The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-10-17


plan of work is asfolievs:
/. Nature work
ta) Weather report.
tb) Animal life,
(c) Gardening.
p Reading, the eutgrowth of Nature
work
s. Industrial work. involving much con-
struction work, number, etc.
4. Reading and writing from chart. to sat
isfy parents who send pupils to school
to learn to read and write.
s. Housekeeping, involving sewing, cook
ing, setting tables. dish washing etc.
g. Music and drawing correlated with ev-
cry phase of the work.
r. Games and stories correlated with the
work.
In nature work live ami
OF They see the eggs hatched
ANIMALS out and examine the young.
However, nothing is left to
die in the school room. All are liberated
afterward. Humanity is taught and OBJ
served at every turn of the work
Each child has garden. In it are
grown vegetables They will be cooked
and eaten by the little gourmands later.
The garden is five feet wide and thirty
feet long. Every child has pot of flow
ers. Then the beautiful window boxes
.
For activity is the law of childhood
The birthdays of all prominent men and
women are observed. The dates of their
birth are indenbly imprinted on their
minds in this easy fashion.
The games indulged in are
GAMES baseball, football, basketball,
ARE handball and running, jumping
PLAYED. and all outdoor sports. The
teachers are there. not as po-
lice officers, but as helpers The spirit of
kindness and helpfulness runs through
esons and sports.
| The children took great interest in the
recent races and sports, and pleasant riv-
airy took place in mimic matches. They
even wore the colors of their respective
fevorites. So it is seen they are kept ad-
vised of what goes on in the outside
world. Excursions to famous places OF
| interest are frequent, and plants and
ferns collected for classifying. Then they
| have a sort of exchange bureau. They
tcollect and send Island specimens to Eng
| land, America and Australia and receive
/ in return many specimens of rare value
A collection that shows great promise Is
now gathering. Patriotic and other songs
are another leading feature. Here is one
&C imposed by Miss Felker:
NANANANA.
We can see you, mother spider.
With your nest so soft and white;
/ Nananana, big house spider,
Hold your eggs there snug and tight
Something's happening, mother spider.
To your nest, your big cocoon:
/ 1t is growing gray and wider:
Will your babies hatch out soon?
/ See! The nest is surely opening
! Out the little spiders go:
! Take care, reaches. flies, mosquitoes
| Little spiders larger grow.
Mother spider. can your babies
| Make big webs and cocoons white?
Help them, teach them nananana,
| How to do their work ''just right"
Play with them, dear mother spider
! Give them on your back a ride:
Let them run and jump about you;
In the old nest let them hide.
Nananana. big house spider
To the children you are dear;
They'll not harm YOU, mother spider,
For your babies have no fear
Another is a parody OF
MISS Sing a Song of Sixpence":
FELKER'S Sing a song of gladness.
SONGS. Pocket full of rice:
Twenty-four mynah birds
| Baked in pie so nice;
When the pie was opened
| The mynahs tried to sing:
Wasn't that funny dish
To set before the King?
The King was i'm the Palace
Counting out his money;
On lanai sat the Queen
Eating bread and honey:
Wash-man on the house-toD
Hanging out his clothes;
Up flew mynah bird
And picked at his toes
Mrs. Frear's book of songs is used. tn
Jenk's book, Mrs Anna fuckers an
Froebefs finger songs. The children san
? very prettily the Three Sisters an
waved the American and Hawaiian flag
in unison.
The faculty is as follows
THOSE Mrs. Nina D. Frasher, princi
OF THE pal; Miss Snow, vice princ
r FACULTY. pal; Miss Lofquist, Mis-
t Carrie p. Green, Miss How
Y land, Miss NJ. Smith, Miss A. Smith Mr.
Wood, Miss Lynch, Miss A NJ Felke
a Mrs. Wood and Miss Farera In musi
e Mrs. Anna B. Tucker; drawing Mr. Hit
e Miss Laughlin.
J The folk lore of all countries is studie,
Q classic myths, Hawaiian myths (afts
d rurifying). and selected fairy tales al
: read by the teachers The pupils ag,
j vary from six years to seventeen.
e That these Hawaiian public school Or
: mary departments are well-nigh perfe,
n since the advent of the college-bred ar
:, advanced thinking women placed in d.
r sition. is evidenced by the fact of the
d taking the Grand Prix at the Paris f,
position.
e. -. .scs. 81. 80 ecs s,s ss.