PRIC E as CENTS S 635 Z9 16686 lopy 1 W c7Ae HANKSGIVING VD GARDEN BECKLEY-CARDY COMPANY Publishers Chicago SUPPLEMENTARY READERS doth Bound These books represent a step forward in story-book making, and contain fresh material, the kind that is being placed in the best schools of to-day. Artistically the books set a new standard. Each book has from thirty to ninety illustrations which are particularly attractive, and many of which are in colors. Mechanically the books are superior. The paper used, the large type, and the general arrangement are all determined by careful experimenting in order to safeguard the eyesight of children. All books are attractively bound in cloth stamped in two colors. Animal-Land Children — Flora — Grades 2-3 $0.70 Bow- Wow and Mew-Mew — Craik — Grades 1-2 55 A Child's Robinson Crusoe — Nida — Grades 2-3 65 Father Thrift and His Animal Friends — Sindelar — Grades 2-3 .70 The Like-To-Do Stories — Smith — Grades 2-3 70 Nixie Bunny in Manners-Land — Sindelar — Grades 2-3 70 Nixie Bunny in Workadaj'-Land — Sindelar — Grades 2-3 70 Nixie Bunny in Holiday-Land — Sindelar — Grades 2-3 70 Nixie Bunny in Faraway-Lands — Sindelar — Grades 2-3 70 Nonsense Rhymes and Animal Stories — Deming — Grades 2-3. . . .65 Story of the American Flag: — Fallows — Grades 5-8 70 The Teenie Weenies — Donahey-Baker — Grades 2-3 70 Two Indian Children of Long- Ago — Taylor — Grades 2-3 70 THE PROGRESSIVE SCHOOL CLASSICS A new series of reading books, which offers the highest class of literature for all grades at very small cost. No other series at so low a price contains the valuable features of this series, namely: accurate and authentic texts, notes and numbered lines for reference, portraits, biographical sketches, illustrations, new type, good paper and binding, and convenient size. Bow-Bow and Mew-Mew — Craik — Grades 1-2 — 95 pages (20 cents). Peter Rabbit and Other Tales — Grades 2-3. The King of the Golden River — ^Ruskin — Grades 4-6. Rip Van Winkle and the Author's Account of Himself — Irving — Grades 5-8. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — Irving — Grades 5-8. Thanatopsis, Sello and Other Poems — Bryant — Grades 5-8. The Courtship of Miles Standish — Longfellow — Grades 6-8. The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Other Poems — Browning — Grades 6-8. Evangeline — Longfellow — Grades 6-8. The Great Stone Face — Hawthorne — Grades 6-8. The Man Without a Country — Hale — Grades 6-8. Snow-Bound and Other Poems — Whittier— Grades 6-8. Enoch Arden — Tennyson — Grades 6-H. S. The Vision of Sir Launfal and Other Poems — Lowell — Grades 6-H. S. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner — Coleridge — Grades 7-H. S. The Cotter's Saturday Night and Other Poems — Burns — Grades 7-H. S. The Deserted Village (Goldsmith) and Elegy — Gray — Grades 7-H. S. Sohrab and Rustum — Arnold — Grades 8-H. S. Price, per copy, 7 cents postpaid, unless otherwise mentioned. Illustrated Catalog of Books mailed free upon request. BECKLEY-CARDYCOMPANY,Pw&?is/iers,CHICAGO THE THANKSGIVING GARDEN HUMOROUS COSTUME DRILL AND DANCE FOR EIGHT CHILDREN, FOUR BOYS AND FOUR GIRLS BY HARRIETTE WILBUR AUTHOR OF ''the CHRISTMAS TOY SHOP" BECKLEY-CARDY COMPANY CHICAGO Copyright 1922 by BECKLEY-CARDY COMPANY TMP92-007492 PBINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DE:C26 22 The Thanksgiving Garden This dance requires eight children, four s'irls and four boys, dressed to represent vegetables. ^oys girls The Potato The Corn The Carrot The Lettuce The Pumpkin The Celery The Tomato The Spinach COSTUMES The Potato wears a clown suit of brown cambric with yellow dots here and there for eyes; his cap is a turban of the brown. The Carrot has a clown suit of orange cambric and a green cambric turban with wired streamers risin- from the top. The Pumpkin has tight green trousers reachino" to the ankle, and a very full blouse of yellow cambric, padded with tissue paper to make it stand out; his turban is of the orange, with a green stem rising from the top. The Tomato is dressed like the Pumpkin, with bright red blouse and turban. The Corn has a princess slip of pale yellow, with skirt made of narrow, scalloped ruffl'es. Over this she wears a cape made of long green streamers. Her turban is of the green. The Lettuce wears a princess slip of pale yellow, o THE THANKSGIVING GARDEN covered with very full, festooned ruffles of lettuce green, and a green witch's hat with a festooned ruffle from the peak. The Celery wears a long waisted dress of white, with a frill of green for the skirt. Turban of white. The KSpinach wears a much beruffled dress of green cambric, with a little cap of the same. The pianist plays the accompanying waltz over and M f^^ if ^^^ 3^ t* qcz?: i=t IeI g faJ-UJ-J-J4^ m ^ ji^r^^^p^^EfeE^Ep^^EgEp^ pg^ :^ lii sg^ feEEf (gi . IE:? 