GRANDMOTHER'S SERMON by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 9, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 41.

GRANDMOTHER'S SERMON

By Editor

Church School Reader No. 5

THE new Church School Reader for the fifth grade is about ready. It contains 353 pages and is fully illustrated. Its reading selections are the best we have ever seen, while the method used for combining reading with language and spelling, makes the use of a separate grammar and speller unnecessary in the grade for which it has been prepared.

As an indication of how this is done, we refer you to a portion of a poem found on pages 214 and 216 and reproduce the page in which the lesson study, based on this poem, is given.

GRANDMOTHER'S SERMON

7. "Life is a stocking," grandma says, "And yours is just begun; But I am knitting the toe of mine, And my work is almost done. 10. "There are long, plain spaces without a break, That in youth are hard to bear; And many a weary tear is dropped As we fashion the heel with care. 11. "But the saddest, happiest time is that Which we count, and yet would shun, When our heavenly Father breaks the thread, And says that our work is done." 12. The children come to say "Good night," With tears in their bright young eyes; While in grandma's lap, with a broken thread, The finished stocking lies. —Selected.

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must be ripped? the long, plain spaces? the fashioning of the heel?

Spelling

Why is the consonant doubled in these words: saddest, knitting, ribbing, ripped, dropped? Why is it not doubled in these words: sadly, golden, sweeter? Why is the y changed to i in "happiest"? Why is the e dropped in "wrinkled" and not in "scarcely"?

Word Study

Word Forms.—See, do, and go.

Give the four forms of see, do, and go. Insert saw, seen, did, done, went, or gone in each of these blanks:—

I know that he ——— it.
The day is ———.
I have ——— no man wrong.
I ——— it.
Alice said that she had ——— it.
Do you know who has ——— away?
Have you ——— the picture?
Yes, I ——— it yesterday.
Mary thinks that I ——— it.
Do you know who ——— it?

Write three sentences using saw correctly; three using seen correctly; three using did correctly; three using done correctly; three using went correctly; three using gone correctly.

Homonyms.—Copy these sentences, using the right word:—

Be thou like a (roe, row) or a young hart.
Will you (row, roe) me across the water?
We set out a long (row, roe) of trees.
(Toe, tow) the disabled vessel into port.
This rope is made of (tow, toe).

Composition

Think of something else to which our lives might be compared; such as a tree, a day, the seasons, or a voyage, and write several paragraphs about it.

Please remember that this is one of the series of reading books recommended by the Educational Department for use in all our church schools. It is substantially bound in cloth. The price is $1.00 post-paid. Prices of the other numbers in series are as follows: "No. 1" 75 cents. "No. 2" 75 cents. "No. 3" 90 cents.

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