PICTURE STUDY 137 LESSON 60 Blowing Soap Bubbles Are these children having fun? Which of them do you think can blow the biggest bubbles? Why do you think so? Why do the children not let the baby blow bubbles? What makes you think he wants to try? Tell us about a time when you blew bubbles. How did you get ready to blow the bubbles? Who burst his bubbles oftenest? Bubbles to Blow Write and fill the blanks with words from the list below. See how many words you can make from the letters in the word blowing. The one who finds the most words in the time that your teacher gives you wins the game. LESSON 61 Spring Flowers A Flower Calendar Have you found any spring flowers? What did you find first? Tell where you found it. In what kind of place does it grow? Which do you think is the prettiest of the spring flowers? Where did you find them? Of how many spring flowers do you know the names? Describe one of them. Tell where it grows and where you have found it. Should you like to keep a flower calendar on the blackboard? When you find a flower for the first time this spring, tell your teacher about it, and she will write on the blackboard the name of the flower, and after the name of the flower she will write your name and the date when you found it. Of course she will write only the name of the one who finds the flower first. The Flower Game The teacher may choose a pupil for leader. The leader may stand in front of the class and describe a spring flower. He should tell how large it is, the color, where it grows, the size of the plant, and anything else that he knows about it. The others may tell what flower he describes. The one who gives the right answer may be the next leader. The leader should begin by saying: I am thinking of a flower A PICTURE STORY A Spelling Game 139 See how many words you can make from the letters in the words spring flowers. The one who finds the most words in the time that your teacher gives you wins the game. The hen in the picture is sitting on a nestful of eggs to hatch them. How many eggs do you think she has under her? What is the little boy about to do? If the boy puts his hand into the nest, what do you think the hen will do? Tell a story about what happened when the little boy put his hand under the hen. Who is the little boy? Where does he live? Why does he want to put his hand into the nest? What has the little boy been told about bothering the hen when she is sitting on her eggs? What happens when the boy puts his hand into the nest? What does the boy promise his mother? Your teacher will read you a story about the little boy. See if it is like the story that you told. (The story is in the manual.) LESSON 63 Going After the Bag of Gold When does the rainbow come in the sky? What makes it come? What are the colors in the rainbow? Some people used to think that there was a bag of gold at the end of the rainbow. These children have heard this story and are going to find the bag of gold. Let us tell a story about what happened to them and what they found. Answer these questions in your story: Who are these children? Where do they live? Who told them they could find a bag of gold at the end of the rainbow? |