The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-06
SCHOOL EXHIBIT
IS Interesting
Pupils Of Washington School Have
entertaining Show Of the Work
Done During the
Season.
WELL WORTH SEEING
Drawings, Relief Maps, Paper Cut
tinss. Stories and Other Things
Made by the
Pupils
WELL WORTH SEEING

Do the people of keokuk know the
class of work that is being done by
their children in the public schools
They, and the visiting teachers and
leading educators of the country who
are in the city for the Southeastern
Iowa Teachers meeting being held
here this afternoon and The remand
er Of the week, are to be given u
chance to look for themselves and ac-
cording to the statement of the teach
ers keokuk is well UP in the front
ranks in all matters educational. Keo.
kul should be proud of her schools
and that she has every reason to be
proud is easily proven by the exhibits
OF school work in the George Washing
ton school. The public is invited to
view the exhibits Friday between the
hours of 1890 a. m and Goo in the
evening, and indications are that a
great number of the parents of the city
will avail themselves Of the chance to
view the work of their own and other
children.
The exhibits are arranged in grades
and are placed in the rooms number
ed the same as the grade, as in the
first room the work of the first grade
pupils of the city is on exhibition
This work is taken from specimens
during the year and is not prepared
especially for this exhibit. The first
grade exhibit consists of the paper
folding. cutting, and pasting, penman-
ship, and drawing specimens. In the
paper cutting the little tots show great
accuracy and neatness. Around the
lower edge of the exhibit is border
OF tulips cut out and colored making
3 bright attractive edging. Symbols
Of Easter, Christmas, Washington s and
I.incoln's birthdays are cut and pasted
on cards in one corner of the room
and on table is the work done in clay
and shows how closely the children
have been taught to observe.
The second grade work IS in many
ways a duplicate of the first grade
work but showing the advancement
made. The stories, as read to the
pupils by the teacher are re-expressed
by the pupils in paper cutting and
pasting as the "Pied Piper with his
pipe and the rats following. the story
of George Washington and the cherry
tree, the implements used in gardening
and the household affairs. The pupils
have many samples of valentines and
the pen1nanship and landscape draw
ing shows an Improvement.
The third grade pupils have re-writ-
and have illustrated them with cut
tings. Many little useful booklets
have been made as for laundry, &C
counts of the weather. books for cook
Ing receipts and all with appropriate
cover designs and coloring. The con
structiye ability, the powers of OBJ
servation and the Imagination have
been given every help in development
so far in the child's school life but
these have not been developed to the
detriment OF the old fashioned three
RS
The first thing that greets the yisi.
tor on entering the fourth grade exhi-
bit is Typographical relief maps made
OF wet paper fiber and formed on
card board with mountain ranges and
river basins standing out in bold relief
Here are exhibits OF class work in
mEsic, writing, geography, lanuage and
constructive work One of the exhi
pits of lanuage work is a story my
Adventures as a Penny that shows
marked ability. Here again are book.
iets aud symbols of Washington 8
birthday, Easter, Christmas. etc, Fill
ing systems are constructed in differ
ent forms and for different purposes
several water color scenes are ex
hlbited in the fifth grade exhibit
mat show great advancement Here
again the stories are retold in the
pupils own words and illustrated by
clpplngs and original pictures. The
studies OF geography and language are
combined in Letters from a Traveller
IN Europe in which the pupil is sup
posed to be in the different points Of
interest in Europe and writing of the
sights he sees. Maps are made in out
me and colored.
he man made nv the sixth grade