Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-20
Fairgrounds OPEN
At SCHOOLS JULY |
Will Remain in Operation Six
Weeks Under Direction of
Or. Rebecca Stoneroad.
Activities to Be Varied and Will
Include All Kinds of
Games and Work.

School Fairgrounds of the District
are to open July 1 under the direction
of DR.. Rebecca Stoneroad. They will
remain open for six weeks, during
which time the children who patron
lie" them will be given ample oppor-
tunity not only to play, but also to
engage in various other activities, In
GLIDING 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
tend than ever before. Among the
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 $3.50 am. to IL m and from to
s 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:s0 to 9:45. gardening. free
play and general directions to children
df necessary; 9:45 to 10:15. games for
younger children. ring games and free
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 younge,
children; 1o:45 to 1880. general occu-
pations. picture study, dramatizing
making paper hats. bags. envelopes:
flowers, etc; painting of pictures and
cleaning Of yard; Industrial work
tgiris). sewing old balls. darning., GRO
thread lace making. embroidery work
and stencil work (boys). caSpentry,
whiting. kite making, basketry. ham,
mock making, rope splicing and chair
Gaming.
p. Ms to $40, watering of ground
and sprinkling sand, free play. with and
without apparatus, Storytelling; $40 te
8. games for younger children and free
play activities for older children; to
$50. games for older children, races and
contests, free play for younger children
| $50 to I. folk dancing and gymnastie
field sports. free play for younger chill
| dren; 7:3O to s, storytelling, singing
reading aloud and dramatizing stories.
Weekly Entertainments Planned.
Weekly entertainments are to be held
at which instrumental music, recitations
singing, competitive games and folh
| dancing may be given.
Following is list of tho schools al
which Fairgrounds are to be conducted
this year and the instructors who will b.
| in charge:
White schools-Arthur. Mrs. Gleason
| and Miss Grace Beard: Bowen, Miss
Olive Wright and Miss Carroll; Congress
Heights, Mrs. Stella Thomas: Henry
Miss Mary Lackey, Miss X. Follin AND
| Miss M. Follin: Jefferson, Mr.. Koos, Miss
Bessie Harrison and Miss Marie Pearce
Ketcham, Miss v. Lttleton 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 Mel.
lie Taylor and Miss Anna Smallwood, ano
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 ano
| C. F. N. Wilkinson: Langston, Miss Lula
Davis and Miss Margaret Ferguson, and
Birney, Miss Alice Williams.