I. GROWING STRONG. 1. When you play out of doors, what do you exercise? What do you exercise when you study? How ought you to play and study so as to get the most good from each? Why is it good to play, and work too, out of doors? 2. What games have you played in the last day or two? How did the players divide the muscle exercise of the game? Did they divide up the thinking part, too? 3. Why must the blood be sent to the muscles? Why must it be carried away again? When you feel tired, what is happening in your body? 4. What are muscles like? Show how the elastic bands of your legs work when you sit on your heels. What makes the muscles at the back of your legs feel thicker? 5. What bones of your body can you feel? Put your hands on them, as you tell what you can about each. 6. Why do we need bones? What do we call our whole framework of bones? 7. Have you ever seen anyone who had to stay all the time in bed or sit in a wheeled chair? How did this person show the lack of exercise? 8. What is the meaning of the picture on p. 129? 9. Choose one of the other pictures in this chapter and write a story about it to show how to grow strong. II. ACCIDENTS. 1. When you hear the word _accident_, what do you think of? What have you to help you to prevent accidents? If you have used your "look-out department" as well as you can, and still the accident happens, what will you do then? 2. Show the class how to care for a very deep cut. What do we call a medicine that kills disease germs? 3. How would you treat a bruise? A burn? Frost-bitten ears? Chilblains? A bee sting? 4. If you are told to take some medicine from a certain bottle or box, do you always look at the label? Why is it dangerous not to? What do you think of having medicines about not labeled or poured into old bottles with wrong labels? 5. If you should happen to swallow something poisonous, what ought you to do right away? 6. Suppose your clothes or your hair should catch fire; what would you do? 7. How did you celebrate last Fourth of July? Write a short story about the picture on p. 144. 8. With one of your classmates, show how you would try to restore a person who had just been saved from drowning. How can you try to save yourself if you fall into the water?