THE SHEEP 



SUGGESTIONS 



Be careful not to make the talks too technical. Make the 

 animal seem a real live one, not "a mass of wool and flesh." 

 Put in a great deal of fun, and tell as many rhymes as possible, 

 not forgetting the old classic, "Mary had a Little Lamb." 



" Little lambs so white and fair, 

 Are the gentle shepherd's care. 

 Now he leads their tender feet 

 Into pastures green and sweet," 



sang Miss Clare softly, as she pinned to the board a 

 beautiful picture of "Sheep on the Hillside," one 

 cold morning in December. 



" Some of you little people who went out into the 

 country last summer saw sheep that the farmers had. 

 This picture will make you think of the pasture 

 where they loved to stay nibbling the short, green 

 grass. 



" If you should go out there now, you would find 



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