Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-02-27
AMONG The
SCHOOL CHILDREN.
Third and First Grades as Seen at
Their Lessons.
EXPERT ADDITION" IN THIRDG RADE.
A Dozen Young Artists at Work
Making Crayon Sketches of
LongfeIlow's Story,
EXPERT ADDITION" IN THIRDG RADE.

last Wednesday morning we entered S
the room in which Miss Williams of e
Mona Juab Co, teaches the Third Grade I
OF our district school. The lady was at
the door, and appropriately welcomed I
the representative of the Lever that
moves the world" In another minute the |
bell range and the small men and wo. {
men that take instruction in this de
partment came walking in. In very
short time they were all at their desks
and the teacher with folded arms stan
ding before them, complete embodi-
ment of the silence that she wished
them to observe. A minute thus occupied
aud she noiselessly opened the door. We
were surprised to see line of scholars
come marching in, when the began to
come in we thought that they were
few of the third grade pupils that were
late, but after half a dozen had enter.
ed we decided that 1t was no company
of laggards that were coming in. BY
the time the column were all in we had |
counted between thirty and forty |
AS fast as they came in they took seats
beside those that were already there;
each single desk being made to do
double. duty for the time being The
last person TO enter was Miss Stapelv
who teaches another grade in an adjoin
ing room and who, as we began to COM
prehend, had brought or rather follow
ed her charge in to hold the opening
exercises in connection with the
Third Grade. As soon as the newcom-
ers were seated an opening song was
announced by Miss Williams, which
was sung by the school, who began the
piece without the aid of the teacher and
carried it in very fair tune. short
prayer by Miss Stapley, was followed
by two or three songs one of which was
about a Jolly old Crow; which was ac-
companied by appropriate Smotions OF
tfie When the singing was, con.
Guided, at the words one--two-pro;
nounced by their teacher Miss Stapely' &
pupils arose to their feet and in single
file marched back to their own room
On the Black board was written out the
lesson for the forenoon TO which the
teacher now called their attention.
Class "a" were directed to devote them.
selves to their arithmetic lesson which
consisted of a number of examples in
common fractions, while the teacher
taught class "B" their reading lesson
An extract from the lesson was writ.
ten on the black board, and the pupils
were each called up in turn to read 1t
the rest of the class remaining in Their
seats facing the board. After this pre-
liminary work the scholars each in
turn read II portion of the lesson from
their books. In the meantime elias,
"a" had got the lesson in arithmetic
written down on their note books, anC
one or two of them had worked small
part of the problems After directing
them to take the lesson home will
them to study at night, the teacher pro
ceeded to drill them in oral arithmetic
choosing the rule of addition. 1t wa
very gratifying to see the proficienc'
that some of the pupils had attained il
this exercise. The eldest of them /
not in all probability over eleven year
old, and in the adding together of tn
numbers that the teacher called out t
them nearly as rapidly as she coul
talk, they displayed speed and accur
acy that might we'll excite the envy O
good eighth grade scholars.
While the teacher was giving tn
foregoing exercises to class "a" tn
members OF the other class were bus
with the arithmetic that had been Civ
en- them, and although the teacher di
not appear to be watching them yer
closely, we noticed that they were to
erably diligent in the work, and whe
their books were examined later it wa
found that most Of them ha
the work written down and yer
ready for the teachers explains
tions. 1t was now over an hou
aud half since the school was opene
and the little folks were beginning {
show signs of WEAKNESS and matter
ton. Noticing this the teacher d
rected them to stand up, and on thei
doing So she introduced short cali'
theuc exercise which had the effect c
relieving the strain, when they agai
applied themselves to their books
When the time for recess arrived tw
of the scholars who seemed to hav