Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-06-28
GOOD COUNTRY SCHOOL
CIOsING DAY pNtNCisEs Al
wAiAwA ~ EVA.
children OF other Mother Tongues
show Good Grounding In I'm.
gIisn R.d singing.


ava school as it was at all govern.
ment schools. Over one hundred
and twenty children assem- bled to
take part in the closing exercises
and their parents and friends
gathered to see and hear their pro-
gress. Among those present we're
Rev. II. w. Peck, T. w. Rawlins,
and others from Honolulu attract.
ed by the reputation of the excel
lence of the school exercises in
past years which were fully
equalled if not excelled by those
of this day. Mr.. j. w. Smith
the principal announced at the
opening that only the regular
school days work would be gone
through to show the parents what
the children were actually learn
ing but he varied the tedIousness
of uninterrupted lessons by inter-
spersing few we'll executed reci-
tations by the little tots and re-
lieved the occasional monotony by
the splendid choral singing for
which his school is unexcelled
on this island. First in order
OF place came the infant
classes under the charge of the
Misses s. and M. Smith who
read, recited and sang their Kin
dergarten songs, the latter especi-
ally well, and showed that the
kindergarten movement has even
spread to Eva and is doing equal
ly good work there as in Homo
lulu. Especial mention should
be made here of one little Chinese
girl whose clearness of enuncia-
ton and perfect tone were a won
der. Two recitations, "Guess my
name" and Call my brother back
to me-" were especially noticeable
for their clear-cut English and
bright delivery.
Next came some excellent work
in arithmetic and English by
more advanced pupils under Mr..
Vivian Smith which of its kind
was equally deserving of praise
for the ready way in which the
work was done and the answers
given in good English. Singing
several school songs under the
same young gentleman's leader
ship showed that he is rapidly
in his fathers footsteps
as an excellent teacher of singing.
After this came the third and
fourth classes in their regular
school work under the leadership
Of the principal. 1t will no doubt
interest teachers in other schools
to read the bill of fare presented.
In arithmatic bills of parcels,
fractions, percentage, interest,
simple and compound, joint
stock company problems, ETC.,
we're successively propounded
and successfully solved by large
majority of the large class of thir-
sy. Now came an unusual exer-
Else. One of the visitors skilled
in music was asked to select at
from a volume of Gospel
hymns a dozen bars or so of
music. This was transcribed by
the principal on the blackboard in
the regular Gold )musicsl notation.
The children who had never seen
that piece before successfully
transformed it into tonic sofia
notation having due regard to
time, key, aocidentals, etc., and
then sung it at sight, thus show
ing that they we're fully acquaint-
ed with both notations and could
sing from each with equal facility.
Then an intermission of singing
In which difficult and elaborate
chorale, travelling Home to
God" attracted special attention.
and elocution of varied
degrees of excellence came next,
followed by an exercise in map
drawing in which over dozen
(all the boards could accommo-
date) successfully drew from
memory fair maps of Europe in
under 10 minutes and marked in
their leading physical and politi-
cal features by the aid of colored
chalk, afterward exhibiting orally
that they knew the chief features
and could in good English intelli-
gibly report some of the leading
historical and geographical facts
connected with each.
While the drawing was going
on the remainder OF the class took
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