The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-08-22
SOME NOVEL FEATURES AT THE
SUMMER SCHOOL.
A Glass Composed of Chinese, Japanese,
Receive Their First School Lesson.

A novel and interesting feature was
introduced in the summer school this
morning. Miss Flora ]. Cooke took
class of children who had never been in
school, and none of whom came from
homes where English is spoken. and
gave a practical Illustration of the ap-
plication of the principles of teaching
she has been discussing.
There were four nationalities repre-
sented in this class, Chinese, Japanese,
Portuguese and Hawaiian. All of them
had attended kindergarten, but no 9TH
er schools. 1t was evident that the i'm
portance of the occasion had been felt
in the homes from which the children
came, for they were all nicely dressed
according to the national ideas of dress
of the races they represented. The lit
tie Chinese girls wore the most gorge
ously embroidered garments with
plenty of Jade and bronze ornaments on
wrists and ankles and in their hair. The
little Japs wore fresh, figured kimonos.
The Hawaiian and Portuguese boys
wore broad white collars with flowing
colored ties, and the little girls wore
fresh clean holokus.
The matter of dress, however, was
quickly forgotten when Miss Cooke took
the class i'm hand. She began by show
ing them some square bags made out of
bright Colored material, some red, some
blue and some orange. She took up the
color first, talking to them about that,
writing the name of the color out on the
blackboard and having them do it. Then
sh took up the dimensions and shape
| following out the same process, making
! the subject concrete. So that at the end
| of the half hour exercise, each of the
little pupils knew each of the colorS re-
presented and could spell it out on the
/ blackboard: had some idea of measure
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sent on the blackboard fairly well by
straight lines the dimensions of the
/ bags from actual measurements made
! by themselves and could write out these
| dimensions on the blackboard.
| The attendance at the summer schoo
not only keeps up but is actually in
! creasing. Miss Zonia Baber in the de-
partment of geography and chalk mod.
elling has aroused great deal of inter
est. Chalk modelling is the technical
name for the process of graphic Illus
! tration by means of chalk on black
board. Miss Baber in her work seeks
to show how the study of geography
can be made interesting by beginnins
with the geographical features immedi
ately surrounding the school and lead
ing up from these to a comprehension
of the larger features of geography.
Prof. Hits has been unable on ac
count of sickness to take up the sub
ject of color work, and Miss Pearly
who recently came from San Jose tt
take a position in Kawaiahao Semin
AIRY has had charge of this department
in the summer school. She has inter
ested a large number of teachers in i
and quite a number have proVi'e,
themselves with the material and hav
taken up the brush exercises.
Under the title of General Topics,
there have been discussions of differen
branches of educational and schoo
work. Inspector General Townsen
next week will take up the exhibit o
school work which is part of the sum
mer school and explain and discuss it.
Next Monday at 1l:15 o'clock Prof.
, S. Bckmore will lecture on the subieC
of Visual Instruction" which he orig
mated and which has now become a
. important part of the educational syS
TEN of the state of New York.