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For The Nursery, Kindergarten & Primary School

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The Pigeon-house. Concluded.

[Note:—Several children are chosen from the ring to represent the pigeons who go inside the ring. They choose a name, " Pouter, " "Fan tail," "Ring-dove." The kindergartner asks them where they are going and what they are going to do ; suggests or directs, a visit to the pigeons in the neighboring barn, or a trip to the corn-fields to see if the grain is ripening. The " pigeon-house," is closed (the children joining hands and standing close together). At " We open now " they step back two steps, raise their hands thus forming the doors through which the pigeons fly out and around the room. At "when they return, " they re-enter the house, kneel dowu, softly, close their eyes and drowsily sing themselves to sleep with the refrain " roo-coo, roo-coo." They may be aroused by the crowing of a rooster in a distant part of the room, the song of The Cuck-oo, "See the chickens round the gate," or "Awake, ye little sleepers."]
61. Folded Pigeon and Pigeon-house.
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[Note:—This maybe sung when the children have folded the "bird;" They hold the tips of the wings, and mark Ihe time of the song as they move their hands up and down. At the words "Now his little wings do droop &c." they set the bird on the table and make with the open hands a little house over it, in which the "birdie" rests a moment. Sing the last line as *he hands close over the bird.]
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