Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1894-03-09
School Notes.

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The School Board held it's m onthly
meeting this forenoon. ss
| The regular monthly examina-
tion OF the High school was held
yesterday.
Report cards have been prepared
by Prof. }. +. Thatcher on which the
daily report of High school scholars
will be kept. At the end OF the term,
any pupil averaging below 70 per
cent will not be permitted to take
state examination in that subject.
The Literary Society met at the
Central last evening.
| About an hour was spent in de-
batting the amendment providing
that every person should take part
in the program every two weeks and
to be fined 50 cents for failing to per-
form his duty except when sick, out
OF the city or some other valid ex-
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The following program was then
rendered: a.. s..s . :..:@...sty5.
Essay, "Cotton Mather William liza iless Gross
Debate: Resolved that the High
School faculty constitute the Jury
for the next six weeks.
Affirmative: Chas. Huff, Cora
Rhodes, Miss Janson and Eta Pat
terson.
The negative: Walter johnson,
Millie Moore, Ned Huff and Miss Ash
ley. The debate wasdecided in favor of
the negative. A defamation was
to be given by Miss Vining, but she
was not present at the meeting.
At the teachers meeting last even
ing after school, two papers were
read, one by Miss Smith on spelling
and another by Mrs. Baxter on his
tory and geography in the primary
grades.
SPELLING.
Spelling is one OF the subjects in
which it is most difficult to get the
pupil interested, Pupils think they
can never get 100 in spelling but the
poorest scholar, after he has reached
that mark, will take pride in get
ting the same again, and after
pupils pride has been developed the
second 100 comes a great deal easier,
Sometimes word is misspelled, but
the teacher knows what the
scholar meant, and 50 let's it go, but
this habit of misspelling grows with
the scholar and will be harmful in
all his written work.
1t has been proved that written
spelling is more profitable than oral
work, as word studied two differ
ent ways makes a greater impress
sion. Often times, if a pupil mis-
spells a word, letting some other
pupil correct it will make an i'm
preston as no pupil likes to have all
other surpass him.
Miss Smith had quite a lengthly
article and was eagerly listened to
by all the teachers as it is most
difficult to hold attention in this
study.
HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY IN THE PRIN1-
AIRY GRADES.
History and Geography lessons
are object lessons in primary grades.
AS all primary ideas of the outward
world must come through the senses
and as the facts derived from per-
ception by means of the senses are
the materials upon which the mind
feeds and by which higher powers
are brought into activity, the i'm
portance of perceptive training is at
once manifest the accurate eye, the
quick ear. The skillful hand favor ad-
vancement in every employment in
life, hence the child should observe
and handle objects of study:
In geography and history lessons
we cultivate perception, imagina-
ton, generalization, memory, rea-
soning and language. The observ-
ing faculties in a young child are
very active and constitute the only
means by which images Of the ex-
ternal world can enter his mind and
give rise to thought. This activity
is that of the ear, the eye and the
hand and, reaching the mind by
triple or double senses, increase the
chances of success. In studying the
men and women in history, the his
torical spirit created is WORTH far
more than the knowledge the child
gains. In. telling these stories the child
uses the simplest languages and does
not leave the subject until he has a
clear view of the person.
Mrs. Baxter's was an interesting
article and gave many good methods
OF teaching the branches of history
and geography.