East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1961-11-02

ANY SCiSllCe VIII De IOullQ W
have, among others, three fea-
lures characterizing it. First, it
must be based upon accurate and
extensive observation of facts;
second, it must admit of some
sort of orderly arrangement and
classification of these facts; and
third, it must within reasonable
limits) enable its practitioner to
predict what will happen if GER
tain prior conditions are fulfilled.
All these requirements are
met by the study of physical
phenomena that are all around
us every day: the set of outdoor
conditions that we summarize
by the one word weather"
Weather conditions can be con-
Usually studied and recorded;
enough is known of them to en-
able us to catalog them with
considerable accuracy; and al
though weather forecasts some
times miss their mark, the
meterologists will at least know
why they missed, and will be
able to tell us what outside fac
tors came along to upset their
predictions.
So the weather study now be-
ing engaged in by the fifth grade
students at Rozelle School, under
the direction of their teachers,
Miss Suzanne Hill and Mrs.
Jean Gum, is basically the ele-
mentary study of a science. The
children are engaged in the first
two steps of science work men
toned above: they are gather
ing data on temperature, air
pressure, wind intensity and dir
ection, and humidity. and they
can classify our air movements
as "breezes" or winds" based
on charts they have made. and
can determine whether the Cleve-
land area is in a high or low
pressure region.
They are keeping daily records
Of these figures, and scan thell
skies for the different kinds of
clouds whose names they have
learned, and whose character
istics they have studied. They
have made charts of the day-to-
day fluctuations in the local tenn
perature, and they have been
to and recording the
weather summaries which they
hear on radio and television re-
ports. They are even learning
to interpret those mystical
symbols which the TV metereo-
logist sets upon his map, and to
what they will prob
ably mean for our weather in
the immediate future.
Mark Twain's statement about
the weather left out one thing.
Everybody still talks about the
but nowadays more.
people than ever before know
what it is up to.
City Is
Big Sister
Suppose you are kindergarten
teacher in East Cleveland in the
fall Of 1861, and you want your
room to do something to con-
tribute to the Golden Anniver-
sary of your city. What do you
DO? Especially if, to your pupils,
history" is composed of only
IF those days when they didn't
know how to tie their shoes?
Well for one thing, you are
/ part of Mayfair School. which
IS celebrating its own fortieth
anniversary this year, and is
only a big-sister's age
younger than the city. Kinder
gardeners know about big sis
.ers who are ten years older
han they are. SO the city is a
zig sister to Mayfair School. I
Besides this, another idea oc-
'urred to Mrs. Dorothy Hartland, |
kindergarten teacher at May
'air. To a five-year-old, fathers !
and mothers are just about the
5olidest kind of history there is.
Why not find out about their own
'athers and mothers-and, while
hey are about it, the parents
If the older children at Mayfair
AZ the Same tinoeo