Primer of Industry, Vol. 40 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Primer of Industry, Vol. 40 Primer of Industry furnishes suggestions for occupations and exercises which are pleasant, profitable, and instructive, and at the same time are not so burdensome to the child that he will regard them as work. These exercises are designed, not simply to keep the children entertained and occupied, but to lay the foundation for an industrial training correlated with language and number work. In all the occupations the teacher or older pupil who directs the children must avoid every appearance of giving formal lessons. While the exercises are clearly and definitely pictured so that the children can easily follow them, the full results cannot be attained unless the teacher reads the notes carefully, makes a program for each days work, and directs the pupils intelligently. The teacher will be helped by reading Industrial Studies and Exercises: Teacher's Edition, particularly Chapters I, II, and IX. It is not intended that any one kind of exercise be fully covered before proceeding to the next. After having laid some of the designs with sticks, the children may lay the same forms with shells or seeds (page 32), or perforate them (page 38), or sew them (pages 41, 42). Tablet laying, tangrams, grass and string ornaments - all these exercises may appear in the program of the early weeks. This varying of exercises adds interest. Moreover, the forming of a design from different materials fixes the design upon the child's mind, and also shows him that some designs appear better in one material and others look better worked with other materials. Children like to talk about their plays and games, therefore it is easy to correlate language work with every exercise. Do not attempt formal language work. Simply show them how and what they can say about the things that interest them. The children will want to learn the name of every material with which they work and something about it. Let them examine the material by feeling it to tell if it is rough or smooth, hard or soft, thick or thin, etc., also let them compare materials to tell which is thicker or thinner, rougher or smoother, wider or narrower, etc. Also let them look at the material carefully to examine the color, strength, elasticity, etc. Counting exercises are interesting and should be given frequently. Let the children count their sticks, tablets, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.