DRAWING, MUSIC, PHYSICAL CULTURE, SEWING 337 



Blackboard drawing should be encouraged, for the draw- 

 ing can be done on a larger scale, a necessary consideration 



for little children with still undeveloped 

 Drawing" muscles. It admits of greater freedom of 



movement and stroke; criticism by the 

 teacher is more easily made and observed by all the class ; it is 

 an invaluable means for training all children, especially timid 

 ones, in freer and bolder work. In the lower grades, some 

 time every day should be given to drawing on the boards. 



The necessity for training in the use of color must be 

 fully recognized. Color work begins in the first grade, 



where the earliest steps are taken by means 

 Work of the spectrum and color slips, and by 



letting the children draw with colored cray- 

 ons on the blackboard and with wax crayons on paper. From 

 the second grade water color boxes are used. 



Brush work begins in the third grade, writing ink or 



neutral colors being used. For this and 

 w . all color work Chinese brushes are used. 



A few lessons in pen and ink are given in 

 the upper grades. 



The general medium of expression is the pencil, but other 

 mediums are also used. Pencils for drawing are furnished 



from the third grade through all the upper 



classes. The " Eagle Academic, Soft Me- 

 dium," is used in the primary grades and also in the fifth 

 grade ; in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades " Eagle 

 Draughting, No. 314," is used. For pencil and brush work 

 a rough manilla paper is used ; for the color work, a rough 

 white paper; while for special work the children are fur- 

 nished at times with white or gray paper, well adapted for 

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