Show LETTERS FROM SCHOOL SCHOOLCHILDREN SCHOOLCHILDREN SCHOOLCHILDREN CHILDREN One of the teachers in second A grade In the Salt Lake public schools has led her pupils to take an interest in books and in that form of expression known as letter writing Many Ian of ot them thOrn have found f und the delights of the public library Many IIan too are finding the Joy jO of com corn composition composition position Let us give you a few of the tha letters they write to their teacher with the spelling just as those little children set it down I thank you ou for fr the songs and poems reading and everything overy thing We Wo are going to have a party tonight on my cousin for tor he Is going away We had a good time Halloween night We had lots of fun Xul Halloween me and lots of ot other boys bos We did not tear anything down I am living in Salt Lake City I am sin in room 4 I like to go to this school How are you along I Iam Im am nm m glad I am in your room roomI I like room 4 Do you OU like it I like this school very much do you We have lots of ot work to do I like work dont you We Ve play lots of Qt games gamos I like to play games dont you I like Uke the spelling and the writing and andI I like the Reading and I like the Lan Language Language guage To the sated or those whose interest i In the mental processes of ot children lies dormant those specimens exactly 6 cop copied copIed led from the letters of the little chil chit children children dren circa will nill JU mean little or nothing To the observing there Is distinct pleasure in reading them For Fr one thing these little people shame their elders In the more advanced grades with their spelling and with their evi evident evident dent knowledge of ot the use of punctuation pun tua tion and capitals Even Evan if it they do go wrong on occasion they go right other where whore by evident purpose and knowl knowledge knowledge knowledge edge We e know of ot nothing more helpful to the little people than that exercise of f fletter letter writing They have hav their own thoughts and reveal a perfect t freedom in expressing themselves There is not nota a stilted guided sentence In the collection collection tion When the little children almost at atthe atthe atthe the beginning of at their school life Ute can cn canso c n so adequately record their souls there is explanation of the high repute r in which the schools of Salt Lake are ad admittedly admittedly admittedly held in every city of the na rut nation nation tion |