East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1962-01-25

which is now upon US, seems to
be a time for the rounding off
of projects in the social sciences
in our upper grades. With the
completion of a unit of work in
that field, a play is produced or
cumulative notebooks are hand
ed in, or in some other way a
study of a portion of history or
geography is brought to con-
clusion. Here are some eX-
amples from our elementary
schools last week.
The sixth graders in Mrs.
Margaret Harris class at Pros
pect started the farthest back,
and worked the longest on their
history project. Since the end
of October they have been COM
posing and rehearsing a playlet,
whose characters are people
from the Near East in both an
cient and modern times.
Beginning with a metal
worker in almost prehistoric
Sumeria, their actors and ac-
Itresses portrayed in addition a
scribe in Ur of the Chaldees, a
traveller at the Hanging Gar
dens and the bazaar in Baby
Ion, an Assyrian warrior,
Bedouin from desert tribe,
Mohammed from much later
days, and Mustapha Kemal in
Turkey in quite recent times.
AS the children told US, they
skipped around quite a bit.
A Reporter" from modern
days questions each of these
people in turn. and is interested
as much in their costumes -
which were carefully made, and
authentic - as in the descrip-
tions and the stories they tell
him. The children had written
and rewritten their script many
times, and its final version was
neatly duplicated and bound
little volume which they or the
school will want to keep.
Their play was presented last
week to an assembly Of al the
upper grades, who were highly
appreciative Of the work done
by Mrs. Harris pupils.
Costume Figurines
At Mayfair
In Mrs. Ruthann Banks fifth
sixth grade room at Mayfair,
costumed figurines were the
thing. Making generous use of
paper, cotton, wool, tinsel, and
several other kinds of materials.
the children had made lifelike
dolls representing many real
or fictional characters in his
tory. large number of whom
could be readily recognized at
sight.
There were Queens Elizabeth
| and II, an Inca ruler, and
Pharaoh's wife: there were Ben
ianlin Franklin with his kite,
Plains Indian with his culver
Of arrows, and Colonial lady
with a beautiful fan. Socrates
was shown with a learned
scroll, a Viking warrior with
battleaXe, and japanese and
Chinese men and women with |
their fantastic garments and
hairdoes. In fact, every child in
Mrs. Banks room had made a
historical character.
and in each case they had found
out from their own research
lust how their character should
look.
Since the fifth grade studies
American history and the sixth
grade studies earlier times, the
two grades in this room had
combined their interests TO pre-
sent a panorama of the whole
range of mankind's history, |
from ancient times to modern. |
Games
At Superior
At Superior, in Donald Reeds
sixth grade room, the boys of
the class liked that part of an
cient history where the Greeks
invented the Olympic Games. 1t
sounded like fun, even if the
victors received-in true anna
eur spirit!-only a crown of
olive leaves for their achieve
ment. So they decided to stage
an Olympic tournament of their
own.
This ca1led for a large area