ISLANDS- A GUESSING GAME

 The guessing games of the Primary Schools of the United States of America

The games were shared by teachers in all the magazines and were played in Friday lessons. Guessing games were especially loved in decade of 1910-1920. The popularity of such games was hughe- the game during lesson not only rests the children but as well teaches them concentration of thought in the most pleasant way.

How the guessing games were played?

A child was allowed to run quickly out of the desk and to touch any object in the room naming it as he touches it, and then he used to pass to his seat. Then the teacher called the second one and had him to touch and name the same object. Number one did, then touch and name another and was seated A third child touches and names in order these two objects and adds another  one to the list. And so it goes on each child in the classroom- touching and naming in order the objects that have been chosen each time, and adding one new to the list- just made up right now by themselves. Often times bright pupils will remember and name each object at the end of the lesson- by heart.

Recreation Department 

Islands A Guessing Game 

Each couplet is to be answered by the name of an island group of islands 

1.

I'm served at luncheons now and then, 
And much enjoyed by hungry men (Sandwich.) 
2. 

You drink me sometimes when you dine, 
And some consider me quite fine. (Madeira.) 
3.

I'm ridden by a little child, 
So must be gentle, careful, mild. (Shetland.) 
4.

In prose sometimes and oft in rhyme, 
I'm used to denote the length of time (Long.) 
5.

Of God's creations I was latest, 
And by myself considered greatest. (Man.) 
6.

I am a shaggy quadruped, 
Once used to draw my master's sled. ( New Foundland.)
 7.

I am a girl's old fashioned name, 
Your granny may have had the same. (Caroline) 
8.

I m coffee of a certain kind,  
And most delicious too you ll find. (Java) 
9.

Just from the mint you'll see I am, 
A piece of gold, and not a sham. (New Guinea.)

10.

I sweetly sing, am very small, 
A little bird beloved by all. (Canary.)
11.

When you've not dined on victuals plain, 
You take me to relieve the pain. (Jamaica.) 
12.

I am an officer of peace, 
So must not from my vigil cease. (Marshal.) 

THE GAME IS FOUND IN THE MAGAZINE- NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS- YEAR 1908, MONTH SEPTEMBER