Turn again. Who is now on your right? On your left? Before you? Behind you?
NOTE.--Lead children to see that the terms right, left, front, and back are of little use in telling the position of places, and that some fixed standard of direction is necessary.
LESSON II.
HOW THE SUN SHOWS DIRECTION.
If I should ask, "Which is the way to your home?" who could tell me what I mean?
You all know which way you must go to find your home, but if you should wish to go to a place where you have never been, you would ask, perhaps, "Which way is it?"
| THE WAY TO A PLACE IS CALLED DIRECTION. |
The way to a place is called direction. In order to find a place, we must know in what direction from us it lies, and we have names for directions, such as north, south, east, and west. We may know these directions by seeing where the sun is.
Did you ever see the sun rise? Point to the place where you saw the sun rise. The direction in which the sun seems to rise is called the east.