[Illustration:  PLAN OF SCHOOL GROUNDS.]

How many rooms has the building?  In what part of the building is your room?  How large is it?  How many doors and windows?  How many seats?

In what direction is the school from your home?  How far is it?  How long does it take you to walk to school?

EXERCISES IN DRAWING PLANS.

Draw a plan of the schoolroom on your slates.  It cannot be drawn on your slates as large as it was drawn on the board.  So let one inch stand for ten feet, instead of for one foot; that is, use a scale of one inch for every ten feet.  Your plan will not be as large as mine, but it will show the position of everything as correctly.

Draw a plan of the top of the teacher’s table, showing two books and an inkstand upon it.  First, measure the sides.  Then decide to what scale you will draw your plan.

Now draw a plan of the schoolhouse and grounds.  You must measure not only the house, but the width and length of the yard.  The plan must show the size, shape, and place of everything upon the grounds. (While drawing a plan of this kind, it is better to let the pupils face the north.  The top of the plan should be the north side of the grounds.)

Draw a plan of your own room at home, showing the table, bed, chairs, and other objects in it.

ORAL EXERCISE.

If the shape of a room is shown on the blackboard, what have we drawn?  Is a plan the same as a picture?  What is the use of a plan?  Mention some things of which plans can be drawn.

NOTE.—­It is wrong to teach that the top of a map or plan is always north; as often as not, the bottom is north, in plans especially.

LESSON X.

GOD MADE THEM ALL.

[Illustration:  “THE PURPLE-HEADED MOUNTAIN, THE RIVER RUNNING BY.”]

  All things bright and beautiful,
    All creatures great and small,
  All things wise and wonderful,
    The good God made them all.

  Each little flower that opens,
    Each little bird that sings,
  He made their glowing colors,
    He made their tiny wings.

  The purple-headed mountain,
    The river running by,
  The morning and the sunset,
    The twinkling stars on high;

  The tall trees in the greenwood,
    The pleasant summer sun,
  The ripe fruits in the garden—­
    He made them every one.

  He gave us eyes to see them,
    And lips that we might tell
  How great is God Almighty,
    Who hath made all things well.

LESSON XI.

PLAINS.

The floor of our schoolroom is level.  The playground is almost, if not quite, level.  As you look away from the school, is the land nearly level?  Did you ever see a broad extent of nearly level land?