Watch Your Step

 Watch Your Step 

 By Mae E Sweatt 

(Each child is to be dressed like the one he represents)

JACK-O-LANTERN-

 I am a Jackie, 
Though very small, 
I stare through the window 
To scare you all.  

BLACK CAT- 

I am a black cat. 

On Halloween. 

With Mistress Witch 

I may be seen.

WITCH -

I am a witch 

Who may carry you 

Off through the air, 

But no harm I ll do.

GHOST- 

On Halloween 

The ghosts appear, 

So watch your step 

Throughout the year.

OWL- 

I am a wise old owl 

From Goblin-land. 

Tu-whit!  Tu-whoo! 

I'll join your band.

GOBLIN- 

I am a goblin, you know, 

So just watch out 

Or you soon will know 

That I'm about!

ALL -

(sing to tune "Marching Through Georgia"

 We're off, we're off, 

New fun now to find;

We'll seek, we'll seek, 

For fun of every kind! 

We'll scare the boys and girls we see 

This Halloween night, 

So watch when through you re going!  

THE ORIGINAL HISTORICAL ARTICLE PRESENTED AS IT WAS FOUND IN THIS HISTORICAL MAGAZINE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS October 1927 

THE ORIGINAL HISTORICAL ARTICLE PRESENTED AS IT WAS FOUND IN THIS HISTORICAL MAGAZINE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

THE ORIGINAL HISTORICAL  HYMN, RECITATION,  ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLAY, MOTION SONG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THIS ARTICLE IS  PRESENTED AS IT WAS FOUND IN THIS HISTORICAL AGRICULTURAL MAGAZINE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL HYMN OF THE LUTHERAN AND PURITAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.   THE ORIGINAL MOTION SONG AND RECITATION FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THE YEAR 1927 .THE POEM, THE ORIGINAL HYMN, RECITATION AND MOTION SONG WAS SERIOUSLY RECOMMENDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS THE PLAY FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE HALLOWEEN IN THE YEAR  1927.

The Scenario was written by the very famous educologist, professor Mae E Sweatt in 1927. Professor Sweatt  was working with the age groups 7-15 years. Her personal input into the sciences of  Education was concentrating on the specific lessons like Silent Reading and Drama.

By Mae E Sweatt 

FOR the benefit of those teachers who realize the advantagesm derived from silent reading lessonsm but are unable to obtain special silent reading booksm here are a few suggestions which have proved successful with seventh and eighth grade pupils who had never before had silent reading lessons.

 Pupils in these grades should be able to read from one hundred fifty to two hundred words per minute of matter within their comprehension. We have found that the fastest readers show better comprehension than the slower ones.

Full analysis of how the problem was solved in the schools of The United States Of America  was presnted in the series of articles and poems to learn- the methodology of The USA was thorough- students began learning poems and rhymes in kindergartens and problems were solved with the help of riddles and puzzles each day.

References:

1.NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS October 1927 

2. NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS November 1924

Silent Reading Without Special Books By Mae E Sweatt 

ON HALLOWEEN'S NIGHT

  ON HALLOWEEN'S NIGHT 

( HYMN)

On Hallowe'en night, 
By dim candle light. 
The wheel of fortune will turn. 
If you will attend 
The sumons I send, 
Your true fate you may learn. 

Noma Hallowe en Electrical Decorations 

No longer need shoe boxes or even pumpkin shells with their frightful cut out grimaces be painstakingly worked over to obtain the essential touch of the spirit of Hallowe'en. The day of home made devices for colorful party effects is passed,  And the uncertainty of dim candle light with its ever attending danger can now be easily overcome. Strings of mellow colored orange and yellow electric lights ingeniously ar ranged as to achieve the most pleasing results can be obtained from the Noma Electric Corporation. Festoons of color-lights may hang with carefree abandon and augment whatever decorative scheme may be conceived. Noma lights may peep from behind black witches riding along the wall and give an eerie hallation to the blackest of cats that abound on Halloween night. Picture seven smiling symbols of gay festivity, each one a light, hung about the room, artificial ears of yellow corn be tween .What better kind of Hallowe'en decoration could be proffered than a string of pumpkins, wired for brightly glowing electric lights such as is now available. Truly, color conjures the dazzling magic of the spirit world and weaves charms and spells about the party. The occasion is ever so much more enjoyable with the absolute assurance of safety. The wire of Noma lights is weather-proof and the pumpkins, with their brightly painted smiling faces, provide an attractive and lasting adjunct to this festive occasion.

THE ORIGINAL HISTORICAL  HYMN, RECITATION, SONG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THIS ARTICLE IS  PRESENTED AS IT WAS FOUND IN THIS HISTORICAL MAGAZINE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

AMERICAN COOPERATIVE JOURNAL OCTOBER 1921

THE ORIGINAL HYMN AND A SCHOOL SONG OF THE USA WAS FOUND  HISTORICAL ARTICLE PRESENTED AS IT WAS FOUND IN THIS HISTORICAL MAGAZINE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

AMERICAN COOPERATIVE JOURNAL    OCTOBER  1922

THE ORIGINAL HISTORICAL ARTICLE PRESENTED AS IT WAS FOUND AND PUBLISHED  IN THIS HISTORICAL MAGAZINE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL HYMN AND THE ORIGINAL RECITATION, WHICH REACHED US FROM THE DAYS OF THE PILGRIMS WHO REACHED THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CENTURIES AGO. THE ORIGINAL HYMN, RECITATION AND MOTION SONG WAS SERIOUSLY STILL CHANTED IN THE CELEBRATIONS OF THE HALLOWEEN EVE IN THE STATES OF NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA IN THE YEAR OF 1922.

References:

1. AMERICAN COOPERATIVE JOURNAL    OCTOBER  1922

2. PLAYTHINGS September 1930 

"Jack-O-Lantern"

 "Jack-O-Lantern" 

(HYMN)

 I saw a Jack O'Lantern 
Nod his clumsy yellow head, 
To all his comrades in the field 
'Til they hid in a wooden shed, 
The sandman came with a candle-
stick 
Then made a tiny light, 
And said a little tallow 
Will make your head feel right. 

And O, such jolly Jack O's 

I never ne'er did see, 

Because the evening all along 

They winked their eyes at me, 

They told the little boys and girls 

If they would be well bred 

To learn each study well in school 

'Twould brighten things ahead. 

By - Alma B. Wilson 

THE ORIGINAL HISTORICAL HYMN, SONG, RECITATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS PRESENTED AS IT WAS FOUND IN THIS HISTORICAL MAGAZINE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

AMERICAN COOPERATIVE JOURNAL OCTOBER 1921

THIS THE ORIGINAL RECITATION, RECORDED BY ETHNOGRAPHER ALMA B WILSON IN THE YEAR OF 1922 IN THE STATES OF SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTH DAKOTA. THE TRADITIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN CHANT- THE CELEBRATION OF THE HALLOWEEN DAY, THE CHANT AND RECITATION OF THE  PURITANS AND PILGRIMS.

References:

1.AMERICAN COOPERATIVE JOURNAL OCTOBER 1921
2. JACKO OTHER RHYMES BY ELEANOR W. TALBOT -1884, CASSELL & COMPANY Limited