0- -0—0- Sg *:=*: over, while the children execute their dance. Each alter- nate repetition is played an octave higher than written, in order to vary it. ENTRANCE : The children enter in couples, hand in hand: the Potato and the Corn; the Carrot with the THE THANKSGIVING GARDEN 5 Lettuce; the Pumpkin with the Celery; the Tomato with the Spinach. They use the following step: On the first count, place left foot out at left side; on second count place left foot ahead; on third count place right foot beside left. They circle about once and halt in ci line along front. They then recite the following verses, the first stanza in unison, each line of the second and third stanzas singly, and the fourth in unison. THE VEGETABLES All summer in the garden We vegetables — not flowers- Preparing for Thanksgiving, Have passed the busy hours. Now here is a Potato, And here an ear of Corn; A Carrot for the table, And Lettuce, fresh as morn. A Pumpkin for nice pastry, And Celery blanched white; Tomato round and ruddy, And Spinach green and bright. Now don't your mouths just water To take of each a bite? And won't you have for dinner A mighty appetite? As each vegetable introduces himself in his own par- 6 THE THANKSGIVING GARDEN ticular line, the boys bow with hand on heart, and the girls curtsey. 1. The children walk about in circle for sixteen meas- ures, using the same step as when entering, then halt in position as for a quadrille, that is, facing inside a square. 2. The pianist repeats the music an octave higher than it is written. The children bow to each other, and then dance the right-and-left figure twice around, partners meeting with a bow on last measure. To dance the right-and-left, each child faces its partner, touching right hands. Still facing in the same direction, each child continues on around the circle as facing, giving left and right hands alternately to those met, that is, the girls face in one direction, the boys in another, and the two circles interweave, the girls touching hands with the boys met. 3. The pianist plays the waltz as written. Head couples walk to center and back, using the same step as in entering. Side couples repeat. Each group takes eight touch steps in this exercise, four steps toward center and four back to position. 4. The pianist plays the waltz an octave higher than written. Children repeat the figures in 2. 5. The pianist plays the waltz as written. Head couples meet at center and cross over, girls passing inside, partners turning each other, then crossing back to original positions and turning once more. Side couples repeat. Children use common walking step. 6. Repeat 2. 7. Head couples dance the dos-a-dos movement, that is, four steps to center, turn about each other, girls inside, back to back, then without tvirning, walk back four steps to place. Side couples repeat; then head THE THANKSGIVING GARDEN 7 couples and then side. The children use common walk- ing step in this figure. 8. Repeat 2. 9. Head girls walk to center, touching right hands in passing, turn opposite boys with left hand, cross back to place, touching right hands in passing, and turn partners. Side girls repeat. 10. Repeat 2. 11. Boys repeat 9. 12. Repeat 2. 13. Each of the four girls walks to center, clasps right hand with opposite girl, and the four circle about once, then turn partners twice. Girls repeat a second time. 14. Repeat 2. 15. Boys repeat 13. 16. Repeat 2. 17. Couples circle to the left, using touch step as when entering, and gradually exit. BOOKS AND HELPS FOR TEACHERS A specially selected list of books and helps which have become popular because of their practical value. There *are few teachers indeed who have not been helped by one or more of these publications. We unhesitatingly recommend every one of the titles offered. DRAWING Easy Things to Draw — Augsburg ►. o^ . , , , .^.$0.45 SEAT WORK Primary Seat Work, Sense Training and Games — Smith $0.85 Primary Sewing and Color Cards — Cleaveland : No. 1, Animal Series ; No. 2, Fairy-Tale Series ; No. 3, Children-of-the- World Series. Each set 25 Straight-Line Sewing Cards — Cleaveland , 25 PENMANSHIP Muscular Movememt Writing Slips ►^ ... .^ S0.15 ARITHMETIC Moody Number Games — Moody. Series 1 $0.85 Moody Number Games — 'Moody. 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