(1) Story of Columbus—First Grade.
Materials Used.—Paper for cutting and folding, twigs for forests, acorns for tents, large piece of glass for ocean.
Details of Illustration.—The piece of glass was imbedded in sand in the middle of the table; one end of the table represented Spain, the other, America. The representation of Spain included:
"Castles in Spain" being large houses with many windows in which the king and queen lived. They were cut from paper.
Many people, cut from paper, including kings and queens and the friends of Mr. Columbus who came to tell him "good-by." The kings and queens were distinguished by royal purple robes and golden crowns and necklaces, produced by the use of colored crayon.
The three ships made from folded paper. In one of them sat Mr. Columbus.
Fishes, of paper, inhabited the hollow space underneath the glass.
The forest primeval was shown on the American side by green twigs of trees set very close together. On pulling apart the leaves and peering into the depths of this forest, one found it inhabited by bears and other wild beasts, also cut from paper.
The Indians lived in a village of acorn tents set up in a little clearing on the shore.
Flags.—The Spanish region was identified by a Spanish flag, while the stars and stripes waved above the Indian village.