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ing for the year, and care is taken that some of them shall 

 be of a nature to arouse the interest of the 



Stones of children in the world as well as in its people. 



Other Lands 



Conditions in many countries thus begin to 



impress themselves upon the minds of the pupils. The 

 globe and the wall maps are used in these stories, although 

 no fixed amount of knowledge can be required. If the 

 information is given accurately, if the locations are clearly 

 pointed out, and if the children frequently hunt out places 

 and countries for themselves, the results are almost sure to 

 be satisfactory in regard to the amount of geographical 

 information obtained. 



FOURTH YEAR GRADE 



Units of measurement of distance and time are developed 

 through a comprehension of one mile, five, ten, a hundred 

 miles ; an hour, a day, a week, a month, a 

 year. Pupils try to realize long distances 



by translating them into the time occupied 

 in covering them by various modes of travel. This corre- 

 lates well with number work, the children solving some 

 really difficult problems for their grade through interest in 

 the thought and a real understanding of what they are try- 

 ing to do. 



From six to seven months of the year are given to home 

 geography. An elementary text-book is used, and the al- 



lotted time is ample for collateral reading 

 Geography an( ^ ^ or ma ^ m & experiments to illustrate 



some of the phenomena described. It is 

 easy to show the children the carrying power of rivers in 

 transporting soil; the way in which hills are washed down 



