The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-01-31
SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
As Reported BY Miss Stewart,
Supervising Teacher


A Parent Teacher Association has
been recently organized in German.
The officers are Mrs. Ethel Hilleary,
president; Mrs. Alonzo Schaeffer, vice
president; Mr.. C. j. Hanft, secre-
tary. One of the first things done by
the new organization was to subscribe
for the Child Welfare Magazine.
Pamphlets from a life insurance
company on the teaching Of health
were sent out TO teachers this week.
Health has been stressed also in the
sale of handbooks on the teaching of
health in that fifty-two of these books
have been placed in the schools in the
past ten days.
The exhibit Of seat work discussed
elsewhere in this paper was seen and
carefully studied by over two-thirds
Of the teachers in the Oakland Super
yisory Unit. The next problem is to
reach the remaining one-third in try
ing to bring to their pupils the bene-
fits which accrue from well-planned
seatwork.
Eempton is now buying a $50 IL
brary, $40 of which are furnished by
the Kempton Parent-Teachers' Asso-
citation. They include in this one
hundred little ten-cent classics in q
wooden cabinet ready for the school,
room. In addition to this the teachers
are studying ways and means to pro
cure the best possible silent readers
for all grades in the school.
So far as is reported to the office
of the Board of Education, the Kitz-
miller school holds the best record fol
the obtaining of all available free ma
terials and bulletins from depart
ments of the government, commercial
firms, etc. The principal has sur
rounded herself with an abundance
of material which serves well as ref
erence and library resources in socia.
science classes.
Loan libraries from the State Ii.
brary Commissioners have been re.
quested and granted to VindeX, Sill
yer Knob, Kempton and Dodson-Shall
mar.
The day after the exhibit of seat
work in Kitzmiller two of the Dodson
Shallmar teachers, who had made con
siderable of the work, were planning
on the daily work to accompany theil
reading assignments in the Elsol
readers, and had even improved OF
and adapted the ideas to their owl
situations.
Plans are now under way for thu
repairing and general improvement o
the primary school at German. In
terest in the welfare of the schoO
children prompted the offer in tn
community to take care locally of al
expenses for labor and to arrange TO
the necessary repairs.
Exhibit of Educative SeatwOrk
The teachers of Garrett county ar
now having the opportunity to stud,
educative seatwork as related to sill
ent reading. An exhibit of this typ
of work reached Oakland January II
According to the schedule mapped on
by the State Department each super
visor teacher has the use of this eX
hibit for one week. Thus the eXhibi
is sent from the Oakland Unit t
Grantsville and from there to Friends
vile.
Miss l. Jewell Simpson, State SUI
ervisor of Elementary Schools, VIII
prepared the exhibit, did so to sho7
the teachers what they should do i
their daily preparation of seatwork i
teaching children to read.
The teachers of Oakland are in
% position to profit particularly frol
this exhibit because of the recent &C
operation from the Civic Club thr
which much material and guidanc
were made possible.
In one device the children are give
an envelope of pictures and word
The child finds the words which te
what is in each picture, placing "boy
under the picture of boy; NEST" undo
the picture of nest, etc. It serves {
q good test of his knowledge, Of VIII;