Catalogue of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year .. . low cases, sheets, aprons and dress-skirts, and draft and make small under-garments. In the highest grades shirt-waists are made by allowing thechildren to use the sewing machine and encouraging them to domuch of their work at home. An important feature of the work is the making of articlesneeded in the senior class-rooms. HAM iTO N I N ST I T U T E 53 First Grade.—Stories, such as Hiawatha and theHanual Mother Goose Rhymes, illustrated by the use ofTraining clay, pencil, scissors and c
Catalogue of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year .. . low cases, sheets, aprons and dress-skirts, and draft and make small under-garments. In the highest grades shirt-waists are made by allowing thechildren to use the sewing machine and encouraging them to domuch of their work at home. An important feature of the work is the making of articlesneeded in the senior class-rooms. HAM iTO N I N ST I T U T E 53 First Grade.—Stories, such as Hiawatha and theHanual Mother Goose Rhymes, illustrated by the use ofTraining clay, pencil, scissors and color. Constructive workin paper, envelopes, and boxes for seeds. Knife-work in thin wood-labels, fences, dibbers, etc. for the Grade.—Clay modeling of fruit and vegetable constructive work, envelopes, etc, and articles of furniturefor dolls Knife work-boxes, tables, chairs, bedsteads, a dolls house. Third Grade.—Knife work in thicker wood. Use of simplebench tools in the . manual-training room during the second half ofthe year. School and garden Primary Class in Sloyd Fourth Grade.—Elementary bench work, including a modifiedcourse of sloyd. Repairing class-room furniture, making a minia-ture house for the lower grades. Fifth Grade.—Advanced bench work, including a modifiedcourse of sloyd. Class-room repairs, laboratory apparatus, etc. The children of the colored race have so decided aMusic fondness for music that the work done in this de- partment is looked upon by them as recreation rath-er than labor. The sweetness and beauty of their voices, whether heard inthe pathetic strains of one of their beautiful plantation melodies or 54 C AT ALOGUE OF in the stirring music of some school song, are acknowledged by altwho listen to them ; consequently they lend themselves easdy to instruction. , Music is a refining and uplifting element in any life, and the music of the school-room should influence the home and make itspo
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