6. What did he tell the crow?

7. What did the crow do?

8. What did she do with the cheese?

9. What did the fox do?

10. Where did he go?

LESSON 31

Thrift

Have you ever seen a little squirrel frisking about in the trees in the woods or park? He seems to have a happy time running up and down the trees and jumping from branch to branch. But the squirrel does not play all the time for he is a thrifty little fellow. All during the fall months he works hard gathering nuts and storing them away in an old hollow tree. Do you know why he stores away all these nuts? What would happen if he did not work in the fall?

Do you know any one who is thrifty like the squirrel? Perhaps you or some of your classmates have started to save money and to be thrifty. Did you ever buy any thrift stamps? Have you a war savings stamp? Perhaps you have deposited money in the school savings bank or some other bank. Why do people buy thrift stamps or put money in a savings bank?

You remember the Christmas exchange that you had. Each one in the class told how to make one

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kind of present. How should you like to have a thrift exchange, and each one in the class tell about one way of earning or saving money? Perhaps some of your classmates would like to earn money, but they do not know how. If you have distributed hand bills, run errands, wiped dishes, or filled the wood box, or have done something else to earn money, tell the class about it. Perhaps you will learn some new ways to earn money through the thrift exchange.

Thrift doesn't mean just earning money. It also means wise saving, like the storing up of the nuts in the fall by our little friend, the squirrel. How do you save your money?

Exercise in Dramatizing

The ant is also a very thrifty little fellow. Boys and girls who lived hundreds and hundreds of years ago listened to stories about little ants who were good workers and good savers. Your teacher will read you a story about an ant and a cricket. The foolish little cricket did not know how to be thrifty, but his neighbor, the ant, knew that "if you live without work, you must live without food." After the story has been read, your teacher will appoint two pupils to act the story. Perhaps you will like to have different pupils act it, and then the class can vote for the two who acted the story best.

(The story is in the manual.)

Read aloud:

LESSON 32

Learning to Use Hear, Here

1. "I did not expect to see you here this evening," said Frank.

2. "We came over to hear the band concert at the park," replied his friend.

Find two words in these sentences that sound alike but are spelled differently.

What does the word that you find in the first sentence mean?

What is the meaning of the word that you find in the second sentence?

Study each of the two words until you are sure that you know what it means and that you can · spell it.

Work for Your Fingers

The following exercise will give you a chance to show if you know when to use hear and when to use here. Write each sentence after it is read by the teacher.

1. Here is my home.

2. We came here ten years ago.

3. An old house stood here then.

4. Should you like to hear about it?

5. Your sister may like to hear about it, too.

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6. The house had stood here many years.

7. We could hear the wind blowing through it.
8. So we built a new house here.

9. Now we do not hear the wind.

10. Our friends came here at Christmas.

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Write each sentence and fill the blank spaces with hear or here.

The teacher may appoint two captains who may 66 choose sides." The teacher will act as leader. Beginning at one side, the teacher will give a short sentence containing one of the words hear, here, two, to, too, and she will pronounce the word for the pupil to spell. This is the way the game goes:

Teacher: I have two apples. Two.

(The first pupil spells two.)

Teacher: I did not hear the bell. Hear.

(The first pupil on the other side spells hear.)

If a pupil misses, the word goes to the other side. and the teacher makes a mark against the side that loses.

The game may be continued as long as desired. The side wins that has the fewer marks against it.

LESSON 33

Playing in Story-Book Land

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Do you like to play make-believe games? Tell about some that you have played. What one do like best? Perhaps different pupils have played the same thing in different ways. It will be interesting to hear about these different ways. Each pupil may have a chance to tell how he played.

If you have ever played stories that you have heard or read, tell the class how you played them. Have you ever played stories about living in a camp and hunting? Tell how you played them? In the evening when your parents were sitting around the light, did you ever play that the dark places along the wall and behind the sofa were forests, and that there was a river where animals come to drink?

Here is a poem that tells how one boy played the things that he had read in books. Is the way he played like the way you played?