Recitation, "A Prayer for our Soldiers and Sailors," by Oriola Johnson Marching and military exercises with flags Lincoln's early boyhood told by pupil. A few readings of sketches written by pupils. Request that each child take his composition home and read it to his parents Song KINDERGARTEN OBSERVANCE =1. Morning Circle= Singing Tone plays about flag, etc. Hail to the flag (Gaynor) =2. Morning talk about Lincoln= Get from the children what they know about Lincoln. Add to this until they know something of his life, laying emphasis on his kindness, obedience, thoughtfulness, bravery. Hint as to how these much admired qualities may be used by little children =3. Table Work= Gift period Make soldier hats from squares of newspaper. Build Lincoln log house =4. Games= (a) "Soldier Boy, where are you going?" (b) Parade for Lincoln's Birthday Choice by children of best kindergarten soldiers to carry the flags in parade; use drum =5. Table Work= Occupation period Make crayoneine frame around picture of Lincoln Take picture home =6. Sing "America," at least one verse= GETTYSBURG SPEECH Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate--we cannot consecrate--we cannot hallow--this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. _Abraham Lincoln_ SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS [Lincoln's ideas respecting the injustice of the principles of slavery and the honesty of purpose in waging the Civil War are set forth in the Second Inaugural Speech. This passage is probably the most beautiful, the most chaste, the most profound, the grandest, ever uttered by an American.]