LIST OF PICTURES, APPARATUS, AND BOOKS USED Bradley's Art Pictures (Large). Mother Goose Series. Milton Bradley Co., New York. Willebeek Le Mair Post Cards. Two series of Nursery Rhyme subjects. Child-lore Book Room, New York. Stampkraft Pictures. United Art Publishing Co., New York. Primary Reading Equipment. C. H. Congdon, Chicago and New York. Annie E. Moore: Stampkraft Reading Puzzles. A. G. Seiler, 1224 Amsterdam Ave., New York. Superior Rubber Type No. 17. Price and Sign Marker. Permanent Educational Equipment Co., 70 Fifth Ave., New York. Caldecott Picture Books. F. Warne and Co., New York. The Three Little Pigs. Illustrated by Leslie Brooke. F. Warne and Co., New York. This Little Pig. Illustrated by Walter Crane. John Lane, New York. Sing a Song of Sixpence. Illustrated by Walter Crane. John Lane, New York. Mother Goose. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. F. Warne and Co., New York. Little Mother Goose. Illustrated by Willie Pogany. McBride, Nast and Co., New York. Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit. F. Warne and Co., New York. Heart of Oak Books, No. 1. D. C. Heath, New York. The Merrill Primer. Charles E. Merrill Co., New York. The Story Hour Primer. American Book Co., New York and Chicago. (Reprinted from the Teachers College Record.) (Concluded.) LE JAQUIER, OR THE BREAD-FRUIT TREE Listen, children, and you shall learn that wheat, of which our good white bread is made, does not grow in all countries. In one part of a great ocean there are some small islands called the Molucca Islands. Wheat is not cultivated in these isles and the inhabitants could not, like us, live chiefly upon bread; so the Great Father has given them instead a wonderful tree called the bread-fruit tree. Its trunk is as large as the body of a man, the fruit is bigger than your head and the leaves are very, very large. You have never seen anything like that, have you? When this beautiful fruit is quite ripe, it is excellent and tastes a little like a melon. But before ripening, the meat of the fruit is firm and as white as flour. Then when baked in an oven until the bark becomes black, it is scraped and the inside, which becomes quite tender, is eaten and somewhat resembles the good bread which we have in our country. But that is not all; this fruit contains an excellent kernel which may be cooked under the cinders or in water and one would almost suppose one was eating chestnuts. One or two bread-fruit trees will nourish a man during an entire year. With the bark of the tree, the people of these islands make their clothing; the wood serves to make boats and houses while with the leaves they cover their roofs. Sometimes the flowers are used for making tinder, and from the branches is drawn a kind of liquid which becomes thick when left to dry in the sun, and is used as bird-lime for catching little birds. So you see, how useful the bread-fruit tree is to the people of these little isles. And as Nature did not provide wheat to grow among them, they were given this most wonderful tree which we do not have. Translated from the French by A Special Class Teacher, Boston, Mass. Adapted for reading and reproduction. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, NATIONAL WAR SAVING'S COMMITTEE To the Superintendent of Schools: Professor David Eugene Smith, of Teacher's College, Columbia University, has prepared for the National War Saving's Committee the following problems. He indicates the purpose he had in mind in preparing the questions as follows: 1. To inculcate ideas of thrift and saving. 2. To emphasize the subject of Thrift Stamps in the lower grades and War Savings Stamps in the upper grades. 3. To bring the problems within the arithmetical reach of the pupils of the respective grades. 4. To cover the most important processes usually taught in the respective grades. 5. To use one step problems in the early grades so as not to obscure the lesson we wish to impress by creating difficulties of solution. Will you let us know whether or not you are willing to duplicate and send out to your teachers material supplementary to your courses of study such as is provided on these sheets? We are having prepared supplementary material in geography, history, English, domestic science and arithmetic. Do you want it and will you duplicate it and send it out to your teachers? Let us hear from you. GEORGE D. STRAYER, Division of Education, National War Saving's Committee. THRIFT IN GRADE III HELPING OUR COUNTRY 1. If one Thrift Stamp costs 25c., how much will you have to pay for two Thrift Stamps? (Remember that after the war Our Government pays you back more for your War Savings Stamps than you paid for them.) 2. A boy finds that he can save 5c. a week for Thrift Stamps. How much could he save in five weeks, and how many Thrift Stamps can he buy with this amount? 3. If a boy can earn enough each week to buy three Thrift Stamps, how many Thrift Stamps can he buy in four weeks? 