Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 78

Author: Maryland State Normal School (Towson, Md.)
Publication date: 1922-1927
Publisher: Maryland State Normal School (Towson, Md.)
Number of Pages: 1024

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HOT LUNCH.

The one-room school is the near- est thing we have to a rural school on the campus. Because of urban advantages, like a cafeteria, right at hand, we do not have to solve all the problems that face a real rural teacher. We do no have to serve hot lunches in our room, but, since the ability to serve an attractive luncheon is part of the equipment each rural teacher should possess, we decided to give our students training in this by serving an Easter luncheon.

EASTER LUNCHEON IN THE ONE- ROOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

Had you been in our room at the time it was presented, you would have thought we were just having a jolly chat with the children. But really we were planning our luncheon while chatting. You would have heard the following:

I-Introduction-

We didn't take our walk this week because of the rain, and will not be able to take our walk next week be- cause of the Easter holiday. Would you like to have an Easter luncheon just before the holidays?

II-Purpose-

1. Teachers:

To have the experience of serving hot lunch.

2. Children :

To have Easter Luncheon. III-Development-

1. What shall we serve? Chil- dren suggested hot cocoa. Each child bring his own sandwiches and fruit.

2. To serve hot cocoa, what will we need? Ingredients, cups

and saucers, napkins, double boiler.

3. Through an informal discussion it was decided that each child bring his own cup and saucer, and a nickel to help buy the ingredients.

4. The older girls decided what committees were needed and ap- pointed them. Committees appoint- ed were: To serve, to wash dishes, to cook, to entertain.

5. The children also decided it would be nice to make place cards. The small children made them, using original Easter designs.

Preparing a hot lunch took a very little, if any, school time. The older children put the milk, which was in a double boiler, on the stove at re- cess. At this time they also pre- pared the paste, so it would be ready to stir in when the milk was ready.

By serving a hot lunch in the school room the teacher has splendid opportunity to help children form the following desired habits:

1. Wash hands before eating.

2. Carry on conversation in a quiet manner.

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EASTER LUNCHEON IN THE ONE- ROOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

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3. Sit quietly in places until

served, and while eating. If the hot lunch was carried on daily, certain committees could be appointed to provide entertainment while the children are at lunch. Various forms of entertainment can be had at different times such as tell- ing jokes, playing games, uke "scan- cal", telling stories, or listening to Victrola records.

Mr. Hulsizer was invited to eat with us. He wrote a very interest- inging letter to the children, thank- ing them for the invitation and complimenting them on their gen- erosity in wishing to share their lunches with him, and on the soci- ability as shown by their pleasant chatting with each other and with him.

KATHERINE CRONISE, One-Room Rural Campus School.

OUR STORE.

Did I hear someone say "store"? Whenever I hear the word "store" it always brings to my mind "our store" in the one-room school.

It was possible for us to have the store because of the children's own efforts. The children of the upper grades wrote letters to different com- panies for samples of their articles. A great variety of articles, such as empty Karo, Carnation Milk, Mazola Oil and Calumet's Baking Powder cans and Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Cashmere Bouquet Soap and Minute Tapioca boxes were obtained. The writing of these letters was done in the composition period. After the children received the samples, we wrote "thank you" letters to the different companies.

The purpose of this store is to help the smaller children with their arith- metic work. It helps them in that it makes arithmetic more real and interesting. This interest comes from having the concrete things to work with and having something which links up with the child's in- terest. Every child goes to the store some time for his mother, and this work is so real to them that they learn to love it.

When I entered the one-room school I had a certain amount, or in other words, a unit of work to cover. I had no idea how to plan this work and carry out my plan, but as the store had already been introduced, l adopted the use of the store. One would hardly believe how many wonderful things could be done by the use of this simple thing. It is so simple that positively you can have a store like this in the poorest of schools. All you need to do is mention the word "store" and watch

your children's faces beam with joy -at least that has been my experi- ence.

Following is my unit of work for the four weeks that I taught by means of the store.

I-Multiplication and division of-

A-Three-line table and problems involving use of three-line table.

B-Four-line table, also problems involving use of four-line table. Answers to these problems were to 0131 be written in good sentences. tested the children at the beginning of my four weeks and found that they knew practically nothing about the problems. Of course, I expected this to oe the case. At the end of

four weeks I gave the same test again and found that they had ad- vanced wonderfully. Indeed, some children had every problem correct in the last test. This was done by the use of the store. Do you consid- er it a worthwhile thing?

