East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1957-03-07


GrownupS may have forgotten
his, but when they were younger it
was quite hard to follow directions
on a "knocked-down" toy carefully
and patiently, and get all the pieces
properly in place without breaking
or bending any of them. The COM
pleted article looks simple, to be
sure, but sometimes it is quite hard
to get all the pieces in the right
place in order to finish the job
correctly.
Consequently, the plastic air
planes assembled by Miss Margaret
Poirot's third grade boys at Rozelle
School are quite an accomplishment
for them and deserve the place they
occupy in the main hall. There
are fighters and training planes,
bombers and transports, mono
planes and biplanes, jets and pro-
peller "jobs." Some have the sleek
streamlined look of the most mod
ern super-sonic fighters, and some
are copies of the numbering, open
cockpit biplanes of the early days
of aviation. Merely noticing these
differences is in itself an exercise
in observation, and is a way of
becoming familiar with the newest
developments in one of the coun-
try's fastest-growing Industries.
Superior
Mrs. Vivian Mobiles third
graders at Superior have con-
structed a pueblo, using empty
cartons and adobe-colored paint for
their main construction materials.
The blocklike "houses" are piled in
a mass of apartments, or whatever
the individual units are called; and
although the houses have doors and
windows on the upper floors, they
have none on the ground level. The
Pueblo Indians got to their upper
stories by means of ladders-which
the children have also constructed
but they could pull the ladders
up after them, so that enemies
couldn't come up behind them from
the outside.
Round clay ovens and clay Chin
neys have also been constructed, in
imitation of the fired adobe struc-
lures of long ago, and today, by
the Indians of the Southwest. A
person can imagine children and
dogs playing around in front of
these sunbaked dwellings, and
Corn Dance or a Rain Dance being
performed by their elders in the
area near the walls.
Caledonia
Sixteen different countries are
being represented, one each week,
by displays of costumes, crafts, and
national products in a showcase in
Caledonia Schools central hall
way. These displays were originally
worked up for another purpose, a
Brownie-Girl Scout World Friend ,
ship Fair last month; but they
turned out so we'll that it was
decided to let the entire school see
them.
Another modern touch at Gale
donia is the grading method based
on television quiz shows being en-
ployed by the second grade chill
dren in Miss Kate Warmers room.
Every 100 in a reading test is
counted as 500, and the children
are trying to reach the $64,000
mark, or a reasonable fac-simile
thereof. Perhaps some very hard
readings could count for more than
500 apiece, and then the children
could try to become real Van
Dorens!
Mayfair
The circus came to Mayfair
School last month in the shape of
a colored film, and ever since that
time the second graders in Mrs.
Eunice Anderson's room have been
working on circus setting of their
own. An entire wall is taken up
with huge circus tent and long
procession Of paper animals and
paper performers of all descrip-