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and moves along all day in the sky and gets to the 

 place where it sets, and then it gets dark in a little 

 while. 



May tell all you know about the sun. 



Nina — The sun is round. 



Olive — The sun is very bright. 



Ella — The sun rises in the east. 



John — The sun lights up the world. 



Henry — The sun warms the ground and the air. 



Edith — When the sun sets it makes the clouds red 

 and yellow. 



Jane — The sun makes the sky and the clouds 

 look bright and beautiful. 



The sentences above, given orally by the children, 

 were taken for their first lesson in reading. 



In the afternoon their reading was selected, as 

 given below : — 



" Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise, 

 My footstool earth, my canopy the skies." 



— Pope. 



" The suu rides through the azure sky, 

 And beams upon us from on high." 



— Pom aine. 



" From blue to red, from red to gold, from gold to gray, 

 So turns the sky, so fades the light, so ends the day." 



— Erniy. 



" The rising sun had newly chased the night, 

 And purpled o'er the sky with blushing light." 



— Dry den. 



