The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-04-24
SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
Of The Reconsideration Su-
pervisOry Unit. &.

Because of the bad weather during
February and March the Friendsville-
Accident Supervisory Unit Teachers
meetings were not as well attended as
usual. In fact the meeting at the
Dodge School house could not be call
ed because of the heavy snow storm
that day. The meeting at Swanton
was the best attended Those teach
ers who did make an effort to get to
the meeting, many coming several
miles, are to be highly commended.
Those. who were unable to attend
missed one of the best meetings of
the year. These meetings were espec-
tally fine due to the excellent demon
stration work given by the teachers
of the various places of meeting,
Friendsville, Accident, Swanton and
Deer Park.
Miss Selby, Friendsville, Miss Sch
lossnagel, Accident and Mr.. Weimer,
of Deer Park, have been teaching the
required arithmetic by the use of pro-
jects. Miss Selby's and Miss Schloss-
nagers pupils played store. Miss
Selby's pupils learned in their store
project about checks, bills, profit and
loss, notes, discount and many other
valuable ideas connected with store
keeping. This work was carried out
in the sixth and seventh grades.
Miss Schlossnagle has been work
ing with first, second and third
grades. In these grades the project
involved counting, reading prices,
finding the cost of several articles at
time and making change.
Mr.. Weimer followed a somewhat
different but very interesting line of
study with his sixth and seventh
graders. In this case the children
read the quotations from the New
York Produce Exchange and bought
and sold produce according to quoted
prices. In the course Of their work
/ they discovered they were losing
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ting the quotations and so they plan
ned buying radio so as to get the
quotations on time. In this study
the children learned the value of
keeping bank account, origin and
use of money, how money is made,
writing and indorsing checks, keep
ing a record in a check book, commits
sion, interest, profit and loss and dis
count
At the meetings, the teachers at
tending the respective schools, had an
opportunity to see this work being
carried out.
At Swanton Mrs. Thomas taught a
very interesting and instructive les
son illustrating the use of silent
reading, reading for comprehension
in connection with geography les
son.
At the Friendsville meeting Mr..
Friend, principal of the High School,
gave an interesting talk on the re-
suits of the Briggs Alpha Test given
to the High School Freshmen last
fall and the group led by Mr. Rath-
bun discussed the responsibility of
the grade teacher for a high school
freshman's knowledge of English.
At Accident Miss Turner, English
teacher in the High School, reported
on the Briggs Alpha Test, and gave
very excellent statement as to what
was found to be the needs of the
high school freshmen at Accident in
the knowledge of English.
Miss Simpson, our State Supervi-
sor, was present at the Deer Park
meeting and spoke on "The Reading
Habits and Skills," which should be
acquired by the children of each
grade. 1t is very unfortunate that
more could not have been present to
enjoy the opportunity and inspiration
of meeting Miss Simpson.
Those teachers who did not have
an opportunity of attending one of
these meetings were invited to
attend meeting at Dodge school on
Friday afternoon, April 4th. Miss
Fahey demonstrated some interesting
work on primary reading and arith-
metic and those present had an OPP
portunity of observing some of Miss
Faheys pupils using seat work ex-
ercises suggested by Miss Simpson.
Sand Spring school is making a
mark for itself in this section of the
county. Since the first of February
there have been two teachers in this
school. Why? Because the average
daily attendance has been held above
forty. When the supervisor visited
this school on March 25th she found
these teachers doing some splendid
team work. On that day the school
purchased a book on Health Train
ing in the School" and two diction-
aries.
The teachers think that Parent
| Teachers Association for this school
would be big forward step. What
do the patrons think about it?