Or play you dreamed that you found a gold coin in the schoolyard. When you could not learn who the owner was, you made a plan for spending the money for the school. Tell the class about this plan.
Perhaps the teacher will ask you and the other pupils to play some of these dream stories, if they are very interesting.
=Written Exercise.= 1. The teacher will write on the board one or more of the stories told by you and the other pupils.[16] The class will read them carefully and point out where each could be made better.[17] Copy one that the teacher has rewritten. The next exercise, which you may read at once, will tell you why you should do this copying without making mistakes.
2. Now the teacher will cover with a map the story on the board that you have copied, and will read it to you, while you write it again.[18] This exercise will show whether you can write a story without making any mistakes. You will need to know where to put capital letters and the little marks that are placed at the ends of sentences. Besides, you will need to know the spelling of words.
3. Compare what you have written with what is on the board. Look for three things:
Did you have everything right? If not, correct the mistakes you made.
Some pupils use the word _seen_ when they should use _saw_. Mistakes of this kind spoil stories, just as a song is spoiled when some one sings wrong notes. Let us begin to get rid of these unpleasant mistakes by learning how to use the word _saw_ correctly.[19]
=Oral Exercise.= The word _saw_ is used correctly in the three sentences that follow. Read these sentences aloud several times.
2. I saw a pretty dollhouse in my dream last night.
3. I dreamed that I saw a beautiful yellow bird sitting on a fruit tree and singing.
=Game.= Let all the pupils, except one, play that they have fallen asleep. When they have closed their eyes and rested their heads on their folded arms, the one pupil who plays that she is Queen Mab tiptoes up and down between the rows of seats. With a fairy wand she makes a circle round several heads. Then the fairy disappears, the class wakes up, and each pupil who has had a dream tells his classmates the most interesting one thing that he saw in it. Thus, one pupil might say: