The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-27
Annual Exhibition Of School Work is
Made by the Young People
Attending This School
Today.
KINDERGARTEN WORK
Special Work Done by the Little Tots
in This Department,
Shows Exceptional
Talent.

Pupils of the Carey school display
ed their work for the year at the ex-
| hibition held in the building this att
ernoon from to Z o'clock. There
| was an unusually well presented dis.
play Of work in all Of the rooms, ana
the teachers and pupils are to be coh-
graduated on their exhibit. During
the afternoon a candy sale was con-
Quoted in the building, too.
In the kindergarten room there was
a fine display Of hand work. cut WorA,
free hand drawings, and the like one
of the features was circus parade Oh
animals in cages. Birds occupied one
corner Of the room. These had peen
cut from paper and colored. There
| was frieze Of Mother Goose dolls
around one side of the room, and on
one blackboard were drawings on
which the little people had pasted
cut out dolls and figures. Card sew
| ing, and some free hand drawing
| work of considerable merit was dis
| played, and in the windows were a
number of colored transparenc1es oI
different designs. Miss Elizabeth
| Miller is the director of the kinder
garten room and Miss Celestine Dick
| ey her assistant.
| In room one, Miss R. Emma Estes.
teacher, there were drawings OF
| leaves, flowers, fruits and children;
an exhibit of clay modelling and an
| exhibit of mat work. The work OF
cutting on lines was illustrated by
many varied designs embodying both
! wild and tame animals, Easter rab-
bits, soldiers, Cinnamon and ginger
bread boys. Construction work was
shown in the barns, houses and fur
niture made out of paper. The season
! was shown in gay tulips, jonquils arc
Easter lilies. A special feature III
this room was dollar day bargain
sale on furniture and number OIL
pieces OF fancy work done by the
little girls.
In room two, Miss Nellie E. Schulz
er, teacher, there was a varied display
of the work of the pupils. In water col
ors were tulips, landscapes, turkeys
and holly Possibly one of the best bits
rof work shown here was in the free
hand cuttings of baskets of fruit,
pots of tulips, toys, ships and dolls.
Alphabet illustrated.
The special feature of the display
| in free hand cuttings, however, was
|
| letters were cut out, and under each
letter was cut out figure or fig
ures to represent some object OF
| which each letter began the name.
| In pencil and crayola work there were
trees, daisies, stained glass window
designs, apples and ducks. Mat
| weaving, clay work, writing and spell
| ing and fancy work done by the pu-
pills was exhibited. Plue bird trans
parencies in the windows, and fig
ure Of Uncle Sam, and boy scout In
wreath of flags were other unique
features. Special work for the diff
| ferent seasons of the year as Thanks
giving, Christmas, Valentine day AMI
Easter was displayed.
The central figure in the display Of
| room three, Miss Mildred Marley.
| teacher, was that of a tree full of
| birds. This was most unique de
sign, showing the trunk of tree on
| which were pasted designs of birds
of all kinds. These bird designs were
colored and true to life. Free hand
| silhouettes formed frieze aoout
one side of the room, and there we've
| transparencies in the windows of gay
colored tulips. boquets of jonquils
formed another bit of spring colo.-
| ing. These were cut out of paper.
In room four one of the features
was a farm which was unusually true
to life, and very cleverly constructed.
Miss Jessie Van Steenwyk is teacher
of this room. The farm was built
out of sand box, and a stake and
rider fence surrounded the various
parts of the ranch. There were
gardens and orchards and farm build
ings. Water color drawings and gen
eral school work completed the dis
| play in this room
In room five, Miss Grace Van Griek-
en-, teacher, there was an exceptional
lily well arranged exhibit. Fancy
work done by the girls in the room,
books done by the pupils, school
work in various subjects, together
with the drawing work, designing and
the like were to be found here. May
baskets and spring flowers in true
colors were arranged to give q spring
Etouch to the scene.
Unusual Display.
In room six, Mrs. Cora G.. ReeveJ,
| teacher, there was display of mil.
llinery designed by the girls for the
most part One hat, however, was OF
masculine design The hats were Of
rafia work and were. trimmed. Spell
ing grades showing how well the pu-
pills in the room covered this subject,
were displayed in prominent place
because of the numerous f00's on the
list. One Of the unique features was
an Iowa booklet, the pages and cover
cut in the shape of the state, and a
cplored map and colored covers COM
pleting the book. Another interest
ing book was western book, Indian
life, and still another covered our
large cities, with cover designs Of the
/ skyline of a city.
In room seven the pupils under di-
rection of Mrs. Lillian S. Mcdowell
had arranged splendid exhibit.
There were pieces made in the man
4ilal training departmant by the boys.