Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-03
SCHOOL CENTENNIAL
Display Of Exhibits in Com
memoration.
PROGRAM GIVEN OUT
DECEMBER 20 AND 81 THE DATES
SELECTED.
Primary Grades, High Schools, Normal
Schools Represented-Domes Sci
ence, Art and School Gardening.

| Mr.. A. T. Stuart, the superintendent OF
| public schools, has given out the plans of the
various heads of departments to the
manner in which they will display their
| exhibits in connection with the centennial
| celebration of the establishment of the
school system. The public schools were
| established in the city of Washington In
| 1895, some time during the month of De-
| cember.
The exhibit of the white schools will be
held in the new Business High School and
the Mckinley Manual Training School De-
| cember 20 and 81. and the exhibit of the
| celored schools will be held the same dates
! i'll the NJ Street High School and the Arm
| strong Manual Training School.
The Business High School will include the
| exhibits of the teachers library, Normal
School No. l. the drawing department, do
| mestic science, domestic art, school gar
dening, physical culture, primary grades
ana high schools
The Teachers Library.
| In the centennial exhibit at the Business
! High School the teachers library Will be
| represented In reception room No. II of the
| first floor corridor. 1t will present very
simple arrangement intended to show def
| nftely and easily the purpose and char
acter of the teachers library, together with
| "
| will be the chief item in this display sig.
| nificant books from all the departments of
| the library including psychology and peda-
gogy biography and history, geography and
| travel nature study and science, phi .osophy,
| art and general literature.
There will be brief lists of classified books
| of the library, still further showing the
| character of the material to be found on It's
| shelves.
| The magazine and periodical literature to
| be found at the library will have place, as
| we'll as some beautiful mezzotint photo
| graphs recently purchased as the beginning
| of circulating art department of the
| library.
Normal School No. 1.
| The Normal School exhibit will indicate
work along line of development quite diff
! ferent from that shown by the grade and
| high schools The central idea of this ex-
| hibit is 'how to teach The subjects for
| the expression of this thought are history,
| geography, English. arithmetic, zoology,
| botany, school gardening, form study and
| drawing, music and the theory of kinder
garten.
| In working out these subjects, outlines
| made by classes will show academic prep
| aratlon for teaching, and outlines and COM
| positions will show pupil-teacher plans in
| the prepare ton of lessons. Reproductions
| of model lessons taught in the practice
| schools will be made In outline form or
| In the form of written analysis criticism
| by classes observing the lessons. Sugges-
| tions for illustrative work will be album
| dant. in the form of drawings clay work
and charts. Some academic work in draw
| ing VIII be shown along the lines of per-
| spectVe, object drawing, design and black
board sketchng. Some lessons in psychol-
| ogy ana the history of education will be
| shown. The Normal School exhibit will oc-
| cupy three rooms on the second floor. One
| OF these will be used for setting forth
| methods for teaching school gardening as
| outlined by Miss Susan B. Sipe instructor
| in that work in the school
School Gardening.
Instead of results being shown the meth
| DDS by which such results have been OBJ
| tanned and the relation of garden work to
| other subjects of the school room will form
| the main features
The following points will be Illustrated
| by means of simple experiments: Pro-
| cesses in operation in living plant; the eff
| feet of different fertilizers on plants; value
| Of cultivation; method of seed planting
| and bulb culture. Active demonstration
| will be given by the normal students of
| plant propagation by cuttings, grating and
| ringing, with classes of first and second
| grade children from the practice schools
| The correlation of gardening with geog-
| raphy, arithmetic. spelling, composition and
| drawing will be illustrated Minor features
| of the exhibit will be plants suitable for
| school room culture successful window
| DOX gardens ana d large collection of photo
| graphs showing the work already accom-
| plished in the schools and homes AS this
| has been cooperative work with the De-
| partment of Agriculture, the bureau of
| plant industry will take an active interest
| in the arrangement of the exhibit.
| The Drawing Department.
The exhibit in drawing from the graded
| schools will be arranged on the first floor
| of the building, each grade occupying one
| room. from the kindergarten to the eighth,
| inclusive. 1t will contain art work selected
| at the close of the last year from every
| school in the District of Columbia. The
| wall space Will represent by vertical ar
| rangement the course of study as to SUBJ
| jects, and continuously the development of
| each subject. The work of divisions will
| also be arranged continuously, keeping the
work of each together so far as possible,
| for the sake of easy reference. Full sets
| of drawings from each school will be placed
| upon tables in their respective grades. also
| the hand work not adapted to wall display.
| The Normal and High Schools will arrange
| their exhibits on the second floor.
| Department of Domestic Art.
| The work of the department of domestic
art will be exhibited according to divisions
| and grades. The third. fourth and fifth
| grades will be represented by three classes
Of work, individual. class work and gar
|
| ishing their regular work in advance of the
| class In connection with these grades the
| methods of presenting lessons on textiles,
| materials etc, will be shown. The work of
| the sixth grade will be demonstrated by
| classes in operation, showing the system
| used and the method of instruction, as well
| as the results obtained. The higher devel-
| opments of this branch will be exhibited in
| the Manual Training Schools display.
Domestic Science.
| 1t is proposed to transfer the equipment
] of one of the school kitchens, where the
seventh and eighth grade classes are
| taught, to the room assigned on the third
| floor of the Business High School and
| to have classes sent there from the diff
| ferent divisions for lessons during the
| hours of the exhibit. The teachers will
| give one-hour lessons. and there will be q
| class at work throughout the time the
| exhibition is open.
In addition to class instruction the fin
| isned product will be shown. This will
! consist of note books. menus and various
| dishes prepared by the classes at work
| in the different city kitchens on the 10th
| and 21st.
Note books collected from seventh and
| eighth grade pupils as we'll as one or more
| dishes prepared by classes via be shown