Find a blue violet, Glenn.
Find a violet bud, Edith.
Find a yellow violet, Lloyd.
Find a violet leaf, Sadie.
Find a white violet, Jennie.
Find a purple violet, Rudolph.
Sing to the violets.
Children sing softly:—
"Oh, violets, pretty violets,
I pray you tell to me
Why are you the first flowers
That bloom upon the lea?" etc.
A TREE GAME—(SPRING OR FALL)
Material.—Leaves of the different trees with which the children are familiar.
Glenn may be a maple tree.
Choose your leaf.
Wallace may be an elm tree.
Choose your leaf.
Chauncey may be a birch tree.
Choose your leaf, etc.
Make a little forest.
Toss in the wind.
(The leaves are pinned upon the children as each chooses his leaf, and they dance lightly about as if tossed by the wind.)
CARING FOR THE ANIMALS
Material.—Wooden or paper animals. A portion of the table is marked off by a chalk line for the farmyard.
Drive in a pig, Willie.
Lead in a horse, Gregory.
Drive in a sheep, Sadie.
Lead in a cow, Roy, etc.