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Show oo INDUSTRIAL WORK IN PUBLIG SOHODLS OF COUNTY To explain more fully to primary teachers In Weber county schools the value of Industrial training In the development of children and also how the training work should be given, Miss Matilda Peterson primary super visor, has called a special meeting ol primary teachers to be held at ll o'clock Saturday mornlug in the court house. Miss Peterson explained today that inausiriai irsuuiug is uaea in connec tlou with the number work, language lessons, reading and geography to aid the students in a belter understanding of the subjects and also to Impress upon them to a greater degree tho knowledge they secure from books For instance To teach the cbildreu the use of the rules in their simple arithmetic, they are given cardboard to be marked mark-ed off according to dimensions given by the teacher In the simple rug'i that the children weave, they are re quested to make a carboard frame of certain dimensions and mark off cer tain fractions of an Inch for the four datlon threads By the 6ame metb ods they learn what a square Is, f rectangle, perimeter and other tcrmu The work Impresses whnt they learn When geography Is studied, the children chil-dren make various articles used by the various peoples When wool la studied, woolen objects are made Students learn to write and think logically as they are requested in their language work to explain the methods of making the articles and write how they proceed in the construction con-struction More Industrial .ork is being done In the county schools than ever before be-fore and the teachers have found the children Interested and better students stu-dents bv reason of the training. |