The child afflicted with defective speech works with an increased effort to overcome his difficulty so that he may become a more efficient salesman. Every child aspires to the position of storekeeper. In the fields of number the possibilities are unlimited in studying weights and measures, actual prices paid for things and usual quantities purchased. Playing store involves the making of bills and the changing of money; children take turns acting as salesman or cashier. Excellent practice in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and fractions comes into play following in all cases the common practices of real life as closely as possible. As in real stores a stock taking sale at reduced rates may be advertised. Numerous other exercises suggest themselves and a vast amount of vital subject matter may be dealt with in a material way, quite on the level of the child's experience and interest. In using the store as a center of interest we may, it seems, provide activities which are real to the child and full of interest and action, which radiate into the various fields of our school curriculum, which tend to promote a social spirit, provide for spontaneity and aim to make the child aware of and alive to the environment in which he lives. It is Dean Balliet, I think, who says that the fundamental function of education is to develop the power of interpreting the meaning of our environment and the world in which we live so that we may keep on being educated after our school days are over. MARY E. SODEN, Brooklyn Model School. BOOKS AND REVIEWS Mendel's Principles of Heredity. By W. Bateson. Published by Cambridge University Press, England, also by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1913. This volume was first published in 1909, and in 1913 certain additions were made bringing it up to date. The book embraces in a comprehensive fashion the whole principle of Mendelism and much of the work which has been done along the Mendelian lines since 1900, the year of the rediscovery of Mendel's papers on heredity. It contains a clear exposition of the laws of heredity together with specific examples of their application in the field of Botany and Zoology, including the human. For this reason both to the student of heredity and to the breeder, the book should be of high value. The author also discusses the relation of the facts discovered to sociology and human evolution- all of which should prove of absorbing interest to the general reader. A biographical account of Mendel himself together with a translation of his original papers completes this already excellent work. FLORENCE DE L. LOWTHER, Barnard College. BOOKS RECEIVED The A. B. C. of Woodworking: a Practical Manual for Home and School. By Charles G. Wheeler, B. S. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. $2.50. The American History Story Book. By Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball. Little, Brown and Co., Boston. Busy Builder's Book. Bertha B. and Ernest Coff. Ginn & Co., New York. Stories in Prose and Rhyme for Little Children. Frances McKeen, American School for the Deaf, Hartford, Conn. NOTES AND EXCHANGES American Education: Industrial Education. Our Old Friend, the Examination. Personal Analysis. The New York Meeting of the N. E. A. How to Make History and Civics More Practical. Robert Judson Aley, President Elect of the N. E. A. Education: A study of Junior High School. Patent Medicine Formulas in Our Public School Curriculums. A Plea for the Library in Public Schools. War as National Discipline. Commerical Education. Educational Exchange: James Whitcomb Riley. A New Efficiency Factor. The Crediting of Voluntary Reading. Suggestions for Primary Work. Memory Gems. The Elementary School Journal: Course of Study in Drawing in the Elementary School. Tests of Efficiency in Rural and Village Schools. Spelling Abilities of Iowa School Children. English in the Elementary School. An Experiment with the Individual. The Training School Bulletin: Report of Special Classes, Norwood Public Schools. Special Class Physical Training. Special Class Work in Kansas City. Dramatization as an Aid in Teaching of English. Current Literature on Feeble-Mindedness. A Contribution to the Standardization of the De Sanctis Tests. Poet Lore: Whom the Gods Destroy, A Play in One Act. The Paolo and Francesca Theme in Modern Drama. The Happy Prince, A Play in One Act. An Ancient Realist. Hamptmann's 'Emanuel Quint.' Florence Nightingale School FOR NERVOUS AND BACKWARD CHILDREN BOARDING SCHOOL: 238th Street and Riverdale Avenue. [Tel. Kingsbridge 316] 315 West 87th Street. [Tel. 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This we believe lends an added interest to the pupils in their work. ¶ "MOLDOLITH" is highly endorsed by the modeling teachers in the public schools, art schools, colleges, etc. Write for circular and information REX MODELING CLAY CO. (Telephone 769 Stuyvesant) 141 East 17th Street, NEW YORK CITY When using these advertisements please mention UNGRADED UNGRADED PUBLISHED BY THE UNGRADED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION ELIZABETH E. FARRELL, Inspector of Ungraded Classes, President Editor ELISE A. SEYFARTH Associate Editors KATHARINE MCGINN ELIZABETH A. WALSH, on Methods SARAH E. FISKE, on Class-Management Business Manager For Advertising rates, address: Advertising Manager, 3 West 92nd Street METHODS IN UNGRADED OR SPECIAL CLASSES.....Samuel B. Allison 40 STORY TOM, THE CHIMNEY SWEEP. BUSY WORK.. Adapted 42 Sarah E. Fisk 45 HOW I USE THE SAND-TABLE IN NUMBER WORK.....Margaret Lovy 47 POINTS TO BE OBSERVED IN SELECTING MODELS FOR BEGINNERS IN WOOD WORK......... Edward D. Griswold 49 BOOKS AND REVIEWS. 50 Published monthly, excepting July, August and September, at 10 Depot Street, Concord, N. H., by the Ungraded Teachers Association of New York City. Editorial Office, Hall of the Board of Education, 500 Park Avenue, New York City. Subscription, $1.50; single copy, 20 cents. Entered at the Post Office, Concord, N. H., as second-class matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Dr. C. Banks McNairy, Superintendent of the Caswell Training School (the State School for Defectives), Kinston, N. C., says: "The method used here is the one which seems especially adapted for these children: namely The Aldine Method a combination of the word and phonetic methods. The other subjects are Some Important New Books on the New York City List, 1916 |