The Infant School Echo; Or, a Practical Compendium of the System of Infant Education (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 Excerpt: ...from London to York; ascertain, in union with the children, the direction in which the place lies, with the counties and towns passed F through in the route. Take London for a centre; ask, Where does York lie? North. Bristol? West. Southend? East. Brighton? South. Liverpool? North-west. Norwich? North-east. Dover? South-east. Land's End? South-west. Take some notice of the forms of the counties, and the colours by which they are distinguished on the map, their difference with respect to size, nearness to the sea, or distance from it. Trace the track of a steamer from London to Hull--from Hull to Edinburgh--from Plymouth to London round the Isle of Wight--London to Ramsgate--Bristol--Liverpool to Glasgow. 2. Pictorial Lesson.--Horse. Spell the name. (This is printed in large characters at the foot of the picture.) Let the children analyze. One will say he has four legs. Teacher. What do we call the horse because he has four legs? A quadruped.--Other animals have four legs, as the mouse, cat, dogs, these are all, what? Quadrupeds.--Very well. The horse is a large, and the mouse. is a little.--What does the horse feed on? Grass.--How would you colour the print for grass? Sing, Tune, Woodpecker. The horse, a fine animal, noble, and strong, Draws coaches, and carts, and waggons along, With a collar and trace he tugs at his load, O'er the hill, through the street, on the bridge, or the road. See Infant Cultivation, p. 130. Let them supply the word, and then you will have an elliptical lesson. Here is a picture of the farm-house and yard. Analyze it? There is the horse, horse-pond, barn, dairy, stables, sheds, pig-sty, hen-coop. Well, tell me the use of these? Analyze again. There are trees, corn-ricks, hay-stacks. Objects in the distance; hay-fields, corn-fields, ...