1 TALKING ABOUT A PICTURE I What are the children in the picture doing? What time of the year do you think it is? Give the reason for your answer. What is growing in the garden? This garden was once an old dumping ground near the school. Tell what you think the children did first. How did they get their soil ready for planting? Tell what they had to do all through the spring and summer. What do you think the boys and girls will do with their crops? II How many of you have ever had a garden? What did you raise? What advantage is it to you to have a garden? to your family? to the outside world? Have you ever learned how to can the things you raised? Tell how you did it. Why is it a good thing to have gardens? Write a paragraph about your own garden or about the garden in the picture. Here are some suggestions that may help you. 1. My lettuce bed. 2. How I made my peas grow. 3. What I like best to raise. 4. Getting ready for planting. 5. Why I decided to have a garden. 6. How I disposed of my vegetables. 7. Why I decided to raise Here is a proud young gardener with two fine specimens of eggplant. Perhaps they will take a priz Where might he exhibit his eggplants? Who might offer a prize? Have you ever seen an exhibition of vegetables or fruit? Where was it? What kind of prize was given? Make a story about the boy who won a prize. Vote for the best story. 3 REVIEWING WORD FORMS SEE, SAW, HAVE SEEN Two of you may read aloud the conversation between Jack and his mother, using the correct form of the word see where it is omitted. I Fred's garden this morning, mother. them. I have those fine ones before, but such big ones as Fred's. I have never And I have never better tomatoes than those he brought me the other day. See and sees show present time. Saw shows past time. Seen shows that the action is completed. Remember that seen must be helped by have, has, or had to show that the action is completed. Remember also that saw is never helped by any other 'ord. Make a new conversation, using these words. Read your conversation to the class. You may think that you know these troublesome little words saw and seen because you can select the right one for the blank. But you do not really know them unless the habit of using them correctly is so firmly fixed that you never send one to do the work of the other. The class, working together, will make conversations for the word forms that follow. Write the conversa Two of you may read each of the conversations. 4 TALKING ABOUT A POEM ROBIN REDBREAST Good-by, good-by to summer! Robin, robin redbreast, O Robin dear! Robin sings so sweetly In the falling of the year. |