4. If you can save 5c. a day by being more careful about your clothes and shoes, by wasting less food, or by helping more about the house, in how many days can you save enough to help buy a Thrift Stamp costing 25c.? 5. A boy earned enough money in one week to buy four Thrift Stamps. How much money did he earn? 6. A boy had given to him five Thrift Stamps for Christmas. Since then he has saved enough to buy thirteen more and his Aunt has also given him six stamps. His sister has bought nineteen stamps. How many stamps have they together? 7. A certain school bought 38 War Stamps on Monday, 46 on Tuesday, 49 on Wednesday, 53 on Thursday, and 60 on Friday. How many did it buy that week? 8. Two classes tried to see which could earn the more money for Thrift Stamps. One class bought 23 and the other bought 18. How many more were bought by the first class than the second? 9. Our Soldiers must have steel helmets. All steel helmets cost $3.00. A school lent Our Government today $2.75 by buying Thrift Stamps. How much more must it lend Our Government to make enough to buy a helmet? 10. A boy earned $1.00 and spent one half of it on Thrift Stamps. How many Thrift Stamps did he buy? 11. Our Soldiers must have cartridges. Each cartridge costs 5c. If you lent Our Government 25c. by buying Thrift Stamps, you lent it enough to buy how many cartridges? 12. Our Soldiers must have gas masks so that they will not be killed by poisonous gas. Such masks cost $12.00. A school has bought $11.25 worth of Thrift Stamps today. How much more must it spend for Thrift Stamps to make enough to buy a gas mask? 13. If you save 3c. each day by being careful about wasting nothing, this will amount to $10.95 in a year. How much will it amount to in two years? "A penny saved is a penny earned.” 14. A man gave up smoking and thus saved 40c. a day. In a year this amounted to $146. How much will it amount to in two years? "Save and Have." THRIFT IN GRADE IV HELPING OUR COUNTRY 1. If you can save 50c. by not going to the movies, how many Thrift Stamps, at 25c. each, can you buy to help Our Country? (Remember that after the war Our Government pays you back more for your War Savings Stamps than you paid for them.) 2. If you can help your parents save $1.00 by being more careful about your clothes, how many Thrift Stamps, at 25c. each, can be bought with the amount saved? 3. There are 16 spaces on a Thrift Card, and it costs 25c. for a Thrift Stamp to fill each space. How much will it cost for enough Thrift Stamps to fill all the spaces? 4. After you have saved money and bought 9 Thrift Stamps at 25c. each, how much will it cost to buy enough more to fill the rest of the Thrift Card? (Remember that there are 16 spaces to be filled altogether.) 5. A farmer in Iowa raised 9,000 bushels of corn last year on 72 acres. How much did each acre average? If he raises 10 bushels more per acre this year by more careful cultivation, how many bushels will he raise this year? 6. An electric light bill was $15.20 winter before last. By being careful not to waste light, it was $3.75 less this winter. How much was it last winter? 7. Our Government finds that 100 bayonets cost $2.15. How many Thrift Stamps will it take to buy 100 bayonets? If four Thrift Stamps cost $1.00, how many will cost $2.15? 8. Our Government pays $97.50 for 5 rifles. How much does it pay for each rifle? 9. It takes the cost of 6 Thrift Stamps to buy one of Our Boys a service hat, and 2 Thrift Stamps to buy him a pair of leggings. It will take the cost of how many Thrift Stamps to buy both the hat and leggings? 10. There were 20,560,701 pupils in the elementary school in Our Country in 1916. Suppose that each of this number of pupils bought a Thrift Stamp costing 25c. last week, how much money would thus be lent to Our Government? (It will shorten your solution if you remember that 25c. is one fourth of a dollar.) 11. Three woolen blankets to keep some soldiers warm next winter will cost $18.75. At 25c. each, how many Thrift Stamps should your school buy to pay for these blankets? 12. A woolen service coat for a soldier costs $7.60. How many Thrift Stamps should your school buy, at 25c. each to pay for 5 such coats? THRIFT IN GRADE V HELPING OUR COUNTRY 1. On a Thrift Card each space for a Thrift Stamp is 15/16 of an inch high, and there are four spaces, one above another, in each column. How high is each column? (Such measures are approximate to the nearest 1/16 of an inch.) 2. On a Thrift Card each space for a Thrift Stamp is 13 inches wide, and there are two spaces side by side, in each half of the card. How wide are the two spaces together? 3. A Thrift Card is 7 inches wide and 7 inches high. How many square inches are there on each side of the Thrift Card? 4. If you can buy one Thrift Stamp on Monday, 2 on Tuesday, and 4 on Wednesday, 8 on Thursday, 16 on Friday, how many Thrift Stamps could you buy that week? 5. In Example 4 suppose that a man could buy 32 Thrift Stamps on Monday, and keep doubling as before, so that the numbers for that school week would be 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, how many Thrift Stamps could he buy that week? 6. In Our Fight for a safe world, Our Soldiers must have good shelter tents. Our Government finds that it could buy 1,000 such tents for |