Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-21
VIEWED BY VISITORS
School Exhibit at Four Local
Buildings.
CEN TEN NAL EV ENT
MOVEMENT BEGUN FOR A PERMA-
NENT COLLECTION.
Normal School Display an Attractive
one-Children and Bulb Planting
Armstrong School.


examine the whole display as evidence
OF the methods and attachments Of the local
schools.
1t has been suggested that so valuable are
the various exercises brought together that
there should be some effort to make the
collection a permanent exhibit. where
teachers. pupils, parents and visiting educa-
tors could at all times investigate local ed
ucational conditions.
The Normal School exhibit occupies three
rooms on the second floor Of the Business
High School. 1t Is attracting a large crowd
or people. particularly teachers. So clearly
and Complementary are the methods OF
training the young teachers demonstrated,
and 80 thoroughly do the student teachers
explain their work, that throughout the day
yesterday the verdict of visitors was they
learned more In the Normal exhibit than
elsewhere.
Object Teaching Feature.
Objective teaching is the main feature
brought out. In the animal section this
is illustrated from man himself to the
earthworm. What we should eat, how to
be clean. how to be polite are shown by
first and second grade compositions and
paper cuttings. The sandboards illus
trate animal activities Beavers modelled
In clay are gnawing diminutive stumps
and building dams Rabbits and squirrels
In the same material show all the actfvi-
ties of the originals at the Zoo. Paint
ings and crayons on the walls show that
teachers are taught to identify and to
protect birds.
The room devoted to history and geog-
raphy give graphically the evolution of
transportation, the home of the Indian
worked out by third grade children of
the practice schools and an Eskimo viii
lage; This room also contains the work
or the English department, the kinder
garten, the physical culture and the
drawing.
| In the corridor the objective method of
teaching arithmetic is illustrated. If one
has the time to study this exhibit he
viii find that the modern thought of de-
veloping number is to develop the senses
| first, SO there are devices for teaching
color, for making hearing acute, for
| Judgment in weight, for training the
sense of smell.
| The school garden and plant life ex-
| hibit occupies the third room and gives
| much credit to the Department of Agrl-
| culture, and more especially to the chief
of the bureau of plant industry, DR.. B. L.
Galloway, through whose earnest efforts
the work Is made possible. In this room
the professional work of the school is
shown at o'clock and 8 o'clock each
evening by lessons given to the lower
grades OF the practice schools by the
| Lessons on bulb planting and propa-
| eating plants by cuttings were given last
evening by Miss Maybelle Clements and
Miss Dorothy. Kalb. This evening Miss
| Caroline Haneke will give the first grade
| lesson and Miss Frances Donovan the
| third grade lesson.
Those Taking Part.
| The children taking part are:
| First grade, Franklin School = Karl
| Setback. Florence Kemp, Neale Smithson.
| Herman Wright, Lawrence Levy, Marian
| Bryant, Ruth Bissell, John Dodge William
Pardee, May Montjoy, Herbert Hurley.
| Katherine Brazerol. Frieda Diamond, Helen
| Montgomery.
Third grade Franklin-Allen Mcdonald.
| Stuart King, Helen Hare, Byron Darling,
| Frederick Rakeman, Charles Brumbaugh,
| George Phillips, Louise Steinberg, Tully
ma Longfeliow, Mildred Page, Rudolph
Faust, Genevieve Sans, Martha Hauck,
| Henry Pons, Willie Paxton, Chester Smith
son, Alta Heap, Elizabeth Kartle, Helen
| Freeman, Virginia Sweeney.
Armstrong Technical School.
| The Armstrong Manual Training School
! makes a fine exhibition of Its work The
prominent features of this exhibit are large
| ly scientific as we'll as practical.
The first floor is given for the exhibition
| of work in English. mathematics and Ger
man. In the shops which will be In opera
| ton both day and night. may be seen sam
| pies of the handicraft in bench work wood
| turning, blacksmithing and machine shop
! practice.
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| practical demonstration In the making OF
salads and the economical use OF bacon fat
and butter In place Of the more expensive
i olive oil. Miss Pinyon will be assisted by
| an advanced class which has been under