Another interesting thing the chil- dren decided they would like to do was to make a book. What do you! suppose they wanted to put on the outside of their book ? A picture of

a store! I asked this question- why put a picture of a store on an arithmetic book? They immediate- ly replied that their store had helped them to learn the things which they had in their books.

Is a store valuable? By all means. Yes. Teachers, take my advice and when you go to your various schools! use a real store to teach arithmetic to your children.

Below you will find addresses of different companies, to which we wrote for samples:

Corn Products Refining Co., Argo, Ill.

The Borden Co., N. Y.

Kellogg Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Carnation Milk Products Co., Chi- cago, Ill.

Calumet Baking Powder Co., Cri- cago, Ill.

Colgate & Co., N. Y.

Postum Cereal Co., Battle Creek, Mich.

One way we used the store in class:

Introduction-Children, did you

have a good time playing store yes- terday? Would you like to play store again today?

Purpose- Teachers-to drill on second, third, fourth, fifth and tenth tables. (Review ).

Children-To play store.

Development-I drill on above tables to prepare for playing store, using flash cards. Put some ex- amples on blackboard and have chil- oren give answers orally. Children and teacher then go back to store. Children select a person to be store- keeper. This person has to be one who knows when children give cor- rect amount for articles they buy.

The children can buy either, two, three, four, five or ten articles, thus bringing in the use of these tables. Money made of paper is put on the shelf and children decide how much they owe the storekeeper and give it to him. Storekeeper decides if the proper amount of money was given to him, if not, the person take the article. cannot

After having purchased an article it is put on a desk or chair, which is called home. When mother has all the articles she needs (teacher may suggest that mother has all she needs to insure plenty of time to put articles away in class period) the articles are put back on shelf.

Summary Assignment- As the children put articles back on shelf they give the price just as they did when the articles were bought. Would you like to work

on your arithmetic books now? Children were then given problems on black- board involving the two, three, four, five and ten tables. The answers to the problems were to be written in good sentences. The books were made to give to their mothers to show what they had learned in arithmetic in the four weeks.

MARY TRUITT,

One-Room Campus School.

Compliments TEMPLE DRUG CO.

TOWSON

MARYLAND

Prescription Pharmacists

Reserved for Joel Gutman & Co.

April, 1925.

THE ORIOLE

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SCHOOL NO. 99.

The children at Miss Tyson's practice center, School No. 99, have been working for the past week on original rhymes and jingles. The children are all very much enthused about their own poems. One child suggested that the class make a booklet of their "very own" poems for Miss Thompson. Another child offered to type the poems, and still another wants to draw a picture for the cover of the booklet. We teach- ers feel like newspaper editors with all of the jingles flowing in upon us daily. Most of the poems that the children make during their spare time have perfect meter, but others have lines with so many feet that one is reminded of the insignificant centipede.

At present the children have nine of their own poems. They are be- ginning to have a keen sense for the rhythm in poetry, and t they

are learning many new words through the rhyming of them. We feel we have some of the Rossettios and Stevensons of the future. This is one of their "very own poems":

FAIRYLAND.

Fairyland is far away, And I would like to go

To see the land where dollies play, And fairy breezes blow.

'Tis there the elves and fairies play, And the busy dwarfs work all day; 'Tis there Boy Blue blows his horn To keep the cows out of the corn.

Fairyland's a magic town, Where fairy folk dance

up and

down.

If I could only have my wish

I'w sail there in a magic dish.

If I could only have my way

In Fairyland I'd like to stay;

I'd meet my friends from story books And sail along the rippling brooks.

THE TWO DANDELIONS.

Out in the field on a warm day Two dandelions ran away to play; A big puff of wind came their way And blew their little skirts away. CIRIL MCALLISTER. Student Teacher.

CLEANING THE SCHOOL GROUND

We celebrated Arbor Day hy clean- ing the school yard and buildings. Committees were selected for clean- ing school, cleaning the coal house, and cleaning the yard.

Cleaning the yard was the best fun. Siv boys brought rakes and raked up a large pile of leaves. Then we got a match and set the whole side of the field on fire. About four o'clock we put the fire out and went home.

