Identifier: annualcatalogueo190203191112fort (find matches)
Title: Annual catalogue of the officers and students of the Fort Hays Auxiliary State Normal School : first year--1902-'03
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Fort Hays State Normal School
Subjects: Fort Hays State Normal School Teachers colleges
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Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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sing of sentences of all kinds. The study of history and derivation ofsome words. Music—The theory work includes the study of the scale of C and thebuilding of all the major scales, the study of the chromatic scale and acci-dentals in music, the developing of the minor scales from the major. Intone work, the pupils are drilled in producing tones of good quality. Theyare taught to read in all the major keys and to read easy exercises in theminor keys. Nature Study.—The whole realm of science is too broad for elementarynature study. Interest will be most easily created in those phenomena thataffect us, and those plants, insects and animals that make for our happinessor misery. Every child will come later to a hand-to-hand contest with theelements in field, garden, or lawn, and the rules of the battle are interestingto him now. Actual contact with nature, and not stories about nature,should be the guiding principle of the work; so aquaria, vivaria and gar- Fourth Annual Catalogue, ll
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A RESERVATION LANDSCAPE.( Land belongs to the State Normal School.) 42 Western Branch State Normal School. dens should be provided, to facilitate observation. Out-of-doors is the bookthat will furnish most of the reading. No course can foresee what thechildren will come in contact with. The following attempts to suggest thekind of work, rather than the quantity or the exact objects to be observed.Purposive employments involving natural objects and the application of na-tures laws are devised in the carrying out of an effective course in naturestudy. Seventh year.—The bees, spiders, ants, toads, snakes, turtles, fish and themicroscopic life in stagnant water are observed. Birds are studied, makinglists of all seen, and noting what they were doing. Any immediate intereststhat may arise in nature study are followed out. Eighth year.—The planting and care of trees is the special topic; theiruse and beauty; the names of trees around Hays and distinguishing char-acteristics. Pupils lear

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