Packer Collegiate Institute - Pelican Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Ibn ierimatp Department. Classes in the Primary department are formed in September. The rooms, located on the main floor with a southern exposure, are especially well lighted, and open on the playground. Instruction is given daily in arithmetic, geography, and reading, and there iscareful training from the first in writing and outline drawing. Abundant illustrations for elementary lessons in science are at hand. The children are trained to observe every step of plant life. Window gardens are planted in their presence, attractive forms of growth are displayed, and the functions of various parts of plants are explained in daily object lessons. There are daily exercises in English, and a lesson in French or in German is given three times a week. The course of instruc- tion continues for two years, beginning with pupils who know how to add and subtr2lCf numbers. I .-....- '-P ' v

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Qllumspertus uf Stamina in the ljlrtmarp Department. The figures in the table indicate number of lessons each week: periods, fifteen to forty minutes. .SEGGND GRADE. CThe loWer.j ' Mathematlcs. English. Geography. rNatural SCIENCE. Gther St'LlCl1CS Arithmetic- Reading. Forms of land and wa- Animals. ' Drawing 2. Notation, addition, Reproduction of object les- ter, kinds of soil, work Plants. Writing 2. subtraction reviewed. sons. of water. Seed distribution, ger- Vocal music 2. Multiplication tables. Selections from Longfellow, Zones, plants, and ani- A modern mination, growth, fruit. Calisthenics. Problems. memorized. mals. A language Color. Talks on history Phonetics. Children in other lands. ' I Spelling. Maps of hemispheres. J Composition. W IO' 2 3 FIRST GRADE. Arithmetic- Use of capitals and period. North America. Daily weather records. Drawing 2. Multiplication Reading- Historical reader United States. Animals- Insects, Form 1. reviewed. and mythological reader. i Map drawing. - worms, fish. ' Writing 2. Division. Reproducing true stories. A modern Plants - Seed germina- Vocal music 2 Federal money. Mernorizing poems. lan ua 6 tion, growth, fruit. Calisthenics. Fractions through Phonetics. g g ' ' Sewing I, tenths. Spelling. Problems. Dictation. Exercises in writing. I2 5 3 2 ' .,-... -.. I , F., -in -- -Y-.