For this purpose we have included in our materials many booklets likewise covered in red and filled with _blank_ cards of a variety of colors. The children themselves fill out these cards in conjugating their new verbs.
The exercises both of working out the conjugation of the verb and of writing out new verbs may be performed at home.
Material: This box has eight compartments for the title cards, which are tan (article), black (noun), brown (adjective), red (verb), violet (preposition), pink (adverb), green (pronoun), and _yellow_ (_conjunction_). It also has the usual place for the sentences that are to be analyzed. These again are given in groups.
(Copulative, Disjunctive, Illative, Adversative)
--Put away the pen _and_ the ink-stand. Put away the pen _or_ the ink-stand. Put away _neither_ the pen _nor_ the ink-stand, _but_ the paper.
--The table, therefore, is bare _and_ in order. _For_ all your things are in their places.
--Do not leave the objects you use here and there about the room, _but_ put them all back in their places.
--Speak to your nearest school-mate not aloud _but_ in a whisper.
--Move your table forward a little, _but_ only a little _and_ without making any noise.
[Illustration: Grammar Boxes, showing respectively eight and nine parts of speech.]
--You can push down a key of the piano without making any sound _if_ you push it down slowly.
--You could write with your left hand _if_ you "touched" the letters with that hand.
--You will get silence from the children _as soon as_ you write "silence" on the blackboard.
--That child is happy: he always sings _while_ he works.
--Always shut the door _when_ you go from one room to another.
--Everybody must be orderly _in order that_ the "Children's House" may look neat.
--The "Children's House" is attractive _because_ it is pretty and _because_ it is so easy to keep busy all the time.
--I shall give it to you _since_ you have asked me for it very politely.
--We shall go to walk in the park rather _than_ in the crowded streets.
--I shall give you that toy _although_ I should have preferred to let you have a beautiful book.
--You may promise to go and visit him to-morrow _provided_ you keep your promise.
[Illustration: The children are permitted to work at their various occupations in complete freedom. (_The Lenox School, Montessori Elementary Class, New York._)]