FIRST YEAR
FIRST WEEK
Monday
Talk about the new month. What is this month? What was last month? What month follows February? What season is this? What are the three months of the winter season? What season follows winter? What are the three months of the spring season? What season follows spring? What season follows summer?
Tuesday
To be taught to the children:
Red, white, and blue is our country’s flag,
Flag of the brave and free;
Red, white and blue, where’er you go,
Is the flag for you and me.—Selected
Wednesday
Talk about the flag. How many colors has our flag? What are they? How many red stripes are there? How many white stripes? Where is the blue of the flag? What is there on the blue? Count the stars. How many stars are there?
Thursday
Tell the story of Betsy Ross, and the making of the first United States flag.
Friday
Have the children repeat to you the story of Betsy Ross and the flag. Have the flag salute given. In case the children are not familiar with it, here is the salute usually given:
“We give our heads, our hearts, and our hands to our country.
One country, one language, one flag.”
During the salute, the flag should be held, unfurled, by some one facing the class. The children point with the right hands to their heads and their hearts. At the words, “our hands,” both hands should be extended. At the words “one flag,” the right hand only is extended.
SECOND WEEK
Monday
Tell stories of the boyhood of Abraham Lincoln.
Tuesday
Talk about Lincoln’s boyhood, allowing the children to tell you the stories which they heard the day before.
Wednesday
Talk about St. Valentine’s Day. What do we give on that day? To whom do we give valentines? (To those we love.)
Thursday
Tell the story of good St. Valentine.
Friday
Have the children repeat to you the story of St. Valentine.
THIRD WEEK
Monday
Tell the story of Washington and the hatchet. Remember that, old and stale as the story may be to you, it is new once to every child.
Tuesday
Play, as a game, Washington and his hatchet.
Wednesday
Tell the story of Washington as a general; how he led the armies that fought to make our country free. Tell about his birthday, February 22, and how we celebrate it, in memory of what he did for us.
Thursday
Write: George Washington, the father of his country.
Friday
Write: We live in the United States.
FOURTH WEEK
Monday
To be taught to the children:
Rainy days and sunny days,
What difference makes the weather,
When little hearts are full of love,
And all are glad together.—Selected
Tuesday
Tell the children the story of “The Three Bears.”
Wednesday
Have the children tell you the story of “The Three Bears.”
Thursday and Friday
Play the story of “The Three Bears,” as a game.