State
Female Normal School
97
Eighth Grade SCIENCE.
Elementary physiology and hygiene, with the addition of such phases of domestic science as bear especially upon the preservation of health.
T'ext-Book: Khohn's Graded Lessons in Hygiene.
History The aims of history study are wide and
In the begin-
varied.
ning this subject should be so treated that the young child may be able to 'Hake up into himself the experience of the race by living
and
feeling those things of primitive life which he can
appreciate by intellect and sympathy."
''In thus bringing
degrees the past into manifest relation to the present,"
hope
to
show the
child, as
by
we may
he develops, how "historical ideas
and experiences are being constantly projected are, in fact, the controlling forces in
into the present,
our social and industrial
life."
While making the child more
we
intelligent about his country,
should, by bringing into the school the lives, words
of great
and
patriotic
men, aim
to
tive to his country's true dignity
we
make him
also
and honor.
and deeds
"more
We
sensi-
should, as
and purify the sentiment of patriotism." Lastly, and chiefly, there should run through all history study an aim to "socialize the child, that is to make him more regardful of the interests of others, less stubborn and isolated in his individuality, less selfish an aim to give strong impulses toward teach, clarify
;
the formation of character." First
Home
life
Grade
studied in the Kindergarten reviewed and extended
in this grade as a basis for comparison with Primitive Life, i.
e.,
The Tree Dwellers and Cave Men.