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General Appropriation $3,200 00 Last Year $3,500 00
Books and Supplies. 200 00
250 00
Superintendent's Salary 200 00
66 165 00
Teaching of Music. 108 00 108 00
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Repairs
100 00
66
66
100 00
Medical Inspection
25 00
66
25 00
Domestic Science Work. . .
100 00
Respectfully submitted,
CYRUS M. HUBBARD ALBERT I. MONTAGUE F. L. WHITMORE
1 School Committee.
I have examined the orders drawn by the school committee upon the town treasurer, and the claims for which they were drawn, together with the other financial transactions of the committee and believe them to be correctly represented in the foregoing report.
J. M. S. LEACH, Auditor.
Superintendent's Report.
TO SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF THE TOWN OF SUN- DERLAND.
Gentlemen of the School Committee:
I herewith submit my fourth annual report of the Sun- derland schools.
One of the features of our work of the past year, also men- tioned in an earlier report, is to be found in the system of basal reading used in the first three grades. We are now able to judge how this system effects the upper grades as the present sixth grade was the first to use the Aldine method. Their work in reading does not reflect the burden of diacritical marks used in the preceding method nor inability to spell correctly which often results from the phonetic spelling of words, which was an evident fault of the Ward method. For the past three years over fifty percent. of the first grade have been children of foreign born parents, many of them entering school without even the ability to understand English, to say nothing of speaking English. A system of reading which can be adapted to these conditions and produce a first grade in June with no apparent difference in the reading ability of both foreign and native children, is, to say the least, an efficient system. Credit is also due the teachers as well as the system of reading in producing this result.
In following the plan of Superintendent Gray of Chicopee as outlined in his book "Member of Development" we are accomplishing good results in this subject in the lower grades. The work of the other grades is up to its usual high standard and next year I hope to make the work of the ninth grade still more practical by taking a course in Business Arithmetic for the first and second terms.
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The most unsatisfactory subject to deal with in the whole curriculum is the language work of the intermediate grades. Modern educators have little or no use for technical grammar. This once formed an important part of all language study. There is a time in the lives of the pupils before which they are unable to comprehend the meaning of technical grammar, or in the words of the pedagogue there is a "conceptual limita- tion." This age varies, but is seldom reached before the eighth or ninth grade. It is a waste of time to teach technical gram- mar before this period is reached. The writers of text-books on this subject have realized this with the result that we have no definite plan that can be followed. The study of abbrevia- tions, capitalization, sentence building and composition both oral and written form the basis for language study. The correct use of the language itself must result from dull exercises in the choice of words repetition of correct forms and constant correction on the part of the teacher in all subjects of the incorrect statements of the pupils.
The fourth and fifth grades have been supplied with the language course as followed in the Newton schools where the Aldine reading was developed. Language work in Newton is now the feature, and we trust that we have found help in the solution of this difficult problem.
We are introducing this winter a course in cooking. The Sunderland Women's Club, realizing the advantages to be derived, and interested in having our school progressive, have equipped a cooking room, with the understanding that the town furnish a supervisor and provisions to carry on the course. This is a very commendable step for this wide awake organiza- tion to take and should meet with the hearty co-operation of the town. In my report of last year I suggested such a course and mentioned some of its possibilities. Cooking is no longer an experimental subject for a school curriculum. In another town of the district a course in cooking has been in operation for some time with very gratifying results. Throughout the state courses have been successfully conducted in the larger cities and also in towns of Sunderland's population. Miss Field, of Leverett, who is well known in town because of her
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cooking instruction several years ago, has been engaged to supervise this work. It would be a practical aim for such a course to provide a lunch for the pupils who are transported and are obliged to carry lunches. This could be done at the expense of these pupils and would be a decided improvement over present conditions.
I hope that some arrangement can be made next year with a local concern to direct some form of manual training for the boys of the sixth and seventh grades. At the last annual meeting a committee was appointed to investigate the crowded condition of the school and report as to the feasibility or necessity of additional school accommodations. I have prepaid the following table to show existing conditions and to forecast as far as possible the enrolment of the separate rooms next year.
Total
Grades.
Sept. Enrol- ment.
Seating Capacity.
No. of Present Seats that Possible Enr'Im't can be added.
Seating Capacity
for 1913-14-
Mrs. Dill .
8-9
19
19
5
24
20
Mrs. Phelps
6-7
27
29
5
34
34
Miss Crocker
4-5
44
44
0
44
37
Mrs. E. F. Smith .
2-3
46
50
0
50
50
Mrs. G. B. Smith
1
35
34
10
44
not known.
