East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1960-03-03


fourth grade children, respec
lively; and older boys and girl.
will participate in an Italial
tarantella and a Greek foil
dance. Comments about theil
native lands will be given by
children who have migrated
here from China, Japan, Jor'
dan, Israel, and Iran. And al
the end of the program, appro.
priately enough, the Superior
Glee Club will sing the "Balla6
for Americans, and everyone
will join in on This Is My
Country.
The costumes for this festi.
val are beautiful, and the mes.
sage of it is inspiring. 1t should
be a great occasion for all con.
cerned with staging it OF
watching it.
Caledonia
We can now make a progress
report on the tulip and hya-
cinth bulbs that were potted
and planted last October by
members of the Junior Hilltop
pers at Caledonia School. These
children, fifth and sixth graders
with green thumbs, constitute
the junior auxiliary of the Hill
top Garden Club, and have
the responsibility of providing
blooms for their classrooms.
About two weeks ago, on a
sunny day, the children went
out into the schools patio and
dug up some of the potted
plants which they had buried
last fall. They put these into a
warm, dark room for a few
days, until they warmed up
enough to start sprouting; then
they brought them out into the
sunlight of the classrooms last
week, and now, here come the
flowers!
Anyone visiting the Caledonia
office these days will see pots
of tulips and hyacinths bloom
ing all over, and will know that
these flowers are not bought
en-" ones from some greenhouse,
but were actually brought into
bloom by the children of the
school themselves.
Mrs. Florence Motiska's first
graders presented a Washing
ton-Lincoln program to the
Kindergarteners a while ago
wearing white wigs and telling
the younger children all they
had learned about our first and
sixteenth presidents. T h y
asked them questions or riddles
about these two famous Febru-
ary-born statesmen, and were
pleasantly surprised at how
many correct answers they got.
Chambers
The four sixth-grade rooms
at Chambers School all study
art one hour each week from
Mrs. Irene Livsey, who thus
performs the functions of a sort
of department head in this SUBJ
ject. Recently all four groups
of children were busy making
Japanese-style drawings and
paintings, and some Of the re-
suits they achieved were quite
beautiful.
Delicacy seems to be the
touchstone Of Japanese art:
simple lines, although in the
right place! - an absence of
shading and depth, a curve sug-
gesting a mass, twig or two
instead of a bush or garden.
Even their sacred mountain
Fujiyama, with it's simple per-
fection and black-white color
ing, seems to be ideally suited
to the japanese style of art;
though perhaps this is cause
rather than effect. To be grade
school student, also, the simp-
ler the better; let him be told
that three lines are all that is
necessary, instead of twenty,
and he is ready to go. So per-
haps the combination of these
two tendencies, the Japanese and
juvenile, make up a natural, u
a desire for simplicity that is
friendly to both.
At any rate, many Of the
drawings and paintings executed
by the Chambers children look
very Japanese" Many have
been taken to the pupils homes
by now, because they are already
busy on another project: medi-
eval castles. this time.