Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-02-11
OUR SCHOOLS.
We SCRIBE VISITS THE SCHOOL
AND JOTS DOWN HIS
IMPRESSIONS.

Last Monday in company with q
couple members of the school board we
spent a few hours in visiting our city
schools. Although the time we were
permitted to give to each department
was necessarily limited still we saw
enough to get fai. idea of the workings
of tho school.
There are at present about one hum
dren and fifty pupils enrolled divided
among five rooms Or departments, the
high school department, grammar, in
termediate, second primary and first
primary the whole under the supervision
of Prof. E. E. Couch, a cultivated gen
tic m IN aud al educator of ex perienc.,.
This is his second year in the position
and in that time he has got the school
thoroughly and systematicly graded,
and each scholar in his proper grade.
In addition to the general supervision
of the school he teaches the high school
department Or the ninth and tenth
grades.
The seventh and eight grades or the
grammar room is under the charge of
Miss Mamie Hughes teacher of ex-
perience who is doing her full share to
make the school a success. The only
recitation that we had the time to stop
IN listen to in this room showed that
the pupils were doing good work ard
thoroughly prepared thcir lessons be-
fore coming into class.
Miss Maggie slattery's room, the in
termcdiate or fifth and sixth grades,
next claimed our attention. One thing
we 10 iced in particular in this room
was the excellent use that the black
board was put to. After class had
finished their recitation they were
sent to the board and given sentences
in which they were required toillustrate
the lesson just Como ovor thus making
it practical to the pupil.
We wore unfortunate In the time
given to Miss Blanchards room, the
second prima rY or third and fourth
grades. The only class We heard there
was in spelling. One thing that attra-
cted our attention in this room was a
map of Oneida county drawn on the
board by one of the little folks showing
the shape of the county and its divisions
into towns. We will venture the state
mont TINT there are not half dozen
men in the village who could have done
as we'll.
Another thing that struck us both in
this room and Miss Lou Swimn's room
the first primary, that was the
spirit of emulation with which the
teach or, had succ eeded in imbuing the
little ones. All wero attention when
one was reciting and anxious to be call
cd upon when mistake was made.
Another thing which was especially
noticeable in the two primary room, for
the reason that the pupils were SO young
was the little folks busy over their tasks
when the teacher attention was fixed on
the class reciting. They continued to
study away like old students.
No where in the whole school is the
progress of the pupils more marked than
in the first primary. Miss Swimn's room.
Her work with the first grade is almost
entirely done with charts and theblack-
board. Hero as in every other room in
the building it seems to be the aim of
the teacher to make the lessons as
prac al as possible in other words to
teach the pupils to think.
Taking the whole school throughout
we never had better set of teachers Or
ones who worked together in more per-
feet harmony or that show bette
results for their work.
In Gle ing this artile W would Ike q
saw woru to the pan eats.
/ The teachers inf, r ned us that b.
very very + Of the parents have visit
ed the schools,