FIRST YEAR
FIRST WEEK
Monday
Talk about the new month. What month is this? What was last month? What month follows March? What season is this? What are the three months of the spring season? What season follows spring? What season is just past? How many days has March? What is March sometimes called? (The windy month.)
Tuesday
Write the date. Write the word March.
Wednesday
Talk about the wind. Can we see the wind? How do we know when the wind is blowing? What does the wind do to the trees? What does it do to the clothes hanging on the line? What does it do to our faces? (Makes our cheeks rosy.)
Thursday
To be taught to the children:
WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you;
But when the leaves hang trembling
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I,
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by.
—Christina Rossetti
Friday
Teach the children the poem given above.
SECOND WEEK
Monday
Talk about wind-mills: How they are used; how they turn; Holland and the wind-mills of that country.
Tuesday
Write:
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I.
Wednesday
Story to be told to the children:
THE WINDS
This is one of the stories that the fathers and mothers in Greece used to tell their children.
Æolus was the father of all the winds, great and small. He had six sons and six daughters.
When the children were old enough, they went out into the world to work. Often they were gone all day long.
They had to sweep and dust the whole world. They carried water from the sea to wash and scrub the earth.
They helped to move the great ships across the ocean. They scattered the seeds, and watered the flowers, and did many other helpful things.
And these things are what the winds do for us to-day.
Can you tell the names of the four great winds? (East, West, North, South.)
Thursday
Have the children tell you about Æolus and his winds.
Friday
Write: The four winds are East, West, North and South.
THIRD WEEK
Monday
Talk about kites and kite-flying: How does a kite fly? How high will a kite fly? How do boys make kites?
Tell the children about the kites of Japan, and about kite-flying day in that country.
Tuesday
Have the children give as many words as they can that rhyme with kite. Write these on the blackboard, and use them for drill in phonics.
Wednesday
Talk about pussy willows. Who has seen pussy willows? Who has seen pussy willows this year? Where? How do we find the little pussies growing? What are they covered with? What for? (To protect the tiny buds from cold.)
Thursday
Write: Pussy willows have gray fur.
Friday
To be committed to memory:
Whatever 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.
FOURTH WEEK
Monday
Tell the children about St. Patrick, the good old Irish saint, whose birthday comes in March.
Tuesday
Have the children tell you about St. Patrick.
Wednesday
Write: Spring begins in March.
Thursday
Fill the blank spaces in the following:
The East Wind comes from the ——.
The West Wind comes from the ——.
The North Wind comes from the ——.
The South Wind comes from the ——.
Friday
Talk about the signs of Spring.