Brookings register. (Brookings, S.D.) 1890-1894, 1891-06-12
Teachers Day.

Saturday, June 6, 1891, was the
day appointed for a meeting of those
necessary evils, the pedaeogues, and
on that day thsy appeared in Volga.
from all over the surrounding coun.
try, and also from Brookings, Co.
Supt. Geo. A. West and vile were the
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. E. Q. Hughes.
The meeting at the school house
were called to order at $50 o. m. by
Superintendent West, and the pro
cram as announced last week was
carried out in manner most profit
able to all present.
Mrs Mary Davis explained the Pol.
lard system OF teaching primary read.
ing, and. with a few of her little peo-
pie called in for that purpose, illus.
trated how she taught, by singing, the
sounds of the letters marked aiacrit-
ically. Sue tells us that sLo has to
study this method continually, but
she seems to be perfect in it as far as
she has used it. Mrs. Davis has used
this method in the primary depart.
ment at Volga during the last year
with surprising results.
Miss Writings talk on Intermediate
phy siology was listened to with great
interest. This being subject that is
expected to be taught in every school,
she presented her methods of treating
it, SO as to make it interesting and
instructive to the beginner. and we
believe she has struck the keynote
object work.
Miss Matte Albertson then gave q
select reading, 1.-THE Second Trial"
This beautiful and touching little in
cident OF a college commencement day
was g. pleasant diversion from the
technical work OF the afternoon.
Miss Matte Dickerson's paper on
Morning Exercises was one of more
than ordinary interest. 1t is q mat.
ter OF study with US how to open
school in the morning in such a way
as to make the children ieel that they
will loose great deal every time they
are tardy. and also in q profitable
way. Miss Dickerson told OF a num-
Der of ways in which this could be
done, and we are sure her remarks
will be protited by.
Simple Simple Interest as presented
by E. 0. Hughes. proved to be very
simple indeed. Mr.. Hughes does not
believe in requiring the children to
learn arithmetical rules, but in let.
ting them acquire them from doing
the work, and we believe that most
of the teachers of the present time
are working according to this plan.
Mr.. Hughes explained the IL per
cent. method of working interest, and
illustrates how any combination of
principle time and rate could be
handled with perfect accuracy and
with few figures.
Miss Staples paper on spelling was
followed by q discussion, in which the
spelling school received some atten-
ton. Miss Staples evidently is mas
ter Of this subject, but Mr.. Hughes
objects to the spelling school. We
understand his scholars were defeated
by those of Miss Staples in match
last winter.
The Principals of Good Reading,
How Taught, by Miss Roe, came next.
She showed how natur alness in read.
ing must be secured by reading SEN
tences, not words, and by working
upon the imagination OF children.
The program closed with q paper
on How to Teach Numbers to Begin
ners by Miss Gertrude Madison. She
presented the idea of object work in
the four fundamental rules and in
fractions, and it must be admitted
that object teaching must soon be
practiced in nearly all the branches
taught in our common schools.
Another piece Of work, by no means
the least Interesting, was fine illus
tratiop in sand, OF the battle OF Chat.