Poems: SECOND GRADE. The Rock a By Lady, Field. Wynken, Blynken and Nod, Field. The Night Wind, Field. Windy Nights, Stevenson. The Land of Story Books, Stevenson. Bed in Summer, Stevenson. The Land of Counterpane, Stevenson. September, Helen Hunt Jackson. October, Helen Hunt Jackson. How the Leaves Came Down, Susan Coolidge. All Things Bright and Beautiful, Miss C. F. Alexander. The Sugar Plum Tree, Field. The Cooky Moon, Edmund Vance Cook. The Rainbow Fairies, Lizzie M. Hadley. Who Stole the Bird's Nest? Lydia Maria Child. The Swing, Stevenson. My Shadow, Stevenson. Don't Kill the Birds, Daniel A. Colesworthy. Thanksgiving Day, Lydia Maria Child. If I Knew, Maud Wyman. Song of the Wind, Helen M. Beckwith. We Thank Thee, Margaret Sangster. God Takes Care, Anon. The Two Squirrels, Anon. The Song of the Thrush, Lucy Larcom. The Bluebird, Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller. All Happy in Spring, Anon. Who Likes the Rain? Anon. A Busy Day, Anon. THIRD GRADE. Poems: The Wind, Stevenson. A Visit from St. Nicholas, Clement C. Moore. Seed, in McMurry & Cook's Song of Tree Top. The Wonderful World, William Brighty Rands. Sweet and Low, Tennyson. Daisies, Sherman. Marjorie's Almanac, Thomas Bailey Aldrich. America. Hiawatha's Childhood, Longfellow. Hiawatha's Sailing, Longfellow. Seven Times One, Jean Ingelow. Four Leaf Clover, Mrs. Ella Higginson. The Year's at the Spring, from “ Pippa Passes," Browning. Pied Piper of Hamelin, Browning. I Live for Those Who Love Me, G. Linnalus Banks. The Brown Thrush, Lucy Larcom. Wishing, William Allingham. Poems: FOURTH GRADE. The Gladness of Nature, Bryant. The Night Wind, Field. The Mountain and the Squirrel, Emerson. The Village Blacksmith, Longfellow. A Fable, Emerson. The Barefoot Boy, Whittier. The Fountain, Lowell. September, Helen Hunt Jackson. June Days (part in Language through Nature, Literature and Art), Poems: SIXTH GRADE. Selections from Snowbound, Whittier. It's Not Raining Rain to Me, Robert Loveman. St. Christopher, Howells. The Creation of the Birds. The Builders, Longfellow. One by One, Adelaide Proctor. The Blue and the Gray, F. M. Finch. The White-footed Deer, Bryant. Lead Kindly Light, Newman. Order for a Picture, Alice Cary. The Flag Goes By, Bennett. A Man's A Man, for a' That, Burns. Nobility, Alice Cary. Song of Marion's Men, Bryant. Proverbs: A stitch in time saves nine. A rolling stone gathers no moss. Where there is a will there is a way. If a man cheats me once, shame on him; if he cheats me twice, shame on me. Follow the river and you will be to the sea. All that glitters is not gold. Make hay while the sun shines. Half a loaf is better than no bread. Practice makes perfect. You can not eat your cake and keep it. Waste not, want not. You must run to win the race. The more haste the less speed. A penny saved is a penny earned. Cut your coat according to your cloth. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Think before you speak. Look before you leap. Never put off until tomorrow what can be done to-day. Take things always by the smooth handle. When angry count 10 before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred. MEMORY GEMS. The following is only a suggestive list of memory gems. The list is given for two reasons: (1) It may provide occasional material of this nature for those who may not have it at hand, or (2) it may stimulate thought along parallel lines and lead to the use of even better illustrative material. It is a very good thing to have the child regularly acquire memory gems, thus, perhaps unconsciously, acquiring inspiration, ideals, and ideas that may go with him through his entire lifetime thereafter. Heroism is simple, and yet it is rare. Every one who does the best he can is a hero.-Josh Billings. He who has learned to obey will know how to command.-Solon. The year's at the spring, All's well with the world. --Robert Browning. Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, Getteth short of leaves. -Thomas Hood. 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant When life flows along like a song, But the man worth while is the man who will smile When everything goes dead wrong. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox. * There is the national flag! He must be cold indeed who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country * *. White is for purity, red for valor, blue for justice, and all together-bunting, stripes, stars, and colors blazing in the sky-make the flag of our country to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.-Charles Sumner. If I were a cobbler, I would make it my pride The best of all cobblers to be; If I were a tinker, no tinker besides Should mend an old kettle like me. If "ifs" and "ands" Were old tin cans They'd be of no use to tinkers. Work for some good, be it ever so slowly; -Mrs. F. S. Osgood. There are as many pleasant things, As many pleasant tones, For those who dwell by cottage hearths As those who sit on thrones. -Phoebe Cary. Just a little every day; That's the way Children learn to read and write, Bit by bit and mite by mite. Never anyone, I say, Leaps to knowledge and its power. Slowly, slowly-hour by hour That's the way; Just a little every day. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox. If you're told to do a thing, Never let it be by halves; Do it fully, freely. -Phoebe Cary. Great works are performed, not by strength but by perseverance.—Samuel Johnson. Boys flying kites haul in their white-winged birds; -Will Carleton. |