The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-08-30
Opening. Of the
Model School

Following the example of last year
the State Normal Model school
will open Sept. 4, about a month
before the regular Normal school work
begins. Work will start in all the
grades from the Kindergarten up to
and including the Junior high school
or ninth grade. Children who may
have work to do, who are at the lake
or who may be detained for other rea-
sons will be admitted later.
Fortunately the organization of the
model school is such as to make it
easy to admit children who come late.
Each grade comprises several classes
at different stages of advancement
each doing definite stage of the
grade work and each class is usually
small so that >children are always sure
of finding classes. adjusted to their
degree of advancement. II
The Junior high school consists of
the seventh, eighth and ninth grades.
Most of those who completed the
eighth grade last spring have signified
their intention of continuing in the
high school. Others will join them.
Tuition will be free. They will have
the advantage of attending the regu.
lar daily exercises of the Normal de-
partment and in general will be treat.
ed more like young men and women
than as children. The Junior high
school will furnish happy transition
from the work and discipline of the
grades to the .freer organization of the
Normal school department
Janitor Hand will have the BUILDINGS
in fine condition. New equipment is
on the way. Teachers will be refresh.
ed by the long vacation and will arrive
in few days.
Miss Lyford, Kindergarten, is spend
ing her vacation at her home at Rock
Island, Ill. She was for six weeks do.
ing special kindergarten work at the
big state college at Cedar Falls, la.
Few women in the country are so we'll
qualified for kindergarten work as
Miss Lyford. Her department will re.
ceive children who have not been at
school and who are four years old or
more
An important change of personnel
will be observed by those who this
year visit the first and second grades.
The presiding genius of that depart
ment for the past several years, Miss
Alice J. Fisher, has asked for and been
granted years leave of absence. Her
work will pass for the year into the
hands of Miss Mary Gardner for sew
eral years Miss Fishers successful as.
sist2nt. She will in turn be assisted
this year by Miss Sarah B. Ellis who
last year was employed for primary
grade at the Lincoln school.
The third and fourth grades will be
directed as usual by Miss Margaret C.
Burns who has spent the summer in
| New York City doing special work in
school management and method work
at Columbia University. She is to
to be assisted by Miss Ella NJ. Idtse Of
Ada, Mimi. This lady is a graduate
of the State Normal school at Moor
head of the advanced course. She has
had nine years of successful expert.
ence in the primary grades in Mime.
sofa and it is expected will make an
acceptable successor to Miss Wittkopf
who resigned at the close of the year
to accept lucrative position at Hell
ena, Mont. The fifth and sixth grades
have long been under the consistent
management of Miss Susan B. Norton
who succeeds admirably in securing a
fine spirit among the tubulant boys
and girls of that age. She will be as
sisted this year by Miss Ethel L. Love
of Sycamore, ILL., This lady is a grad
uate CT the Northern Illinois State
Normal school at DeKalb, and has
taught with success in the same
grades in Illinois and California hav.
ing been associated in the latter state
with Miss Jennie Schnebley who at
one time was critic in these same
grades
Probably the greatest change to be
observed in the organization of the
Model school will be found in the sew
enth and eighth grades. These two
grades will be merged with the ninth
into the Junior high school. The
teaching will come more under the
supervision of the several departments
of the Normal school. The manage
, ment Of the department will give more
freedom and initiative to each pupil.