Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-04-24
COURSE OF STUDY.
in the Second Primary. Third year, First term
Of Sixteen Weeks.

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Have them construct original sentences
containing difficult words. Careful pro-
nunciation, good articulation and a prop
er emphasis should be required. Free
quent drills on elementary sounds are to
be given. Proper position and carriage of
the body, correct breathing, and full
round, musical tone of voice should be
insisted upon. There is no excuse of a
pupils reading 80 they cannot be heard.
Teach pupils to recognize quotation
marks, marks of accent, the colon, semi
colon, comma, period, question mark,
exclamation point and parenthesis.
Give drill in sight reading from cards,
books, papers, or from some selection
written on blackboard. AS s'busy
work" have pupils read at their seats
number of books besides the regular
text. Pupils are allowed to do this sup
Elementary reading only after the regu-
lar lessons are prepared, not before, nor
in the place of them.
WRITING.-Use paper and pencil also
pen and ink. Special attention should
be given to acquire correct position of
body and hand. Teach movement and
train pupils in the form of letters, teach
er moving among pupils, noting common
mistakes, illustrating and correcting
mistakes on blackboard. Use Roude-
bush writing chart No. 1. See that
some part of everybody's work is re-
corded, and permit no careless work.
DRAWING primary colors, cor
ner, point, prism, triangle, hexagon,
octagon and pentagon. Develop from
these type forms surface, plane and
curved, edge, straight and curved, cor
ner or point. Plain figures, square, cir
Gle, cylinder. Lines, straight and curv-
ed. Tablet laying, stick laying, pape r
folding and cutting. Develope ellipse,
oblong, etc. Relation of lines-parallel,
perpendicular, an angle-right, acute
and obtuse. Drawing from simple draw
ing cards and from drawings on black
board.
SPELLING.-Use words from reader,
other texts and lists selected by teacher.
Let the words be properly classified, as;
list of fruits, things seen in grocery
store, etc. photographic, phonetic
spelling, oral and written. Use words
in sentences to aid pupils to understand
meaning. Teach pupils to mark all long
and short vowels, to mark accent and
silent letters. Careful attention should
be paid to spelling in all recitations.
Success can only be attained by con-
tinued, persistent practice and the es-
tablishment of a high standard of excel
lence.
LANGUAGE object of this work
is primarily to place the child in posses.
sion of properly constructed words and
sentences through which he may express
fluently his thoughts and idea.s, either
by writing or talking. All errors in
speech should be corrected by teacher
with due regard for sensitive human
| nature. Let each recitation add some
thing to the child's vocabulary and teach
the connection between thought and
speech. Oral language should be cul
tivated by frequent conversations or
familiar and interesting topics. Strive
to have pupils use original statements
Teach the correct use of no, know, new
knew, see, sea, red, read, sew, so, SOW
come, came, etc. Place list of words
on board, and require pupils to construct
as many sentences from them as possible.
Example-the, by, men, a, his, is, are
this these, teacher, love, loves, good, etc
~ The boy loves his teacher. ~ Mer
are good, etc. Short stories may be re-
produced from memory. Choice selec-
tons OF poetry should be memorized
Give object lesson on some subject, as:-
cube; after learning all about the cube
have pupils write, ''Story of the cube. .
Teach use of period, question mark, by
phen at end of line, caret and exclama.
ton point. All language work should be
neatly and beautifully written.
NUMBERs.-Wright and read number
to 10000. Teach multiplication tables,
Us, 3's, AS and SIS. Drill on adding and
subtracting numbers having in mind te
secure rapidity and accuracy. Short di
vision by any number less than G.
Teach 1a, Is, a, etc. by actual division
OF objects. Teach subtraction, ssbor
rowing from the next higher order"
multiplication of numbers less than 10.
GOO. multiplier containing three dieits.
Teach foot, yard, dozen, pound, time
measure. Drill on rapid work. Teach
Roman notion to 100. Have pupils write
number stories. Thus: Write story -oi
2S. Z plus plus 8 plus 6; write story
by analysis. Princes arithmetic by
grades furnishes many helpful sugges.
tons on analysis.
| GEoGRAPHY-..First lesson on directions
Teach the idea of cardinal and semi-car.
dInal points. Let the first lesson be OF
such character as to require some ac.
tivity on the part of the children. The
idea of distance logically follows direc-
ton. Each pupil should have a rule,
one foot long, marked into inches and
half inches. With this teach the idea
of inch, half-inoh, foot and yard. After
measuring with ruler have pupils mari
off foot, yard, etc., without ruler so as
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