How did this make her act?
Did the hare expect to lose the race? Why not?
The teacher may tell the story of the girl going to market with a basket of eggs on her head. She was so sure of getting sale for her eggs that she set to dreaming of the pretty things she would buy with the money she was to get for the eggs. She would buy, she thought, a bright new dress and a new hat; and then how mean and shabby she could make the other girls look; and how she could walk past them all, tossing her head in pride! Forgetting that she was still only on her way to market, she then gave her head a proud little toss; and—what do you think happened?
Let the children give the story of the Hare and the Tortoise in their own words.
What is likely to happen to any one of us who is too sure of winning?
What will we say, then, of any one who is too sure of anything?
It has been said, “Count not your chickens before they are hatched.” What does this mean?
ARITHMETIC—FIFTH GRADE
Aim:—
To teach division of decimals.