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99 Principal's Report Mr. Wilfred H. Graves Acting Superintendent of Schools The annual report of the Samuel G. Davis School is here- with submitted. I would like this year to deviate from the regular type of report and outline briefly in the space allotted to me the work done in Geography in our school, together with a statement concerning the aims of the reading program in the first two grades. Somehow I feel that a better under- standing of our problems will be reached if parents know more about the aims and objectives toward which the school is working. Today,we, as Americans, are confronted with a "changing world" which not only affects our present but our future as well. We must realize that nations are very much dependent on resources for life. Nations are unequally supplied with these resources. Nations each year are more and more in- terdependent. Therefore, a keener sense of understanding of other people is necessary, and there is a moral obligation to share resources and recognize the advantages and disadvan- tages of this sharing. In all grades special attention is given, when possible, to the development of good study habits, such as working in- dependently, working in group activities, organizing and evaluating materials, using indexes, graphs, maps, pictures, and reporting to the group both orally and in writing. In Grade 1, we generally study under three general units: The Home, The Farm, and The School.