Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-01-08
NEW SERIES--VOL. 90, NO. l

consideration OF parents and teachers
/. Tell the whole school TO write on
their states fifteen names of objects
they can see in the school-room. The
first one who has the requisite number
raises his hand, and is then requested
to copy his list on the blackboard. AS
soon as this is done, the whole school
rise, turn their backs to the board
and spell the words from the board,
dictated by the teacher or the pupil.
When this is finished, the teacher calls
upon the school TO raise their hands il
they have any words ON their states
not on the board. The teacher points
to each one who spells his additional
words. In this way, in few minutes,
every object in the school-room is
spelled by the whole school difficult
words are noted, and the whole school
is educated in spelling, so far as the
schoolroom Is concerned.
2 For the next exercise, let them
rise from their seats, look out Of the
windows FIVE minutes, by your watch
and then spell everything they can
see. Drill them on difficult words.
3. Give them for topics everything
they saw on the way to school every
thing they can see in store Of goods
everything on the dinner-table names
of all kinds of cloth all the parts of a
wagon and harness names OF quad.
rupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects,
shells, garden vegetables, flowers,
trees, fruits, metals, rocks, and min.
erals.
A. Let them write the name of eve.
ny object made of iron, or that has any
iron about it also, everything made
of wood. A live teacher can draw out
of his pupils an immense number Of
words from the foregoing subjects.
5. Let them write the names of the
capitals OF the different States in the
Union also, OF different countries on
the globe.
g. Let them write the names Of all
the persons living in the school dis
trict. eHlf teNII urId1I
4. Let them write the names Of the
days OF the week, and of the months.
8. Let them write the names OF the
parts of an apple, ship, or house
different kinds of food, and names Of
different trades.
0. Let them write list of all the
persons necessary to make loaf OF
bread, commencing with the telling OF
trees in the forest. II is said that one
thousand different occupations are in
volved in making a loaf of bread. Let
them sec how many they can writo.
10. For an occasional exercise, let
the first pupil in an advanced class
spell the name Of some town or city,
and then let the next mention the
name of q town whose first letter ID
the same as the last letter OF the name
just spelled If a scholar fails to do
this, he is seated at once.
IL. Make the whole school rise, and
as soon as any scholar can mention
the name Of a town in the State, he
raises his hand. The teacher asks him
to spell it, and he is then seated.
When the class are all seated, they
rise and repeat the exercise, with o
new list Of words.
IL. Tell class TO spell, tor their
next lesson, all the words they can
think of, commencing with the letter
A. Go on in this way through the
alphabet.
10. Tell small scholars to spell, for
their next lesson, as many words as
they can think of which contain but
one syllable. Go on through the diff
ferent grades Of words by syllables.
IA. Give them some familiar work
for subject, and tell them TO write
on their states everything they can
think of about it, and then make them
spell the words in the order in which
they have written them. This is an
excellent introduction to the writing
of compositions, though the teacher
should not be so unwise as to call them
such.
Is. Dictate to a class ten words diff
ticult to spell, and see how many will
write them correctly on their slates.-
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