FORENOON.  IX.  X. XI.  XII. +---------+---------+---+---+------------+ |READING. |WRITING. |R. |G. |ARITHMETIC. | +----+----+----+----+---+---+-----+------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +----+----+----+----+---+---+-----+------+

AFTERNOON.

II.       III.               IV.          V.
+-----------+---------+---+---+----------+
|GEOGRAPHY. |WRITING. |R. |G. |GRAMMAR.  |
+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+----+-----+
|     |     |    |    |   |   |    |     |
|     |     |    |    |   |   |    |     |
|     |     |    |    |   |   |    |     |
|     |     |    |    |   |   |    |     |
+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+----+-----+
A drawing on a large sheet, made by some of the older scholars (for a
teacher should never do any thing of this kind which his scholars can do
for him), should be made and pasted up to view, the names of the classes
being inserted in the columns under their respective heads.  At the
double lines at ten and three, there might be a rest of two minutes, an
officer appointed for the purpose ringing a bell at each of the periods
marked on the plan, and making the signal for the rest, whatever
signal might be determined upon.  It is a good plan to have the bell
touched five minutes before each half hour expires, and then exactly
at its close.  The first bell would notify the teacher or teachers, if
there are more than one in the school, that the time for their
respective recitations is drawing to a close.  At the second bell the new
classes should take their places without waiting to be called for.  The
scholars will thus see that the arrangements of the school are based
upon system, to which the teacher himself conforms, and not subjected to
his own varying will.  They will thus not only go on more regularly, but
they will themselves yield more easily and pleasantly to the necessary
arrangements.

The fact is, children love system and regularity.  Each one is sometimes a little uneasy under the restraint which it imposes upon him individually, but they all love to see its operation upon others, and they are generally very willing to submit to its laws, if the rest of the community are required to submit too.  They show this in their love of military parade; what allures them is chiefly the order of it; and even a little child creeping upon the floor will be pleased when he gets his playthings in a row.  A teacher may turn this principle to most useful account in forming his plans for his school, in observing that the teacher is governed by them too as well as they.