Cowley County Teacher from Winfield, Kansas • 3

Monthly Reports November, 1879. SljSia Si? TEACHERS AND PUPILS, The place to buy your Clothing, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, Gloves, Valises, and Furnishing of all kinds, is at J. S. Mann's Outfitting Emporium for Men and Boys. J.

S. MANN, Winfield, Kan. DISTRICTS. 3 cr.rr a 85i Winflcld-Flrst Primary, Second Primary, 44 -Intermediate Do't, Second it -Grammar -High School, SwaIm District -Primary 16; 'mm ni i Iran 17 i intermediate, 28 i 43! 10: 88 High School, District Number 1, (A) i 27j 123:14:101: 23; Revised Readers 135:27:.. i 12 10 5i 68; 3 34: 0 13521:11: 1161 9:45: 13! 1 senses.

Describe heart and lungs, and teach the necessity of pure air, exercise and erect carriage. Place and Direction: Terms right and left, up and down, points of compass, direction of familiar objects and places. Object Lessons: Upon any. familiar objects. Take formula from Sheldon or Calkins.

Teach pages and lesson heads with each new lesson. Neyer allow pupils to read a lesson until they have mastered the new words from a black-board drill. Develop the subject matter of the lesson. -Discuss the meaning of words, and encourage pupils to express themselves in full statements. Require erect position.

Conduct exercises in breathing and vocal drill. After recitation, pupils should write the new lesson, and a list of words prepared by the teacher, on their slates. Four rules from Calkins: 1. "Train the sight to know words by the eye, readily. 2.

Train the hearing to know words by the ear, distinctly and accurately. 3. Train the speech to utter words correctly and fluently, and in a clear, pleasant tone. 4. Train the pupils to understand what they read and to be able to tell the story or principal facts in the lesson." Use your own judgment as to length of lesson, but let it be short, and take into consideration the ability and the amount of training your class possesses.

Finally, remember that a lazy man or woman can not conduct a successful reading WINFIELD, JANT, 1880. Remember the advertisers in The Teacher when you visit town. Avoid chalk dust by cleaning boards at recess, noon, and after school. T. J.

Floyd has gotten married, and of course will make no school reports during the next few months. Foster Tucker came home from the State University to spend the holidays, lie likes his school well, and reports all interests flourishing. George Thompson, of Baltimore, now a student in the Agricultural College, Manhattan, writes us a pleasant letter about that institution. lie seems well pleased with the school, and is making good progress. 0 The Common School Teacher, published at Bedford, is a monthly journal that has done noble work for the common schools of Indiana.

Kansas teachers and Kansas schools would bo benefited by a study of its pages. Miss Nina C. Johnson, one of our county's leading teachers, was compelled to1 quit teaching because of heart disease. We are glad to say that she has found a complete cure. Her name now is Mrs.

Ira McCommon. Hints on Primary Work, BY 3IISS LILLIAN II0XIE. Concluded.) WRITING. Use first a modified script, as, cat, dog, log, man, rude; then allow pupils to copy from black-board rude house. 26: 2 145:32: 3i 95; 4 60: 4 4 158 3 5-Si 2 4:111: 0 65 i 4 1 1 16 1 6il25i 1: 84; 4 I40j26jl7j-il24j 5 i 6l 18 1 Among the superior features of Mc-Guffey's Revised readers the following may be enumerated: 1.

Adaptation to modern methods of teaching reading notably the Phonic Method, the Word Method, or a union of these methods. The most familiar and popular system of diacritical marks is brought into consistent use. 2. Every word used in the First, Second, and one-half of the Third Reader, when first introduced is placed at the head of the lesson in which it occurs, to be learned before the lesson is read. 1, (B) 5, (A) 5, (B) 0, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, (A) 20, (B) 21, 22, 23 24, 25.

26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 3t' 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, "45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51. 52, 53, 55, 56, 57,. 58, 59, 60, 61, :62, 63, 64, 65, 12: 0 i'T'izti 40i 4 ti tt 4t Ik tk tt tt tk tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt t. tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt ti tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt 55j 3. Carefully engraved script lessons are introduced.

1 47 33 2i 88! 2 3j 63j 0 88j 5 6i 14! 8 1 38! Go tk Old Reliable kk tk tk kt kk kk tt kk kk kk it tt tt tt tt tt kk kk kk tt tt tt tt tt kt tt tt tt tt tt tk kk tt tt ta kt tt tk tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt kt tt tt tt tt t. tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt It 1 tt tt tt It tt tt tt it kt tt tt tt tt tt tt II tt It tt tt II it tt II it tt it tt It tt tt tt ti it i 9i 10: 3 29:22:.. 1 148: 8 -FOE- 4 S3; .64:36:22: 4: 75; 7 133:20: I :143 4. The gradation of the series, and of the different books of the series, has been carefully adjusted to meet the requirements of the schools of to-day. 5.

Selections from the writings of the best modern American and English authors. 6. The illustrations Were drawn and engraved expressly for these Readers by the foremost artists in the country. Many of them will serve admirably as the basis for oral lessons in language. No collection of engravings of equal artistic merit has ever before been presented in a series of school text-books.

7. The typography, printing and binding are attractive and substantial. PRICES: 23:18: 23! CHEAP-GROCERIES, 5 0 15 6 13923: i 1: 2 li 66': lj 5 69! 18; DRY GOODS, 6: 5: 42! 6 LANGUAGE. Teach correct expressions and never let an error pass unnoticed. 1 Place lists of familiar words on black-board and require pupils, who have learned to write them, to form short statements and questions, omit-tinq capital letters at first.

dog the dog barks. ran my cat ran. boy boy plays. cat the cat plays. eats dog eats.

plays the boy plays. barks the dog barks. DRAWING, Pupils should copy simple figures from black-board and learn the position of straight and curved lines. Vertical 1 MM; horizontal right slant left slant Judge of dimensions, 1 in. 2 in.

3 in. lyd. from actual measurement and drawing 18! 3 61i 6 122:171 44:33: i I 1 HATS, CAPS, 4 67, 68, 69, 70, 71. 72, 73t 74, 75, 76, I 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85,. 86 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95 96, 67, 98, 99, 100 101, 103.

103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, -f 109, 110, HI, 113, CLOTHING; Sample Copy and Introduction. McGufley's Revised First1 Eclectio Reader, .13 McGuffcy's Revised SecondEclectio McGllffev'fl Rfivised Third Er1priA RadjIpiv an i 55: 2 00; 3 6j 20: 9: 3 39: i tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt It tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt It tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt t. tt. tt McGuffey's Revised Fourth Eclectio wwuuey xtevisea xnin eclectic Keaaer, .00 BOOTS AND SHOES, it: i29jl7j 3: 19! 2 H'W "McGuffey's New Electic Readers," as heretoiore published, will be continued in publication. 83f Parties ordering will please specily if they wish McGuffey's Revised Readers.

-AT- il7l3il5! 43i it lines. For General Lessons (once a week) select from thefbllowing: Form: Teach and examples not definitions. 1 11 Color: Name and distinguish primary and secondary colors. Animals: Name uses and parts of domestic Physiology: Name division of body, head, neck, trunk and limbs. Name 138:221 Sill 63 3 oq; BOTTOM PRICES.

i 113, I r-. 114, 115. The County Superintendent has visited the j. B.lA'NN. CINCINNATI AND NEW YORK..