East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1962-03-08


man, we suppose, is that he is
so many-sided that he appeals
to great many people in diff
ferent ways. Such a man surely
was Abraham Lincoln, whose
birthday we and our school
children celebrated recently.
To illustrate the universal
appeal Of Lincoln, we should
like to mention, little tardily
perhaps, the way in which one
class Of East Cleveland fifth
graders celebrated his birthday
this year.
Miss Audrey Scott's room at
Caledonia School was asked to
compose themes on the subject
"What / Can Do to Honor Lin
coln." They recognized that this
was more than just matter of
parades and speeches; so they
decided to look at his life, and
then at themselves, and find
out what they could do per-
sonally to make themselves
more like him.
This approach to Lincoln's
life yielded rich results. Lincoln
forgave his enemies; the chill
dren decided that they, too,
could learn to be more forgiv-
ing. He read all the books he
could lay his hands on, and
asked for more; and the boys
and girls thought that they
might try to be almost that
eager for learning, if not quite
making it.
They found out that Lincoln
cared for all people, and that
it was this thoughtfulness for
others that really governed his
whole life and brought on his
death; and they thought they
should try to be more consider
ate of other people than they
had been. And they found out
many more things about Alb
raham Lincoln, all Of them
good, and all of them suggest
ing ways in which they could
go about trying to improve
themselves.
Thus this study of Lincoln's
life became both a research
project on the life Of one of
our greatest Presidents, and
an incentive to the boys and
girls Of the class to try to be-
come better persons through
their own efforts.
More News
On Thermometers
This could be called our
Thermometer No 8 report Of
the 1961-62 winter season.
We have had thermometer
science news from two schools
this year, each of them differ
ent in their own way; and this
third thermometer story, from
the two third grades of May
fair School, is different from
each Of the others.
These children, the pupils of
Mrs. Dorothy McCabe and Mrs.
Patricia McNeilly, had to do
more than the older children
in the other schools, because
they had to learn to count by
fives first. To read the figures
on their thermometers, you see.
Now it may seem to us older
people that we were practically
born knowing how to count by
fives, but this is not so. Think
how hard it would be if we had
six fingers on each hand.
Then they made their own
model thermometers, with
"fiveses" marked on them from
zero to over a hundred, for a
reason which you will see in
a moment. A red ribbon ingen-
iousfy threaded through two
slits in the cardboard ther-
mometer models, and passing
up the back side of the card
board. could be used to raise
or lower the red mark on the
front scale to any height de-
termined by the child. Then
they got some honest-to-good-
ness thermometers, and got to
work.
First they put on their wraps
and went outdoors, and plunged
their real thermometers into
the snow on the front lawn of
the school. After some minutes,
the red liquid in the glass
tubes, which had started going
down, stopped at a point on
each thermometer which was
somewhere between the 30 and
the 35. 1t wasn't on either line,
but it was closer to the 30 than
to the 35. And that's pretty
good for the third grade.
Then they came indoors, re-
moved their wraps, and stuck
their thermometers into the
radiator in the classroom. Ooh,
what that red liquid did! It
started going up and up, and
didn't stop until it reached 1901
and two 5's more! And that
is 40!
They found these figures
then on their cardboard models
and adjusted their ribbon !
markers to the appropriate !
heights on their scales. And ,
that's how the Mayfair third ,
graders started to learn how
to become Junior Weathermen,