The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-03-07
Reward of Merit.

were sent the following suggestions be-
fore Christmas: Teach the children the
Christmas story and four Christmas
poems; tell them to remember and tell
after Christmas if they made some one
hap y, how; if some one made them
happy, how; and what they did during
the holidays.
After Christmas the children wrote
letters telling of the above, arranged
them in the form of a newspaper and
sent them to the school board Office.
These newspapers show excellent
work of the children, and careful guild
ance by the teachers. Many compH-
ments have been given both children
and teachers by people who have ex-
amined their work. The teachers who
did this work are given credit in the
office.
These suggestions were sent by the
supervisor tc help the teachers to mott
vate their work in English. All of this
work helped the children to understand,
enjoy, appreciate Christmas; it helped
them in spelling. writing. English pune
tuation, and to understand the need for
them in their examination of a real
newspaper when studying the arrange
m. mt of theirs. 1t helped teachers and
supervisor to know the children better.
Rewards of merit will go to the fol-
owing schools:
Weir-Miss Delphi Miller, teacher,
for sending the first newspaper to the
office.
Loeb LYnn-Miss Marguerite Hart,
teacher, for having letter from every
pupil (36) in the newspaper.
Lynndale-Miss Della Savage. teach
er, for having the largest number of
articles (5O in the newspaper.
Keyser Rldge-Miss Myrtle Custer,
teacher, for the patriotic arrangement
of paper.
The following article was selected
from Loeb Lynn Echo, Loeb Lynn
School:
What l Did to Make Some One Happy
at Christmas.
The week before Christmas | was
wondering how could make some one
happy at Christmas time. Finally /
thought OF Two poor children whose
mother had died. / thought that would
he good chance to make somebody
happy.
told one Of my friends about the
little poor children and how | was plan
nIng to make them happy. She SAID she
would help me. BY both going together
we could make them 50 much happier
They were small children aged seven
and nine years, They had no one to
take care Of them but their papa. He
did the best he could but could not
treat them like a mother. They lived
off in the woods and could see no one all
day long. 1t was lonesome for the little
ones for the father worked away, and
the children had to stay by themselves
from morning until night.
Two days before Christmas we went
around and gathered presents for them.
We got such things as waists, hose,
caps, gloves. books, and each one little
bible.
We made them several kinds of candy,
popped corn and made popcorn balls.
baked them cake, pies. cookies and
doughnuts.
On Christmas Eye we asked boy to
dress up as santa claus and 90 with US.
When we got there they were not at
home. Their father had taken them to
see a Christmas tree. We did not know
what to do. We tried to open the door, |
it was locked. We tried the window, |
opened it and santa went in and opened |
the door for US. We put the things to
eat on the table. and the clothes on a |
bed. Then We went out, Santa lock
ed the door and crawled out of the win |
dow. We waited outside until they |
came. We did not have to wait long.
When they did come they noticed the
things on the table and said they knew
Santa had been there, and wished they |
had seen him. Of course they did not |
know that we were outside watching |
them through the window. They ate |
some of the things and then went into
the bed room. There they found the
clothes, and we saw them divide them. |
They were happy, and we were as
happy as they were.
think we should always try to make
some one happy, not only at Christmas
but all the time.
LAURA CUPPETT. aged Is, grade 6.
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