The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-05-23
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY w. J. CKoNE.

Morrice commencement exercises are to
be held Thursday, June 10. Junior exer-
clses Tuesday the same week. The senior
class numbers s, the junior IL.
If the teacher can get hold of the whole
child he may hope to make man of him.
We need to be careful that we are not
misled by mere catch words and popular
phrases.
Miss Eva Lawire resigns her position i'm
the Byron school to take effect at the close
OF the year to the great regret of Byron
people.
Read at least one educational paper. 1t
will elevate your conception of the work in
which you are engaged. 1t will bring you
into mental contact, with others engaged in
the same work where personal contact is
impossible. 1t contains words of sympathy
and encouragement and will inspire you
with renewed pluck and energy by showing
frequently more than pays its cost by the
information contained in single para
graph, and yields returns that cannot be
estimated in dollars and cents.
A teacher writes: "What can we do to
save the shade trees ? l have in mind a
half lille of highway stripped of all its trees,
not by the avariciousness of the owners
but by the dullness of a STRIPPING who
was cleanin' up the road and amt done a
good job. 1t will take two arbOr days a
year for fifty years to undo that fellows
half days work."
As desirable picnic grounds cannot be
found within reach of the teachers of Shia-
wassee county, Sec'y Mcbride proposes an
Educational Excursion" to Ann ArbOr.
The plan in brief will be to attach one or
more coaches to the regular train and side
track these at Ann Arbor, have picnic
dinner within the coaches and then spend the
afternoon in sight seeing. The campus and
University grounds will be the most beauti-
| full at this time of year. The art gallery
with its whispering chamber, the museum.
| library and all that goes to make up one of
| the greatest institutions of learning in the
| world, will be of educational value to teach
ers and pupils. The date selected will
probably be Saturday, June IA. The Ann
ArbOr road will make very low excursion
rates, so that the trip will be within the
reach of all. Teachers cannot spend a day
to better advantage, and visit by pupils
and school patrons is in every way desirable
| When proper arrangements can be made a
circular announcement will be issued, Civ.
ing full particulars.
Report of Burton school for the month
ending May 9th: Not absent nor tardy
Lille Rogers, Mamie Wesner. Lena Gibson
Fred Van Dyne, Bessie Van Dyne, Grace
Green, Eva Warner. Perfect i'm department
Lille Rogers, Mamie Wesner, Edna Viii
kins, Oracle Green. 80 per cent or above
on examination, prnctuality and deport
ment: Ira Stiff, Charlie Stiff.
| E. A. LIGNIAN, Teacher.
Report of school in Juddvlle: l have EN-
relied 81 pupils, daily average AZ and SO
We have roll of honor which include
whispering. All of the larger and many o
the smaller pupils have their names Oh it
and only three black marks for the montl
ending May 14th. Following are the names
Dewey Brown, Samuel, Alta, Elsie, Cheste
Messuraul, Arthur Grove, John Fitch, Mar.
Stoddard, Maggie Ward, Ida Snider, Cassi
Bowers, Nina Sutton, Lulu Steinhoff, Dais
Benham, Lucy Judd, Jessie Moore, Elme
Forsyth, Earnie Sherman, Albert and Flor
judd Alta Bush, Burton and julius Valen
tine; and these have been neither tardy no
absent: Arthur Grove, Dewey Brown, Alt;
and Earnie Messuraul, Maggie Stanton
Jessie Moore, Cassie Powers, Daisy Ben
ham, Tina Sutton, Lulu Sheldon, Burtol
and Julius Valentine, Lee Brown, Mar
Benham, Eliza Cameron.
We have papered our school room and ar
putting up new curtains, have bought
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, and tn
lowest standing in any class Is go per cent
MARY Il. MOORE, Teacher.
ARITHMETIC.
A very important fact i'm the teaching o
fractions to beginners is DRILL, DRILL
DRILL. Young teachers, don't hurry you
classes, but drill on each step until 1t Is In
delibly fixed i'm the pupils mind.
From the very first case l require the rul
to be learned; the first day to be recited
the second to be written.
Here do language work. mark para
graph, margin. capitals, etc.
l give many problems from the black
boards, and require the pupil to bring orie
inal problems to the class. For example
after placing on the board ten problems,
write. make and solve ten problems unde
case l."
This is repeated for each case. Afte
preliminary work in case III, the back-boar
lesson will be, make and solve five prol
lens under case l; ditto, case III; prov
your answer"
Before teaching common denominators
teach the class to add and substract fraction
having com. demo. giving many problems
When they are thoroughly learned we tax
the next step.
require computations to be done mental
ly so far as the numbers used will permit
1t will require some patience to teach thol
oughly an entire class, even though yo
i. think you have taught the cases thorough
ly. The bright ones will understand tn
reasoning quickly enough.
know some teachers who not only pei
NIT but teach pupils to reduce the nike
numbers to improper fractions before ado
fling. That should never be done. 1t is a
error to permit work to be done i'm round
about way. Miss Z. A. BURNETT.