East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1962-10-04


tors to see and study, ard a
Testimony to a great deal of
cooperative work on the part of
Caledonians both last year and
this.
Strengthen Home
School Ties
| As a means of strengthening
the ties between home and
school, especially for their
younger students, Rozelle
School is inaugurating a system
of conferences with parents ex-
tending throughout the fall.
These conferences are to be Of
two kinds. Room wide meetings
of the kindergarten and the first
three grades are being held
now, beginning at 1:15 p. M,
during which the parents of a
class talk over the educational
progress Of their children with
the teacher while the pupils are
attending a school film in the
auditorium.
Later on, individual parents
will make appointments with
the teachers for the second half
of the afternoon session, during
which there will be more time
for personal discussion of the
child and his school work.
Notes Of invitation to the
parents are written by the stu
dents, rather than by the teach
ers, thus giving the children
practice in the art of written
communication.
The individual conferences
will start on October 10th and
will run fer eight weeks, with
advanced scheduling worked out
so as to give each parent time
for uninterrupted conversation
with her child's teacher.
In this way, it is hoped. a
broader understanding Of the
schools goals and the child's
relationships with both school
and home can be achieved. and
cooperation between the two for
the child's welfare can be en-
HANGED.
Tyrannosaurus,
Stegosaurus
A grasshopper is every bit as
homely as a dinosaur is-or
was; but there is a considerable
difference in their size and era.
However. since both are ami
mails, they are both fit subjects
for third grade pupils studying
Science; and as such, their
models exist side by side in Mrs.
Vera Gray's classroom at May
fair School.
Mrs. Gray's students are for
tunate when it comes to the
study of dinosaurs, for their
teacher visited Dinosaur Ma
tional Monument in western Col
orado last summer and saw
their fossilized bones. Their
size is unbelievable; some of
them had thigh bones taller
than a man, and their bodies
were as huge as big dredging
crane.
Dramatic pictures have been
drawn of the way dinosaurs
must have looked during their
lifetime millions of years ago,
and they were terrifying beasts
indeed. Formidable names have
also been given to them by
modern scientists; the huge
lizards didn't go around shout
ing "Tyrannosaurus!" or "Steg-
osaurus." at their victims, but
we'll bet their unfortunate prey
was just as scared af if they
had.
Nevertheless, til ese jaw
breaking names are said to be
descriptive of the animals them
selves; and when you learn {
them (as these children do),
you can remember somewhat ,
better what they looked like. ,
Along with the dinosaur mod ,
els and the grasshoppers, living
and dead, the children in Mrs. .
Gray's room have some water ,
,lugs and other basically un-
beautiful fauna which they have
been studying. In their note
books they insert an outline
drawing Of a grasshopper, /,
whose various parts they label
accurately; and in other ways /,
hey have been familiarizing ,
with forms Of ami
NAL life which contribute in one
way or another to our complex
world.