Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-06-28

occasions in the public schools was
never more keenly felt than at
School . yesterday afternoon, but
due to the righteousness of the
corps of loyal teachers there and
the principal, Mark Letter, many of
the difficulties were overcome and
an original program of great merit,
showing hearty effort and much
work. was carried put in the very
limited space before the school
building. AS a part of the exhibit
of class work which is one of the
best ever shown in the schools here
the children of the various class
rooms, in unique and pretty cos
tunes, sang and danced their parts
to the qualification of the guests
who. disregarding the hot sum-, stood
score deep for more than an hour
grouped about the flagstones which
served as a platform for the chill
dren who took part in the program.
Each room in the school had its
W decorations, in the higher
grades carrying the project
method of teaching and in the low
er grades representing also some
particular period, race or study. All
the rooms were particularly fine in
appearance and showed untiring
work on the part of the teachers
and the pupils.
Miss Nellie Bardrum's room was
decorated in the national colors and
took the form, in part, of a North
was shown about the room in at
tractive booklets and one of the
greatest attractions was New York
harbor, cleverly represented in a
sand box, with sand for the earth
n mirrors for the water. Every
thing suggested the project, North
America" the subject that had been
specialized in this particular room.
The room of Miss Anna Jensen,
Grade Alb. was transformed into a
Japanese bower. representing that
country. Attractive lanterns were
suspended from the ceiling, pretty
lattice work entwined wrh gay flow
ers were made by the children
themselves. and the sand box here
showed a Japanese garden. Hand
work of many natures was shown in
almost all the rooms.
Grade ga, of which Miss A. josef
son is the teacher, had the Indians
cleverly demonstrated. Pictures of
the ople were everywhere, the
room was strung with feathers on
gay steamers and the children wore
headgears made by themselves.
Original beads also made by the
class were a great attraction.
Miss Lydia Olsen, OF grades ABB
and "A, took the guests from far
Arabia into the n~ort,hlands. the
handwork and decorations conform
ing with these two widely distant
territories. The sand table here
represented an Arabian desert,
han9iwork of the tribef, and carried
out the rubber project
rdla was entered upon step
ping across the threshold of Miss
Blanche ~VanSyckle's room. the sixth
grade. Crepe paper foliage was sus-
pended from the ceilings, birds of
the pupils own manufacture seemed
ready to fly from the artificial trees
and the girls, dressed in pink and
green, were in entire harmony with
the color scheme.
Colonial Days was one of the most
interesting exhibits in the school,
the work of Mas Rose Cerbo and
her fifth grade. A cleverly built
miniature log cabin, fully appointed
with the rude articles of furniture,
was surrounded by unmelting snow
being %ploughed through by stately
men and women of the early DAYS.
About the walls were Colonial Day
books, all made up by the children
themselves. One Of the original pro-
Jects was the semi-circle upon which
strobe a variety of women, showing
the change in costume from 1907 to
1776. Suspended from the ceilings
were numerous Colonial flags of the
original design.
Miss Margaret Deegan's room,
composed of third grade students,
was a corner of Holland. Dutch
maids. Dutch ships, and everything
else to represent the spotless country
cleverly represented the nation
where sidewalks are water and the
people worship cleanliness.
Daisies were really the camoufag-
ed pupils of Mis- Bessie Solomon's
room and the pretty b~lack-eyed
Susans were the children of Miss
Myra Elmore's department. In each
of these rooms %festoons of the flow
ers were suspended from corner to
corner of the ceilings, while every
where were ~black-eyed Susans and
daisies in ~profusion, on the window
stills, in the doorways, on the black
boards and in baskets.
Miss Clara Hanson went back as
far as 1492 and the guests saw all
phases of Columbus trip to the new
world. Flags, sailors and ships were
AZ AosAN anu lllc UOyS VI the
class presented a very fine appear
ance in their sailor suits and hats.
The world of nature was disclosed
by Miss Loretta Hines of the first
grade, whose room was decorated
with birds and flowers and every
thing represented the outdoors. The
sand table here was transformed in
to a model farm with its meadows,
buildings and stock and breathed
the open country everywhere.
The animal world, from the wild
est tiger OF the jungles to the har-
messed dray horse were shown in
the room of Miss Aldona L~eszcayn-
ski. The sand tables were over
run with domestic and foreign
quadrupeds of the children's W
manufacture and demonstrated the
study of animals which has been
specialized in for some time.
Butterflies, human, paper and
real graced Miss Victoria Metzen-
DORIS room in one of the most at
tractive exhibits of the school. The
youngsters seemed about to light
upon the profuse foliage and their
pretty costumes were the result of
weeks of effort.
The special class Of Miss Anne
Deegan de demonstrated much work of
clever Workmanship and the room
was decorated for the most part in
articles of use made by the boys
themselves.
The nursery rhymes characters
were everywhere in the kindergar-
ten, of which Miss Helen MacWil-
liam has charge with the assistance
of Miss Grace Mallet. The giant
killer, Little Bo-Peep and all the
rest of the fairy world had slipped
out of thej books and danced about