SEPTEMBER PLAYS FOR AUTUMN DAYS GAMES BASED ON FROEBEL'S TEACHING By Laura Rountree Smith No. 1. Game based on “Falling, Falling." The children are in a circle, they stoop and rise singing, Tune: "Yankee Doodle." High over head the leaves turn red, And autumn is the time for play So we are falling, falling, Chorus: In September hear our song, Pleasant is the weather, Autumn leaves of gold and red, Flying down together. One child runs into the centre of the circle at the close of the song (she has been chosen before they begin to play), the other children try to tag her, but they must not move a step out of the circle. If not tagged, after she runs twice around, she calls on another child to take her place, as the "fallen leaf" and the game continues as before. If the child is tagged she goes out of the game. No. 2. Game based on "All Gone." A child is chosen to stand in the centre of the circle the children form. She says, In September, in September, Birds replying, all are flying, The first child to name a bird, changes places with her, running in with arms extended, waving them up and down to imitate a bird flying. All the children in the circle wave right hand, in farewell, each time a bird is named, saying, All gone, all gone, now we see you fly, All gone, all gone, (Robin) dear good bye. (They name a different bird each time.) No. 3. Game based on "The Flower Basket." The children are in a circle. They join hands and skip toward the centre and back singing. Tune "Lightly Row." Fall again, fall again, Miss September's come to town, Flowers again, flowers again, In her pretty gown, Golden rod in every nook, Asters growing by the brook, Fall again, fall again, Gay leaves flutter down. The children choose a Gardner who goes inside the circle with a basket. They pause and he says, I want flowers four and twenty, Step inside and bring a plenty! The first child to name a flower changes places with him and the game continues as before. No. 4. Game based on “Tick, Tock.” The children choose the Ten O'Clock Scholar. They stand in two lines swinging arms to and fro, sing. Tune, "Twinkle Little Star." In September don't you know, Be on time to greet the clock, The children skip forward and back in line, the Ten O'Clock Scholar tries to slip into one of their places, as they change places with those in the line opposite. As he starts to come through the lines he says, I am late, I like to wait, And then linger by the gate, A tardy scholar now you see, Will you change your place with me? If he slips into some one's place, the child whose place he has taken becomes the Ten O'Clock Scholar and the game continues any length of time. AMERICA'S MAN The flag is Pa's, Pa's going to the war, And so will I, For Red, White, and Blue! I'll be a home-soldier, I'll take care of baby, I'll show our country, V. I'll comfort my mother, If she is sad, And try to be jolly, When I feel very bad! VI. I'll write to my Pa, And tell him, though nine, Just brave as I can, I'm America's man! The Chicago Kindergarten Institute offers a new course to women who wish training along the line of Re-Education, giving to hopeless men a new start on the way to happy, useful lives. The country is now calling upon women to prepare for this important work of renewal, whose demands will be practically limitless. Basketry, weaving, pottery, elementary carpentry and toy making have proved of inestimable value in England, France and Canada. A limited class will be registered after September 17. AGENCIES FOR KINDERGARTNERS AND PRIMARY TEACHERS THIS list of Teachers' Agencies is published for the benefit of our subscribers. It includes only those who claim to be able to secure positions for Kindergartners or Primary Teachers. We advise those in need of positions to write one or more of these agencies for particulars. Even though now employed you may be able to secure a position in a larger or better school MIDLAND TEACHERS' AGENCY RELIABLE TEACHERS' AGENCY LECTURES 547 S. 3 E. Salt Lake City, Utah. Warrensburg. Missouri. "Sixteen years in learning how has fitted us to serve you now.' Write either office. Trained Primary and Kindergarten Teachers needed. Good positions. Permanent membership. Write to-day. 612-613 Majestic Building, Oklahoma City, Okla. ON Home Occupations AND The TEACHERS' EXCHANGE of Boston SOUTHERN TEACHERS' AGENCY Mothers' Meetings Recommends college and normal graduates, specialists, and