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Tan or brown, 42"x6" Bananas - Yellow, 3" sq. Oranges-Orange, 2" sq. Pears - Brown or tan, 21⁄2"x2"

Fold the paper for the basket to form an oblong 42"x3'. Cut half of the basket on the fold.

Bowl-blue paper, 6"x2". Bananas-yellow paper, 3" sq., cut two. Oranges-orange paper, 2" sq., cut two. Apples-Red paper, 2" sq., cut two. Pears- Tanor brown, 22"x2". Fold the blue paper to form an oblong 3"x2". On the fold cut half of the bowl. If desired, a white pattern may be made and then placed on the blue paper. Allow the children to arrange the fruit in the bowls, selecting the fruit they wish to use. This lesson will occupy at least three half-hour occupation lessosn.

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Suggestions for the Use of Seed Catalogues

L. M. Quimby

1 Letter Writing.

a Request for catalogue.

b Write order for seeds (not necessarily sent to

firm).

c Write note of thanks for catalogue.

2 Arithmetic.

a

Problems on cost, quantity, etc.

b Make out bills, receipts, etc.

3 Plan garden, using catalogue for cost, best seed to buy, variety, adaptations to soil, climate, etc.

4 Use index-hunt up definite list of things. 5 Pictures can be cut out and used in lower grades on language papers, to illustrate poems, short descriptions, garden stories, etc.

6 Primary or first grade make garden alphabet, cutting and pasting pictures for busy work: a-asparagus, b- beets, etc.

7 Basis for language drill games (I saw, etc.).

8 Later in spring primary children can find and cut out pictures of the things they have planted in their home gardens.

9 Pick out plants that belong together in different classifications: tubers, perennials, those for immediate consumption, etc.

10 Use pictures in food charts, posters for school gardens, covers for garden record note books, etc.

11 Try a garden spell-down, with words chosen from the catalogue.

12 Nature talks (let children have catalogue in hand). Reason for coloring of ripe fruits, etc.

13 Cut out pictures and draw.

14 Make seed packets for seed store. Use for drill in making change, etc.

15 Let each pupil work up material on some one fruit or vegetable, as, tomato, potato, etc. Booklets can be made and illustrated from seed calalogues.

If properly used the catalogues will arouse enthusiasm for school gardens, aid in reading, etc.

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December

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January Ice Cutting

February

March

Lumber Camp

Washington at Valley Forge The First Steamboat

Benjamin Franklin

April-From optional list

Optional

Foods (Orchard, Meats, Grains, Vegetables, etc.) Occupations

Village

American Pioneers (Daniel Boone)

Grade V

Birth of Christ (Wise Men, Desert, Oasis, Bethlehem, Shepherds, Stable)

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Transportation (Trade facilities - primitive and modern) Hebrew Life

The Mexican Twins

Greek Stories

The Spartan Twins

Rome (Stories - Ancient City)

South America

Cattle Raising (West) Stock Yards Coal Mining

Fisheries

Manufacturers (Primitive-Modern)

United States

Colonies of United States. (Cuba, etc.) Irrigation

Grade VI

Africa

China or Japan

Ireland (March)

Italy (The Home of Columbus) Holland

Russia

India

Egypt

Arabia

England in the Middle Ages

Knights

Crusades

Christmas in different lands (Yule Log, Birds' Pole)
Philippines (water sports, etc.).

Peasantry (France, Belgium, Germany)
Switzerland

Scotland

binations on the board. First a child said that 2+2+2+2 =8. Another said 4+2+2=8, 3+5=8, 3+3+2=8, etc., until all the possible combinations had been given. There are endless uses for the Ten Little Dutch Sisters.

I expect to vary the device by making a chicken coop and having the cardboard chickens come and go in and out of the coop. Later our circus animals, which we make every year, will come from the tent into the ring to perform, or in a line for the parade. One thing suggests another. Just now a flock of ten bluebirds have appeared on one board. The children noted them, counted them and discussed them. Later I took one bird from the ten and pasted it on the other board. The next day a second one joined it, then another and another, much to the children's amusement, until all the birds had gone from one board to another. This, too, may be varied. The birds leaving in two's or three's, also forming groups as they join the other birds.

Attractive Number Work for A

the First Grade

Jessie Martin Alexander During a Primary Teachers' Meeting, the outline for the first grade number work was planned and discussed. The Superintendent put much stress on having the children use a great variety of objects, making the work as concrete as possible and training them to recognize groups of numbers. He did not want to see the children counting on their fingers. I left the meeting wondering what I could do to improve the number work in the first grade.

It was March. We were studying the Dutch people and making Dutch dolls. It occurred to me to make ten large cardboard Dutch girls and string them on a wire, so that they would easily slide from one side to the other. To save time, I drew one doll and used it for a pattern. Then I painted them, using opaque water color, but alternating the color of the dresses-a red dress and white cap and apron, then a blue dress and cap and apron. That made a pretty border and the dolls were easier to count. When they were painted and cut out, I pasted a gummed hanger with a brass ring attached to the back of each doll's cap, then strung the dolls on a wire across the top of the front blackboard, making a splendid set of objects for adding and subtracting.

Next it occurred to me to make a house, with an open door big enough for the dolls to go in and out of. Soon a low Dutch house, made of stiff cardboard and covered with colored paper, was placed at one end of the board. The wire ran behind the house, through the open doorway to the other end of the blackboard.

It was worth all the work just to hear the ripple of delight that went over the room when I slipped the first little doll along the wire, through the doorway, into the house and entirely out of sight. Right then they discovered that ten less one left nine. Another doll disappeared into the house, then another, until they were all gone.

I did not realize when I first made them the extent to which they could be used. One day I wanted to teach the written word "two." I grouped the dolls in two's, then asked, "What did I do to the Dutch children?" Back came just what I wanted: "You put them in two's." Later they were arranged in three's, four's and five's. Then we discovered that five was just one half of ten.

One day I was working with eight of the dolls and the children suggested different groupings that would make eight, and as they arranged the dolls I wrote the com

Printing in First Grade

Mary V. Myers

DOZEN or more children's small printing sets, or Simplex No. 1 typewriters, furnish splendidly instructive and practical occupational work for the six and seven year old children. Since little or no writing is encouraged the first year of school, except at the regular writing period, under the direction of the teacher, the printing set is a highly educative substitute for writing.

It teaches initiative and independence. It helps him in his reading and later in his spelling. The following is an outline leading to the use of the printing set:

1 Place initials of pupils' names upon the blackboard. Let them copy.

2 Let them print action words: come, run, play, jump,

etc.

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3 Statements, "Run to me," "Come to me." Invitations to present to schoolmates, such as, "Run with me, "Come with me," "Play with me." The children present these to their little friends, who join them in whatever activity the invitation states.

4 Label pictures on domestic animals. Place mounted pictures of animals on the blackboard ledge, let children have slips of paper containing name of animal, let him place it against the proper animal. Children make corrections. 5 Children print their own names and addresses. 6 Lay out, on the same board, a section of the town in which the school building is located, print street signs, place them at the proper corners of the streets. From paper cut the schoolhouse and other buildings in the vicinity, print signs, "School," "Grocery," etc., upon the proper buildings, and set upon the sand board. Other signs, "Keep off the grass," "Cars stop here," etc.

7 Make picture books, by cutting out pictures from old magazines. If they are in outline pictures, pupils color with crayon. Mount these pictures upon uniform sheets of paper. Label the pictures and sew sheets of paper together for a booklet.

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