Perry Pictures of birds. Body — Covering. Tail — Shape, size, use. Wings — Shape, size, use. Bill — Shape, size, use. Fitted for different kinds of food. Toes — Number and arrangement. Different uses. Habits. Sounds. Eggs — When laid. Care of young. Usefulness of birds. Work of the Audubon Society. 2IS 2i6 Seat Work and Sense Traininsf & How good Americans can help to preserve the birds. G ame Repeat the Bird Game from the thirty-fourth day. Device for drill Words or sounds as birds. They fly away when repeated correctly. Poem The Ten Birds (A Finger Play) (From Primary Education, May, 1905.) First is a bobolink, just hear him sing! Second, a blackbird, with a red wing. Third is a blue jay — what a fine crest! Fourth is an oriole, high hangs his nest. Fifth is a house wren, tiny and dear; Sixth is a robin, "Cheerily cheer!" Seventh, a woodpecker, "Rap-a-tap, tap!" Eighth is an owl in his all-day-long nap. Ninth is a cardinal, rose-red his coat; Tenth is a mocking-bird, hear his gay note! Fly away, birdies, each to your nest ; Daylight is gone, and the night is for rest. — Mrs, Charles Norman NINETY-EIGHTH DAY Seat Work Pupils draw a circle and arrange the numerals as on a clock face. Sense Training Procure one or two clocks or watches and test the children's hearing. Have them close their eyes and distinguish the difference between the ticking of the watch and the clock. Compare the watches and clocks. Show the difference — the similarity. Language (A Lesson on Time") Count the numbers on the face of the clock. Show a clock dial with movable hands. Pupils make hands for their dials. Show them the hour hand. Have them move it so that it points to the different hands. As soon as they can locate the hours, show the minute hand. 217 21 8 Seat Work and Sense Training Ask them to count the minute — to locate the half hour — the quarter hour. Game Pupils stand in a circle. One child in the center for the pendulum. Pupils move backward and forward, while the pendulum swings from side to side. Song Tick, tock, tick, tock. Listen to the little clock. Swinging, swinging all the day, This is what it has to say — {All stand still and shake their fingers in admonition while they recite) The clock's quiet voice says tick, tick, tick. Do what you're told and be quick, quick, quick. {Circle revolves again, singing the first verse.) NINETY-NINTH DAY Seat Work Sew little clock dials. These can be bought from any kindergarten dealer, or the pupils may make their own. Language Review the lesson on the clock. Continue. Count the minutes again. Show the children how the minute hand moves. Set the large dial and ask them to tell the time, first setting their own dial. This may be made more interesting if each hour is associated with something within the child's knowledge. 12 = the dinner hour. I = school time. 3 = school dismissed, etc. Device for drill A ladder. Write girl's name on the top round. Tell the pupils she can get down. 219 220 Seat Work and Sense Training How many will go up and get her ? Place words on the rounds. Whoever can name the words correctly is said to rescue the girl. Sixty seconds make a minute, How much good can I do in it? Sixty minutes make an hour, All the good that's in my power. Twenty hours and four a day, Time for work and sleep and play. Days three hundred sixty-five, Make a year for me to strive. Right good things each day to do That I wise may grow and true. ONE HUNDREDTH DAY Seat Work Sew, cut, fold, draw and color butterflies. After cutting and coloring paste the body upon paper and fold the wings back as if flying. Or, fasten several to a string. Fold tissue paper in butterfly shapes and fasten with a doll's clothespin. Make butterfly booklets and write the new words in them. Language ( The Butterfly") Body The division. Color. Legs and claws Number. Head The eyes and mouth. Feelers, the tongue — its uses. Difference between those of the moth and butterfly. 221 222 Seat Work and Sense Training Wings Color. Joined to the body. Closed back to back when resting on a flower. Produced from an egg Egg develops into a caterpillar. Caterpillar into a larva. Larva into a pupa or chrysalis. Chrysalis into the butterfly. Food Honey from the flowers. Short life. Device for drill Words or sounds are butterflies. They fly away when named. Butterflies Butterflies are pretty things, ^ Prettier than you or I ; ^ See the colors on their wings — Who would hurt a butterfly? 3 Softly, softly, boys and girls. He'll come near us by and by; ^ Here he is, don't make a noise — We'll not hurt you, Butterfly. Seat Work and Sense Training 223 ^ Not to hurt a living thing, Let all little children try, ^See, again he's on the wing; ^ Good-bye, pretty butterfly. Motions 1. Bow at the word ''you" and point to the chest at the word "I." 2. Hands like butterfly wings. 3. Speak softly. 4. Speak quickly. 5. Shake the head. 6. Point as the butterfly is in the air. 7. Kiss the hand. Butterflies Fly, white butterflies, out to sea. 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