The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-04-14

NOTES.
The following Is an extract from a per-
sonal letter from Prof. +. A. Abernethy,
OF the Norway public schools: lin re-
gard To the entertainment j never saw
anything more complete at a meeting OF
an association and In that regard any
other similar gathering. The perfectness
every body. The general good feeling
manifested by the people ofcrystal Falls
made the attendance upon the meeting a
pleasure and has had an influence which
will long be felt i'm the future. The meet,
ing OF the association as whole, was the
best i'm it's history and excels any thing i
ever attended in the lower peninsula"
In this connection itmay he well TO add
that Crystal Falls schools has staff Of
| teachers without a peer on the range SO
lar as hard and conscientious work goes.
Misses Blssdell, Vandandaigue, Rowley
and Morrison, are hard workers and de-
vote all OF their time to school matters
and the result In mostgratifyingn not only
to them but to parents OF the children.
The meeting of the association at this
place will long be remembered with feel
| ings Of pleasure. The members Of that
organization are n refined, cultured and
pleasing class ofpeople with whom il liz not
only great pleasure but much profit to
become acquainted, and il IN only regret
cd that they will not for many years
again hold their meeting here.
THE visiting teachers were unanimous
in declaring that the great success OF the
meeting was in n great measure due TO
untiring efforts ofMiss Blasdell, principal
81 the Crystal Falls schools. She is "a
worker and has the satisfaction OF know
ing that her work does not go unheeded.
Crystal Falls has "Bill Nye," who is
a formidable rival To the Bill OF Boom
erang lame. Mr.. HOLSTER is never at a
loss to say funny things and never fails
TO bring down the house when he goes
about IL.
w. ID. Moon, OF Hermansville, il very
clever with his guitar, and rendered
numerous choice selections which were
heartily encored and had 20 be repeated.
And besides he is a pleasing gentleman
withal
The Menominee Range boasts OF the
finest looking lot OF lady school teachers
of any district i'm Michigan, and they are
as good as they look and that's more.
] An invitation has been extended To the
association To hold its next meeting at
Florence and the invitation Will no doubt
be accepted.
The teachers who were absent will never
know, nor can they guess one hall the
good time that was had.
Three Iron Mountain teachers played
truant and attended the return ball at
that city.
Come again.
MISS EVA MoRRIsoN's PAPER.
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by Miss Eva Morrison, OF this CITY. Crys-
tai Falls teachers presented two papers,
the other one being by Miss Blasdell,
principal, and will be given in a subse-
quentissue. The paper by Miss Morrison
il above criticism and when every thing
IL considered, il IA truly remarkable pro-
duction. The lady in the youngest
teacher in our schools, and in the young
est person who ever read a paper before
this association. She is employed i'm the
primary department aud rs hard work
ing and pains taking instructor. OF her
Miss Blasdell says: "She is a atural
born teacher and i never before saw a
teacher more particularly adapted to her
work than Miss Morrison" She received
her education In the schools she is now
employed:
The child enters school with a limited voca.
bulary Of oral words. We are 20 correct this
enlarge IL. and also teach the written forms
or, put IL this way: We are 10 teach him a.
TO use written Language through the sense OF
sight TO gain knowledge. CD 90 write and spell
/ az We are 20 increase his vocabulary. (i) Add
to his r. fund OF eeneral knqwedse and 90 discip
| first and second years. must accomplish some.
thing In all these directions. Reading il almost
d@y lei them Tell IN their own Words p brhs ,b 90,
| have read Ask for one thing at first and then
gradually increase until they will tell the whole
IL. -. n
| what they write. They will read me re naturally
and there will be a noticeable Improvement IN
the careless writing. Given good language
lesson on plants, howers, fruit or animals, they
viii prepare their own reading lessons. CONVEX
sation lessons about objects in common use I'm
the home school room or play ground should
be freely and frequently gwen. Quite often these
! serve TO introduce new words The children
me y be asked 20 mention all they could see at
home, the teacher 70 write these on board class
copy. These words win be brought into the
reading lessons II the children are allowed TO
choose. Holdup two objects Of complex charac-
ter. until all have had sufficient time 20 see
them. Put them out Of sight and have pupils
describe. In conversation exercises, correct
statements are absolutely necessary. Frne.
mentary expression will lead 20 disconnected
thought. BE certain there is, first, correctness
/ then fun statement and then quickness
Every teacher should have a large collection
( OF pictures. nice way TO arrange them for
second or third grade II TO prepare books OF
suitable ruleo paper and at the top Of each page
paste a picture. Occasionally let the pupils
take these books and write a story on the same
page. Save the books aud the supplementary
reading question viii soon be satisfactorily
answered. In asking questions ON pictures DE
careful not 20 ask direct questions nor those
which can be answered by 81 see" Thus their
attention viii be called TO the relation OF objects
and not go wandering around, endeavorng 10
see many things.
with very young children or those nnaccus
toned TO these exercises. the stories will be
oral. But II "a little pains be taken 10 make
! them interesting they will be profitable We
should All be good story tellers for by practice
We may attain "A clear. concise hut still simple
l manner OF telling sfnries W.. ahnnld .u.Ii.l