Your teacher will read you the story of a boy who forgot the rule.

Make up a story to tell to the second grade about a boy or girl who was careless. How did he happen to start to cross the street? Why didn't he see the team that was coming? Did the boy who pushed him out of danger come near being hurt himself? What did the father of the boy who was saved say to the other boy?

Your teacher will let the two who have the best stories go to the second grade room and tell their stories. Try to show the pupils in the second grade how to be careful. Tell them about your rule. Perhaps the teacher will like to have you write the rule on the blackboard for them.

A Spelling Game - Seat Work

See how many words you can make from the letters in the words safety first. The one wins the game who finds the most words.

LESSON 44

Two Abused Words Isn't, Haven't

Pupils sometimes make mistakes and say aint when they ought to say isn't, or they say haint when they ought to say haven't. Here is a game that will help to correct such bad habits:

ISN'T, HAVEN'T A GAME

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Your teacher will divide the class so that the pupils in half the rows will be matched against those in the other half.

The pupil who begins the game will, call the name of a pupil on the other side and will ask a question that will require the form isn't or haven't in the answer. The pupil on the other side will answer the question and will then in turn ask a question of a pupil on the first side. The question will go back and forth in this way as long as the game is played. The use of aint or haint counts one against the side of the pupil who uses it. The teacher will keep the score on the blackboard. This is the game:

Question: Is this your pencil?
Answer: No, that isn't my pencil.

Question: Have you a bicycle?

Answer: No, I haven't a bicycle.

Which Word Shall We Use?

Copy each statement and use isn't or haven't for Use the one that you think is correct.

each blank.

LESSON 45

The Boy and the River

A country boy was sent to a city to sell some butter and eggs for his mother. On the way he came to a stream. He saw there was so much water that it would be hard to cross. So he sat down on the bank to wait for the water to run out. All day he sat there waiting, but the water did not get any lower. In the evening he went home and told his mother why he had not gone to the city. His mother told him that, if he waited for the water to run out, he would never sell the butter and eggs.

Why did the boy sit down on the bank of the river? What do you think about this plan? Why wasn't it a good plan?

Read each sentence that has words in black letters. Then look away from the book and tell what the sentence said.

Read each sentence. Mention the first word and tell why it begins with a capital letter. Tell why there is a period at the end of the sentence.

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Dramatizing

You may dramatize this story if you wish to do You may play that there is a river in the front part of the room. You must think what the mother and the boy said to each other. Perhaps the boy talked to himself while he was sitting on the bank of the river.

GIVE ME, DON'T KNOW A GAME

LESSON 46

Speaking Distinctly Give Me, Don't Know

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Pupils sometimes get into the habit of speaking in ways that are not correct, and they use these ways so often that they do not think how bad the words sound. Two sentences are are given below. Practice speaking each sentence until you can speak the words distinctly.

Please give me the book.

How do pupils sometimes say this in a way that is not correct?

I don't know where the book is.

How do pupils sometimes say this in a way that is not correct?

A Game

The teacher may choose a pupil to leave the room and to act as leader. The teacher may then note a book or some other object that is in the room, and she may call a pupil to her desk and tell the pupil where the object is. The other pupils must not know where it is.

The pupil who left the room may now return, and the teacher announces that the game is for him to locate a book that she has in mind. If any pupil uses the forms gimme or dunno, he is out of the game.

This is the way the game goes:

Leader: Frank, please give me the book.
Frank: I don't know where it is.

Leader: Mabel, please give me the book.
Mabel: I don't know where it is.

The leader continues to ask the pupils until he happens to ask the one who knows. This pupil then tells where the book is.

How Well Do You Remember?

This is a review exercise. Copy each statement and fill each blank space with one of the words in the list below. You may use the same word as many times as you wish.