SECOND GRADE 



SUGGESTIONS TO THE TEACHER 



Basis of Second Grade Work. Since the pupils of this 

 grade are so near in age to those of the first grade, the prin- 

 ciples expressed in the " Suggestions to Teachers" of the 

 former grade apply with almost equal force to this one. 



While the lessons may be repeated to young children with 

 less harm than to older ones, the author believes it much 

 better to provide mostly new work for each grade, and where 

 some thoughts that were brought out in the first grade may 

 be found in work given for this one, they will be found 

 usually in new relations. 



The lessons of the first grade are confined chiefly to 

 the home environment and activities, because the pupils 

 of that grade have little else to build upon. In the 

 second year the experience of the child has been enlarged 

 and his horizon extended. He is now capable of feeling 

 some of the needs of the home and learning how they 

 are supplied. He can now consider the home as a shelter, 

 made necessary by the conditions of the weather: and, by 

 sympathy, can see also the needs of animals for shelter. He 

 can study the garden and the store as the immediate sources 

 of supply for home needs, and the farm and tha orchard as 

 more remote ones. Many of the simpler forms of manufac- 

 ture the transforming of raw materials into useful things 

 will interest him, and afford much educative activity. On 

 these topics, then, the second grade work is based, forming 

 a unifying element around which most of the other work may 

 correlate. 



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