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PRIMARY SCHOOL.

Miss Brown.

The Primary School will offer courses in the subject matter of the first four
grades and will present practical plans and methods for the development of the work.
In addition, there will be discussions on (a) the teacher—preparation, equipment and
requirement; (b) the school—organization, management, discipline, relation to the
community; (c) the pupil—physical, mental and moral development.

1. For First and Second Grade Teachers.—Reading and language arts:
oral English, stories, dramatization, phonies and pronunciation, simple writing in
English.

Nature study: field and class room work in mammals, birds, insects and plants.

Manual training: paper cutting, cardboard construction, clay modelling, etc.

Number: Sense training, games and objective work, counting and ratio.

Daily, from 10:30 to 11:30. Cabell Hall. Room 3.

2. For Third and Fourth Grade Teachers.—Reading and language:
oral and written English based on literature, nature study, history and geography.
Simple treatment of the sentence and grammatical forms.

Arithmetic: fundamental processes, multiplication table, simple fractions, problems
in constructive work.

History: hero tales of all nations; America's story for America's children.

Geography and nature study.

Daily, from 12:15 to 1:15. Cabell Hall, Room 3.