Increase, Print Script. Standards I-IV,....... Increase, Increase, Writing. Standards III-VIII, . Singing by rote. Standards I-III, Decrease, Singing by note. Standards IV-VIII, (optional) 8,633 Decrease, Number Standards I-III. (Standard III includes Arithmetic in district schools,.... 35,236 Increase, Increase, Arithmetic. Standards IV-VIII, Book-keeping. Standard IV in district schools, (optional), Decrease, Book-keeping. Standard VIII, (optional),.... Increase, Increase, Geometry. Standards VII-VIII, Mensuration. Standard VIII, Decrease, Increase, Algebra. Standards VII—VIII, Geography. Standards I-IV, Increase, Geography. Standards V-VIII, Useful Knowledge (Minerals, Plant and Animal Useful Knowledge, Standards V—VIII, Color. Standards I-IV, Familiar Objects, Standards I-IV, Physics, Standards V—VIII, Decrease,.. 227 .... .... Decrease .. 660 The preceding figures include all pupils, whether attending the Primary, Advanced, Superior or Grammar Schools, who are not in advance of Standard VIII. The number of pupils in the several subjects of instruction in advanceof this standard will be given further on. COURSE OF INSTRUCTION. The following is the Course of Instruction as revised, approved by the Board of Education, and ordered to take effect July 1st, 1889: NOTE 1. With a view of awakening and cultivating a taste for wholesome reading, and of promoting general culture among the pupils, it is recommended that every Friday afternoon be devoted to exercises fitted to secure this end, such as readings, recitations, dialogues, songs, reading of original essays, examination and description of suitable pictures, etc. NOTE 2.-Under each of the Standards I to IV, familiar lessons adapted to each Grade, to be given on the conditions of HEALTH-pure air, sunlight, good water, wholesome food, proper clothing, cleanly and temperate habits, avoidance of draughts, and the sudden checking of perspiration, dry feet, &c., and on MORALS AND MANNERS, as specified in Regs. 11 and 22. PHYSICAL EXERCISES, as per prescribed Manual (Blackie's Sound Bodies for Boys and Girls) at least twice each session. RECESSES, as specified in Reg. 19 (6).-OPTIONAL: Plain Sewing for girls (the making of useful articles requiring simple stitches and short seams), and especially mending, patching and darning: Knitting; but no fancy work of any kind during school hours. Reading.-Wall Cards. Primer. Sound and names of letters. Word-building from sounds. Sounds of diphthongs and double consonants. [Each story on the Wall Cards should be taught from the blackboard sentence by sentence, before the Cards are introduced, and special attention given to pleasantness and brightness of tones, fluency, clearness and correctness of pronunciation.] * The following allotment of time for the several subjects embraced in the Primary School Course is suggested to teachers as generally applicable. The time required for Opening exercises, Roll-call and Physical exercises is to be deducted proportionately from that assigned to the several subjects. LANGUAGE-60 per cent. Reading and Spelling, 25 History 2 NATURAL HISTORY-40 per cent. Composition. Oral correction of wrong forms of speech used by the pupil. Repeating substance of reading or oral lesson. Form.-Common objects as wholes examined first with respect to resemblance in shape and afterwards to prominent differences. Common solids distinguished-ball, cube, cylinder, hemisphere, square and triangular prisms, faces, edges, corners. Folding and cutting paper, etc., as in Prang's Primary Mannual in Form Study and Drawing, Part I. Printing words or sentences in common print from reading lesson. Print-script as soon as pupils are able to build up words from sounds. Rote-singing. Simple songs selected from the Canadian Song Book or Curwen's Series. [See Reg. 16. (5).] NATURAL HISTORY OR SCIENCE: Number.-Developing ideas of Number from one to ten through the medium of objects. Fundamental operations-Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division upon these numbers. Notation by means of dots or strokes only during the First Term. Arabic numerals to be used afterwards. Geography.-Developing ideas of Place, as right and left, front and behind, of objects in the School-room, with exercises thereon on the blackboard or slate. Useful Knowledge. Minerals.-Distinguishing and naming coal, slate, clay, iron, lead, etc. Plant Life. Distinguishing and naming common garden vegetables, flowers, field crops, trees in the neighbourhood. Animal Life.-Distinguishing and naming principal parts of the human body by means of pictures; to point to and name principal parts of familiar animals. Color.--Distinguishing and naming common colors. LANGUAGE: STANDARD II. (Second Grade or Year.) Reading. Reading, Spelling, Reader No. 1. building continued, Recitation, [see Reg. 16 (5)] School weekly). Correct pronunciation. Drill on lesson sheets.* Wordfrom the Reader, (one-fourth of Composition. Oral correction of wrong forms of speech used by the pupil. Repeating substance of reading or oral lesson, before leaving it. Answers in print-script to simple questions on reading or oral lessons. Form. The remaining solids as in Prang's Primary Manual (Part II.) Modelling in clay, etc., continued as in the Manual. Print-script and exercises occasionally written in same form of writing as in Reader. * Each school room in which Reader I is taught must be furnished with a set of Lesson Sheets. These sheets are a reprint in large type of each lesson in the Reader, and are to be used before or after reading the lesson from the book, for the purpose of helping the class to read fluently from the book, or to recognize the individual words in any order, etc. Rote-Singing. Simple songs selected from Canadian Song Book, or Curwen Series. Articulation and breathing. [See Reg. 16 (5).] NATURAL HISTORY OR SCIENCE: Number.-Ideas of number from 10 to 100. Arabic Notation from 10 to 100. Multiplication Table to 10 tens constructed and memorized. Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division of numbers-results not to exceed 100. Geography.-Points of the Compass. Location and direction of streets and other objects from school-house. Ideas of Map developed by representation of school-room, play-ground, portions of city or district. Useful Knowledge. Minerals--Pointing out objects in school-room made in part or in whole of iron or any mineral. Names of implements made of ircn, steel, &c. utensils of iron, tin, &c. Plant Life.-Distinguishing parts of plants-stems, leaves, roots. Cooking Animal Life.—Distinguishing and naming the chief sub-divisions of the principal parts of the human body and lessons on such parts as skin, nails-use and care of. Familiar animals-their food, habits, uses. Color.-Distinguishing and naming tints and shades. Naming objects of such tints and shades. STANDARD III. (Third Grade or Year.) LANGUAGE-Reading.-Reading, Spelling, Reader No. II. Meaning of words. Correct pronunciation of all words used. Recitation as before.. Composition. Oral correction of wrong forms of speech used by the pupils. Repeating substance of reading or oral lesson before leaving it. Written answers to questions on reading lesson. Book No. 1 of Industrial Drawing.—Freehand outline on slate and blackboard. Shorter Course in Form Study and Drawing. Modelling, etc., continued. Print-scriptcontinued. Writing.-Copy-book No. 1, (McMillan's Series). Rote-Singing. Simple songs selected from Canadian Song Book and Curwen's Series. Articulation and breathing continued. [See Reg. 16 (5).] NATURAL HISTORY OR SCIENCE-Number.-Number from 100 to 1000 (the numbers employed and the results obtained not to exceed 1000). Notation of Numbers to 1000. Completion of Multiplication Table. Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division of numbers to 1000. Developing ideas of Fractions through the medium of objects. Constructing and memorizing the Tables of Avoirdupois, Long Measure, and Canadian Currency. (Weights and measures to be examined and used by the pupils before constructing the Tables.) Roman numerals to M. Geography (Oral).--Conceptions of physical features—plain, hill, mountain, valley, |