Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature

by Ontario. Department of Education

Teacher. "Is the baby in the picture awake or asleep?"

Pupils. "He is asleep."

Teacher. "What could the baby see before he went to sleep?"

Here a picture—fourteen by twenty inches—was shown. It was a good representation of an Indian home and its surroundings. The pupils had made use of this picture when working at the sand-table.

Pupils. "He could see the pine trees, the water, the wigwams, the canoes, the Indians," etc.

Teacher. "What could the baby hear while swinging in his cradle?"

Pupils. "He could hear the Indians talking. He could hear the wind among the trees; the water; the birds singing in the woods; the cry of an owl; perhaps wolves, bears," etc.

Teacher. "What other babies lived in the woods?"

Pupils. "Birds, squirrels, owls, wolves," etc.

Teacher. "A man once wrote what he thought an Indian mother might have sung to her baby. This is what he thought she would sing." (The teacher recited the Indian Lullaby.)