SCHOOL WORK JUNE, 1903 THE COURSE OF STUDY FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF NEW YORK CITY Adopted by the Board of Education on May 27, 1903 GRADE 1A ENGLISH COMPOSITION.-Conversation and oral reproduction. READING. Short sentences and paragraphs. Reading to the pupils. Ethical lessons. Sounds of letters. Use of library books. MEMORIZING.-Prose and poetry. NATURE STUDY ANIMALS.-Common animals. PLANTS. Flowering plants; fruits and vegetables. PHYSICAL TRAINING AND HYGIENE PHYSICAL TRAINING.-Gymnastic exercises and games. HYGIENE. Simple talks on cleanliness and on correct habits. Effects of alcohol and narcotics. MATHEMATICS ORAL.-Reading to one hundred. Counting. Addition tables, 1's, 2's. Measurements and comparisons. Problems. WRITTEN.-Integers of one order. DRAWING AND CONSTRUCTIVE WORK Freehand representations of objects; simple illustrative drawings. Constructive work with applications of decorative design. Color. Study of pictures. SEWING AND CONSTRUCTIVE WORK CORD WORK: simple knotting; applications. MUSIC Simple rote songs; the scale taught as song; scale relations in simple form; tone relations and accent developed from songs; simple melodic exercises in tone relationship by imitation and by dictation. GRADE 1B ENGLISH COMPOSITION.-Conversation and oral reproduction. PENMANSHIP.-Free-arm movements; copying; practice by pupils in writing their own names. READING.-Phonic exercises; sentences and paragraphs read from the blackboard and readers. Reading to the pupils. Ethical lessons. Use of library books. MEMORIZING.-Prose and poetry. NATURE STUDY ANIMALS.-Common animals. PLANTS. Flowering plants; fruits and vegetables. PHYSICAL TRAINING AND HYGIENE Gymnastic exercises and games, and correct hygienic habits. MATHEMATICS ORAL.-Reading to one hundred. Counting. Addition tables, 3's, 4's. Subtraction within the tables. Increasing and decreasing integers of two Measurements and comparisons. Problems. WRITTEN.-Integers of two orders. Addition and subtraction. orders by I, by 2, by 3, by 4. DRAWING AND CONSTRUCTIVE WORK Freehand representation of objects; simple illustrative drawings. Constructive work with applications of decorative design. Color. Study of pic tures. SEWING AND CONSTRUCTIVE WORK CORD WORK: double knotting and looping; applications. MUSIC ROTE SONGS.-Exercises in tone relationship by oral and visible methods of dictation; tone relations and accent developed from songs; recognition of tone relations by the ear; development of rhythmic sense through the medium of song. GRADE 2A ENGLISH COMPOSITION.-Conversation and oral reproduction; sentences written from copy. PENMANSHIP.-Free-arm movements; writing from copy. READING.-Phonic exercises. Reading from the blackboard and readers. Reading to the pupils. Ethical lessons. Use of library books. SPELLING.-Familiar words. MEMORIZING.-Prose and poetry. NATURE STUDY ANIMALS.-Common animals, including insects. PLANTS.-Flowering plants; fruits and vegetables; common trees. PHYSICAL TRAINING AND HYGIENE PHYSICAL TRAINING.-Gymnastic exercises and games, and correct hygienic habits. HYGIENE. Dietetics. Care of teeth. Effects of alcohol and narcotics. MATHEMATICS ORAL.-Reading to one thousand. Roman numerals to XII. Counting. Addition tables to 9's. Subtraction within the tables. Increasing and decreasing integers of two orders by integers of one order. Measurements and comparisons. Fractions. Problems. WRITTEN.-Integers of three orders. Addition and subtraction. Problems. DRAWING AND CONSTRUCTIVE WORK Freehand representation of objects; simple illustrative drawings. Constructive work with application of decorative design. Color. Study of pictures. SEWING AND CONSTRUCTIVE WORK CORD, RAFFIA, AND SEWING; buttonhole looping; fancy knotting; coarse stitches on canvas; applications. MUSIC ROTE SONGS; tone relations and accent developed from songs as in IA and IB; exercises in tone relationship by oral and visible methods of dictation, and recognition of tone relations by the ear; rudiments of staff notation; recognition of two-part and three-part measure, applying measure words, "loud, soft, loud, soft," with the use of quarter-note, half-note, and corresponding rests; simple exercises in two voice-parts. |