New Year

 

New Year 

by  E. ELLIOTT 

WILL the New Year bring greetings 
Blithesome and gay?

Long-looked-for meetings, 

Joy's sunny day?

Father, we know not, 

Coming joys show not; 

Hear our entreatings, 

Choose Thou the way!

Will the New Year bring weeping, 

Sorrow's increase?

Will the New Year bring sleeping, 

Quiet release?

Father, most tender, 

We can but render 

All to Thy keeping; 

Grant us Thy peace.      

References:

1.FRIENDLY LEAVES 1881 EDITED BY ME TOWNSEND 1882

2.THE EVERY DAY BOOK OR Everlasting Calendar OF POPULAR AMUSEMENTS SPORTS PASTIMES CEREMONIES MANNERS CUSTOMS AND EVENTS INCIDENT TO EACH OF THE THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE DAYS IN PAST AND PRESENT TIMES FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE YEAR MONTHS & SEASONS AND A PERPETUAL KEY TO THE ALMANACK INCLUDING ACCOUNTS OF THE WEATHER RULES FOR HEALTH AND CONDUCT REMARKABLE AND IMPORTANT ANECDOTES FACTS AND NOTICES IN CHRONOLOGY ANTIQUITIES TOPOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHY NATURAL HISTORY ART SCIENCE AND GENERAL LITERATURE DERIVED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES AND VALUABLE ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS WITH POETICAL ELUCIDATIONS FOR DAILY USE AND DIVERSION BY WILLIAM HONE ۱ 

ACROSTIC-OUR FLAG

 

ACROSTIC- OUR FLAG 

Arranged by INEZ MCTEE 

Each child carries a letter which is held aloft while speaking, and then fastened on the breast.

O-  fold of white and scarlet! O blue field with your silver stars! May fond eyes welcome you, willing feet follow you, strong hands defend you, warm hearts cherish, you and dying lips give you their blessing! Ours by inheritance, ours by allegiance, our by affection- long may you float on the free winds of heaven the emblem of liberty, the hope of the world! 

Selected  

Up with the banner bright, 

Sprinkled with starry light, 

Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore, 

While through the sounding sky 

Loud rings the nation's cry- 

Union and Liberty! One Evermore! 

O. W. Holmes 

R ed says, "Be brave;" 

White says, "Be pure;" 

Blue says, "Be true," 

Selected 

F lag of the free hearts hope and home, 

By angel's hand to valor given; 

Thy stars have lit the welkin dome 

And all thy hues were born in heaven. 

Drake 

L et the National flag float over every schoolhouse in the country, and the exercises be such as shall press upon our youth the patri otic duties of American citizens. 

Benjamin Harrison

A song for our banner? The watchword recall 

Which gave the Republic her station; 

United we stand, divided we fall! 

It made and preserved us a nation. 

Morris  

G od bless our stars forever, 

It is liberty's refrain. 

Anon 

References:

2.4 NOV1914 MEMORIAL DAY May Thirtieth 1914 

The Carnation - A Poem

 The Carnation - A Poem 

By Effie Crawford 

Of all the many flowers 
That bloom for us each year, 
We love the sweet carnation 
That stands for Mother dear.

On Mother's Day we wear it 

To honor her and show 

How very much we love her, 

So all the world may know.

So let us keep the flower, 

Though it be white or red, 

The emblem of a mother's love, 

The living and the dead.  

References:

1.NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS May 1930

2.CARNATION CULTURE BY LL LAMBORN ALLIANCE OHIO 1890 

Mother - A Poem

 Mother 

By Annie Winfrey Meek 

My Mother dear is sweeter far 
Than all the lovely ladies are. 
Kindness is written on her face; 
She scatters joy in every place; 

She makes, wherever she may be, 

A glad and happy place for me. 

Her hands are swift, her heart is 

High honor ever is her due; 

My love is hers, and year by year 

She seems more lovely and more dear.

References:

NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS May 1925

A Window Decoration- Robin

 A Window Decoration Robin 

By BESS BRUCE CLEAVELAND 

Freehand cutting project or Coloring page for Month Of May.

Cut the robin from slate or dark brown and add colored papers, as indicated. 

The dotted lines show the concealed branch of the apple tree. Mount the design on the windowpane as shown in the finished sketch.

Themes : Mayday, Nature Studies, Birds, Zoology, Spring, Garden, Orchard, Flowers, Botany, 

References:

1.NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS  May 1930

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

 AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL 

Words by KATHARINE LEE BATES 
Music by WILL C MACFARLANE 
Municipal Organist Portland Maine 

1. 1 O beautiful for spacious skies.

For amber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties

A bove the fruited plain.

America! America! 

God shed His grace on thee, 

And crown thy good with brotherhood, 

From sea to shining sea!

2.  O beautiful for pilgrim feet,

Whose stern, impassion'd stress 

 A thoroughfare for freedom beat

 A cross the wilderness!

America! America! 

God mend thine ev'ry flaw,

Con firm thy soul in self control, 

Thy sea liberty in law!   

3.O beautiful for heroes proved,

 In liberating strife, 

Who more than self their country loved.

And mercy more than life!

America! America! 

May God thy gold refine,

Till all success be nobleness,

And ev'ry gain divine! 

4.O beautiful for patriot dream

That sees beyond the years 

Thine alabaster cities gleam

Undimm'd by human tears!

America! America! 

God shed His grace on thee, 

And crown thy good with brotherhood, 

From sea to shining sea!

Refrain

America! America! God shed His grace on thee! 

 

PROJECT MAYDAY-WINDOW DECORATION CARNATION

 FREEHAND PAPER CUTTING PROJECT - MAYDAY-WINDOW DECORATION CARNATION

By BESS BRUCE CLEAVELAND 

 Cut the parts from colored papers as indicated 
Paste the pointed edge of the calyx at the base of the flower and B of the stem over B of the calyx 
Arrange the carnations in the vase as shown in the drawing 3 

As well maybe used as coloring pages in the drawing lessons, as seat projects in Nature Study and Civic Education lessons.

Themes : Decoration, Holidays, Observancies, Celebrations, Nature Study, Flowers, Botany, Decoration Day, Mother's Day

References:

NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS May 1929

JULY

 JULY 

a poem by MAY AIKEN 

JULY FOURTH, when the big flag lay 
Ready to celebrate the day, 
"Barbara Frietchie" I became, 
And faced the enemy's deadly aim 
At my attic window. But I heard a cry 

Of "Fire!"- and saw a sword close by

 Of Stonewall Jackson, his steed astride,- 

Well, I meant to have waved my flag and cried:

"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head."-

 But I hid inside the flag, instead!

References;

1. St. Nicholas July 1908 

THE PATRIOTS

 THE PATRIOTS 

a poem by  EUNICE WARD  

THE burly cannon-cracker to the slender little flag 
Said, "How are you to celebrate the day? 
You never make a single sound, you cannot jump nor shoot, 
And where they put you, there you have to stay."

The rockets, Roman candles, and the giddy, racy wheels 

With patriotic zeal began to brag 

Of how they'd leap and bang and fizz and flare and whirl-and all 

United to deride the silent flag.

But when the day was done, the crackers lay in scattered shreds; 

And bits of wheel were clinging to the trees; 

The rocket sticks were lying prone; but high above the scene, 

The little flag still frolicked with the breeze.

References:

1. St. Nicholas July 1908