If there be one, try and find it; SONGS The following songs have been found to be the ones most appreciated by children of four to six and best suited to them. They should, of course, be taught by rote, the children learning to sing them after the teacher. Action Songs-those that are illustrated by motion and gesture are most delighted in. From "Songs of a Little Child's Day," by Emilie Poulsson and Eleanor Smith Brave Useful Polite Morning Hymn Sunshine Far and Near Good Weather The Bold Snowman To a Snowflake The Autumn Wind The Busy Wind Milk for Supper Whirlabout Play in all Seasons A Little Dancing Song The Train If You were a Flower The Friendly Dark From "The Most Popular Mother Goose Songs and Other Nursery Rhymes," By Carrie Bullard Little Bo-Peep When the Snow is on the Ground The King of France Georgie Porgie Hey, Diddle, Diddle Ride a Cock-Horse to Banbury Cross Twinkle, Little Star Bean Porridge Hot From "Robert Louis Stevenson Songs," by Ethel Singing Crowninshield The Land of Counterpane Marching Song My Shadow Time to Rise The Lamplighter Picture Books in Winter My Treasures Block City From "Songs of Happiness," by C. S. Bailey and M. B. Ehrmann Good Morning The Baker Content, etc. From "The Modern Music Series," First Book. By Eleanor Smith Marching Song - Bring the Comb Little Baby Do You Hear Good Night to the Flowers Other good books of songs for very young children are: Mother Goose Songs for Little Ones, by Ethel More Mother Goose Songs, by Ethel Crownin- Folk Songs and Other Songs for Children, by J. Songs of the Child-World, by A. C. D. Riley and SINGING GAMES Singing games are as old as childhood. They break out sporadically wherever children gather together. The old traditional games have been handed down from one childish generation to another without apparently any teaching or suggestion from grown-ups. Sorry is the child whose lot has been so cast that he 66 has grown up without ever having passed through those halcyon hours that were spent playing " Farmer in the Dell," "King William," or "London Bridge." The most popular and suitable games of this kind for children are described with words and music in "Children's Old and New Singing Games," by Mari R. Hofer, and some of them also in "The Most Popular Mother Goose Songs, etc.," by Carrie Bullard. They are: Farmer in the Dell Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush In the Spring King William Looby Loo London Bridge The Musician The Needle's Eye Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley The Shepherdess Character Dance Punchinello Round and Round the Village FOLK DANCES The Folk Dances best adapted to teaching children are described with music by Burchenal, and there are graphophone records of the music of most of them. Klappdans .... .Swedish Folk Dance |