Goldsboro weekly argus., 1914-02-19

WOrk OF the n1Sn SCQOOl Is namD0r0(
by poor work in the lower grades
She gave some helpful instruction OF
teaching the multiplication table, di
vision and the analysis of problems
Miss Stover put much stress on usins
problems relating to things that the
pupils are familiar with.
Miss Brooks and several of the 9th.
er teachers told how they used prac-
tical examples.
! A supplement to Mines Progressive
Arithmetic prepared by E. c. Brooks
and I. o. Schwab was given to each
/ of the teachers present
The meeting adjourned for ten min
utes.
The meeting reassembled at 1856,
all the three organizations now meet
ing together.
Superintendent Atkinson stated that
the organization Of nine Betterment
Associations was reported at the first
| Teachers Meeting this year, eight at
the second and two at the third, max
ing in all, nineteen active Betterment
Associations in the county.
Miss Susie Fulghum now talked on
the Betterment work She asked the
question: What is a Betterment AS
sociation? and gave the answer: Any
association that helps or benefits a
community is a Betterment Associa-
ton. She made the following sugges-
tions for Betterment work: Helping
children to go to school, helping them
to find their life work, and making the
school a social center
sEShe gave the following programs tc
meetings.:
Local History Evening ng-SuggestiOns:
1. Both parents and pupils should
have places on this program. The
work of the children may take the
form of a paper and may be counted
as composition work in their regular
classes.
2. See that no specially important
events of local history are omitted
from the program.
Lie Program:
1. Song led by school choir.
2. Devotional exercises.
8. The first settler and his time.
4. The Oldest church in the com
munity.
5. Our first school house.
6. How we have grown education
ally.
Z. Song led by school choir
g. Farming today and farming forty
years ago.
g. Introduction of improved farm
ing machinery
10. Introduction of improved live
stock in the community.
II. Successful men who were rear
ed in this community.
IL. Song led by school choir.
Good Roads ning-SuggestiOns:
1. Try to make the program as
practical as possible.
g. Emphasize the losses to the COM
munity that poor roads make neces-
sary.
3. Make special effort to get large
attendance.
4. Get some expression, as by vote
of what ought to be done now, and
how to proceed.
The Program:
1. Song led by school choir.
2. Devotional exercises.
3. A map showing the public roads
of the neighborhood (this may be
drawn on the blackboard by one of the
pupils before the meeting begins.
4. Inconvenience of the roads as
they are (by citizen.)
5. Are our roads properly located
(by citizen).
6. How much does the community
lose yearly by not having better roads?
(by pupiD.
Z. Song led by choir.
8. What would it cost to make our
roads what they should be? Would it
pay? (by citizen).
g. The best means of improving our
roads (by citizen).
10. When should we begin? (by
citizen).
II. Song led by choir.
Health Night-SuggestiOn
1. This program should be princi
pally instructive.
2. If possible have a physician ad-
dress this meeting.
8. Have the pupils to draw upon
what they have learned in their classes
in health and sanitation.
The Program:
1. Song led by school choir.
| 2. Devotional exercises.
| 3. The house fly as a spreader of
disease (by pupiD.
4. Ventilation of bed room (by pu-
piD.
5. Why we have colds (by pupil
or citizen).
6. Song by school choir.
l. Z. The greatest source of disease
in this community (by pupiD.
8. Song by school choir.
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