School Daze

                Teacher's Prayer

I want to teach my students how to live this life on  earth

To face its struggles and its strife and to improve their worth.

Not just the lesson in a book or how the rivers flow

But how to choose the proper path wherever  they may go.

And gather all the beauty of a flower and a song

To understand eternal truth and know the right from wrong.

For if I help the world to grow in wisdom and in grace

Then I shall feel that I have won and I have filled my place.

And so I ask your guidance God that I may do my part

For character and confidence and happiness of heart. 

                                    Angels are often disguised as teachers.

                           Everything I needed to know I learned in kindergarten!!!!!

The pre-primer cards have a copyright date of 1930.

 

THE BIG BOOK entered the school reading programs.  It measured 21x24 inches and became a reading program  tool to introduce new vocabulary and new reading material.

A story from the Houghton Mifflin BIG BOOK reading program.

Scott Foresman made it's debut in the 1930's and continued as a favorite reading program through the 1970's.  The main characters were Dick, Jane, Sally, a dog named Spot and a cat named Puff.  Today many individuals instantly recall the only characters in American primary education whose names became household words.  Shopping for items related to the series are readily available, since they continue to hold a memorable childhood experience.  And so the wheels of READING, WRITING and ARITHMETIC will continue to to turn and as always we hope for the best for our young.