The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22
THE ExHlRIT OF SCHOOL WORK.


Festival hall never presented
brighter Or more attractive appearance
than it did yesterday and today for tn
exhibition of the work of the primary
intermediate and grammar grades O
our public schools. The stage hat
been moved to the corners of the room
and was covered with palms an,
shrubs of all kinds flags of the variou
nations were placed in the windows a
were also bouquets and ferns. In tn
grades the correlation of the studiel
was carried out with splendid success
and one could hardly see where on
lesson began and another ended, 81
perfectly were they blended to brInl
out the rounded education of th'
scholar of today. The first work in
spected was that of the primary first
and second grades, whose tables wer,
decorated with the rainbow colors
Mrs. j. T. Warren's third grade hae
their table handsomely trimmed with
a deep shade OF red with a banquet
lamp with shade of the same hue
Neatness in all of the work was con
spicuous here, as in fact it was in the
exhibit throughout, and one would
have to travel far to find better work
than is done throughout our schools.
The extreme ncatness in the number
work and writing of this grade was
apparent and some splendid color work
had been done in connection with the
drawing lesson. The frs: and second
grades of the primary school were dis
played as follows: Miss Harriet Web
ster's school on table decked in or
ange: Miss Lillian. Newton's. yellow
Miss Minnie Brazor, green; Miss Ella
Newman, blue; Miss Lamson violet I;
Miss Freeman substituted for Miss
Lulu Elmer, white The special work of
these grades consisted chiefly of clay
work, the sewing Of cards. which is
brought in nicely in connection with
nature work, drawing, language and
arithmetic work and which was quite
the children for their memory gem
books. This. of course, comes in extra
with the writing, reading, music, etc.
One of the specialtes on Miss Bra
zor's table was the paper folding, the
calendars kept by the children each
month. showing the direction of the
wind and which were decorated with
pictures. Miss Lamson
school had some very nice form work
as in fact did all the grades. In this
work the children draw leaves. objects,
studies from nature, etc. as they ad-
vance higher. and cut the same out of
colored paper and paste them on cards.
This work formed border around the
galleries about the room and made a
handsome showing. This also in some
of the more advanced grades included
designs in wall paper. borders and book
covers and showed the good work done
by Miss Emma Houghton, the drawing
teacher.
The fourth grade colors were red and
the speciaties in this class were good
writing. the neat looking arithmetic
papers in ink, illustrated fraction work,
drawing and the flag covers
for the language work of Miss Sher
mans class, the rainbow stories, IL
lustrated geography and nature work
of Miss Eason's class.
The fifth grades are in charge of
Mrs. Flora Clary and Miss Mary l..
Miller and, of course, as the grades ad
vance the same ideas are carried out
onlv at more advanced stage. 1t is
to say the least, to witness
this advance grade by grade. and even
the most casual observer cannot fail to
notice the excellent cooperation which
is manifest and which is IN large
the supervisor. Some of the more ad-
vaned ideaslhere were the general in
books, which had been
sort of recreation work and which con
tained topics of interest which the
children had gathered from every
where; the temperature charts in con
lectiun with nature work ;stories Of the
Creeks with handsome covers of Greek
designs which brought into play the
anguage and drawing lessons: also the
nap drawings in the geography les
IONS.
Grade six. with Misses Coates and
iae as teachers had also done
iome good work in nature work and a
ar of polywogs. which the children
lad been watching grow were "eXhib-
ted' here. The Vermont books
which the children had made were cX-
client and this seemed to be novel |
way in getting the children interested |
n the study of their own state: the |
,eneral information books were also |
prominent factor, the study of the |
rog in nature work. reproduction of
tones and paraphrasing as we'll as the |
handsome covers for all the work |
;hich was in all cases in all the grades
ymbolical of the story within. In fact /
he aim of the drawing is not so much
0 make it stand out as prominent
tudy of its own as to have it blend in
nth the arithmetic, the nature work, Ian
uage. in fact with every study which
he scholar takes up.
The teachers of the seventh grade.
Irs. Harlow and Miss Moore had every
eason to feel pleased with the success
their scholars. The work of the pre-
ious grade was brought up to a high
r grade of perfection and handsome
overs for author books. collections
wild flowers with covers in pen and
TX, excellent history work. advanced
leas in keeping weather record and
le life of the plant and leaf work and
lie literary work on the STORY OF the ,
were among some of the
otable features seen here.
The work of the eighth grade was
so all that could be desired and
lowed good work done by Miss Stod
ird and her pupils. The nature
ori here had very elaborate covers /
nd the history papers had for a cover
e three flags of our country up TO r
~ one now in use. A great deal OF
ithmetic work, temperature charts =
III studies of the evergreen tree with
included good work. The "
terature work was also of a higher Il
ade than any seen in the other
AIDES and Longfellow had been taken
thoroughly and Dickens and
lakespeare are also sudied. The COW
s of the language WORK. all character
lie of the subject, showed some fine