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Show MILFORD'S GRADE SCHOOLS Every school has its problems. The grade school has one big problem and two hundred and twenty-six little ones. The big problem is the lack of comfortable quarters for the little problems to be in while they are study ing. Of course this is all to become a thing of the past when the new building is completed. Next year folk dancing will be added ad-ded to the regular school work. Folk dancing is the best health and body builder known, and good health is reckoned of greater importance than arithmetic or geography ever were. A boy must have bood health before he can go to school to learn anything else. "Health First" is the educational education-al motto of today. Clean, wholesome folkdanclng produces strong boys and girls. Strong boys and girls make good men and women, and good men and women make good nations. Folk dancing should be introduced in the first grade and continued up through the grades. Many of the standard folk dances are well adapted adap-ted for adults. Many of the older residents in Utah can remember when Pop-goes-the- Weasel, Virginia Virgin-ia Reel, Shoe-maker dance, and polkas pol-kas were very popular. Occasional Saturday afternoon matinee dances in the H. S. gym have been planned for the rest of this year. Parents and older sisters will be invited to help teach the grade school children these folk dan ces. In addition to the above named nam-ed dances, the children will be taught tau-ght the simpler folk dances, London Bridge, I See You Etc. Victrola records have been secured for these matinee dances, and the expense will amount to practically nothing. |
