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Reading

Grades usually went from Grade 1 to Grade 9. The older students helped the younger ones learn to read. Readers were supplied free. Dick and Jane and Spot provided interesting stories for the young folk.

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Notice to School Boards
1908
Caroline Alberta Canada
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Notice to School Boards & Teachers

The Department of Education, upon receipt of properly certified requisitions, will supply free to the pupils of schools conducted in accordance with the regulations of the Department, the following texts: - PRIMER, FIRST READER, SECOND READER, THIRD READER and FOURTH READER.
Books will be forwarded to the Secretary of the School District, who should at once sign and return the receipt and deliver the books to the teacher by whom they are to be distributed as required.
Each pupil in actual attendance at the school shall receive a Reader on the occasion of the first distribution or at the time of admission, and subsequently upon being promoted to a Standard in which another Reader is used, and the Reader so received becomes the property of the pupil. Should, however, such a Reader be lost or destroyed, the Department will not supply the pupil with another free Reader until he has been regularly promoted to the Standard in which the next Reader is used
At the close of school for each term the Secretary shall forward, on a form supplied by the Department, a statement showing the disposition made of the free texts received from the Department and the number still held for distribution.
D.S. MacKENZIE
Deputy Minister of Education

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Free Readers to students
1911
Caroline Alberta Canada

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Statement as to who got the free readers at South Fork School June 30,1911.

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Teachers Manual
1931
Caroline Alberta Canada
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Printing and Writing

Penmanship was very important in those days. The first writing implement was a slate pencil that was used on a slate board. Young children started printing with a big pencil and once their coordination improved they would graduate to a smaller pencil. Many hours of practice proved to be well worth it. Can you remember when you were allowed to write with a pen? Bottles of ink sometimes froze in the winter and had to be thawed before you could use it. From the straight pen we graduated to a fountain pen. Today we don't worry about ink.

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Writing practice
1931
Caroline Alberta Canada
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The Importance of Writing

Next to speech, writing is the most important medium of communication among the human race. It is practically a universal accomplishment. Its non-possession is a mark of illiteracy in individuals: ignorance in nations.
Its chief function is to express or convey thought, or record in a lasting way ideas or performance for future use.

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Multiplication practice.
1940
Caroline Alberta Canada
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Arithmetic

A big round circle was drawn on the blackboard and sectioned off like a pie with numbers from 1 to 10 around the outside. A number was placed
in the inner circle. The teacher would ask you to come to the front of the room. She would point to the outside number and ask you to multiply
or add. You were sure to know your multiplication or addition numbers as you didn't want to be embarrased in front of the other students.
Scribblers had the multiplication tables on the back cover that were a help the learn to multiply or cheat if the teacher wasn't looking.

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Arithmetic Book
1940
Caroline Alberta Canada

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Music Book
1940
Caroline Alberta Canada
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Music

This is where the students learned what is a bass and treble cleff, as well as the meaning of the letters on the lines and in the spaces. Some schools had rhythm bands that could consist of homemade sticks, tin plates and anything they could put together to make noise and beat out a rhythm.