The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-07
TO ADVERTISE UTAH
Splendid Educational Exhibit at
National Convention.
WORK OF LITTLE TOT:
HOUSES BUILT BY THE KINDER
GARTEN PUPILS.
Art Exhibit Includes Work From the
Training School and Normal-In-
teresting Exhibit From the Maui
ual Training Department-Prof.
Cummings Will Have Charge.

cummings Will Have Charge.
The state normal school will be wei
represented in the educational exhibit
that is to be made at the meeting OF
the National Educa tional association OF
teachers to be held in Los Angeles, Cal
on July lila. Although it was late in
the year when the school was invited
TO make an exhibit, and still later when
| the faculty appointed a committee to
supervise 1t, yet the committee, by per-
| severance, has succeeded in selecting
ana arranging an exhibit that will be
| a credit to the Utah school room. Pro-
lessor William NJ. Stewart, Byron Cum
mlngS and r. H. Bradford, the faculty
committee, have been careful to select
no work that is not truly representative
OF the various grades, and also to in
crude no work that is not the individ-
ual effort of the students The speci-
mems are selected from the everyday
work of the students, and cover the
telds of art, manual training and kin
dergarten, showing how the other sub
1ectS OF the curriculum are correlated
and made practical.
The art exhibit includes the work of
the various grades of the training
school and of the first year normals
The art of the grades includes model
drawing, figures from life, sketching
and storytelling; all are done in pencil.
charcoal and water colors. This work
Is used largely as means of express
sion in the work in history, nature, the
Indian, ETC., is correlated carefully with
the other subjects of the grades, and
made as practical as possible. The
work of the normals is of the same gen.
10 rnrr 1,,s - L.
represents the various steps of a year
in art, and includes also work with pen
Gil, charcoal and water colors. This
part OF the exhibit will illustrate the
work done in drawing from material
objects, from models and from posed
figures; open air sketching of trees
shrubs, flowers and buildings; compo-
sition from imaginary blocks illustrat-
ing work in history and nature study;
storytelling and designing from nat
ural flowers.
The art exhibit will be made on nine
large double screens, three feet by six
feet, each of which is beautifully
matted to receive the specimens. OF
these nine screens seven will probably
be filed with work done by students
of the training school, The other two
cases will be used for the work of the
normals. In selecting the specimens to
be exhibited in this department, the
aim has been to obtain those that in
dictate the growth of thought, rather
than the finish of detail.
Manual Training Exhibit.
The manual training exhibit consists
of work done by the students of the
grades in the sloyd room. This work
is also used as a means of expression !
for the correlated subjects. The uten- |
sis made illustrate the evolution of |
the uses of artificial fire, the evolution |
Of dwelling places from the cave to the |
mansion, and the evolution of tools, be- !
ginning with the rude stone hammer.
The children have also made pieces
Of apparatus used in nature study. |
Among these are the sun dial, the shad-
DIV stick, pebble mill and bal /
ances
Other features illustrate processes.
The children of the beginners grade, in
4 concrete way, have told the story of
The House That Jack Built" Some
If the other grades did work in weav-
ng; beginning with the uncleansed
WOOL, they washed and corded it, made
heir own looms and wove mats. The
work of this department is made more
'ivld by photographs; these show the
hildren at work with saw and hammer
n the sloyd room, building and weav-
ng in the recitation rooms. and doing
Little Home Builders.
The work of the kindergarten depart
nent is also well exhibited. The speci-
mems illustrate the work in clay model
ng, paper cutting and weaving. and
he development of simpler processes.
he childlike environment has found
Expression in the building of a home, ! :
omplete from kitchen to parlor The :
ouse and rooms are made from starch {
oXes. Each room, the kitchen. the
ming room, the bedroom and the par
)r, is furnished with things made by ,
he hands of the children; carpets are ,
lid, pictures hung and the various d.
rucles of furniture are made and dis '
'lbuted. The entire structure is unique !
nd complete. Photographs aid this
apartment also; the children are seen '
work in the class rooms and garden, /
nd at play in their game room
In addition TO these exhibits. two G
rye cases of photographs will aid in Y
presenting the school. One case con- Y
inns pictures of the training school
lilding. the work of each of the
-ades the nature show, but to illus
ate thought development, and as such T
is very successful. No effort has I
zen made to collect specimens of y
r1tten work, because such material is
rely read and is not truly representa- c
We of the everyday work of the school.
The exhibit was shipped some time
90, filling nine large boxes, in addition
the frames of photos. Horace Cum 7
lngs, who will take charge of the ex-
bit at Los Angeles, left for the coast
st night in company with his wife
e will supervise the arrangement of =,
e specimens and also represent the p
'rmal school at the teachers meet p
gs. II