Public school methods . collections of timely poems for children are Songs of theTreetop and Meadow, Public School Publishing Company,Bloomington, 111.; Graded Memory Selections, EducationalPublishing Company; and Nature in Verse, Silver Burdett &Co. In addition to the above col-lections, teachers will find pub-lished in our leading educationalpapers a great many beautifulpoems adapted to the primarygrades. Then, too, many valua-ble gems of verse are publishedin the best family papers and inchildrens magazines. 20. Supplementary pleasing poems will add amost desirable portion of t
Public school methods . collections of timely poems for children are Songs of theTreetop and Meadow, Public School Publishing Company,Bloomington, 111.; Graded Memory Selections, EducationalPublishing Company; and Nature in Verse, Silver Burdett &Co. In addition to the above col-lections, teachers will find pub-lished in our leading educationalpapers a great many beautifulpoems adapted to the primarygrades. Then, too, many valua-ble gems of verse are publishedin the best family papers and inchildrens magazines. 20. Supplementary pleasing poems will add amost desirable portion of the sup-plementary reading needed in thesecond grade. During the firstterm, to bridge the chasm betweenthe usual first and second read-ers, use the last third of several illustration bygood first readers. If it proves grade pupil: the lion f , STEPPING ON THE MOUSE. impossible at first to get enough of these to supply the class, then the teacher should, by aid of the hektograph, prepare enough leaflets to supply each. 80 Public School Methods member of the class with one. She may also copy storiesfrom childrens magazines in the same way. Excellentselections are often to be found in Our Dumb Animalsand in publications of the Audubon Society, and even attimes in the family newspaper. Supplementary reading, such as The Lion and the Mouse,composed and illustrated by a third grade class for a secondgrade class, is a great aid in introducing matters consideredimportant by the teacher, but not contained in the regularreading lesson—as opportunities for dramatization, for naturestudy, or for celebration of the holidays. THE LION AND THE MOUSE Players. Lion and In the The lion sleeps. The mouse plays around. She goes under thelions paw. The lion wakes. Scene I Lion. G-r-r-r! Who is under my paw?Mouse (in a squeaky voice). It is I, Mr. (in a roaring voice). Oh, it is you, little mouse! I shall eat you up. G-r-r-r!Mouse. Oh, please dont eat me up! I w
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