Evening star., 1924-11-02

ed activities in the night and vaca-
tion schools and the public school
Fairgrounds.
The work of the open window room
at the Blake School was outlined by
Miss M. M. O'Brien. She emphasized
that there were but two colds report
, ed among the pupils during the year,
| and both occurred during a holiday
period. There were no contagious
diseases, no accidents and not one
case of truancy," said Miss O'Brien.
| Absences generally were caused by
overindulgent parents taking chill
dren shopping during school hours or
allowing a child to remain home to
| help about the house"
school Gardens Success.
| on school gardens was $1,550.19. Mrs.
e. Il. Peoples, director Of school gar
den work, reported. There were gar
dens at 10 schools, with a total of Al
plots. she said. Deploring the loss of
the largest school garden at the Lud-
low School, Mrs. Peoples predicted a
continued decrease in acreage unless
the garden sites are purchased IF
Congress could be brought to 'recog
nize this need before the growth of
the city has eliminated all vacant
lots near school buildings" she de-
clared. IAN inestimable gain would
have been made for the school garden
| course in Washington"
Extension Of the visual education
course in the schools is recommended
in the report of Miss Elizabeth Dyer.
visual education instructor. Some of
| the objectives for future development
follow: Building up a technique of
using such visual side as Stereograph
slides, picturols. models, museum ma :
terials, etc: forming a distributing
center for certain kinds of visual aids,
working out the housing, transporta-
tion and container problems. and rho
assignment of special teachers for In
struction at museums, public build
ings and for other field excursions.
Coaching Class Results.
Results of Miss Emma Hood with
her coaching class at the Gales School
were described as follows:
"A Greek boy, II years old. with
no knowledge of English, entered the
| class in September. He was promoted
to IA grade in a regular school
June Is.
"A Chinese boy, aged II. was en-
| rolled in September. He will be able
to enter a regular. A grade next
session.
"A HdtlSe OF fOldnQ, dSeQ 10 years,
was transferred to my class on jan
uary is from a 6A grade because of
backwardness in English compost
tion. He will return to a IA grade
| in the same school in September.
AN Italian boy, 5 years old. just
| from the old country after study
| ing in my class "a days was trans
| ferred to "a grade in a school
| nearer his home.
| "On January 2, a girl IL years old
| from the mountains of kentucky, en-
| tered my class. She was able to dc
| "a work in regular class except
| in arithmetic. When she returned to
her home the last of May she was
| able to do 5A work in arithmetic and
| 5B in other classes.
"A Chinese boy, about Ii years old
came to me on March "a. He is now
| able to do "a work.
Two Italian boys, agen 9 and II
years, entered my class on April l
They were promoted to 2B and ga
| classes in a regular school
An American boy, aged 13 years
| was transferred to me from "A
class on April II because he wished
to enter an SA grade in September
BY studying in a Summer school,
am sure he will be abIe to enter tina,
| grade"