East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-10-16

Robin Mayors room at Mayfair
School are learning to draw and
color, in a number Of ways.
First, they are given printed
outline figures Of different
sorts, and are asked to color
various ones in various ways.
Then they branch out on their
own and draw their own figures
too.
Huge paper folders entitled
"'My Family" have been drawn
and assembled by these young
sters. They each make picture
of Mother first, and then one
of Daddy; then they draw them
selves, and usually they work
in one that shows their brother
or sister - and a cat or dog,
too, if there is one. In these pic
lures green hair and yellow
shoes are not at all uncommon;
green and yellow are pretty
colors, so they use them.
Mrs. Mayors children are
also keeping up to date on trees
and leaves these Autumn days.
They cut out and colored a
paper tree for the bulletin board
in their room, and fastened
green leaves on it. That was
some time ago. Now, as the
real leaves outdoors begin to
turn color, they replace the
green leaves Of their tree with
colored ones; and when the out
door leaves fall off their paper
ones will be taken off too.
All these changes are kept
track of on calendar which the
boys and girls have made for
their room; they not only know
what is going on, they also
know when it happens.
Rozelle
Once again this year, Miss
Ruth Hodson's fifth graders got
snake for their terrarium.
And once again it escaped.
A loose screen gave the rep
tile the chance it was waiting
for, and it slithered away. It
was missing for several weeks.
Not all of the Rozelle school
population - not even all of
the teachers were told that
there was a snake loose some
where in the building; but the
fifth graders asked every morn
ing if it had turned up (if that
is what snakes do), and kept
on the lookout for it.
Then last week it was found.
1t hadn't gone very far; it was
just in the room across the hall.
But it was very hungry. Miss
Hodson's students took it back
to their terrarium, which is
patched up solidly now, and got
a lot of worms to feed it. Then
after this was done, the others
in the school were told what
had happened.
There is another Rozelle story
this week, about how one thing
can lead to another in a school
class. Mr.. Michael DeFiore's
sixth graders were finishing a
study unit on the universe,
which included a study of the
speed Of light and the problems
involving light, when they
found out that their Health
book was just about to take up
the subject of the human eve.
So they moved smoothly from
one topic to the other
One Of the pupils brought in
q real calf's eye to class. Mr..
DnFiore dissected it, for the
benefit Of those who wanted to
learn about it that way, but
some Of the students preferred
the pictures Of the eve in their
textbook. They found out later
that the Science storeroom for
the East Cleveland grade
schools (Which we must tell you
about some time) has a large
colored plaster model of the
iumsn eye. which can he taken
apart and put back together
again: and this proved to be
compromise that satisfied just
about everybody.
Caledonia
Mr.. Weatherman is life
sized figure drawn on large pa
per. which stands in Mrs. Flor
enco Motieka's first Grade room
at Caledonia School. He holds a
weather Chart, on which are
posted each dov the weather
data and statistics for that day: