The following list of varied occupations may serve as a guide to teachers, especially in infant schools or classes, which may be divided into sections for those lessons:—

(a.)

What children between the ages of five and seven can do: Games with music. Games without music (guessing games, &c.; taking message). Picture-lessons. Object-lessons. Story-lessons—e.g., stories from history; Grimm's Household Tales. Hesitations. Paper-folding. Mosaic with coloured paper; use of gum, Drawing; brush-drawing. Plaiting paper. Ruling simple geometrical forms. Measuring length; estimating length. Weighing; estimating weight. Setting a table (carrying a glass of water without spilling it; moving cups without breaking them), Modeling in clay. Basket work. Cutting out patterns and shapes with seissors. Word-building. Number pictures, with cubes, beads, &c.

(b.)

What children between three and five years of age can do: Games with music. Games without music (guessing games, &c.). Recitations, nursery rhymes, &c. Picture-lessons (learning to answer in complete sentences as to what they can see in a picture). Paper-folding. Mosaic with coloured tablets. Drawing, Matching colours (picking out the page 20 same shades of wool from a heap of remnants). Plaiting paper. Working patterns with needle and worsted. Threading beads in twos, threes, &c. Arranging shells in twos, threes, &c. Arranging "pictures of number" with cubes. Word-building.