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SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS

b. Classroom decoration for special occasions.

c. Making furniture for dolls' houses.

d. Covering kite frames.

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e. Constructing tents, canoes, and sleds for Indian and Eskimo villages.

V. Exercises that involve the reading of numbers to 100.

1. Finding pages in the class reader.

2. In cities, reading the numbers of houses.

3. In country places, reading the numbers on the postoffice boxes.

4. In large schools, reading the numbers on the doors of classrooms.

5. Reading the numbers of pupils' lockers and hooks in the cloakroom.

6. Reading the dates on the calendar.

VI. Exercises that involve the writing of figures.

1. Records kept by teacher and pupils showing:

a. The number of different wild flowers found in a certain week.

b. The number of showers in a certain spring month. c. The various dates on which beans, corn, peas, etc., were planted, and the dates on which the roots, leaves, blossoms, etc., first appeared.

d. The date of the first snowfall or the appearance of the first robin or butterfly.

e. The date of the first migration of birds noted in the fall.

2. Class records kept by pupils on the blackboard.

a. The number of pupils belonging to the class each

day.

b. The number of pupils present.

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The number of pupils not tardy.

d. The number of days each pupil attends school during the month.

e. Record of classroom temperature at certain times of the day.

f. The number of the file or files that did good work in some particular lesson.

g. Scores kept of games played by pupils.

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2. Read the numbers on this blackboard.

3. Write in figures: one, two, three, four, five, six,

seven, eight, nine, and ten.

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