The Springfield herald., 1910-04-15
School News
B y County Superiptcndent

SCnOOl News
BY County supsrl9tsndsnt
The following pupils were neither
absent nor tardy from the grades of
the Springfield school for the month
ending April 9Th: Olive Denney, Inez
Mcfarland, Forrest Gordon and Earl
Whitaker.
Miss Myrtle Bowen closed her school
at Maxey last Friday. She was agree
ably surprised when several of her pa
irons drove up to the school with well
filled baskets. After dinner short
program was rendered. In her school
there was no one absent or tardy dur
ing the last month, and not one tardy
mark during the whole term. Those
with perfect records last month were
Fay, Gladys, Celia and Joe Ammon.
The same occurred at Villas the same
day, where Louise Schweizer closed a
six months term. Bounteous eatables
and social good time characterizes
such gatherings, and they are not short
of it anywhere in Baca. tits splend-
id way to do on closing day. We had
the privilege on that day to attend just
such as we mentioned at Maxey and
Villas, on that same day, at the school
at Two Buttes, where the private
school kept there, closed. All had a
good time.
Miss Schweizer expects to leave soon
for the State Normal at Greeley.
miss Boettger's Paper ConcludedD
Any thing that has the power of motion
is interesting to children and attractive
language lessons may be made about
birds, insects and even snakes, for
children do not feel that cringing hor-
ror for crawling things that is so often
entertained by their elders;
The first flower of Spring are well
coined with joy because of the change
from the sombreness of winter. The
first appearance of buds is greeted
with enthusiasm, the time is eagerly
awaited when it may be announced
1--WE got some Easter Flags blooming
in our yard" Morning talks about
flowers, if all can be drawn into the
discussion, are the parts most enjoyed
of all the general exercises.
One may not realize the good inhu-
ence bunch of flowers has, until it is
brought directly before him as in the
case of little pine knot of humanity
who had been heart sickening prob
lem all the winter to his teacher. Af-
ter burying his nose repeatedly in an
immense bunch of apple blossoms he
burst out with, "Say teacher, amt it
just scrumptuous when everything S
bloomin' and smellin' SWEET" Inele-
giant and ungrammatical of course, but
it betrayed vulnerable point, and
when the teacher saw, she conquered.
Handwork may be, and often is,
overdone, but few minutes a day de-
voted to water colors is not wasted
time. The Spring flowers such as Tu-
lips, Easter flags, violets and jacks in
the pulpit are simple and make splen-
did models for work with the water
colors. Copying from life is interest
ing and beneficial for the beauty of the
flower becomes more real as it is stud
led.
Using flowers as designs for Easter
cards, favors for StPatrick's s day and
Arbor Day brings out a child's individ-
uality if he is allowed to make his owr
designs Very little is accomplished
unles his power for Independent think
! ing is given a chance to exercise itself.
One may be surprised bv the the artis-
tic ability displayed by five grimy little
| fingers.
There is nothing of greater value,
than school garden but where this is
impossible children enjoy having grow
ing plants in the school room when
they help to care for them.
| In waiting for the first green shoots
to appear in the soil and for the first
buds to unfold, they learn lessons of
patience, that their readers fail to i'm
press. And if during the Springtime
they come nearer being in tune with
nature the teacher should feel repaid
for the extra time and labor she has to
devote to the preparation of the lessons.
In the songs of the birds. the fragrant
blossoms of the orchard trees, there
are brought home the thousand kind
nesses of Mother Nature that make
our lives worth living.