The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-03-31


which opens at Kailua on April 1st.
Judge and Mrs. Austin arrive bv the
Hall from Kau tonight. Sheriff and
Mrs. Hitchcock and others arrive from
Hilo in a few days, coming overland.
special trip of the Kinau is to bring a
large Hilo contingent next Tuesday.
and on Wednesday the Hall returns
from Honolulu with various legal
Ikhts Such crowd of visitors has
been unknown in Kona since the days
of Kalakaua's gay and festive pilgrim
ages.
Educational matters receive their due
share of attention through this dis
trict. The Inspector-GeneraI recent
ly made a very successful visit He was
impressed with need of greater school
accommodation in this growing place,
and it is expected that some action
win soon be taken in the matter.
The teachers of North and South
Kona held their quarterly convention
at Kona Waena March 18th and 18th
u
The President, N E. Lennon, occu-
pied the chair. After prayer, singing
and the preliminary business Mrs. Sun
ter addressed the convention on morn
ing opening exercises She believed
in waking up the children's interest
with varied exercises before the work
of the day was begun. Mrs. NJ. F. Scott
was to have been the next speaker, but
being unable to be present her paper
on Grading" was read by Miss Scott.
She said that so large a proportion of
the Island schools being primary and
country schools, and the impossibility
of having a perfect system of grading,
the necessity of systematizing the work
as much as possible was apparent, first,
because it saves time; second, it doub-
les the working hours: third, renders
the work more effective; fourth, as
siStS in obtaining better results; fifth
gives the satisfaction of work accom-
pliShed. Glasses and not individuals
should be promoted. Before promot-
ing, however. the class should be weed |
ed out and pupils incapable of making |
progress made 20 take years work |
over again. The course of study was
the guide to the work.
Thomas Ain followed with the sub |
ject of blackboard drawing.
II. T. Mills illustrated with class of |
ten pupils, how he taught geography |
with sand-modelling and blackboard |
drawing. A fine relief map in moist |
sand OF the island of Hawaii was pre-
sented. the pupils placing cards bear |
ing the names of places of interest, |
such as sugar plantations, coffee dis
tricts. deep-water vessel landings. lava |
flows, railroad terminals inter-iSland |
steamer landings. principal capes and |
bays, town of HilO, mountains, dis |
tricts. etc. as the teacher called for |
them. The class then went to the |
black board, and each pupil drew, in |
minute and a bali, the map OF Hawaii, |
locating the names of places, heights of |
mountains, etc, as they were called |
for. The height of Hualalai was given |
in roman numerals, and several queS- |
tons as to products and natural feat |
ures were answered on the board. The /
drawings in water colOrs. maps by the !
pupils, We're also very good. Mr.. Mills |
work reflected much credit upon him. |
Mrs Mills showed specimens of work |
done by her sewing class.
Miss Scott took up the subject of /
phonics as handled by n. E. Calkins. |
He reduces the number of elementary |
sounds of the alphabet to forty-five, |
and does away with the terms long, |
short, Italian, close, shut, as names of
sounds. and uses numerals instead, for |
the vowel sounds He teaches most OF
the consonant sounds in pairs. The |
diacritical marks are not taught till |
after the sounds are understood. His /
method is clear and concise.
Mr.. Lennon instructed the conven-
ton in fourth-year arithmetic along |
the customary lines.
Mr. Haze began well in chart work
but did not continue far enough. Ma
tive teachers in the lowest rooms ap- !
pear TO think the chart work is con- |
fined TO the first three or four pages. |
That is a great mistake. The hand
ling of the chart we'll is very impor-
tant. The lessons are carefully graded
and can be made very interesting and |
instructive.
H. T. Mills gave a very interesting
Third Reader Lesson with a class.
He told the story afterwards and asked |
the meaning of certain words. The
phonic sounds of words were given
and lessons read. One pupil wrote on
the board the principal words with
their diacritical marks, from dictation.
Five words were then written by each
pupil and given in sentence. The
result showed a good knowledge of
The specimens of compost
ton and bills, together with the pen
of this class, were excellent.
Fridays papers were comparatively
with one or two excep-
tons. Mrs. Sumter illustrated sentence
work and Mr.. Makuakane showed a