"O my! O my!" Hummed a little fly. "I'm always eating honey. And yet I play All the day; Isn't it very funny. LANGUAGE LESSON. Let pupils write answers, in complete sentences, to the following questions. How many legs has the bee? How many wings has the bee? How many wings has the fly? What does the bee make? Which is the larger, the bee or the fly? Let the pupil carefully copy the first three lines of the stanza in script. FRANK AND THE BIRD. One time when Frank was going to school, he found a poor little bird in the grass. It had got out of its nest, and could not fly back. Frank took the little bird up in his hand. He could not put it back, as the nest was too high up in a tree. He did not know what to do with it. At last he said, "You poor little bird! I will take you home, and ask sister to put you into a cage. "When you are large and strong, you may fly back to the tree." So Frank took it home to his sister. She gave it food and water, and put it into a cage. Pretty soon the bird began to sing a little every day. Frank liked it very much, but one day he let it fly out of its cage, to go back to its old home in the tree. Let pupils write the "New Words" at the head of this lesson, and mark the vowels and silent letters. FRANK AND HIS WISH. When Frank was a small boy, he went to school with his sister. One very warm day, he said to his sister that it would be much more fun to play ball than to go to school. "No, no," said she, "I have no time to play." Then Frank saw a bee, and said, "I wish I were a bee, and had nothing to do." "But the bee has much to do," said his sister. "It works hard all day to get honey." Then he saw a bird in a tall tree, and said, "Well, I wish I were that little bird: It has nothing to do." But his sister said, “See, Frank, the bird has a straw. It has to build its nest with straw and hair, and so has no time to play.” Then, when Frank saw that every bee and bird had to work, he ran to school and learned his lessons. LANGUAGE LESSON. What did Frank wish ? What did his sister say the bee had to do? What did Frank do when he saw that the bee and the bird had to work? |