ELWOOD BILLINGSLEY, April 14, 1925. 6th Grade.

PINE GROVE.

April 16, 1925.

Dear Miss Munn:

It is with great pleasure that we, April 9, 1925.

of Pine Grove, send our contribu- tions to the Oriole.

When the request came, we dis- cussed the things we had done and were doing. We made a list of all the things we felt would be of inter- est to other people.

Each child was given an opportun- ity to tell what he felt was most in- teresting. During our language class periods the stories were pre- pared.

The best ones were selected by vote. We hope that they, at least some of them, will find a place in the paper.

Sincerely yours, MARGARET T. EWING, P. S .- This letter must not end without my saying that the children were very happy in preparing this piece of work. M. T. E.

Geography-The Sahara Desert. Of all the studies we have at school, I think the Seventh Grade is most interested in Geography. We are now studying about Africa, which sems to be a very interesting continent. At every lesson we take a trip to some place in Africa. The best trip, I think, was to the Sahara Desert. It is a plateau of uneven surface with low mountain ranges here and there. It is hordered on the north by the Atlas Mountains. Its area is from three to four million square miles, or about the size of the United States. Much of the soil is fertile and would yield abundant crops, but nature has forbidden rain, and its surface is barren in some places. Caravans cross the desert in order to carry products of Central Africa to Northern Africa. There are dangers in this journey. Some-

times sand storms arise and destroy a small caravan.

The Nile Rive rruns through the desert, and overflows its hanks once a year. They are now building a rallroad from Cape Town to Sairo, which will help to improve transpor- tation. One reason why Africa has not been settled long is because of the Sahara Desert. In the years to come It might turn out to yield crops. Then all nations will look forward. DOROTHY TAYLOR,

April 15, 1925. 7th Grade.

CLEANING THE SCHOOL YARD.

On Arbor Day we cleaned up the school yard. Ruth and I swept and picked up sticks. We washed the boards, beat the erasers and erased the boards. I helped Erna Hinz Shop of Individuality 203 N. Charles St. pick up blocks by a tree that had been cut down. Some of the boys gathered stones by the side of the school house. Some of the children A few feet from Corner of Lexington

burned the sticks and cleaned the coal house. We had a good time, I think. Anyhow, I did.

ELIZABETH RICHARDS.

CLEANING THE SCHOOL GROUND.

On Arbor Day we cleaned the school ground. We got the play ground very clean. The boys, who brought rakes, helped to rake up the leaves and burn them, so we can play. We picked up the stones and paper and wood. We cleaned out the coal house very neat. We burned the dry grass around the

hedge, so that it looked neat. HENRY NEUBERT, Grade 4.

April 15, 1925.

BOYS' CLUB ENTERTAINED THE PATRONS' CLUB.

At its march meeting the Pa- trons' Club was entertained by the Boy's Club of the school. We had - an orchestra. It played "Onward, Christian Soldiers." Leon Carroll, our president, gave a talk about our club. We sang two songs, "Old Dog Tray" and "Salute the Flag." The parents said that they enjoyed our program.

At the meeting a candy pig was (Continued on Page 7)

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PINE GROVE. ..

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raffled off, and I won it. I gave it to Please excuse me for not writing | cided to letter our alphabet over Miss Atwell, because she played for to you sooner. I am writing to tell again, but this time we were to give us. you about Pompeii, which I saw ; more of a swing to our letters. We MELVIN GERMAN, Grade I. April 9, 1925. did this in order to put more grace ¡ three days ago. It was beautiful. I got two pieces of mosiac. The and freedom into the formation of them. houses of Pompeii were like palaces to ours. Beautiful mosiacs in black and white. The House of The We lettered just one-half of GENERAL APPEARANCE OF OUR SCHOOL ROOM. the alphabet. The next time we completed our alphabet and with White Bear was the most beautiful. practice we were ready to print The boys and girls of Pine Grove In the new excavation they have left School enjoy a well-kept school room. the things like they found them, and ing of words so that they were well

The boys and girls all help. We the way they were 1846 years ago.

bring flowers from the woods, and some bring cultivated flowers from the old bronze lamps, the pots and the hothouses. Such flowers as hyacinths, tulips, arbutus and . pan- sies are found in our school room. We have pictures on the wall and when we see them hanging crooked would not get their feet wet. There we get a thumb-tack or a pin and straighten them. We get the paper off our desk and floor before we are excused.

