OCR Text |
Show SChm CHILDREN. Beginners Taught and kept Busy by Ingenious Devices. HOW TO KEEP THEM QUIET. Word Building: and Reading: In the Second Orade and Third Orade B. As wo entorcd the beginner's room of tho District School last Wednesday the pupils were singlnjr their morning 6onj,'. Tho larce room was well filled but tho presence of two teachers wan suillelcnt to make us uwuro that two departments were present for opening exercises. An orgau which was operated opera-ted by one of th& teachers addod to the attractiveness of tho singing, which was conducted 'by 'tho teacher of the beginners, Miss Allio Berry, who is certainly an adept in the business. The little folks seemed to onjoy this part of their training hugely und sang with a vim that was gratifying to behold, be-hold, Miss VIoli.Redd'8 ablo co-operation at tho organ adding much to tho beauty of the work. After a short but vary appropriate prayer, of which tho children, their parents und tho teachers wero tho subject, a piece entitled "Pussy Willow" Wo9 flrsi read to the children by the teacher, und thon suns by the two departments; this was followed fol-lowed by two moro sougs, ono about Itobln Red Breast, and tho othor about tho wind, which Utter was accompanied by motions of tho arras and was sung while tho pupils woro standing. At tho conclusion of this song MUs Redd's department inarched out of tho room to their own quarters, keeping step In very fair shapo to a march thai wns played on the organ by tholr teuchor, Miss Berry next gavo her charge- a short talk on "Mother Naturo" and tho uso of tho wind' which sho called "Mothor Naturo'a broom". As 60011 as tnis talk was finljjHd, at a sign from the toucher onc'Afih of tho chlldron rose to their feof&d ran onco round tho room slinklnyolr hands up and down in front of Ljjmstlioy ran and taking tholr seutKg tho wd of tho circuit. cir-cuit. This cxercftoiiwus continued by J ll.o others till all thTThlTo . Ifihata time hd m.ulo tho round J trip. Next was u short ,lk fn2 to Iho month, day ot J"m" :"d day of the week, tho teacher Zv "gout from tho children the, .ecessZ "formation and writing It on a rXd thtl jnd deen piaced on theblS-I. theblS-I. ml for tl .0 purpose. This occupied I b t a ow minute. At its conclusion I he. eacher distributed a nmull sheet of paper to each child and a pair of scls-tors scls-tors and calling their attention to J jlrulnffon the blackboard, directed mem to cut flmipua r...... .ui.. TknrZS 11 . - win Muiir papers In l'Pono section of tho school to Iferh tl tliolr tand In front of tho black-)S5aUy,',urd black-)S5aUy,',urd n,1(1 tiko a reading lesson. Tak-. Tak-. "IppIob hilP'io of tholr readers she copied a ; idkb v w I'iiiKrupn ana u jino j J,no,te&r71ini al: hd ' from nnonHcher wj',ncs Krltten. It wns I llvo or six iri,, w 'jo intercut that tho I amusing to notico th,ary fjuit tlio teacher little folks took in wiTWgrK" wero Invited j was writing, and as theytj''ia 8'io wrote i to pronounce the words WnJmt l,,y lv'ero them, it was easy to see tflH c,"il(.r, as J ; fumillar with what wiii0' l,,o lino ! when they hud got tho ruWj1"1 of lIo ! 11 little they would read uhm,'' ,l ' "' 1 .1.1 fct"1 till she I I teacher, so that sho was uncL' i -v I , cesslty 01 usKIng tnem to wiip,.,5MBl ! had written the word before they pro"-" I nounr.cd it; ono llttlo tow headed hid I seemed hardly able to contain himself, I and his white head followed in nodding . sympathy with every stroke of the ; teacher's chalk as sho wrote tho words ! of the lesson he know so well; and id- though, us we have said, she selected ) the lines from different paragraphs, as ; soon ns tho line was two words long he I seemed to know what would como next. ' But all of the class were not so well posted, some of them found it too much 1 for their skill and in such cases their moro learned olussmatcs wero Invited by tho teacher to como to their rescue after they had shown their willingness to do so by their upraised hands. Each of the live sections of the school was given a reading lesson In this manner. In going to and from tho blackboard they all went on tho trot, or us the teacher called It, "Hitting." When about half the school had finished fin-ished their reading lesson the teacher examined tho scissors work of her charge, took it into her possession and distributed to them pieces of oil cloth about ten inches square, which wero cut within an inch or a little less of the ends oforv Iiulf Inch nil Iho vfav across so as to admit of the weaving In of half inch strips of the same material of a difTerent color, making when done well a pretty little mat. While tho teacher was completing the reading lesson with the rest of tho school, tho children who had read wero weaving tho mats. At tho conclusion con-clusion of the reading lesson the teach er notified tho school thcro was about five minutes left for them to complete their mats before recess. At tho expiration ex-piration of this time, during which hIio had passed among them directing di-recting their work, the mats were gathered up by children appointed for the purpose, and tho little folks were allowed to march out In singlo filo, and have their recess. This department has 11 total enrollment of fi.1, about -l." of whom wero present. Some of the ah senteus have chicken pox, so the teacher teach-er Informed us. After recess wo visited Miss Stapley's department, which consists of the whole of tho second grado and part of tho third grado B. Tho total enrollment Is 40, and thcro was in attendance about 30, somo of those that woro away wore out on account of having tho ohickonpox. Miss Stapley's first exercise exer-cise after reces9 was a reading lesson, which sho conducted while her class wero seated, tho scholars using their books and each of them reading tho entire en-tire lesson, and standing up while they read. While part of tho department wero reading, tho rest woro directed to devote their attention to word building. For this purposo tho teacher had written writ-ten on tho board the word "Something," "Some-thing," of which the scholars wero to make us many words as possible. Wo noticed that this expedient did not seem to have us much attraction for thu children as somoot tho other plans that wo havo seen during our visits, and tho result was that tho order was not so good As an aid to tho reading lesson tho teacher hud written on the blackboard a list of the hardest words, and before they began tho reading they wero made acquainted with tholr pro-nounciation. pro-nounciation. There was not sufficient time for all the scholars to read tho losson through, and whon tlmo for dismissal dis-missal camo tho reading was brought to a close, tho scholars directed to rise and at tho word from tho tcaohor thoy marched from tho room. Tho teacher informed usthat tho oxpedlont of word building was u nuw ono in hqr depart, ment as alio had only tried It once or twice boforo. |