Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-12-05
Rural Schools To Hold
Rally In The Spring
Teachers Give Enthusiastic SUPPORT At
Institute Saturday At Library

The rural teacher assembled Sat-
urday at the Carnegie Hall for their
second monthly i,st ute and were
highly entertained by the special num-
Der provided by Mrs. U. ]. Bennett,
teacher of the second grade in the
second ward of the City School and
her class
The Victrola, furnished by Brad
shaw Music Co, opened new meth
DDS OF teaching and interesting child
rem in their school work. B a unan-
lmouS vote. the teachers accepted a.
plan to hold the school rally for all
the rural schools in the city sometime
during the Spring and appointed a
special committee to make a definite
program for the occasion and submit
the same to the meeting of the teach
ers on January 9TH. Several visitors
made brief talks to the teachers.
among them Major J.. Hamilton Rich
OF the Daniel Boone Highway, Mr..
0. L Bradshaw and Mrs. I. Geiders.
Mrs. Benefits Demonstration
The County Teachers Institute on
Saturday featured delightful and a
! highly instructive demonstrations in
music appreciation given by Mrs. u.
], Bennett and her second grade pupils
from the Second Ward assisted by
Miss Marion Van Gorder with third
grade pupils. Mrs Benefits >prepa-
tory talk brought out new and force
/ ful ideas. First of all we all hear mu-
sic continually but Row many of us
| raa1l tictap3 W. oo,, too.. - 1s.4..-
very early, never too early, and later
we can listen to learn and from so do
ing the really beautiful music can
bring such joy into life, also the ear
early trained to appreciate really beau
tiful music will never be enthrolled by
the sensuous and jazz music believed
to be of positivient influence today.
1t is wonderful opportunity for
the schools that the monograph
brings the best music cheaply into
the daily school program and culti-
Yates it with every other study.
The first point stressed with little
children is Rhythm and records are
made for this purpose, that strongly
accented measures shall lead the little
motion songs and games.
Later melody s stressed and even
very little children learn to listen and
remember by name the favorite airs
OF all people, including many from
Grand Opera.
Then descriptive music is introduced
/ and listening becomes a fine art. Al
so the children love to dramatic in
play action what they are hearing.
AS musical perception grows the
children learn to detect by sound and
to give the name of the instruments
they hear. 1t naturally follows some
will like one record better than an
other and so their taste and apprecia-
ton grows.
Penmanship, nature study language
and even other lessons are delightfully."-
correlated with musical numbers
The possibilities for profit combined
with pleasure through inspiration from
music in the daily school life are sim
ply unlimited These points and
others were brought out by Mrs. Ben
nett, and it is very evident that her
enthusiasm and that of her class means
much to their future culture as well
as their present pleasure in school.
The program they rendered was:
A drill in rhythm, including hand
motions
Skipping, high stepping horses, po-
MES.
A test in listening, naming airs and
naming instruments.
Also of description and imitation in
the Swan Song, the Tailor and the
Bear, The Turkey and the Duck and
{iIhe Whirlwind.
The games were: How Dye Do NY
Partner and Folk Games, and See
You and the Hunters in drama and
costume.