Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
SCHOOL PLAY PLACES
TO Be OPENED JULY |
Grounds to Be Available Six Weeks
Under Direction of
Dr.. Stoneroad..
Activities to Be Varied, and Will
Embrace Games and In
dustrial Work.

School Fairgrounds Of the District
are to open July l under the direction
of DR.. Rebecca Stoneroad. They will
remain open for six weeks, during
which time the children who patron
ize' them will be given ample oppor-
tunity not only to play. but also to
engage in various other activities, in
Guiding industrial work.
The activities of the school play
grounds this year will be varied as
well as numerous. and those in charge
believe that more youngsters will at
things which it has been planned for
the youngsters to do are garden
work, sewing. darning and crocheting.
carpentry and paper work
The several grounds are to be open
from $50 am. to ~ m and from 5 to
pm. Each will be in charge Of one
or more instructors. Following is the
program of work which DR.. Stoneroad
has given to her corps Of assistants to
carry out:
Program at the Grounds.
A. M.-9:3o to 9:+5. gardening. free
Gf necessary: GAS to 1915. games for
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play for older children: 1915 to 10:45
games for older children. team games,
races. contests. track and field sports
and free. play activities for younger
children; 10:45 to 1880 general occu-
pations picture study. dramatizins
stories. paper folding. paper cutting.
making paper hats. bags envelopes
flowers, etc: painting of pictures and
cleaning of yard industrial work
tgiris). sewing old balls. darning. GRO
cheting. making covers for tether balls.
thread lace making, embroidery work
whiting. kite making. basketry. ham,
mock making. rope splicing and chair
Gaming. .
P M to $50, watering of ground
and sprirkling sand. free play. with and
without apparatus, storytelling; $50 to
g. game3 for younger children and free
play activities for older children: 6 to
$40 games for older children. races and
contests. free play for younger children:
$50 to Z. folk dancing and gymnastic
drill: to $50. team games. track and
field sports. free play for younger chill
dren: 7:30 to S. STORYTELLING. singing,
reading aloud and dramattzing stories.
Weekly Entertainments Planned.
Weekly entertainments are to be held
at which instrumental music, recitations.
singing. competitive games and folk
dancing may be given.
Following is a. list of the schools at
which Fairgrounds are to be conducted
this year and the instructors who will be
in charge:
White schoos-Arthur. Mrs. Gleason
and Miss Grace Beard: Bowen. Miss
Olive Wright and Miss Carroll; Congress
Heights, Mrs. Stella Thomas: Henry,
Miss Mary Lackey. Miss Il. F'ollin and
Miss NJ. Foilin; Jefferson. Mr. Koos. Miss
Bessie Harrison and Miss Marie Pearce:
Ketcham. Miss v. Littleton and Miss
Marie McGill: Ludlow. Miss Grace
Houchen and Miss Ethel Day: Wallach.
Miss Kate Rawlings and Miss Ethel La
sier: Monroe. Miss Harriet Snow and
Miss Alice Rogers: Petworth. Miss Nell
lie Taylor and Miss Anna Smallwood, and
Chevy Chase, Miss Eleanor Alton.
Colored schools : Magruder, Smith
Wormley and Miss Julia Davis: Phil
lips. c. c. Bannister and Miss Martha
Henson: Giddings, Miss Ruth Piper and
c. F. N. Wilkinson; Langston, Miss Lula
Davis and Miss Margaret Ferguson, and
Birney, Miss Alice Williams.