X. GOOD HEALTH

Keeping Our Community Clean

Tell how clean streets, alleys, and back yards promote health. Tell what each citizen can do to help the health officers. Tell some things children may do to

point. Make clear what you wish to say.

A Word Hunt

You may go hunting again. This time you may find the meanings of words. You should know the meanings of words connected with keeping the community clean and healthy. Look up the meanings of

GAME - WELL, GOOD

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the following words in the dictionary, and try to use each word in a sentence of your own:

sanitary
germ

disease

remedy

normal

prevent

;

Each pupil may write on a slip of paper a word whose meaning he does not know. These words may be used for a dictionary hunt.

'Dictation

Study carefully the paragraph below. Write it from dictation.

It

What are you doing to keep your community clean? We cannot have good health unless we are clean. is the health officer's duty to see that the sanitary laws are obeyed. We should help him by keeping our own property clean.

Game-Well, Good

Divide the class into two sides, as for a spelling match. A leader may write the following sentences on the board:

The leader points to one of these sentences. The pupil whose turn it is gives the sentence quickly, supplying well or good for the blank. If a pupil hesitates or gives the wrong word, he must take his seat. Never use good to tell how a thing is done.

Talks on Health

Tell how

Tell how much sleep boys and girls of your age need. Tell what foods you should eat. Tell why exercise and fresh air are necessary to good health. Tell why you should sleep with your windows open. you should take care of your teeth. Tell how you should care for your eyes. Tell why every one should try to be healthy. Tell some things that injure the health.

Select one of these topics and plan two or three sentences to speak on it. Stick to the point; do not talk about other topics than the one you have selected. Stand straight and look at your classmates while you speak.

Dictation

A pupil may dictate to the other pupils a paragraph about proper food for children. He should give his paragraph first orally, so that the teacher and the pupils may suggest improvements. It may then be Some of the pupils

dictated, a sentence at a time. may write it on the board, while others write at their seats. Pupils may correct mistakes in work written on the board. Other pupils will compare their work with that on the board.

GAME-WHOSE IS IT?

A Written Paragraph

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Think over what you know about one of these topics and write a paragraph on it:

I. What I Can Do to Make Our Community Clean and Sanitary

2. What I Can Do to Take Care of My Own Health

Make a good sentence for the beginning and another for the end. Write the title of your paragraph at the head of your paper in the center of the page. Notice that each important word of the title begins with a capital letter.

Leave a margin of one inch at the left of your paper. Indent the first sentence of your paragraph. Begin each sentence with a capital letter. If you cannot spell a word, ask the teacher or look in the dictionary. When you have finished writing, read over your paper carefully before handing it to the teacher.

A number of objects belonging to different pupils are laid on the teacher's desk. A leader holds up one object, as a cap, and asks, "Whose is it?" The pupils write a sentence for each object shown, telling whose it is; as, "It is John's cap.' At the end of five minutes pupils exchange papers. The leader writes the correct answers on the board. Pupils mark incorrect answers. The one guessing every owner wins the game, if he has made no mistakes in writing his sentences.

Be careful to write 's where it is needed.

XI. ANIMALS IN WINTER

Housing Farm Animals

Tell why the farmer must house his animals in winter. Tell how he cares for hogs; for cows; for horses; for sheep. Tell why it pays a farmer to take good care of his stock.

Select one of the above topics and prepare two or three sentences to tell about it. Make clear what you wish to say. Stick to your topic.

A blindfolded pupil stands in the front of the room. Another pupil runs up and tags him, saying "I did it." The blindfolded pupil says, "Who did it? Was it Tom?" If it was not Tom, Tom says, "It wasn't I.” If it was Tom, he says, "I did it." The blindfolded pupil must guess until he finds the right one. Every pupil must answer either "It wasn't I" or "I did it." When the right one has been guessed, he is blindfolded and the game continues.

Food for Farm Animals

Tell what food the farmer raises for his stock. Tell what a silo is. Tell what food makes the cows give most milk. Tell what the farmer's wife does with the

garbage.