The poem is to be recited by the teacher. Allow plenty of time between lines, for each part to be acted.
Children representing Sunshine, Miss Weather and Professor Wind are first chosen. They take their places in the front of the room. Then the other children are separated, by rows of desks, into Ashes, Oaks, Maples, and Chestnuts.
October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came—
The Ashes, Oaks, Maples, and Chestnuts come skipping, tiptoe, up the aisles, helter-skelter, to represent flying leaves.
The Ashes, Oaks, and Maples,
And those of every name.
The skipping is continued, until all the leaves stand in a group at one side of the room.
Miss Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand.