I. Peace to the brave who no - bly fell, 'Neath our flag, their hope and pride; 2. Hallowed for-ev er be their graves, Where our mar-tyrs dreamless sleep; 3. No bly they died in freedom's cause, Died our coun-try's flag to

save;

MAY SONGS.

"A May Dance," "Stories in Song," Emerson & Brown Song Book.

"Leaves Are Swaying," Emerson & Brown Song Book. "I Know A Stream," Emerson & Brown Song Book. "Dandelion," Emerson & Brown Song Book.

"A Shepherd Boy I'd Wander," Emerson & Brown Song Book.

"Violets," Emerson & Brown Song Book.

"Oriole's Nest," Emerson and Brown Song Book.
"We plow the Field," Eleanor Smith No. 2.
"The Brook," Eleanor Smith No. 2.

"The Little Gardener," Eleanor Smith No. 2.
"Flag Song," Eleanor Smith No. 2.

"Dandelion Fashions," Eleanor Smith No. 2.

"All the Birds Have Come Again," Eleanor Smith No. 1. "The Flower Bed," Eleanor Smith No.1. "Mowing Song," Eleanor Smith No. 1.

"Who Has the Whitest Lambkin?" Wiggin's Song Book. "The Fisher," Wiggin's Song Book.

"The Fisherman," Wiggin's Song Book.
"The Haymakers," Wiggin's Song Book.
"The Fish Seller," Wiggin's Song Book.
"The Mowers," Wiggin's Song Book.
"The Violet," Wiggin's Song Book.

"The Little Doves," Wiggin's Song Book.

"The Waking Flowers," Patty and Mildred Hill's Song Book.

"The Children and the Sheep," Patty and Mildred Hill's Song Book.

"Dandelion," Patty and Mildred Hill's Song Book. "Spring Birds," Wiggin Song Book.

"Bird Game," Wiggin Song Book.

"Sparrow's Nest," Wiggin Song Book.

"Hark! Like the Lark," Wiggin Song Book.

TOPICS OF STUDY FOR MAY.

May Day.
Moving Day.

Mayflower or Trailing Arbutus.
Mother Nature's House Cleaning.
The Grass.

The Dandelion.

The Farmer and Gardener.

Plant Life.

The Morning Glory.

Bean and Corn.

The Earth Worm.

The Brook.

Brook Life.

The Aquarium.

Fish.

Frogs.

Toads.

Bird Lessons.

Bird Day.

Children of Arabia.

Stories and Poems for May.

Memorial Day.

MAY.-The Indians called May the month or "moon of green leaves." Why? What leaves are out? Bring as many kinds as can be secured to-morrow. What color are most of the leaves? What leaves are red? (Maple, oak.) What trees are in blossom? What flowers have come? What birds have come?

Morning Exercises.-Gems to be memorized: "Lo! the Winter is past, is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the singing of birds is come." The songs 2, 11, 12. "All things are new-the buds, the leaves, That gild the elm tree's nodding crest,

And even the nest beneath the eaves.

There are no birds in last year's nest."

-Longfellow.

How many colors in May landscape? The prevailing color in this (5th) month? (Green.) Where do we see these colors? (Leaves, grass, frogs, snakes, grasshoppers, water, trees, hills.) Paint May landscape.

Draw May calendar and decorate with apple-blossoms, leaves and May birds.

Mark the special days and birthdays with green letters and leaves.

Days of special interest to pupils will be May Day, Memorial Day, Moving Day and Bird Day.

MAY DAY.

If possible, take your children off for a little jaunt to the woods, fields or the park. Tell them what the little English and Swedish children do on May 1st, across the seas. Show them pictures of the Maypole and children dancing on the village green. Dainty pictures illustrating May Day may be found in the May, '97, Scribner's Magazine. Let pupils fold papers and frame one or more of these to hang on the wall as a reminder of the happy May Day.

May baskets. May be made during a period of seat work, and carried home or to the woods after school to be filled with flowers and leaves for mother or some little sick child who cannot go for a May walk.

The May Queen.-May be chosen during the writing period. Place this sentence upon the board, "I would liketo be May Queen," and let pupils copy and fill out blank with the full name of the pupil. The papers may be collected and the vote counted. Before taking the vote read to the children this bit of verse. Just before the dismissal for the May walk, announce the name of the Queen.

THE QUEEN OF THE MAY..

Who shall be queen of the May?

Not the prettiest one, not the wittiest one!

Nor she with the gown most gay!

But she that is pleasantest all the day through

With the pleasantest things to say and to do,-
Oh, she shall be Queen of the May!

A MAYPOLE DANCE.

READING AND LANGUAGE.

-Sel.

Draw a Maypole on the board. In each streamer place a sentence from the reading lesson of the day. Let each pupil study the sentences carefully, and then come and whisper each sentence to his teacher. If he does not fail on any sentence, write his name upon the board at the end of the streamer.

Read pupils a description of the Maypole dance, which children in England and Sweden have each May. Then let them draw upon board or paper a picture of a Maypole, with streamers. In these streamers pupils may write as many sentences as they can reproduce from the story told.

During a seat work or drawing period let pupils draw a Maypole and decorate it with pictures of flowers (drawn with colored pencils) which have already blossomed. Question pupils as to what flowers have been seen or found, and have only the May and April flowers drawn.