The Garden XV. GARDENS AND FIELDS If you had a garden last year, tell how you prepared the soil for it. If you did not have one, tell what you have seen others do. Tell what kind of soil is needed for a garden. Tell why it is necessary to break up the ground. Tell what the earthworms do to help your garden. Tell your plans for a garden this year. Tell what you expect to do with the vegetables you raise. Plan what you have to say. Do not try to speak on all the topics suggested above, but select the one you know most about. Preparation of Fields Tell how the farmer makes his fields ready for planting. Tell why fertilizer is used. Tell why the soil must be loose. Select the topic you wish to speak on, and plan two or three sentences on it. Stick to your topic. plowing his field for corn. He said that he would plow, harrow, and fertilize his fields. Then he would plant the corn. A GARDEN STORY 83 Copying Read the following stanza: THE YEAR'S AT THE SPRING The hillside's dew pearled; God's in His heaven All's right with the world! ROBERT BROWNING In this song the poet gives us a picture of a dewy morning in early spring. What expression shows that little drops of dew that look like pearls glisten on the hillside? Where is the lark? What makes us think that "all's right with the world"? Notice the apostrophes used in this song. They are used to show the omission of the letter i; year's means year is. Copy the song just as it is written. The mark after world, in the last line, is called an exclamation point. It is used to express feeling. A Garden Story Look at the picture on page 84. Give names to the children. What do you think they are planting? Try to tell a story about these children. One pupil may start the story with a sentence. Another pupil may add a sentence that fits into the first and so on, each pupil helping the story to grow. XVI. EARNING AND SAVING Sayings of "Poor Richard" Benjamin Franklin wrote a book called Poor Richard's Almanack. It is full of wise sayings, many of which teach us to be thrifty and saving. Here are some of them: 1. Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. And you shall have corn to sell and to keep. 5. One to-day is worth two to-morrows. Memorize as many of these sayings as you can. Look in the dictionary for the meaning of the following words and of any others in the sayings that you do not understand: An Original Story How I Earned and Saved My First Money Think about the first money you ever earned or saved. Perhaps your father gave you some money, which you saved instead of spending. Perhaps you worked for the money that you put in your bank. Tell where the money came from and why you saved it. Tell how 'you felt. Give your story orally to the class. Try to make it interesting. Game Is John There? One pupil hides while the others shut their eyes. The pupils may open their eyes after the first child is hidden. The teacher calls one pupil to look for the hidden one. He may look in only one place. The teacher says, "Is John there?" The pupil replies, "No, John isn't here." Another pupil is called to look for John. When John is found, the pupil who finds him says, "Yes, John is here." The pupil who finds John may then hide. Be careful to say "John isn't here." A Written Story Write carefully the story you told yesterday in class. The subject is How I Earned and Saved My First Money. Begin each word in your title except and with a capital letter. The teacher with the help of a committee of pupils may select five of the best stories to place on the bulletin board or to send to the principal. |