A glance at the preceding tabulation will show that unless there is an addition of a number of pupils from other towns the present building will accommodate the pupils of the town for the next school year, 1913-1914. If we should find an unusually large first grade in September, 1913, it would then be two years before the second and third grade room would be too small to accommodate the pupils of those grades. The record of births for the year 1908 was 31; in 1909, 38. These children will be the first grades entering 1913 and 1914 respec- tively. Not taking into account such families as have moved to Sunderland in the interim, the present school building will be adequate for two or three years to more.
The State Board has issued during the past year a suggested course of study for the first six grades. These courses
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of study have been placed in the hands of the teachers and were reviewed at a teachers' meeting held in November. This. course was compiled from the suggestions of superintendents and normal school teachers throughout the state, and includes English expression, covering reading, composition, language lessons, spelling and penmanship, general reading, arithmetic, geography, practical science, music, practical arts and drawing. The various courses have a wide range of material with a pre- scribed minimum requirement. The importance attached to domestic science and practical arts is significant.
Among the improvements for the coming year, allow me to suggest utilizing part of the present basement for a cooking room. There is unoccupied space enough on the northside of the basement to make a room 20 by 30 feet. This can be done by putting in a cement floor and building one partition about 30 feet long. Such a room is necessary for the ultimate success of the domestic science course recently introduced.
In conclusion I wish to call your attention to the super -- visor's reports following and to the report of our medical inspector. Allow me also to again express my appreciation of the generous support and co-operation given by the teachers' committee, and citizens of the town.
Respectfully submitted,
CHESTER D. STILES, Supt.
Attendance Report for Year Ending June, 1912.
TEACHER.
Schools.
Grade.
No. of weeks.
Total enrollment.
Average membership.
Average attendance.
Per cent. of attendance
Total absences.
Total tardiness.
Mrs. W. H. Dill,
Center.
8-9
36
28
27.20
25.79
94.82
259.5
IO
Mrs. Nellie J. Phelps,
6-7
36
24
22.17
20.49
92.48
268
16
May L. Crocker,
4-5
36
45
39.67
36.67
92.
510.5
61
Mrs. E. F. Smith,
2-3
36
53
49.15
46.57
94.70
429.5
54
Mrs. G. B. Smith,
*
I
36
32
29.34
27.19
92.
372
22
Totals,
182
167.53
156.71
93.20
1838.5
163
Attendance Report for 5 Months Current Year.
TEACHER.
School.
Grade.
No. of weeks.
Total enrollment.
Average membership.
Average attendance.
Per cent. of attendance
Days absence.
Cases of Tardiness.
Mrs. W. H. Dill.
Center.
8-9
20
19
18.68
17.09
91.59
167
I
Mrs. Nellie J. Phelps.
6-7
20
27
26.59
24.47
92.06
200
12
May L. Crocker.
4-5
20
44
39.40
35.82
91.
339
20
Mrs. Emma F. Smith.
2-3
20
50
43.48
40.46
93.
284
12
Mrs. George B. Smith.
I
20
35
29.36
25.79
87.94
356.5
10
175
157.51
143.63
91.12
1346.5
55
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SCHOOL CALENDAR
Spring vacation, March 8 to March 30.
Spring term, March 31 to June 13. Fall term opens September 8. Christmas vacation, December 20 to January 4, 1914.
HOLIDAYS
Memorial Day. Thursday and Friday of Thanksgiving week. Lincoln's Birthday, February 12, 1914.
SPECIAL STATISTICS.
Population of Sunderland, 1912-1,047.
Valuation-$569,320.
Number of class rooms-5.
Total number of sittings-190. Total membership-182.
Regular teachers-6. Special teachers-2.
Average membership of school-168.
Money raised by taxation-$5,009.47.
Total tax for each child-$29.82.
Total expenditure-$7,366.57.
Total cost per pupil-$43.85
Salaries per pupil- Supervisory expenses per pupil- Transportation per pupil-
Repairs per pupil-
Fuel per pupil-
Care per pupil- Text-books per pupil-
"Sundries per pupil- Average total cost for state-$38.13. Sunderland's rank-163 Average taxation cost for state-$36.19. Sunderland's rank-
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ROLL OF HONOR.
Philip H. Dill Jennie Feldman Mary Zaluska
Year-1911-1912 Mary Zuder Charles Clark Stanislava Zaluska
First Term-1912-1913.
Philip H. Dill
John Kraieski
Harlan K. Dill
Stanley Kraieski
Guilford Montague
Tessia Benjamin
Mary D. Hull
Bronick Burzjdlo
Lena Hayden
Antonio Skorupski
Zofi Kraieski
One Term-1911-1912
Francis Ahearn
Frank Grybko
Robert Collins
Frank Hadzik
Priscilla Chase
Annie Kamenski .
