East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1961-04-13


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same syllable, again and again,
to build up "word families" of
|rhyming words; one boy found
ten words that all sound alike
on the end. Then they make up
little poems-about spring, it
seems, at this time of the year
and print their poems neatly
on their straightlined paper.
Weight Test
At Superior
Living plants give off two
things: water and air. A dead
plant will dry up, Of course; but
this is just another way of say
ing that it is giving up water.
Furthermore, this water and
air (oxygen really) can be
measured. Stanton Downs fifth
grad e students at Superior
School have done it. On a home
made but quite delicate scale,
they balanced a bit of lettuce
against a known number of iron
staples, which weigh .07 of a
gram each. Then, as the lettuce
dried up each day, they removed
staples from the other arm of
the scale to keep it in balance.
And when they weighed the
staples which they removed,
they could tell how much water
the lettuce had lost.
Later on, they roasted the
lettuce, to remove all the rest
of the water. They found out
that altogether the substance
had lost 93%s Of its weight!
To obtain the oxygen being
given off by a growing plant,
they rigged up an inverted fun
mel and a test tube above a
water plant. After several days.
III ey had obtained enough
oxygen in the test tube so that
glowing splint burst into
flame when it was put into the
tube. And this is a good test of
oxygen any time.
Mathematic
Mighty Mites
Parents of older children
would be surprised to find out
what advanced subjects kinder
gardeners are learning these
days. Take the rooms of Mrs.
II ellen Griffiths and Mrs.
Carolyn Schmith at Chambers
School, for instance. Those wee
ones are studying geometrical
shapes, learning about "hori-
zontal" and vertical" playing
with rectangular and cylindrical
blocks instead of with clay,
counting and adding and SUBJ
tracing numbers up into the
teens (Which is really quite
high, and becoming regular
little mathematicians, flyweight
grade.
They get a great deal of en-
joyment in manipulating their
magnetic n u m b e S, counting
blocks and abacus beads, and
seem to retain a lot of what
they learn. The new equipment
is a part of it, it seems; the
mathematics tea c h ers have
teamed up with the toy makers,
and a revolution in educational
methods appears to be in
progress.
Library Visits
Habit
Biweekly visits to the North |
Branch Public Library have
become a regular habit this
year for the fifth grade chill
dren in Mrs. Joan Fox's room
at Mayfair School. With
the invaluable guidance of Miss
Bertha Frew, librarian, the
children are being introduced to
books that they find out they
like, and they keep coming
back for more.
They have enjoyed their out
side reading so much this year
that they are illustrating the
books that they have read.
Dioramas of scenes from their
favorite stories, constructed IN
three dimensions by the chill
dren, fill the tables in their
classroom; and the incidents
which they have chosen to pic
ture are often so typical Of the
book as a whole that one can
tell what story it is at glance.
Peter Pan flying is one good
example.
The desire to learn is half of
education; without it the other
half will never come into being.
Some day those who instil that
desire-and librarians rate high
on that list-will receive the
recognition they deserve for all
that they have done.
CALL JOANNE at GIL 1-4383
before 8 pm. Tuesday evening
to place those Little Ads with