LESSON 1 - A PICTURE LESSON

What do you see in the picture?

Where are the squirrels?

What are they doing?

What season of the year is it?

What is the bird doing?

Tell about some squirrels that you have seen.

Where did they live?

How did they prepare for winter?

What is the name of the picture?

What is the name of the artist who painted the picture from which this was copied?

LESSON 2

Copy the following:

Two squirrels lived in a hollow tree. They had a pleasant home. The leaves shaded them. Sometimes the birds sang to them.

In the fall the frost came. The nuts fell to the ground. The leaves became red and yellow. The days grew colder.

Then the squirrels gathered nuts and seeds and put them away for winter.

Write the first three lines from dictation.

LESSON 3 - IS - ARE

Copy these sentences, filling each blank with is or are:

1. Two squirrels ______ in the tree.

2. A little bird ______ singing to them.

3. There ______ green leaves around them.

4. The blue sky ______ above them.

5. Nuts ______ ripe and the squirrels ______ happy.

Copy from your reader two sentences that contain the word is.

Copy two sentences that contain the word are.

LESSON 4 - SELECTION TO BE MEMORIZED

If I Knew

If I knew a box where the smiles are kept,

No matter how large the key

Or strong the bolt, I would try so hard

'Twould open, I know, for me;

Then over the land and the sea broadcast,

I'd scatter the smiles to play,

That the children's faces might hold them fast

For many and many a day.

If I knew a box that was large enough

To hold all the frowns I meet,

I would like to gather them every one,

From nursery, school, and street;

Then folding and holding, I'd pack them in,

And turning the monster key,

I'd hire a giant to drop the box

To the depths of the deep, deep sea.

- Maud Wyman

LESSON 5

OBSERVATION LESSON

Frost

When does the frost come?

What does the frost do to plants?

What plants are killed first by the frost?

Which plants last the longest in the fall?

What plants and trees cannot grow where

you live, on account of the frost?

What does the frost do to nut burs?

What effect has it upon the air?

LESSON 6 - FOR DICTATION

The moon is round and bright.

It shines at night.

The sun gives light to the moon.

The moon gives light to us.

It is not so far away as the stars.

The moon and the stars make the night beautiful.

LESSON 7 - SELECTION TO BE MEMORIZED

A Secret

We have a secret, just we three,

The robin and I and the sweet cherry tree;

The bird told the tree, and the tree told me,

And nobody knows it but just us three.

But of course the robin knows it best,

Because she built the - I shan't tell the rest,

And laid the four little - somethings in it -

I'm afraid I shall tell it every minute.

With what kind of letter is the word I always written?

LESSON 8

Copy these sentences and fill the blanks by referring to Lesson 7.

The robin and I and ______ ______ ______ have a secret.

The bird told ______ ______.

______ ______ told me.

Nobody knows it but ______ ______ ______.

______ ______ knows the secret best . . .