Albert Montague
John Kraieski
Lacsi Zuder
Zofi Kraieski
John Benjamin
John Zmetra
Isabel Bullis
Michael Bishko
Bromck Burzzdlo
John Budrawicz
Blanche Clark
Alice Embrowitz
Edna Clark
Mary D. Hull
Two Terms-1911-1912.
Charles E. Boyd
Joseph Mitchell
Elwood B. Clark
Paul Zuder
John Ahearn
Clarence Clark
Doris Chase
John Begoss
Lena Hayden
Dora Clark
John Zidik
Helen Clark
Miriam Clark
Perley Dewey
Stanley Kraieski
Laura Moulton
William Melesky
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REPORT OF SUPERVISOR OF DRAWING.
Chester D. Stiles, Superintendent of Schools:
Dear Sir:
I wish to submit the following report.
A course in drawing from an outline adapted to local conditions, and consisting of work from still life objects intended to promote observation of form and color; work in design calculated to develop taste and originality; work in illustration, used in connection with other school subjects; and also mech- anical drawing is given a place as part of the school program in all the grades.
In the primary grades, fifteen minutes daily, and in the grammar grades two forty-five-minute periods per week are given to this subject, the supervisor's visit falling twice each month.
Appreciation is due to the teachers of the Sunderland school who share the work of finding and making models for the children, and who among their other work, find time to take an interest in paper cutting or prespective.
Respectfully submitted, D. MAUD BELLIS,
Supervisor of Drawing.
REPORT OF SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC.
CHESTER D. STILES, Superintendent of Schools,
South Deerfield, Mass.
Dear sir:
Any event which brings all the pupils of a school building together, fosters a school spirit which greatly aids in any line of work. With this fact in mind your supervisor of music has, in addition to her weekly visits, assisted in preparing music, during the last year, for three special occasions, the results fully repaying all extra time and effort expended.
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For graduation in June a cantata was given by the eighth and ninth grades-for Memorial Day special music was pro- vided by all the grades-and at Christmas time a miscellaneous program was given by all the grades, including appropriate music.
The regular work of the schools has gone along as usual; some of the grades having already completed the year's schedule. These extra programs could not have been accomplished had not the daily work received its full share of attention.
Respectfully submitted,
BELLE BULLIS,
Supervisor of Music.
Librarian's Report.
Number of volumes belonging to the library March, 1912. . 5,388 Added during the year . 108
Discarded during the year . 14
Belonging to the library at date 5,482
Number loaned during the year 7,587
Number in circulation at date. 321
Again we can report our circulation larger than that of any previous year of our history. It is larger by 559 than that of last year when we went beyond that of any other year. It is larger by 2,634 than that of the average circulation for the past 25 years, and larger by 4,341 than that of 1888-89, when the lowest circulation during those years was reported. It may be of interest to recall the lowest circulation in our history, that of 1876-7 when it was only 661, which figures speak for themselves as to the benefit of a free library, for at that time a small fee was charged for the privilege of drawing books.
We have taken the following magazines : Harper's, Century, World's Work, Review of Reviews, St. Nicholas, American Boy, Scribner's, Outlook, Independent, Atlantic, Technical World, Garden Magazine, Forum, McClure's and New England. We expect to make a slight change in this list. Suggestions from patrons as to both magazines and books are always welcome.
ABBIE T. MONTAGUE, Librarian.
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Books Added, March, 1912-March, 1913
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION.
Just over the hill.
Margaret Slattery 173-29
Hours with the Bible,
Cunningham Geikie 221-1
Notes on the Acts of the Apostles,
Albert Barnes 226-44
Immanuel,
Zachary Eddy 232-9
Souls in action,
Harold Begbie 266-19
SOCIOLOGY.
Great leaders and national issues of 1912,
329-29
All the children of all the people
William Hawley Smith 370-6
The Montessori method,
Maria Montessori
372-3
The American woman and her home,
Annie L. Hillis 896-31
USEFUL ARTS.
The house fly disease carrier,
L. O. Howard
614-48
Diseases of poultry,
D. E. Salmon 636-4
Homes and hospitals,
Dalton and Jones 649-8
Principles of scientific management F. W. Taylor
658-2
LITERATURE.
People of the wild,
F. St. Mars 814-331
Le roman d'un jeune homme pauvre
Octave Feuillet
843-25
Catullus and Tibullus literally translated 872-2
Osszes Koltemenyei,
Barste Lazos
HpL148
FICTION.
