2 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-EXPERIMENT STATION W 
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1. Human Needs, Interests, and Activities 
Informal talks with the children about their homes, to make them 
feel at ease in the school and to show them that the school is interested 
in the home life of its pupils. Encourage each child to have a part in 
these conversational lessons, thus giving opportunity for drill in 
correct oral expression on things related to the life of the child. 
The home .—The house and the need of shelter. Materials that 
enter into the construction of the house. Where obtained? Labor 
needed in the construction of the house. Heating ways: lighting, as 
candles, lamps, electric, gas; water in the house. Description of the 
house, rooms with furnishings, conveniences, etc. The surroundings 
of the house, the lawn with its trees, shrubs, vines, and flowers. 
Changes about and in the house because of seasonal changes in 
weather. Health and hygiene of the home. Duties of the various 
members of the household in making the house attractive and com¬ 
fortable. Ideas in cooperation with certain activities. Find out what 
the child does or contributes to this social service. Play activities of 
the children at home; the pleasures of family life, the visits of 
neighbors, etc. 
Food .—A second fundamental need. Have the children name all 
the different foods that come from the garden; from the field; from 
the orchard; from animals; from the store. When harvest and how 
store products of garden, field, and orchard? Provisions for the 
future. Changes in certain articles as wheat into flour, etc., processes, 
where and by whom. Things that cause a shortage of food. Work of 
various members of the household in growing and the preparation 
of food. Duty of the child as an economic factor. Needed articles of 
food—salt, sugar, etc.—not grown or found in the pupil’s locality 
or state. 