In this way we are trying to have a happy and pleasant place in which to work. GRACE M. BAKER. April 15, 1925.

OUR TRIP TO CAIRO.

In our geography class we were studying about Africa. The part I liked best was when we took a trip to Egypt and Cairo. We saw the pyramids and Sphinx. As we were entering Egypt we saw donkeys all

Lawrence Gardner was in Fourth 1 lined up in a row for the people to Grade until December, at which time travel on. After we left Cairo we we went abroad with his mother. visited the Sahara Desert. We en- joyed stories about the Sheiks of the desert and many other interesting FINE ARTS. things. We all enjoyed our imagin- ary trip to Africa, but I am sure if we could have gone on we would have enjoyed it better.

JESSIE MACKENZIE, April 15 1925. Grade VI.

OUR EASTER PROGRAM.

The ninth of April was the last day of school before Easter holidays, and a day of surprises it was. It has been a custom for the school to have an egg hunt. So the

Sixth and ! Seventh Grades planned to surprise the other grades with it. We all brought eggs and dyed them. One of our parents hid them.

After our program, the teacher told ther about the egg hunt. Such clapping of hands and shouting as was heard! It was then announced that the one that found the most dved eggs would be awarded a choco- late egg.

Such pushing and running over the fields! When the egg hunt was over we all came into school. We in turn were surprised by the patrons with ice cream and cake.

NAOMI GEHRMAN, Grade VI. April 14, 1925.

Paris, France,

Feb. 23, 1925.

Dear Miss Read:

When we were ready for our third lesson we felt that the letters were too straight and formal, so we de-

words. Our next step was the spac- placed and well balanced on the

In one shop you could see even page.

The next step was actual work on kettles in the kitchen and even on cur own design and the words we the stove

At each corner of the streets there the next three lessons the children were stepping stones so the people worked on the posters. They put

them on cardboard and then drew

was finished.

EDNA GRAMMER, Sr. X. Student Teacher.

In a wine shop we saw the wine jars and the places where they kept ing on lettering and slogans. After In Fine Arts we have been work- the wine and the wine cups.

we had our new teachers, Miss Wool- sey told us about the Safety First posters. Then she helped us start

The next time I write I will tell you about Vesuvius. I miss you all very much and hope to see you be- our posters. First, we put the fore school is over.

border on our papers. Then we started drawing our design. Miss Woolsey thought it would be nice if our slogans would be "Do Not Play 23 Rue de la Paix. In the Street." After we finished

them Miss Woolsey took the best ones to town. She said if they were good enough we might get a prize.

Last night, in the Evening Sun, we read that one of our class mem- bers, Paul Frame, won fourth prize in the contest for Elementary School Children The class was delighted. CELESTE SIBLEY,

BETTY BARNWELL, Grade V.

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wished to print on the poster.' In

were also wheel ruts made by char- them in black ink. Thus the poster

iots. The street was a foot below the stepping stones. There were two so the chariot wheels could pass between the stones.

Lovingly, LAWRENCE GARDNER, Equitable Trust Co.,

The Fine Arts lessons leading up to our posters for Book Week are developed step by step as a lesson in Arithmetic is developed. We began with the children's background for this work and reviewed them in their knowledge of lettering.

In our first lesson we took all of the letters in the alphabet which were composed of straight lines only. In our next lesson we took the rest of the alphabet These were the

ones that had curves to them.

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April, 1925.

THE REAPERS.

An American, Cyus McCormick by

name,

Wanting to hasten the reaping of you have not heard of this little or- grain, ganization or seen

Invented a machine in 1831 With which it was found that this could be done.

McCormick's machine was soon used by many,

Because it saved labor and many of ours. a penny;

Not only in his time was it a charm, i But all over the world it is used on the farm. MIRIAM BOONE, Grade V.

LO! THE CITIZENSHIP CLUB IS BORN.

WHAT THE KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN AT SCHOOL 60 SAY THEY ARE TRYING TO LEARN SO THAT THEY WILL BE READY FOR FIRST GRADE.

THE

TOWSON NATIONAL BANK Court House Plaza TOWSON MARYLAND - Checking Accounts, Savings Accounts Christmas Savings Club Safe Deposit Boxes.