The stolen bridegroom,
Anstice Abbott
ab22
The following of the star,
Florence L. Barclay
B233f
Through the postern gate,
66 66 B233t
The ne'er-do-well,
Rex Beach
B352n
Vane of the Timberlands,
Harold Bindloss
B516b-
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Lonesome Land,
B. M. Bower B676
Four Gordons,
Edna A. Brown B816 M. Demetra Brown B819
In the shadow of Islam,
The friar of Wittenberg,
William Stearns Davis
D298fria
Mary Dillon D585r
The rose of old St. Louis, The mountain girl,
Payne Erskine Er85
The broad highway
Jeffery Farnol F232b
The money moon
F232m
Corporal Cameron
C. W. Gordon G657c
The long green road
S. P. McLean Greene G8341
Riders of the purple sage
Zane Grey
G868r
A Hoosier chronicle,
Meredith Nicholson
H519hoo
The just and the unjust,
Vaughan Kester K487j
The prodigal judge,
K487p
The street called Straight, Kim,
Rudyard Kipling
K625k
The luck of Rathcoole,
Jeanie Gould Lincoln Joseph C. Lincoln
L638cw
The mighty atom,
Lizzie Mackay
M193m
The touchstone of fortune,
Charles Major M283t
The end of a song,
Jeannette Marks M343e
Through Welsh doorways,
66
M343t
The fighting doctor,
Helen R. Martin
M366f M366t
The old dance master,
William R. Patterson P274
The harvester,
Gene Stratton Porter
P833h
The silent bullet,
Arthur B. Reeve
R256
Strawberry Acres,
Grace S. Richmond Anne Douglas Sedgwick Se25
R413s
Paths of judgement,
Henry A. Shute
Sh97
The broken wall,
Edward A. Steiner St37b
Just Patty,
Jean Webster W395j
A chain of evidence,
Carolyn Wells
W467
Basil King
K581s
L6371
Cap'n Warren's wards,
Tillie, a Mennonite maid, Mother,
Kathleen Norris N797
A country lawyer,
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TRAVEL.
Lake Como, the Danube, and Bohemia,
J. L. Stoddard 910-1
Home life in Ireland,
Robert Lynde 914-59
Rural Denmark,
H. Rider Haggard 914-212
Italy through the stereoscope,
J. Ellison 914-268
Eighteen capitals of China,
Wm. E. Geil
915-70
The wilderness of the Upper Yukon,
Chas. Sheldon 917-6
New England,
Geo. French
917-175
A guidebook to Colorado,
Eugene Parsons 917-403
The spell of the Rockies,
Enos A. Mills 917-513
BIOGRAPHY.
Autobiography of an elderly woman,
921-4
Leading American men of science,
925-3
The promised land,
Mary Antin
bAn83
Martin Luther,
A. C. McGiffert bL975m
Through the mill,
Al Priddy bP935
HISTORY.
Count Frontenac and New France,
Francis Parkman 973-142
History of the Seventeenth Regiment,
Kirwan & Splaine,
973-717
History of the Mozart Regiment, Fred C. Floyd 973-759
Memories of the White House, W. H. Crook 975-7
JUVENILE.
The children's book,
j800-5
Primer,
Van Sickle and Seegmiller
j810-2
First Reader,
66
j810-3
Second Reader,
j810-4
The Indian book,
j970-2
Captain Martha Mary,
Avery Abbott
jAb23
Peter and Wendy,
J. M. Barrie
jB275.
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Brothers and sisters,
The lonesomest doll,
The one-footed fairy,
Alice Brown
jB817
Kenneth-Kenneth Brown jB815
Finella in Fairyland
M. Demetra Brown jB819
The battle of base-ball,
C. H. Claudy jC572
Friends in the end,
Beulah Marie Dix jD646
Polly of the hospital staff,
Emma C. Dowd jD755
The revolt of Sundaramma,
Maude J. Elmore
jE162
Elizabeth Lincoln Gould jG734as
Kittens and cats,
Eulalie Osgood Grover jG819k
Lost Farm Camp,
Harry H. Knibbs jK744
Tom Strong,
A. B. Mason jM386
At war with Pontiac,
Kirk Munroe jM927a
Through swamp and glade,
66 jM927t
The Dutch twins,
Lucy Fitch Perkins jP417
The jester of St. Timothy's
Arthur Stanwood Pier jP611j
The magical man of mirth,
E. H. Sabin jSa15
Tante, Anne Douglas Sedgwick jSe75t
Dave Porter on Cave Island, Edward Stratemeyer
jSt82dca
The admiral's little secretary
Abbie Farwell Brown jB816b . . jB8161
Two boys in a gyro car
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