"I give my head and my heart to my country. One country, one language, and one flag."

ACTION SENTENCES.

(Read silently. Follow by action.)

Get the flag, Helen.
Hold it up, please.
Wave the flag once.

Wave it once more.

What does the flag stand for?
Count all its stripes.

Give the flag to Frank, please.
How many stars has the flag?
What do the stars stand for?
Name the colors of the flag.
What does the red say to us?
What does the white say?
What does the blue say?
What names has our flag?

What do soldiers call it?

Hurrah for the flag! hurrah!

THE MONTHS.*

(To be memorized.)

January, February, March, April, May, June,

July, August, September.

October, November, December.

“Thirty days has September,

April, June and November;

All the rest have thirty-one

But February.

This alone

Has twenty-eight; and one day more

Add to it, one year in four."

* See preface.

"What shall we wrap the baby in? Nothing that fingers have woven will do; Looms of the heart weave love ever new; Love, only love, is the right thread to spin; Love we must wrap the baby in."

* See preface.

ACTION SENTENCES.

(Read silently. Follow by action.)

THE SPHERE.

Come to the table, Mary.

Find the sphere.

Hold it up, please.

What shape is the sphere?

What fruits have the same shape?
Roll the sphere to Frank.
Frank may bring it to the table.

THE CYLINDER.

Ella may come to the table.
Find the cylinder, please.
Show what the cylinder can do.
Name two things shaped like
a cylinder.

Give the cylinder to Mary, please.
Please put the cylinder on the table.
Run to your seat.