FOURTH YEAR
FIRST WEEK
Monday
To be committed to memory:
SWEET AND LOW
Sweet and low, sweet and low,
Wind of the western sea,
Low, low, breathe and blow,
Wind of the western sea!
Over the rolling waters go;
Come from the dying moon and blow,
Blow him again to me;
While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.
Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,
Father will come to thee soon.
Rest, rest on mother’s breast,
Father will come to thee soon.
Father will come to his babe in the nest;
Silver sails all out of the west,
Under the silver moon;
Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep!
—Alfred Tennyson
Have the poem copied.
Tuesday
Pupils learn first stanza of the poem.
Wednesday
Pupils learn the entire poem.
Thursday
Write about the life of Alfred Tennyson.
Friday
Write in complete sentences answers to the following questions:
How is the sea to blow?
Where is the wind to go?
Where is the wind to come from?
What is the blowing of the wind to do?
What is the baby to do?
When will father come?
Where is the baby to rest?
Where will father come?
How will father come?
SECOND WEEK
Monday
Write a letter, addressed to Santa Claus, telling what you would like for Christmas.
Tuesday
Write a telegram of ten words, saying that you will go to some special place for Christmas.
Wednesday
Write the abbreviations for the days of the week and the months of the year.
Thursday
Have the children dramatize, in their own way:
Old King Cole
Was a merry old soul,
And a merry old soul was he.
He called for his pipe,
He called for his bowl,
And he called for his fiddlers three.
Friday
For dictation:
Beautiful hands are those that do
Work that is earnest and brave and true,
Moment by moment, the long day through.
THIRD WEEK
Monday
Talk about the signs of winter.
Tuesday
Pupils write about signs of winter.
Wednesday
Write a rhyme of two lines, containing the word snow.
Thursday
Talk about winter sports.
Friday
Write about winter sports.
FOURTH WEEK
Monday
For dictation:
He prayeth best, who loveth best,
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.
Tuesday
Every child find a short quotation for some other pupil to read in class.
Wednesday
Write letters, telling why you like Christmas.
Thursday
Write a composition on snow.
Friday
Have a spelling match.