Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-28
EDUCATIONAL.
c. d. BELDEN, EDITOR.


Report of the Leroy Village Graded
Schools.
The Leroy school is divided into
twelve grades, and four departments.
Inc primary department taught by
Miss Nora Martz, is divided into three
grades. First the chart class or G prim-
ary' they take up simple exercises from
the chart slate work, the printed and
script letter. numbers from one to one
hundled. counting by twos from one and
Two to twenty forward and backwards.
FIRST reader commenced a knowledge of
direction taught. B class: First reader
completed, second reader commenced,
numbers written from one to one thousand
counting by twos and threes to forty for.
ward and backwards, multiplication table
OF tWos and threes committed, know
ledge OF direction taught, bounding of
the school ground &C., spelling by sound
and letter, meaning of all diacritical
marks used in their reading book, part of
their reading lesson written upon their
slate in script, writing book No. /. A
class: Second reader completed, spelling
the words of the lesson both written and
oral by sound and letter and dividing
them into syllahles, all the preparatory
work in text book brought to class on
slate, dlacritical marks taught. primary
arithmetic, oral geography, writing book
No. 2, third reader commenced, general
lessons IN all grades.
Second primary, taught by Miss Mary
McGillvray, is divided into two grades.
3 class: Third reader completed, spell
ing the hard words of the reading lesson
and word analysis, first book in geo
graphy with hap drawing, primary
arithmetic, with thorough drill in the
tables, notation and Enumeration both
Arabic and Roman, oral language lessons,
written spelling from text book. a class:
Fourth reader with word analyses,
PHONETIC spelling, use Of pauses, biogra
phical sketches Of authors and use OF
synonyms, spelling written and oral from
spelling book, spelling and analysis Of
hard words in all other lessons, primary
arithmetic completed, elementary arith-
! metic commenced, language lessons,
geography, map drawing, SC Writing
and general lessons in both grades.
The intermediate department, taught
by Mrs. Mary l.. Fisk, is divided into
! thret grades.
c class: Fourth reader, elementary
| arithmetic completed, geography and
map drawing, spelling written and oral
| from text book and hard words from all
other studies, word analysis language
lessons. B class: Fifth reader, practical
arithmetic through compound numbers.
common school geography, language les
sons, spelling written and oral. A class
Fifth reader, practical arithmetic through
interest, history, language lessons, spell
ing oral and writtcu General exercises
in Hygiene, &C., for all grades. Writing
! in all the grades.
The upper department, taught by F. II.
Fisk, is divided into three grades.
G: class: Fifth reader, practical arith
metic, history, grammar, spelling, word
analysis. B. class: Fifth reader, gram
mar, history, practical arithmetic, spell
| ing and word analysis. A class: Alge-
hra, higher arithmetic, civil Gov, ply
sio]ogy, analysis of Lessons in fifth reader,
spelling. definitions and use of synonyms,
&c. There is also an 4 I'd grade, made
up of large boys who can only attend the
winter term, who take up bookkeeping,
practical arithmetic, civil Gov, (reading,
spelling and language) the last three com
binrd in one recitation. The second A
grade combines with the \ and B grade
and the G grade combines with the B
grade i'll reading and history.
| The coming year the A class is to take
up physical geography, physics, geome-
try, rhetoric and botany.