East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1959-10-22
United Appeal

Appeal drive in East Cleveland
will be told elsewhere in the
pages of the LEADER, but we
wish to mention it here because
it is, as it should be, a very
real part of a school child's
Experience. AS the campaign
letter to the children's parents
says, the goal Of the campaign
is mot that each child should
give the same amount to it,
but that each child should give
something"
In keeping with this goal,
every school building has some
sort Of progress chart in its
main hall, which shows when
each room becomes 100 per
cent in giving. Caledonia's
poster, for instance, has a huge
circus tent with a clown-like
figure and a flag for each
room; and when everyone in
a room has contributed some
thing to the United Appeal, it's
flag will be hoisted above the
Big Top.
Mayfair sends rockets to the
moon on their chart. The first
room in each grade to have
100 per cent participation in
the fund drive gets its rocket
on the moon before the other
rooms of that grade.
Mayfair
Writing is a skill that must
be learned by much patient
practice, and that can be lost
much more easily than it was
won. Schools spend a good deal
of time, especially in the earlier
years, teaching their children
how to write; and the steps in
that process, and the ways in
which the students master each
step, is a fascinating story in
itself.
To illustrate these facts
about writing, Mayfair School
has set up in it's main hall a
bulletin board display entitled
eve Learn To Write, Year BY
Year."
On it the teachers fasten ex-
amples of printing and writing
done by their pupils, from the
very tiniest on up, to illustrate
how they are learning to write.
Samples are changed each week
so that more children get a
chance to see their work on
display.
Small children learn to print
first, on wide-spaced paper. |
Then in the latter part of the
second grade, they change to
writing or script-a promotion |
that they are very eager to
achieve. Their letters are still
large, though.
It isn't until the reach the
fourth grade that they are
urged to cut down the size of |
the letters-while keeping the
"caps" and the tails" Of the
letters still in proportion-and
to write on adult-spaced paper.
1t isn't until they reach high
school, we guess, that they !
learn to write uphill.
All these steps Except the
last) are illustrated on May
fairs bulletin board, and neat
samples Of writing from each
age level of grade school ex-
perience. And the children are
reminded oy their teachers that |
every subject in school, not
just writing, requires good,
neat, production of letters and
words.
Prospect
The first graders Of Pros
pect School paid a visit to
real farm last week. They saw
not just a COW, but different |
kinds Of cows, and learned why
milk must be cooled just as
soon as it is gotten from the
cow.
They each sat on a real live
pony, and watched while grown
up riders from the farm rode
their horses very fast and
jumped over low fences. They
saw horses getting their coats
cleaned with vacuum cleaner,
Or something very much like
vacuum cleaner, and wondered
# the horses liked it. And they
saw chickens, a rooster, a rab-
bit, a tractor, and the farmer
and his wife who owned them.
On their way to the farm in
4 bus, the bus driver stopped at
IN apple orchard and showed
hem how apples were picked.
LAST CHANCE!