THE PRIMARY GRADES UNIV. OF BY NELLIE COOPER PRIMARY SUPERVISOR EAST TENNESSEE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 1924 A. FLANAGAN COMPANY CHICAGO PREFACE This book is the outgrowth of a number of years' experience in helping prepare teachers for work in primary grades. After a brief discussion of the aim of education and certain of the underlying principles which run through all the work, the author attempts to show how these principles may be worked out in practice in the primary grades. An attempt has been made to discuss each subject in a practical and scientific way followed by concrete application. Each step in the plan work has for its basis the principles of psychology which apply to the child mind. Each of the many plans given has been tried out again and again in actual schoolroom practice. The obligations of the author are too numerous to mention. Where direct quotations have been used, due acknowledgment has been made; but it was impossible to acknowledge many of the minor points used in the book, as these were often taken unconsciously from books and magazines. The author has read every book and article bearing on the subject that was accessible. Acknowledgment is made of the assistance given by the colleagues of the author; namely, Dean Hodge Mathes, President Sidney G. Gilbreath, Miss Katherine McSpadden, Miss Tompsie Baxter, Prof. F. W. Alexander, Prof. D. S. Burleson, Prof. Max Schoen, Prof. W. B. Coggin, Miss Ina Yoakley, Prof. C. E. Rogers, Supt. Riley Haworth, and Miss Pearl Bennett. Johnson City, Tenn. 675232 NELLIE COOPER EQUIPMENT NECESSARY FOR Adjustable desks Kindergarten chairs Rubber screw chair tips Sand table Library Book case Card index (for Library) Good primary magazines Pictures Clock Clock dial Phonograph Thermometer Numeral frame Denominate number cabinet Pitch instrument Duplicator Pencil sharpener Scissors Paper cutter Rubber type chart outfit Plasticine Drawing and construction paper Colored crayons Toy money Number drill cards Cubical counting blocks Alphabet cards Word strips Phonic word builder Domino cards Peg boards Plain sticks Colored sticks Colored pegs Sectional animals and birds Weaving mats Weaving slats Beads for stringing United States Flag. Flags of Foreign Nations Playground equipment: Giant stride See-saw Swings Slide (All the equipment listed above may be obtained from A. Flanagan Company, Chicago.) |