other teachers to colleges, public and private schools, in all parts of the country. Advises parents about schools. COLUMBIA, S. C. There is an increasing demand for Pri- W. H. JONES, Manager and Proprietor. BY Bertha Johnston Address, 389 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y Northwestern Teachers' Agency and Earn $1,200 a Year in Spare Time Supply Co. Great Falls, Moutana WM. O. PRATT, Manager The J.D.Engle Teachers' Agency ALBANY TEACHERS' AGENCY MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Sabins' Educational Exchange (Inc.) DES MOINES, IOWA. Wants to hear from kindergarten or A Placing Agency for Teachers. Estab-primary teachers desiring places west lished 20 years. Register for Western of Mississippi river. Write fully. Will answer frankly. Provides public and private schools Kindergarten-Primary positions. Send with competent teachers. No en- AN AGENCY is valuable in proportion to rollment its influence If it merely hearsof vafee. Po-cancies and tells THAT is some sitions you about them thing, but if it is asked to recommend a teacher and RECOMMENDS 75 COMPOSITION OUTLINES always open. We also supply school A FINE HELP FOR THE BUSY TEACHER, boards with the most capable teachers. Western Educational Bureau, NEW EGYPT, N. J. coln; The Turkey, etc. Children can do Strathmore School Blanks much of the work alone. Price, 40 cts. Send for sample outlines and list of subjects. THE MILLER CO., 511 Bonnie Brae, Oak Park, Ill answering PLEASE when any adv. in this column say "I saw your adv. in the Kind.-Pri. Magazine." more Idea' Report cards have no equal. Cover all J. W. BILODEAU, Publisher, Place a Card of Your Agency on This Page-- It Will Pay You. TEACHERS NEEDED--For the West, Northwest and Southwest for All positions from Kindergarten to University We recommend ONLY when asked to do so by employers. Nearly thirteen thousand brainy men and women placed by us. No registration fee necessary. The Western Reference & Bond Association, WESTERN POSITIONS FOR TEACHERS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL AND COLLEGE WORK We publish "THE ANNUAL ROCKY MOUNTAIN TEACHERS' AGENCY SCHOOL DIRECTOR- The Largest Teachers' Agency in the Rocky Mountain Region. WILLIAM RUFFER, Manager THE ROCKY MT TEACHERS AGENCY you that is more. Ours recommends. C. W, BARDEEN, Syracuse, N. Y THE OKLAHOMA TEACHERS' GEARY, OKLAHOMA Only Competent Teachers Enrolled. PRIMARY PLANS A sixty page pamphlet, well NEW MEXICO JOURNAL PRICE $1.00 PER YEAR New Mexico Journal of Education Santa Fe, N. M. Soldier Boy, Soldier Boy The King of France Here Comes One Soldier Marching The Duke and the Castle The King's land Have You Seen the Soldiers London Bridge The Forest Weasel Itiskit, Itiskit Round and Round the Village The Needle's Eye Hare in the Hollow By Mari Ruef Hofer, of the Pestalozzi-Froebel School, Chicago. 44 large pages. Paper. 60 cents. An excellent and popular collection of thirty-nine new and old singing games, with words, music, and full instructions. For playgrounds, schoolyards, kindergartens, and primary grades. Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush Hunt the Slipper These books have received the enthusiastic approval of prominent kindergarten teachers throughout the country. Send for your copies now! Our catalogue of Kindergarten and Primary books and materials is yours for the asking. A. 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PEABODY. than is at all generally understood. Most educationists have read The Education of Man, but few outside the kindergarten world are likely to have bestowed much thought on Froebel's later writings. It is in these, however, that we see Froebel watching with earnest attention that earliest mental development which is now regarded as a distinct chapter in mental science, but which was then largely, if not entirely ignored. The major part of the book is intended to show the correctness of Froebel's views on points now regarded as of fundamental importance and generally recognized as modern theories. 224 pages. $1.25 delivered. Warwick & York, inc. A collection of poems for use in A valuable book for primary Paper. Price 25 cents postpaid. 64 East Van Buren St. Chicago New England Publishing Co. This present day revival makes the publi cation of these Pageants for young people most timely ahd valuable. 6 BEACON STREET, BOSTON. 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