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Life in the making: 335 total pages.

instruction to the Beginners so largely in story form has been discussed in the preceding chapter. If the teacher is a good story-teller, she will have no difficulty in holding atten­tion and sowing seeds of truth which the child will grasp eagerly. If she is not a good story-teller, she should cultivate the art assiduously.l You are doubtless familiar with the phrase, "No impression without expression." What does it mean applied to a Beginner? Can you test the impres­sion made upon his young mind by any forms of expression? If so, what forms? Will it help him to learn if he tells the story back to you on the following Sunday? How much of a story should a four- or five-year-old be expected to remember for a week-the names, or the details, the outstanding features of action, sound or color? Most kinder­gartners in the Sunday school have a place early in the Circle Talk in which the story of the Sunday before is retold. Would you have such a feature if you were a teacher? If so, give reasons for the time which you would set aside for it.

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