I. GROWING STRONG. 1. When you play out of doors, what do you
exercise? What do you exercise when you study? How ought you to play
and study so as to get the most good from each? Why is it good to
play, and work too, out of doors? 2. What games have you played in the
last day or two? How did the players divide the muscle exercise of the
game? Did they divide up the thinking part, too? 3. Why must the blood
be sent to the muscles? Why must it be carried away again? When you
feel tired, what is happening in your body? 4. What are muscles like?
Show how the elastic bands of your legs work when you sit on your
heels. What makes the muscles at the back of your legs feel thicker?
5. What bones of your body can you feel? Put your hands on them, as
you tell what you can about each. 6. Why do we need bones? What do we
call our whole framework of bones? 7. Have you ever seen anyone who
had to stay all the time in bed or sit in a wheeled chair? How did
this person show the lack of exercise? 8. What is the meaning of the
picture on p. 129? 9. Choose one of the other pictures in this chapter
and write a story about it to show how to grow strong.
II. ACCIDENTS. 1. When you hear the word _accident_, what do you think
of? What have you to help you to prevent accidents? If you have used
your "look-out department" as well as you can, and still the accident
happens, what will you do then? 2. Show the class how to care for a
very deep cut. What do we call a medicine that kills disease germs? 3.
How would you treat a bruise? A burn? Frost-bitten ears? Chilblains? A
bee sting? 4. If you are told to take some medicine from a certain
bottle or box, do you always look at the label? Why is it dangerous
not to? What do you think of having medicines about not labeled or
poured into old bottles with wrong labels? 5. If you should happen to
swallow something poisonous, what ought you to do right away? 6.
Suppose your clothes or your hair should catch fire; what would you
do? 7. How did you celebrate last Fourth of July? Write a short story
about the picture on p. 144. 8. With one of your classmates, show how
you would try to restore a person who had just been saved from
drowning. How can you try to save yourself if you fall into the water?
III. THE CITY BEAUTIFUL. 1. Have you a park near your home? When the
people leave at the end of the day, how do the lawns and paths look?
Are there cans in the park to hold the papers and scraps? 2. How are
the streets in your town cleaned in winter? In summer? 3. How do the
houses get rid of their waste? 4. If the waste goes into a river, is
the river water used for drinking? Who decides where the drinking
water for the town shall come from? 5. Why are drinks containing
alcohol harmful to take (give four reasons)? What is a _narcotic_? How
does drinking alcohol lead to crime? 6. Write down five ways in which
you can help to keep your town or city beautiful. Five ways in which
you can help to keep your own home beautiful. 7. Why should every city
have parks for the children?