THE SUMMERS READERS

PRIMER

BY
MAUD SUMMERS

ILLUSTRATED FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY
LUCY FITCH PERKINS

FRANK D. BEATTYS AND COMPANY
NEW YORK

Copyright, 1908, by
Frank D. Beattys and Company
New York

THE DE VINNE PRESS

RHYMES AND POEMS

“The model of all education shall be the perfected family.”

Friedrich Froebel.

Sing.

Run.

Jump.

Hop.

Run and jump.

Jump and run.

Sing and hop.

Hop and sing.

Run and hop.

Hop and run.

Jump and hop.

Sing and jump.

I can sing.

I can hop.

I can run and sing.

I can hop and jump.

Rover can run.

Rover can jump.

Rover and I can run.

Rover and I can run and jump.

Kitty can run and jump.

Kitty and I can run.

Rover and Kitty can jump.

Kitty and I can jump and run.

I see you, Rover.

Run, Rover! Run!

I see you, Kitty.

You can run and jump.

See the bird.

Can you see the bird?

The bird can hop.

The bird can sing.

Can you sing?

Can you hop and jump?

Can you see Rover and Kitty?

Can you run, jump, hop, and sing?

I have a dog.

I have a kitty.

I have a bird.

Have you a dog?

Have you a kitty?

Have you a bird?

Run to me.

Sing to me.

Can you hop to me?

I can see you.

Can you see me?

See me run and hop.

I like to see the bird fly.

I like to see a dog jump.

I like to run, jump, and hop.

I like you, pretty bird.

Can you sing, pretty bird?

Pretty bird, can you fly?

Fly, pretty bird! Fly!

Fly to me.

I like to see you fly.

The girls may hop.

The boys may jump.

Sing to me, little girls.

The little boys may run.

A little girl may sing.

The girls may run.

The boys and girls may hop.

A little boy may jump.

The boys may sing.

The girls and boys may run.

A boy runs.

The boys run.

A bird sings.

The birds sing.

I like Rover.

Rover likes me.

I have a pretty little ball.

I can roll the ball.

See me catch the ball.

You may catch the ball.

Have you a ball?

Can you roll the ball?

Can you catch the ball?

Kitty! Kitty! Kitty!

See Kitty run to me.

Kitty likes to play ball.

Kitty can roll the ball.

Kitty can catch the ball.

Run, Kitty! Run!

Run and catch the ball.

I like to play with Kitty.

I play ball with Baby.

Baby likes to play.

Baby can roll the ball.

Roll the ball, Baby.

Roll it to me.

Catch the ball, Baby.

See Baby catch the ball.

I have a baby sister.

Baby Sister has blue eyes.

I play with little Sister.

Run, run, Baby Sister!

I can catch you.

Can you catch me?

Baby likes to catch me.

I like to play with Baby Sister.

This is Baby Sister.

Baby Sister has blue eyes.

This is Baby’s ball.

It is a pretty little ball.

This is Kitty’s ball.

It is a little blue ball.

This is Baby’s sister Mary.

Mary can catch Baby.

John has a ball.

It is a big brown ball.

John and the boys play ball.

The boys play with John’s ball.

Rover plays ball with the boys.

Run, boys! Catch the ball!

See! John has the ball.

Run, John! Run with the ball!

What can a bird do?

What can a dog do?

What can a baby do?

What can boys do?

What can girls do?

What do boys play?

What do girls play?

What can John do?

What can you do?

What do you like to play?

ACTION SENTENCES

Catch the ball, Mary.

Roll it to the boys.

Catch the ball, boys.

Roll it to me, John.

This is my pretty doll.

She is a baby doll.

I sing to my baby doll.

Baby Doll has brown eyes.

Baby Sister has blue eyes.

Baby Sister likes my doll.

You may play with my doll, Baby.

See Baby Sister play with my doll.

I see a little girl.

She is named Mary.

Mary has blue eyes.

She has a brown dress.

She is John’s sister.

I see a boy.

He is named John.

He has brown eyes.

He has a sister Mary.

Can you see John?

This is Mary’s doll.

She has brown eyes.

She has a blue dress.

Have you a doll?

I see you, little frog.

Can you jump?

Jump, little frog! Jump!

Can you catch a fly?

Come to me. I have a fly.

I like to see you catch a fly.

I like you, little frog.

Come and play with me.

Play you are blackbirds, boys.

Fly, little blackbirds.

Sing, little blackbirds.

Play you are bluebirds, girls.

Fly, pretty bluebirds.

Sing, pretty bluebirds.

Play you are a brown bird, Mary.

You have a brown dress.

You may hop, little brown bird.

The blackbirds may sing.

The brown birds may hop.

The bluebirds may fly.

Two little blackbirds

Sat upon a hill,

One was named Jack,

The other named Jill.

Fly away, Jack!

Fly away, Jill!

Come again, Jack!

Come again, Jill!

Jack and Jill are two birds.

They are little blackbirds.

They sat upon a hill.

I named one Jack.

I named the other Jill.

Fly away, little blackbirds!

Come again, Jack and Jill.

Two birds sat on a hill.

One bird was blue.

The other bird was brown.

The brown bird was named Jill.

The blue bird was named Jack.

Fly away, pretty birds! Fly away!

Come, bluebird! Come, brown bird!

Come again to the hill.

See-saw! See-saw!

Here we go up and down.

See-saw! See-saw!

This is the way to town.

Oh, come! Come here!

Come girls and boys.

Here is a see-saw.

This is the way to see-saw.

Here we go up, up, up!

Here we go down, down, down!

Oh what fun to see-saw!

See-saw! See-saw!

What do you see, Mary?

I see two little blackbirds.

What do you see, John?

I see Father with Rover.

He is on the way to town.

See-saw! See-saw!

Up and down! Up and down!

Rock-a-by, baby,

In the tree-top!

When the wind blows,

The cradle will rock;

When the bough breaks,

The cradle will fall;

Down will come baby,

Cradle, and all.

See the little cradle!

It is in the tree-top.

The wind blows the tree-top.

See the cradle rock!

Will the bough break?

Will the cradle fall?

Will baby, cradle, and all come down?

I see two baby birds.

They are in a cradle.

Can you see the cradle?

The cradle is a little nest.

The nest is in the tree-top.