Samples of seat work: Count by 3's from 36 to 3 and write the number of three's found in each number beginning with the 36. Count by 3's from 12 to 36 and write how many 3's there are in each number as you count it. Count by 6's from 6 to 36, from 36 back to 6. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, etc. are even numbers; how many are 2 X 3, 4 X 3, 6 X 3, 8 X 3, 10 X 3, 12 X 3? 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, etc., are odd numbers; how many are 3 X 3, 5 X 3, 7 X 3, 9 X 3, 11 X 3? 17 +8 17 = +10 381 or 37 45 +9 = 45 +10 55-1 or 54 76 = The 5's table may be presented likewise by counting. = 10 = 5 by counting one by counting two 15 by counting three 20 = by counting four = = 25 40 = = = = by counting seven = = = by counting twelve Samples of seat work: Count by 10's from 10 to 100, from 100 to 10. Write by the side of each number how many 5's there are in it. Count by 10's from 5 to 95, from 95 to 5. Write by the side of each number how many 5's there are in it. In this grade we can easily teach by the counting method the times tables by 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, and 11. The remaining tables can likewise be mastered easily in the third grade, provided ingenuity, variety, and short spirited drills are adequately used. Since it is possible to skip about too soon in a times table, at first follow the regular order for some little time, as three 2's are 6, four 2's are 8, five 2's are 10, etc. Then have the children repeat orally or write at their desks the table backwards, as twelve 2's are 24, eleven 2's are 22, etc. After this, have the table given or written, using only the even numbers as multipliers, as two 2's are 4, four 2's are 8, six 2's are 12, etc. Then repeat backwards, using the even numbers as multipliers. Now in like fashion use only the odd numbers as multipliers, as one 2 is 2, three 2's are 6, five 2's are 10, seven 2's are 14, etc. Again repeat backwards, using the odd numbers as multipliers. This treatment of the tables not only furnishes plenty of wholesome seat work, but it is the best preliminary to the safe skipping about freely in the tables, and to the ultimate mastery of these tables. SEPTEMBER Vacation Is Over. Blackboard and Sand Table Series With illustrations by PROF. C. F. WHITNEY of Salem State Normal School, and text by A. C. II The Indian Camp Indian wigwam and canoe Cut on full lines Fold on dash lines Paste laps. Indian Sewing Card For the background, which is blackboard work, give the whole field of the board to be used in the picture a plentiful amount of white chalk. For this use the crayon flatwise, drawing the whole broadside of it across the board several times and quite heavily near the horizon. This gives the effect of sunlight behind the trees. Much of the foliage effect in the trees at the upper right hand corner can be made by erasing from left to right with the corner of the eraser and accentuating with a bit of dark chalk. The tree trunks in the centre are dashed in with bold strokes of the black chalk. The lake and suggestion of forest behind it are made with broad flat strokes with the black chalk with here and there a touch of white put in with the top of the white chalk. The lower left hand bit of lake, where it shows gray, is bare blackboard. The wigwam is very easily cut and pasted. The diagram shows exactly how this is done. One easy way to make this is to make a whole circle on the paper the size which this one would be if it were complete. Then another the size of the small circle within. Now measure off as much of the circumference- children learn the meaning of the word in this lesson as will be needed and cut at the dash lines. The sides of this cutting being brought togethe and pasted make the wigwam shape. The language lesson of course is on the habits and manners of the Indians and their connection with our history. Indian Sewing Card Birds for the School-room MAUDE ADELAIDE WRIGHT A number of my fellow teachers have asked me to tell them how to make some birds to hang in their rooms like the ones we have in our kindergarten. Therefore, I will try to make it plain to all who may care to make them. We have two large branches over our windows, holding many nests of various kinds, from which are suspended some thirty or forty of these birds, which the draught causes to fly about in a most life-like manner. They are very easy to make if you have a good bird-book, and the well-known "Bird Neighbors" seems to be the best for this particular work. Trace the shape of the head and body of the bird you wish to make, as no two are alike as to bill and shape of head. Then cut it out of white cardboard (a rough surface will take the paint best), and then, from my patterns you can cut the wings, making them large or small, as needed. Nearly all wings are about the same shape, with a few exceptions, as the Barn-swallow, Swift, etc., and you can tell from the illustrations how much longer and more slender the outer feathers in those must be made. The tails are apt to vary in shape; but your bird-book will tell you, and you can judge by the illustrations or by your personal knowledge of the bird you are making, as. to its length and width. I have found from experience that sewing the wings and tails onto the bodies is better than pasting or glueing. Cut a slit at the base of the wing, between A and B, and fold on the dotted line. Then lap A over B just a little, to give the desired curve to the wings, and sew through the body, securely. Put on one wing at a time and do not worry about the stitches, for they will be colored with the bird and will not show when hung amongst the branches. To fasten on the tail, cut a slit between A and B and turn back on dotted lines; then "straddle" this across the lower end of the body (about 1" from the end in the Pigeon), and sew through from side to side. If in some cases the tail stands too erect, make the slit in the tail longer. After wings and tail are sewed on, color with water-color according to the illustrations in your bird-book, Helpful hints may be obtained from the bird-books' de |