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Froebers Festal Day.
[Page 124.]
This is marched in the same manner as patriotic marches, with the exception that Froebel's picture can be draped with the German flag, and surmounted by the cube, cylinder, and ball, from the Kindergarten Gifts.
The May-Pole Dance.
[Page 128.]
The May-pole can be a post trimmed with gay-colored ribbons, which the children hold while dancing merrily around the pole. The boys go to the right, and the girls to the left, thus weaving the ribbons in and out.
Our Soldier Boy.
[Page 134.]
The soldier boy marches into ring waving his flag proudly in air. As he reaches the centre of ring the children salute him by touching the tip of forefinger of right hand to the side of forehead just above the eyebrow, with extended palms facing front. lie returns the salutes and then turns and marches up to any child he chooses. They salute, the child falls in line behind him and they march on to the next child chosen by the soldier boy. This is continued until all the ring has fallen in line, when they march gaily about the room waving their flags and keeping time to the music.
We Salute Our Nation's Flag.
[Page 137.]
The same movements are repeated as in the Flag Song, the children emphasizing the words three cheers, by waving their flags three times in succession.
Flag Song.
[Page 13S.]
The children form in a long line facing the flag with heels together and toes in line. Each child carries a flag in its right hand. At the commencement of
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