THIRD YEAR
FIRST WEEK
Monday
Write a list of objects you can see from a school-room window.
Tuesday
Write as many “signs of Spring,” as you can think of.
Wednesday
For dictation:
All that’s great and good is done
Just by patient trying.
Thursday
Read the following poem to the children:
WILD FLOWERS
Out amid the green fields,
Free as air we grow,
Springing where it happens,
Never in a row;
Watered by the cloudlets
Passing overhead,
Warmed by lovely sunbeams,
Falling on our heads.
Wild flowers, wild flowers, by the meadow rills,
Wild flowers, wild flowers, on the woody hills,
Wild flowers, wild flowers, springing everywhere,
Joyful in the glad free air.—Selected
Talk about the coming of the wild flowers. What part have the rain and the sunshine in helping the flowers to grow? What wild flowers are in blossom now? What other flowers will blossom before the close of April?
Friday
Write eight sentences about wild flowers.
SECOND WEEK
Monday
Poem to be committed to memory: “The Owl and the Pussy Cat,” by Edward Lear.
Have the first half of the poem copied.
Tuesday
Have the rest of the poem copied.
Wednesday
Learn the first three stanzas of the poem.
Thursday
Learn the rest of the poem.
Friday
Allow the children to dramatize in their own way, “The Owl and the Pussy-cat.”
THIRD WEEK
Monday
Write a list of the adjectives in “The Owl and the Pussycat.”
Tuesday
Answer in complete sentences, the following questions:
What is the color of your reader? What is the color of your pencil? What is the color of your hair?
Wednesday
Write a rhyme of four lines about a cat.
Thursday
Have the children read “Paul Revere’s Ride.”
Friday
Have the children tell you the story of “Paul Revere’s Ride.”
FOURTH WEEK
Monday
Poem to be committed to memory:
WHAT DO WE PLANT?
What do we plant when we plant the tree?
We plant the ship, which will cross the sea,
We plant the mast to carry the sails;
We plant the plank to withstand the gales,
The keel, the keelson, and beam, and knee;
We plant the ship when we plant the tree.
What do we plant when we plant the tree?
We plant the houses for you and me;
We plant the rafters, the shingles, the floors;
We plant the studding, the lath, the doors,
The beams and siding, all parts that be;
We plant the house when we plant the tree.
What do we plant, when we plant the tree?
A thousand things that we daily see;
We plant the spire, that out-towers the crag;
We plant the staff for our country’s flag;
We plant the shade, from the hot sun free—
We plant all these, when we plant the tree.
—Henry Abbey
Copy the poem.
Tuesday
Learn the first two stanzas of the poem.
Wednesday
Recite the entire poem.
Thursday
Write a list of the things we plant when we plant a tree.
Friday
Talk about the purpose of Arbor Day, and especially about the meaning of the beautiful Arbor Day poem.