East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1959-05-14
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School last week was one of tht
best organized projects tha
"Six Skies has seen. AS reported
last week, each room concen
trated on its own topic, assemb
ling materials and preparing the
display. Then they lettered signs
and captions to accompany theil
displays, and they selected GER
/ tain members of their class tc
prepare and deliver otter
word for word - little speeches
explaining the scientific items
being shown.
We were privileged to see four
Of the classroom exhibits, in the
first grades of Miss Beverly
West and Miss Jane Morley, the
second grade taught by Mrs.
Ruth Kregenow, and Mrs. Wv
ian Mobiles third grade. We were
a little late in arriving, but the
child guides had waited around
after their classmates had gone
home in order to explain their
specialties to us. They did an eX-
cellent job of it.
The little first graders in Miss
Vests room proudly displayed
the paper models and pictures Of
the birds they had made, and
told us interesting facts about
eight or ten different kinds of
birds. Miss Morley's pupils had
mastered a great deal of mater
ial about plant seeds, about their
parts and how they grow. They
knew what a micropyle was, and
cotyledons, and what they did;
and they had many different
kinds of seeds on display.
Three different teams of chill
dren in Mrs. Kregenow's second
grade room showed us about
twenty ways of producing sound:
will water glasses, sticks,
combs, and other such unlikely
objects, as well as with the more
conventional sound producing in
struments like drums, tuning
forks, and a piano. And Mrs.
Noble's third graders had worked
out many simple demonstrations
Of physical changes produced in
solids and liquids, such as burn
ing, evaporation, decay, and
growing.
The thing that impressed us
most, though, was how much the
children themselves were getting
out of this work with science.
They were learning a great deal
and having fun while they were
doing it.
Mayfair
Readers Of this column will
recall that in past years, classes
Of East Cleveland children have
taken the interesting riverboat .
trip from the foot of E. Ninth
Street up the Cuyahoga River
and back. This year the trip is
even more exciting, for the open
ing of the st. Lawrence Seaway
this spring has brought ocean
freighters TO our piers, making
Cleveland more important than
ever as water-level port in the
heart Of the country.
Mindful of this growing i'm
portance eof the Cuyahoga Riv-
er and its concentration of indus
Try, the fifth grade students in
Mayfair School decided to pre-
,are themselves thoroughly for
heir trip on the steamer "Good-
ime." They not only secured and
illed out the blank maps and
.harts about the river and its
ridges which all pupils receive
n advance Of the trip; they
.lso wrote letters to many of the
ompanies whose plants line the
anks Of the river, and received
cry nice letters and other bust
less literature in return.
Some Of the companies went
ut Of their way to furnish the
iayfair children with detailed
descriptions of the materials
hey manufacture, and the pro-
esses used. In some cases, they
ven sent samples Of their pro-
ucts. AS result, the boys and
iris have great deal of in
about the Cuyahoga
ALLEY industries, which made
heir trip on the river last week
luch more meaningful and in
tructive.
The fifth graders, pupils of
fiss Nancy Kirby and Miss
,vone Anderson, are now max