Milford chronicle., 1938-03-25

I basses. Miss Eleanor r. HenshaW
teaches music in Houston every
Monday. The children are choosing
songs of various nations. They dress
in the costumes of the nations which
they represent. The school will have
a music festival this spring.
In keeping with the spirit of the
times, the children in the third and
fourth grades made an Indian village
while they were studying Indians,
This village shows how Indians of
the plains lived. One boy made a
papoOse, another made a chief, and
another made an Indian drag. The
teacher of these children has a mem
bership card In the Wilmington Ii
brary.
The Houston school is supplied
with maps and globes. A globe and
maps of the world, the United States
and North America, Asia, Africa and
Delaware. and a blackboard outline
map are in the principals room. The
other rooms are adequately equipped.
Cleanliness is taught at Houston.
The children go to school neat and
clean. Every morning a pupil in
spector checks up on the children's
cleanliness and asks each one IL he
has a handkerchief. At noon the. pu-
pills wash their hands before lunch.
Art and beauty are not overlooked
at Houston. Appropriate framed pic
lures are on the walls. The fifth and
sixth grades have these framed pic
lures: Lincoln, Babes in the Wood.
Indy and his Plane. The Oldest
Living Thing. The Cleaners, and
Washington.
Safety is not only taught at HOus-
ton, il is practiced. Children keep
their feet under the desks and not in
the aisles where they might trip
someone; scissors are handled care
fully, at dismissal the children walk
out orderly. they do not play in the
road, all children play together hap
pily. etc. The children in grades
one and two dramatize safety. and
the boys and girls of grades three
and four are writing a safety play
which they will broadcast over sta
tion WDEL in Wilmington.
The Houston school believes in
community work The children make
pOsters for eht Ladies Aid, bake sales.
All Club work. and produce plays
for the benefit of the church and
community building.
Winning the attendance banner Tor
four consecutive months is an ac-
cOmnlishment of which Houston is
Justly proud. Mrs. HansOn's room
has an average attendance of 95.5 per
anhnnI
The museum at Houston is small,
but il is growing. Mrs. Hanson's
pupils contributed coral, sponges.
shells, Spanish moss and black sand.
All children in the fifth and sixth
grades were given a standardized
intelligence test recently, and all pn-
nils above grade two had their hear
ing tested by the phOnO-audiometer.
a reliable instrument made by the
Western Electric company.
Mrs. Evelyn Kitchens is the school |
nurse and DR.. Smith is the physician.
Two buses bring sixty children
into the Houston school. Some OF
these children live six miles from |
school.
Miss Leila Thomas is the visiting
teacher. Her job, which she performs
most efficiently, is to keep children
in school. MIR. Farley is the super
visor, and Mrs. Bancroft is the art
teacher.
Original work is done at Houston.
The little children in grades one and
two have written several original
songs, health play and original in
TO several Victrola rec
Drd selections.
The Houston schOolyard contains
Eve acres. The children have base
balls. bats. soccer balls, playground
balls, jump ropes, bean bags, dodge
balls. volley balls, etc. The school
gard is beautiiied by cedar and ma
pie trees and flowers and shrubbery.
These things were bought by the
Teacher Association.
Houston is a town of 800 people on
he Delaware division OF the Phila-
ielphia. Baltimore and Washington
II is located in the western
jart OF Milford Hundred. four and
,ne-half miles from Milford. The
own was named Houston in 1854 in
lonor of Judge John W. Houston. II
3 an important shipping point, and
ha ga cannery. gristmill. four gen.
raj stores. post office, a school, a
iethOdist Church. lumber yard,
Ire company and two public garages.
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