BOATS. This will Transportation by water may be taken up now. include sailing vessels and steamers, and will bring in both wheels and wind. Let them fold, draw, or cut ships and send them to any country they wish. Take also an imaginary journey across the ocean to the land of wind-mills-Holland. Tell them of the canals and dikes, and the Dutch children with their quaint dress and customs. They will be much interested in hearing the story of the little "Hero of Harlamm," or the "Leak in the Dike,' told in verse by Alice Cary. Tell the children of the means provided by the government for the rescue of ships in distress-the life-saving crews and light houses. MORNING TALK-A TRIP ON THE OCEAN STEAMER. How many have ever taken a little trip on a boat? Where did you go? In what kind of a boat did you go? How far? On a river, lake or ocean? Which is the largest body of water? In what kind of a boat do you go fishing? Sailing? Rowing? What kind of a boat carries the mail down the river? What makes it go? What kind of a boat carries coal and wood? What kinds of boats do you see in the Chicago river or on Lake Michigan? Could you draw any one of these? What kind of a boat did Hiawatha use? The Eskimo? Did you ever see an ice boat? Ever ride in one? Who has a toy boat at home? Who will bring one to school for us to draw? Who has ever been on an ocean steamer? Tell us about it? How long were you there? Where did you eat? Sleep? did you do to amuse yourself? What made the boat go? Who took care of it? Who did the work on the big boat? Tell the names of the officers. Who gave orders to the men? How was the captain dressed? The sailors? What work did they have to do? Where was the pilot house? man dressed? The cook? The waiters? Sleep? What How was the wheel What Was it pleasant all the time you were on the water? Did you have any storms? What did the waves do then? did the boat do? Were you afraid? Was there any danger? the ship do? Why? What might happen What helped the boat to cross the water? Suppose a fog comes up while a ship is at sea? What does What will the wind do to help us here? if the wind did not blow it away? From which direction must the wind come in order to help the boat go faster? (from the opposite direction.). Have they heard the story of "Ulysses and the Bag of Winds." It illustrates the action of the winds. PHONICS. What sound does the boat make as it puffs up and down the river? (p.) What makes it puff? You may be little boats. This aisle may be the river. You may puff up and down the river and I will picture the noise you make on the board. Write a number of ps on the board. Do you ever use this p in words? Who can tell me a word? Who can tell me a word that will rhyme with that? Build up families of words on board, as lip, dip, hip, jip, nip, rip, sip, tip, ripe, tripe, stripe, pipe, wipe, hop, mop, fop, lop, pop, top, cop, cope, hope, mope, pope, rope. Call attention to the final e. the preceding vowel? When a letter p how must it be written? What effect does it have on sentence is begun with the Who can show how to write a capital P? Practice writing capitals and small letters, and build with letters list of words containing that sound. DRAWING AND SEAT WORK. Draw sail boats, cut boats. Fold a boat with one sail, two sails, boat without sails. Lay boats with sticks. Draw a boy dressed as a sailor and posed with a coiled rope in hand. Illustrate "Ulysses and the Bag of Winds." SING. "Baby is a Sailor Boy," from Miss Howlitson's Song Book. "A Fairy Ship," Plan Book. LITERATURE. The Wind at Daybreak. Longfellow. The Building of the Ship. Longfellow. The Ship Builders. Whittier. The Wreck of the Hesperus. Longfellow. The Bag of Winds. MORNING TALK-LIGHTHOUSES AND DANGERS AT SEA. Who has ever been on the water in a storm? What did you wish to do? But can boats and ships always come to shore even if near the land? Why not? How can we tell if there are rocks near the shore? What will there be to tell us to keep away from these dangerous' places? How many ever saw a light-house? Show pictures. Has any one ever been in one? Who stays there to keep the light burning? Who pays the light-house keeper? Would a light-house keeper have a very pleasant time, do you think? think? Who manages the life boats? Did you ever hear of a hero or heroine who saved lives of people shipwrecked? (Tell story of Grace Darling.) Tell also of the little girl, Celia Thaxter, who lived a lonely life, as a child, in a light-house, but who occupied her time in getting acquainted with birds and flowers, and who wrote some beautiful things about them and the ocean. Read the "The Little Sandpiper." DRAWING AND SEAT WORK. Draw or paint light-house with ink. "Once I got into a boat." SING. "Sweet and Low, Winds of the Sea," Tennyson. A TRIP TO HOLLAND. How many are ready to take another long journey? This time we are going to Holland to visit the little Dutch children, so first we will go to New York on a train and there we will take passage on a great ocean steamship. (Show picture of ocean steamer and describe the boat, decks, state-rooms, etc., to make the trip real.) Now the great vessel is pulling away from the wharf, and we wave our handkerchiefs to the friends on shore. Now they can hardly be seen, and the city is further and further in the distance. At last we are far out at sea, the land looks like a low, gray cloud, and soon cannot be seen at all. How strange it seems to see nothing but sky and water! At last, after many days, the steamer arrives at Rotterdam, Holland. What a strange looking city it is! CANALS. Instead of streets there are canals like small rivers, and there the large, broad boats with their single mast go lazily to and fro carrying coal, wood, fish or vegetables. Some little children have no other homes but these canal boats, and there they live with their fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers, as happy and busy as the day is long. Busy? Yes, indeed! There are many things the children can do upon a fish boat. They mend the nets, and when the fishermen pull the nets in full of fish the children help take them out. They help mother cook, they scrub and scour the boat with sand, and wash the windows until all is as bright and clean as a house on shore. On many of the canal boats we will see long boxes of growing plants with their bright blossoms, for the Dutch are so very fond of flowers that they could hardly live without them. They are especially fond of tulips, and there was a |