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and color.
3. As we stand at each side, see whether there are any parts which you never noticed before or any parts which we forgot to mention yesterday.
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Look at this drawing of a school building and grounds. It is called a plan. Before any school or church or home is built a plan must be drawn. This is to show the workmen what to do. See how much of the ground is used for the building. Find the garden. What are in the garden? Which is larger, the garden or the playground? What shape is the playground? How many doors are there to the building? In how many ways can you get into the playground?
Try to draw a plan of your school building and yard, showing the gates, the flagpole, the drinking fountain or pump, and any other parts you think of. Show which door you use most.
Note to the Teacher.--The pupils should draw the plan upon paper while the teacher draws it upon the blackboard. Infinite care should be exercised to invest every line with its full meaning. Upon the proper interpretation of this first plan will depend much of the pupil's future ability to correctly read a map as the representation of a reality.
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THE INSIDE OF THE SCHOOL
As you walk from the school door to your room what do you see? Tell all that you have noticed in the corridors, on the staircases, in the cloak-rooms and the class-rooms.
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We will go on a little excursion through the school today, walking along all of the corridors and upon all of the staircases. Look especially to see anything that you never saw before, and notice anything that you forgot to mention in yesterday's description.
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Answer the following questions:
1. How many stories high is our school?
2. How many class-rooms are on each floor?
3. How many other rooms are on each floor?
4. How many staircases does our school have?
5. What materials have been used in building the staircases?
6. What can be seen in the corridor nearest your room?
7. By how many doorways can the children leave the building?
8. How is your school heated and ventilated?
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Describe everything that you can see in your class-room.
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[Illustration: PLAN OF SCHOOL ROOM]
Look at this plan of a school-room. See if you can draw a plan of your school-room.
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Make a list of all the materials that have been used in building the inside of your school. Remember all of the following parts:
Floors Windows Corridor furnishings Ceilings Doors Class-room furnishings Walls Staircases
Now write a list of the kinds of workmen who gathered together these materials. Name as many of the kinds of workmen as you can think of who were engaged on the inside work of the building.
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Write a letter to anyone whom you know who has never seen our school. Tell all about our building and the good workmen by whom it was planned and built.
CHAPTER II
THE STREETS AND ROADS
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On what street or road does your school stand?
On what street or road do you live?
What streets or roads do you pass on your way home?
What do you think is the finest street or road that you have ever seen anywhere? What makes that so good a street or road?
Name a poor street or road. What could be done to improve it?
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Why do cities and towns have streets and roads? Where are there no streets?
Look at the country picture shown on page 19. How pretty it is! When would it be pleasant to walk there? When would it not be so pleasant? Why? What must be done to a road to make it into a good street? Tell what you can of the different ways of paving, lighting and draining streets and roads, and of the different kinds of name-signs you have seen.
Now what can be done to make a street or road beautiful and pleasant in warm weather?
How can boys and girls help to keep the streets and roads pleasant?
Here is a plan of some of the streets in a large city.
[Illustration: PLAN OF CITY STREETS.]
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Draw the shape of the school lot. Now show the street or road that the school stands upon. If you live in a town, draw the streets next to the school. Then draw the next streets, and keep on until you have drawn the street on which your home stands. Place a little cross to show your home. With your pencil start from your house and make a dotted line to show how you come to school.
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On your plan of the neighborhood place a circle to show the grocery store or bakery that you pass on your way to school. Make a large dot to show the nearest store to school, and with a dotted line explain how you would go there from school if your teacher sent you to buy ink. Make a