2/4 METHODS IN TEACHING 



to represent the thirteen states which then made up the 

 United States. The field of the flag was to be blue, with 

 thirteen white stars. A stripe and a star were to be added 

 whenever a new state came into the Union. 



New stars and stripes were added until there were fifteen 

 of each. It was decided then to have always thirteen stripes 

 in memory of the first thirteen states. But in the blue field 

 were to be as many stars as there are states in the Union. 

 Now the flag has forty-five stars. When a new state comes 

 into the Union another star will be added. 



The colors of the flag have a meaning too. The red 

 means courage ; the white, purity ; and the blue, truth. 



THIRD YEAR GRADE 



In third grade history there is the same arrangement for 

 time as in the two lower classes, twenty minutes a day for 

 two weeks in every month. The growing powers of the 

 child, however, make possible maturer methods of work. 



The story is now read to the class as often as it is told. 

 The relief to the teacher from preparing for an oral pre- 

 sentation makes room for the more careful 



Drawings oversight of written reproductions, becom- 



as Aids in 



Presentation m T necessary on account of the increasing 



length of the papers and of the larger 

 vocabularies used. Pictures and drawings are still, as 

 throughout the course, an ever-present aid in teaching. 

 Going from room to room among third grades, one notes 

 with pleasure the growing power of the children in artistic 

 illustration, indicated by the more ambitious drawings on 

 the boards. These special pictures, by the best artists in the 

 class, are preserved for days, valuable aids in the portrayal 



