Games Without Music for Children. Loïs Bates

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      [1] Appendix II.

       6. SHOPPING

The shopman should stand behind a table or desk, and have articles made up in parcels ready for sale. 'The Shop' described in 'Kindergarten Guide,' p. 230,[1] would do nicely for this game.

The children who go shopping should be dressed in outdoor costume, and each carry a basket. They should also have money; imitation cardboard coins (for cost[2]) would do. (Customer walks up to the counter.)

       Shopman

      Good morning, ma'am, how do you do? And pray what can I get for you?

       Customer

      Good morning, shopman, will you please

       To weigh for me a pound of cheese?

       [The packet is handed to customer.]

       Customer

      Here is a shilling [handing it], eightpence take,

       Shopman

      And fourpence change [giving fourpence to customer] just twelvepence make.

      The children should also ask for other articles, without using the rhymes, and they should be encouraged to speak clearly and distinctly, and to address the shopman civilly. This will be likely to assist them in going errands for mother.

      Footnote

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      [1] See Appendix III.

      [2] See Appendix IV.

       7. TYING A BOW

      Instructions.—The children should be sitting at desks or tables, and each child should have a ¾ yard length of tape or ribbon, one inch in width, and a book with stiff cover. The teacher should first show how to tie the bow by passing her ribbon round the neck or wrist of a child, and performing the various movements as they are mentioned in the rhymes and shown in the illustrations. This should be done several times very slowly, the words being repeated either by teacher only or by all. When the children begin to tie the ribbon each round its own book, the teacher should show the various movements as they occur, performing them simultaneously with the scholars. (The numbers refer to fig. 1, which shows the various steps in order.)

      [1]Place your ribbon round the book,

       [2]Cross it—left end at the top;

       [3]Now the right end take and pass

       Over, [4]draw it tight, then stop.

       [5]With the right end make a loop.

       [6]Draw the left across it, so;

       [7]Now another loop we make

       With the left, and [8]pull it through.

      'Tying a Knot' (which is more simple than 'Tying a Bow') is given in the 'Kindergarten Guide,' p. 105.[A]