The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-08
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
PLANS FOR STORY T
LEAGUE.
New Jersey Council of Educators to Dis
cuss "The Training of Teachers in
New Jersey" at Annual Meeting.

Members of the newark hlhueisaiee
Union. in an effort to broaden the scope 0
their work. are planning a series OF meet
ings, to take place each month, with pro
grams arranged by the Undergraduates o
The schools in which the meetings will bt
held.
The object is two-fold: to give oppor'
tunities for help along the lines of story
telling. finger plays, special music ana &c
| exchange suggestions flor Thanksgiving,
| Christmas and other holiday games and
programs. The second object is to give
occasion for voluntary contributions Tor the
endowment of a child's bed in some nos
pital. An entertainment VIII De given
later in the season, the proceeds or whlch
| will be added TO the endowment fund.
The hrst of the series will be held IN
the Belmont Avenue School Wednesday
afternoon. November 10. All members OF
the union and interested friends are cor
daily invited to attend. 1t Is hoped later
on to organize a storytelling league, for
the betterment of classroom work. All OF
the kindergartners are interested, and 1t is
expected that the new programs will be
highly successful .
The class in design, conducted by DR.. ].
p. Haney. of the New York University
School of Pedagogy, for teachers in this
city. will meet In the Normal and Training
School tomorrow afternoon at 2 O'Clock,
instead Of in the Burnet Street School, as
heretofore.
Assistant Superintendent David B. Cor
son will conduct a meeting in his office
Monday afternoon, November IL, at $3.50
o'clock, for the purpose of discussing ar
rangements for a course IN domestic
science. to be given probably by an in
A-.-A--- e,an, Columbia TTniUnraifV- All
who are interested are invited to attend.
The evening schools will close for the
winter vacation Friday, December 20. in
stead of December "a, as in previous years.
They will open Monday, January s. instead
of January 2, giving the pupils a full two
weeks holiday.
The spring vacation will not take place
until the week beginning April 10, as
Easter will be very late next year.
Formerly 1t took place the week including
April /, but later it was changed to the
week including Good Friday. 1t is prob
able tina it will be changed this spring to
an earlier week, as the week of April IL
is just about ten weeks before the closing
of the schools for the summer vacation.
Teachers for the civic classes for
foreigners in the evening schools have
been assigned, as follows: D. Valentine,
Seventh Avenue and Central Avenue;
Richard F.. Malta, Franklin and Seventh
Avenue; Reuben ]. Prior, Lafayette Street
n Newton Street; M. s.. Waters, Bel
mont Avenue and Morton Street; Saul
Coin, Morton Street; Jacob Schneider,
Eighteenth Avenue, and Eugene Kohn.
Belmont Avenue.
An executive meeting of the Essex
County Teachers Guild will be held in the
Free. Public Library next "Wednesday
afternoon at 3:45 o'clock. A number of
business matters will be discussed.
The following lectures in the popular
series for the people are scheduled to
take place next week:
Monday, November 11-North Seventh
Street School, 1.-THE Great Panama Canal"
illustrated, by Charles Mason Fuller.
Fourteenth Avenue School, What Is Gull
ture,'' by Henry X. Denlinger.
Tuesday. November 12-Avon Avenue
School, "The Battle Of Gettysburg" IL
Illustrated, by Henry Martyr Kieffer. Free
Public Library, "The Great Panama
Canal,' by Charles Mason Fuller.
Wednesday, November 1~3-A1exander
Street School. ,"Columbus and His Voy-
ages" illustrated, by Charles Mason Full
Ter. Hamburg Place School. 1.-The Songs
of Ireland" by William Lewis Armstrong.
South Eighth Street School. THE Men
Who Made the Constitution by j. Will
mer Kennedy.
Thursday, November 14-Bruce Street
School, Jamestown illustrated, by
Henry lick. First Presbyterian Church,
columbus and His Voyages" Illustrated
by Charles Mason Fuller.
Friday, November 14-'America and the
Future of Liberty Illustrated by Henry
r. Rose.
Members o. the New Jersey Council of
Education will meet in the Jersey Cit
High School. tonight and tomorrow MORN
ing, to discuss a variety of school subjects,
and to hear the reports OF the standing
committees. t tonight's session a report
of the subcommittee of the standing COM
mittee on State pedagogics will be pre-
scented by DR.. J. M. Green, president of
the New Jersey State Normal School, and
C. w. Evans, principal of the Trenton
High School.
1.-THE Training of Teachers in New Jer-
sey'' will be discussed tomorrow morning
The formal discussion will be opened by
Superintendent Henry Snyder, of Jersey
City. and Superintendent o. l. Woodley,
of Passaic. A committee will. report on
the examination system in the'State, and
a paper on 'UnlIOTm. DAdiiihdllOihS dhu
the Grading for Teachers Certificates
will be presented by A. B.. Meredith, SUI
p~erintendent of Essex County. The dis
cusslon to follow will be led by John En-
right. superintendent of Monmouth County
and David B. Corson, assistant super.n'
tendent of Newark. Among the Newark
instructors who are members of the coun'
ell are Mr.. Corson, Martin L.. Cox, princi-
pal of the Thirteenth Avenue School
Thomas T. Collard, principal OF the Nortf
Seventh Street School, and Erwin s. Man
ness. principal of the Eighteenth Avenue
School.
The string orchestra of the South Eight
Street School now contains. eight player
1t is hoped to run the number up 10 nj
teen in the near future.
The equipment of the kitchen of the Bel
mont Avenue School is practically COM
plete, and contains all Of the modern I'M
provements. including benches OF oak
with slate tops, and containing individual
compartments. The kitchen is used by TIL
day pupils of the Belmont and Morton
street Schools, and by the evening scholar
of the Belmont Avenue institution.
Miss Katherine Daily, Of the South Stree
School. is ON a six months furlough, OF
account Of Illness in her family. Her plac
is being filled by Miss Isabel v. Turnbuil
of Kearny.
Assistant Superintendent J.. Wilmer Ken
nedy will be the speaker at the next meet
ing of the Parents Association of tn
Sonth street School Wednesday evening