We live upon a great round ball or sphere. It is called the EARTH. There are many wonderful and beau THE CHILD'S WORLD. Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World, The wonderful air is over me, And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree; tiful things about this earth of ours of It walks on water, and whirls the mills, which we shall learn. And talks to itself on the tops of the hills. You, friendly Earth, how far do you go, The entire outside of the earth is With the wheat-fields that nod, and the rivers made up of land and water. that flow, the Western Continent was supposed to have been discovered and settled long after the Eastern Continent. On the next page is the picture of an island. Trace around it and tell by what it is entirely surrounded. Trace around other islands in the world-pictures. Tell how they differ from the Eastern and Western Continents. There are many islands on our earth. Some of them are very large, and some are very small. Many people live on the islands of the world. |