These lessons being all supplied by me, more explanation in this place may be unnecessary, but as a further guide to teachers of infant schools, I subjoin a synopsis of a week’s course of instruction which has been adopted in many schools.

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SYNOPSIS OF A WEEK’S INSTRUCTION.

TIME.—­Mornings.  School to assemble at nine o’clock, and to leave at twelve.

Afternoons.  School to assemble at two o’clock, and to leave at four in winter, and five in summer.

MONDAY.

Morning.  When assembled, to offer the appointed prayer, after which a hymn is to be sung; then slates and pencils are to be delivered to the children; after which they are to proceed with their letters and spelling.  At half-past ten o’clock to play, and at eleven o’clock to assemble in the gallery, and repeat the picture lessons on natural history after the monitor in the rostrum.

Afternoon.  Begin with prayer and hymn as in the morning; picture lessons on Scripture history to be repeated from the lesson-post, and to be questioned on them afterwards in the gallery.

TUESDAY.

Morning.  Usual prayer and hymn.  Letters and spelling from the lesson-posts.  Play.  Gallery; repeat the addition and subtraction tables.

Afternoon.  Prayer and hymn.  Multiplication table; the monitor asking the question, and the children answering.  Reading lessons.  Play.  Gallery; numeration and spelling with brass figures and letters.

WEDNESDAY.

Morning.  Prayer and hymn.  Letters and spelling.  Play.  Gallery; master to teach geometrical figures and musical characters.

Afternoon.  Prayer and hymn.  Practice pence and shilling tables.  Play.  Gallery; master to give lessons on arithmetic.  Extempore teaching on men and things, &c. &c.

THURSDAY.

Morning.  Prayer and hymn.  Letters and spelling.  Division, weights, measures, and time, from the rostrum.  Play.  Gallery; same lessons as Monday morning.

Afternoon.  Prayer and hymn.  From the lesson-posts epitome of geometry and natural history.  Gallery; brass letters and figures.  Extempore teaching on men and things, taking care that all such teaching shall be illustrated by substances.

FRIDAY.

Morning.  Prayer and hymn.  Letters and spelling.  Tables in arithmetic, at the master’s discretion.  Play.  Gallery; lessons on geography, maps, globes, &c.

Afternoon.  Prayer and hymn.  Scripture pictures on the lesson-posts, and questions on them in the gallery.

SATURDAY.

Morning.  Prayer and hymn.  Letters and spelling.  Tables of arithmetic from the rostrum.  Play.  Gallery; lessons on the transposition frame, and on geometry from the brass instrument.  Religious instruction should have a prominent part in the business of every day, and especially so every Saturday morning.