The Kitchen Garden : Or, Object Lessons in Household Work: Including Songs, Plays, Exercises, and Games, Illustrating Household Occupations |
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bean-bags BED-MAKING bed-tick biscuit boil box cover bread bright eyes Brisket brush centre cheer child Chord.-Cover CHORUS circle Class form CLOTHES-LINE cook dinner dust Facing Teacher Folding bits forks Four little girls Four-and-twenty gathering flowers to-day girls went sweeping glasses go round hands must go Head Girls hold hot suds iron JUMPING ROPE kindlings Kitchen School knives la la la Learning to fold linen little maid little play little waiting girls Loin long box March to Seats MAZURKA morning mulberry bush napkins never nicely ORDER OF EXERCISES pail paper pass the tray Pat-a-cake piano plates pricking right hand rinse room so neat salt scrub side sideboard Sirloin Soap and sand splash sprinkle our clothes square box stand starch sticks stitching sugar bowl table-cloth things towels toys Tra la la verse washing day washing dishes WASHING SONG wood
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Page 44 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
Page 109 - Sing a Song of Sixpence - traditional nursery rhyme Pocket here refers to a unit of measurement. Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing. Wasn't that a dainty dish to set before a king!
Page 124 - Here we go round the mulberry bush, The mulberry bush, The mulberry bush. Here we go round the mulberry bush, So early in the morning. This is the way we wash our clothes, Wash our clothes, Wash our clothes. This is the way we wash our clothes, So early Monday morning.
Page 110 - And it's oh! dear! what can the matter be? Dear! dear! what can the matter be?
Page 125 - Tuesday morning. This is the way we scrub the floor, etc. So early on Wednesday morning.
Page 29 - The verse ended, the circle stands still, and the outside girl, who is the "visitor" in the play, rings her bell, — a make-believe door-bell. The girl who stands next to her is the "servant...
Page 55 - Then sweep, sweep, my little maid, To make your room so neat." As the last verse ends, the music changes once more; now comes the sweepers' drill. Up and down, back and forth, move the brooms as the children march like young soldiers. Just as we are interested in this pretty exercise...
Page 70 - In books and work and healthful play Let my first years be past...
Page 50 - ... the articles they have used, march around the room, and leave them in a cupboard at one side. "Bed-making and sweeping" doesn't promise much fun, does it? But you should see these happy children, each with a doll's bedstead, which has nice bedding, like a regular bed; you should hear them sing : " When you wake in the morning. At the day dawning, Throw off the bedding, and let it all air : Then shake up the pillows In waves and in billows, And leave them near windows, if the day is quite fair.