BOOKS INDISPENSABLE TO EVERY PRIMARY TEACHER SECRETS OF DAILY LESSON PLANS IN ENGLISH By CAROLINE GRIFFIN. 224 pages. Price, 50 cents. These Lesson Plans consist of weekly outlines arranged by months - from September to June for the first four years of school. They assemble an unusual number of appropriate verses and little stories, all chosen with reference to their literary merit as well as to their genuine interest for children. The teacher who follows these lessons closely, week by week, will find not only her English lessons arranged for her, but also plans for dramatizing the material used. Correlated with the English Lessons are Reading, Writing, Nature Study and Games. The book is especially adapted to the use of rural teachers, but no progressive teacher of first to fourth year children should be without a copy. LESSON PLANS IN ARITHMETIC By KATE K. O'NEILL and ANGIE B. WHITTINGTON A needed book. 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It should be the work of both the school and the home to encourage and protect the child's natural hopefulness, fearlessness, and trustfulness in every possible One of the strongest aids in accomplishing this purpose is a generous use of carefully selected stories which, while of absorbing interest to the child, shall present to his eager, receptive and easily-molded thought, ethical lessons of lasting benefit It is with the hope that they will prove helpful to children and to those entrusted with their education and progress that these stories are published. STORY PLAYS FOR LITTLE ONES A Hand Book for Teachers By EMMA M. MAGUIRE, B. Ped. Fully illustrated. Price, 50 cents. These "Story Plays" have been chosen and written in their dramatic form to help the teacher in her choice of stories and to furnish the story chosen all ready for action. The plays in this little book furnish right action for the imagination by allowing the child to impersonate characters in the fables and fairy tales. A YEAR OF PRIMARY OCCUPATION WORK By ETTA MERRICK GRAVES. Joint Author of "A Year Book for Primary Grades" I- First Term Miss Myra King's little book of Language Games seems to me to be an admirable means to the end of forming correct habits of speech. The words of a game which one has played repeatedly in his youth are not apt to slip away from him. Just so the habitual mistakes are by means of these games repeated and repeated in correct form so sucessfully in the heat and enthusiasm of the game that the correct form will keep coming up as long as one lives. I know of no better way to impress these necessary lessons than this. E. C. MOORE, For September, October, November and December - For January, Februrary and March. 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