River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-06-19
Educational.
HIS. BAKER. A. H.. Editor.
County SUPERINTENDENT

SEVERAL of the schools in the count,
close the coming week.
| have seated my pupils by grc 2,
and like the plan.-Clara Healy .fiei c.
Valley, Clifton.
C. G. MoINrYRE says: have hygiene
drawing and constitution as genera
exercises. occasionally.
F. L. BARNEY, Reed district, Spring
Lake. calls his school at $50 and ha.
ten minutes for study before any rec.
itation.
HAVE tried seating my pupils by
classes and it works well. Wonder |
did not get about it sooner.--C. C.
Mcintyre.
If your primaries do not have rec
itation of some kind just before every
recess and near the close of each half
day, your programme is vitality wrong.
FoR the past week, ending June 9th,
my regular attendance was thirty-nine
out of forty three enrolled and but
three cases of tardiness.--W III. Row.
ley.
IHAvE my pupils seated by classes
nd 40 OF aat
it saves time and is an improvement
o.. the old method.-T. j. McAndrew,
No. A. Hartland.
The N. E. Journal of Education is a
mystery in that it always has some ar
ticle fresh and very profound. The
supply seems perennial. The best in
the U. S. Try it, if only for six
months.
A MAN that hath no virtue in him.
self ever envieth virtue in others; for
mems minds will ever feed upon their
own good or upon Others evil; and
who wanteth the one will prey upon
the other.-BACoN.
| HAVE adopted the plan of having
my pupils seated by grades and it
works like a charm. 1t saves much
noise and confusion and it enables me
to keep my eyes on them all the time
without taking my mind from recita-
tion.-Julia Akers. Olivet.
Miss G. r. NEWELL, Morgan district,
Diamond Bluff, is doing good work for
a first term. All the patrons of Will
Caldwell, Spring Grove district, Trim
belle, seem to be pleased with his ex-
cellent work. Amy Baker, in the
Allehoe school, seems to have good
success. G.
My botany pupils seem quite inter-
ested. We have planted morning
glory seeds in box to illustrate our
lessons. They like to watch their
growth.-Ella Harrison, No. 5, Union.
@. Do you approve of daily gym
nastic exercises in district school,.
A. Yes. 1t is very profitable.
AMONG the least read and yet most
interesting educational books, is the
Annual Report of the State Supt. Eve
ry town and district clerk receives a
copy. Let teachers borrow them from
the clerk and read them, and if, as is
sometimes the case, they have not
taken them from the town clerk S
office, go and get them yourself, and
when read return to the district clerk
DISTRICT clerks receiving circulars
containing the price list of books
which are in the list they have adopt
ed, should file the same for reference.
Also, teachers would do well to keep
them as districts have to buy a few
new books nearly every term, and the
teacher should be able to tell the pu-
pills and parents whatever they wish
to know in regard to price, etc. We
intend to keep those interested fully
posted by requesting publishers to
send them such circulars as will ena-
BILE them to act intelligently and
promptly whenever there is def
cheney of books.
FRIEND BAKER:--I am now trying a
new way of having pupils read. |
have all the class close their books ex-
cept the one who is reading. They sit
and listen. Then they criticise, LIST,
the position in holding the book; End,
the enunciation and articulation; Sd,
tone and emphasis and pause; 4th,
voice and manner in which the words,
were read. This teaches, LIST, the arr
of detecting mistakes by the ear and
not by the sight; End, it rivets the at
tention of the pupil; Sd, it teaches
them to understand spoken language
more quickly and with greater facility
than by the old way. have 5th read
| err do this work. &c. L. Bowman, Di
amond Bluff village.
| Mr. BAKER:-You may think that thu
Forest Home school. Hartland, is stu
ated in such place that the prope
observance of our new holiday, Deco
ration day, would be hardly possible
But we had such pleasant time al
by ourselves last Friday, that | fee
like telling you about it. We did no
like to lose a whole day of schoc
(even if it was a holiday so we ha
school as usual in the forenoon, bu
the afternoon was almost entirely giy
EN- up to pleasure. We all had badg
of red, white and blue on our RICH
shoulder and marched from the schot
house two and two to q grove about
quarter of mile distant. Each on
carried in the left hand a boquet an
Immediately upon arriving | read a p;
per prepared for the occasion, afts
which we each laid, on a place pr
pared by the children, our boquets,
memory of the soldiers. After tn
we had some declarations and speal