Note: It is recommended for children to keep notebooks or binders to hold the exercise work described in this text. Alternatively, instructors can print fillable pages for the notebook work by clicking the 'N' printer icon on the main textbook page. In addition, a ruler is required for Lesson 7.

Note: Lessons derived from C. C. Long's "Home Geography for Primary Grades" and Charlotte Mason's "Elementary Geography."

Lay your hands upon a table, side by side. Which side shall we call the right side? The left side?

Put your hands on the middle of your table on the side farthest from you. That part is the back of your table.

Think which is the front of your table. Put your hands on the front of your table. Who sits on your right-hand side? On your left? At the table in front of you? At the table behind you?

Turn around. Who is on your right now? On your left? Before you? Behind you? Turn again. Who is now on your right? On your left? Before you? Behind you?

Instructor: Lead children to see that the terms right, left, front, and back are of little use in telling the position of places, and that some fixed standard of direction is necessary.

Notebook Work: Draw one or more human figures and label them with the terms right, left, front, and back as appropriate.