The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-02
School Notes

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 This year, as in the past two years, the public will be kept informed of the doings of the school through our page of school notes, which we trust every citizen of COrdova will find or take time to read. As heretofore, these notes will fall under two gen. eral heads-items of general interest and information in the educational world, and notices to school patrons, contributed by the principal of the school, in addition to which there will be column of local items gath cred by the pupil-reporters, as well as occasional original articles of particular merit, gleaned from the regular class room work.
 One month of our present year is over already. If the first month is a reliable indication of what the following months are to be like, and of course it is, then there is cause for congratulation, as it has been a most promising beginning of a new year.
 The first month is a very impor- tant month and at the same time a very difficult one to all con- cerned. It is difficult for teachers and pupils alike to make the change from a life in the open to life in the classroom. Everything in ones organism resents the sudden change from three months of free dom all day in the open air, to the stress and strain of four or five hours work indoors each day. The mind like the body tends to keep on doing what it has been doing, not expect too much of their pupils until mind and muscles alike have had time to become accustomed and adjusted to the new regime. Experienced teachers understand the physiology and the psychology of the situation and show their wisdom by increasing their demands and ex- pecting a better grade of work each succeeding month of the year.
 Pupils of the fourth grade are dra- matiZing the story of 'Blunder," un- der the direction of Miss Spence, who has the happy faculty of keep ing out of the way and letting the children do most of the work, by which they develop initiative and for themselves.
 The fourth and fifth grades have had some interesting work with that old-time bugbear, the multiplication tables, by playing a game of base ball into which questions are pitched and caught and answers "batted" back with amazing quickness by the youthful players who enter heartily into a game which does away with all the distasteful and too often unsuccessful drudgery of learning the tables-not that all drudgery can or should be eliminated but there is enough unavoidable hard work for disciplinary purposes to justify us in taking advantage of the strong play sible.
 That folk dancing under the able direction of Miss Haggland is very popular is evidenced by the fact that some of the eighth grade boys pre- pared and presented to the principal a petition requesting that four days a week be devoted to instruction in this subject and one period week to physical training or physical tor ture," as one lad expressed it.
 While the petition could not be granted, as presented, a compromise vas agreed upon whereby three per iods will be spent in regular physi- cal training and two periods will be given over to folk-dancing, which is beneficial in more ways than one. aside from the enjoyment it affords
 There are twenty eight very happy and busy little folk in the first grade room this year, starting out on the path that leads to the heights of learning. Miss Eastman is proving very conclusively that a first grade room can be orderly and quiet, and at the same time haDDy as frpouent