The Arizona daily orb., 1900-03-27


 January, 1900.
 s. P. M'cREA's RooM--3RADEs 8 AND9. Total Enrollment...... ...............l .lo Monthly enrollment t.........,.....l2 Daily Attendance. .,,........,....lo .lo'oS Gases tardiness. ......,.,.........
 MRS. OVERS Roo.I--GRADEs 6 AND (. Total enrolment. .4O Monthly enrolment. nt.............. 50 Daily attendance. ...........,..... S5.z Cases tardiness. ..,........>...,.. l MISS MERRIMAN'S RooM-GRADEs AND D. Total enrolment. ...'s."'oo Monthly enrolment. nt............,.'.t..o .'.t. o5 Daily attendance ,........,,.'..4o Oo Cases tardiness.
 MISS DAVIS ROOM -GRADEs 5 AND 4. Total enrolment. .................S9 Monthly enrolln ent. ......, ....,..52 Daily attendance. ..,............,..4o 4o Caees tardiness. ... ...............
 MISS HowE's RooM-GRADE DE3. Total enrolment t............,...7 70 Monthly enrolment. ,..............75 Daily Attendance. ......... ...... .56.4 Cases tardiness. ...,,,..... .........i4
 MISS HILLS RooM-aRADE Total enrollmeht. ................6 " 60 Monthly enrolment. t........,.....6 Daily attendance. ....... .62.0o Cases tardiness. ..,.............."... 6 MISS wARNING's RooN-GRADEs l AND 2. Aotal enrolment. .....:.........oo DO Monthly enrolment. ,..........73 Daily attendance. e...............,.. 66.5 Gases tardlness. IF
 MISS sTowR's RooM-GRADR l. Total enrolment. ...... Monthly enrolment. ent...............10 .103 Daily attendance. ce................72 .72.6 Cases tardinese. e................... IA
 SUMMARY FOR ENTIRE SCHOOL. Total enrolment .................53 .534 Monthly enrollment..... ..47O Daily attendance. e................ .S93 Cases tardiness. Mathematician. 57
 ] Ann greatly pleased to report that our tardiness is less this month than any month since I have come to Bisbee. My room has now run two montbs with out a single case of tardiness. l hope the pupils will take pride in seeing that this record is continued until the end of the yeer.
 The attendance is'393, and still shove no decrease. hope parents will make an effort to help us hold it up until the end of the year.
 h regard to Complementary reading" Louis Soldan, superintendent of the St. Louis schools, has the following to say in the leading Illinois school paper: "The importance oi supplementary reading is recognized by every rersou familiar with the progress made in schools in the last ten years. When the child has learned the elements of reading his progress becomes rapid, if reading matter SO selected that It will interest the child is given to him from time totime for sight reading, so that he may apply or practice that part o. the art of reading which he has ac- quired. He beromeS reader by inclin. ation and acquires taste for good read. ing, which will enrich his life.
 Supplementary reading matter has peculiarly humanizing influence on the discipline of the school. It is customary to have at least two classes in each roo q, and very often when the class that is studying seems tired and disor- derly, the givi g out of supplementary books that entertain and instruct re- stores the discipline of the room with. out any effo,t on the part of the teach or.
 Reading has for it's highest purpose the opening of the whole spiritual uni verse to men. It brings hlm into con- tact not only with foreign lands, but with the great minds of the present and the past, and with all matter temporal or etc. nal. It makes man, more than any other art he can acquire, the heir of all the ages. Through supplementary reading the child'a horizon is widened at very early age. He is brought into contact with the great world in which he has to live his life. As an educa. tiohal agency supplementary reading is therefore of great importance"
 Much more can be said, but here are given some of the reasons why the B'sbee teachers are 70 anxious to secure such books for their various grades.
 Respectfully,
 s. P. McCREA,