Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-02-11

hand to accuracy.
l might as we'll leave this subiec,
here, for 1t is exhaustless, and l inten.
ded only tospeak 81 the primary step.
in it, leaving the details to be wrouyh,
out in your own minds, or perhaps
should say by your pupils. Some may
say well, after all, what does this
drawing amount to-
Who knows how many young ar.
chitects are aided in their after. work,
by this play in school? and who can
say that the accuracy and ingenuity
acquired in tins way, will not be Il
benefit in any business the future man
or woman may engage in, down to
building pig-pen or cutting pie.
l would by no means forget what
is commonly called drawing, such as
figures of animals, trees &c, but
would encourage il, and assist in it.
just about Fourth of July, or election
time, scholars viii take great inter-
est in the drawing of the American
flag. Let them draw it. aud watch
their progress. The first ones will oe
in straight lines and look stiff as if
stretched on frame, but as their in
terest in it increases, the lines will be.
gin to wave, finally some one will
draw flag Just like the one on the
pole" 1t some one should happen to
have piece of red chalk in his pocket,
and should make the red stripes with
that and the white ones with the
pencil don't make any very serious
objections to it. It Is more like the
real flag, and he has not committed a
very great sim | am not ashamed to
say that have had pupils who could
draw a horse, o. a dog or an eleE hant,
much better than their teacher.
Much amusement as well as instrnc-
ton can be obtained by writing on the
slate. l once knew a school interest
ed III writing surnames OF persons IN
the town where the, liveS, common
cling with 4 for the initial letter and
going through the alphabet. taking one
letter for each exercise, the pupils Civ
ing the names and the teacher assisting
in spellingthe more difficult ones, writ
ing all on the board to be copied, so
as to sec re correct spelling. Names
Of trees or ANIMALS, or things in the
school-room, or things passed on the
way to school, may each be used as a
set OF amusements There are hun
dred things of the kind that will teach
the children to write and spell, while
they think they are only playing
1t is not out of place or waste OF
time, occasionally to invent, and place
upon tn. board a rebus or an ana
gram, and let the pupils put their wits
to work on them, or give them a
word or very short sentence, and let
them make all the words possible out
OF the letters, thus making anagrams
themselves. Before leaving the slate
exercises let me say, Blessed be the nan
that inrented states.
Much amusement can be given in
short, rapid exercises in Mental Arith-
metic, and with little thoug ht, much
variety, too Chase squirrel up and
down tree. Let him start at the
foot and go up SO many feet, SO many
more, down so many, &c. stopping
often to ask where he is, and letting
him start from that point. When the
eyes are tired following the nimble
little fellow, in his quick movements,
lunt eggs in barn and the surround
ng sacks, set man to buying and
selling pigs for living, raise chick
ms, and have some OF them die Of the
,aps. Engage in any respectable
business fora few minutes that will
make play out OF the work of COM
bining numbers. OF course these oper.
atoms need not be confined to Add.
ton and Satisfaction, but may be ca
ried even to extracting square or cube
roots, with large scholars, but make
haste slowly"
Teach Il moral lesson oftener by
story, than by mere precept. 1t
will be better received and longer re.
l need not speak of singing in
$ schools as it is generally conceded to
be most appropriate amusement
Children are interested IN studying
the pictures in their Readers, and COM
pairing them with the stories they are
intended to illustrate. II they some
times make sharp criticisms, be glad
you are not the author of the book.
Take, tor instance the story in Nc
Guffeys Third Reader, of Honesty Re-
warded. The story where Jack Pill
fer took an orange from one OF the
baskets. Charles took it from him and
put it back, Jack started to the other
side OF the horse, to take an orange
from the other basket, but on the way
was kicked by the horse. Call the at
tention OF the class to the picture and
ask if it tells the same story. You
will soon be told No the picture says