Early in the fall of 1924, the Campus One-Room School formed the "Citizenship Club." This club 1-If you find something, to give it' to Miss H --- to ask whose it is. -- 2-To walk quietly in the hall. 3-To talk quietly in the hall. 4-To look out before we cross the street. 4% Interest Paid on Savings Open Saturday Nights was organized by the children and the teacher, who served only as a guide and adviser. The teacher's ! big aim in starting the club in her | school was to give the children an SCHOEN & CO., Inc. 5-To walk across the street. IMPORTERS opportunity to assume, in part, the ! management of the school and to 6-Not to be "jay 'walker." provide for the further development 7-To keep quiet when Millinery, Coats, Suits, Waists, Afternoon and Evening Dresses 8 -- To pile blocks straight. Furs and Novelties someone else is talking. of its members along social, literary and civic lines. The children's big aim was and is to organize 9-We learn to work. 214 N. Charles St. Baltimore, Md. a club all their own in which they could do many interesting things and take care of their school-room and, "Hub 100" and "Granite" Silk Hose, $1.85 make it more beautiful and a nicer place to live. Some of the things When somebody adds to the spectrum, The Hub adds to they did to improve their room was appoint a committee to see that the its collection of "Hub 100" and "Granite" silk hose. And furniture was always free from dust, all books and materials were neatly new colors" are frequent. arranged in their places and that the flower vases were never burdened The af Hub with dead blossoms. A11 these Baltimore things and others were done by groups of children to make the room attractive and homelike. :

The drawing up of a constitution was the first problem the class had to face. After studying the consti- tutions of various clubs, the student government constitution for the ele- mentary school and our constitution of the Normal School they succeeded in working up a document

that seemed to be worth while. In this paper it was stated that there should be four officers: President. Vice- President. Secretary and Treasurer, elected by the members of the club in a regular election. This was done in due time and the officers were in-| stalled in office. The constitution also stated that the upper grades, all above the third grade, should be active members, and

the lower grades should be associate members, but would not be allowed to vote. The next important thing that was considered was the dues to be paid by each member.

The first meeting was a real suc- cess, with the president presiding

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16-To say Good Morning to Miss H-

17-To say "Excuse Me" when we leave the lunch table. !

ETTA RICH,

One-Room Campus.

and everything proceeding in a very 10-We learn to clean up.

formal way. Since that time many 11-To walk when we carry plates interesting things have been done and will continue to be done. If 12-When we read books not to tear and milk bottles. them.

its members

13-To take care of other children. 14-Not to hammer nails in the new table.

proudly wearing their blue and white buttons you will not have long ¡to wait, as it is growing, and its 15-To walk with scissors pointed . work will soon be seen by all who down. are wide awake and seeing things that are being done in this old world

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April, 1925.

ONE OF OUR MUSIC ASSEMBLIES.

On Wednesday morning when For she had dingling bells, through the kindness of the Music But I think it was a fairy.

Department we were honored with the visit from two artists from Pea- body Conservatory, Miss Agnes Zim- misch and Miss Clara Ascherfeld, we felt that we had had brought to us just a little more of that which is divine and that we had had our finite minds carried one step nearer that divinity.

Miss Zimmisch is a mezzo soprano. The beauty of her voice cannot be accurately described, but those of us who heard her will never forget the impression.

Miss Ascherfeld, the pianist, shows both unusual ability and great emotional interpretation in her music.

Rarely are we afforded the pleas- ure of listening to such geniuses of the musical world, and our only re- gret is that they were not with us for a longer time.

CARLOTTA SILVER, Sr. 13. Reporter.

School 86, Mulberry and Payson Sts.,

April 1, 1925. My Dear Miss Munn:

Knowing that you are always to ready for contributions the "Oriole," and wishing to do all I can as a subscriber, I enclose three ex- cellent fairy poems written by the children in my class-3-A 2.

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Oriole and Tower-Light, 1922-1927, Part 78

Author: Maryland State Normal School (Towson, Md.) Publication date: 1922-1927 Publisher: Maryland State Normal School (Towson, Md.) Number of Pages: 1024

Author: Maryland State Normal School (Towson, Md.)
Publication date: 1922-1927
Publisher: Maryland State Normal School (Towson, Md.)
Number of Pages: 1024