Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1929 — Page 25

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CHILDREN MUST "LAY TTGROW, JAYS EDUCATOR Jlntroduce Recreation Into Work, Urges Physical Director. BY DR. W. A. Of'KF.R PuWlr Srbonl Director of Pbjsiral Fducation. y(L T " 'i popular sense, play is what Tgou pay for dry rig; work is what u get paid for doing. Tn the |wll’s mind play is what you want iSo; work is what you don't want to. Ftom the individual's point ■Hvlew, play is the thing worth Jle—work is worth while only as tnieans of providing more money Jat may be spent for play. To the ggfjLilt play and recreation are you think of it there is something very inconsistent in these notions. Much of the best work in the world has not been for pay. The pupil learns faster when he enjoys his studies, and the greatest of man's achievements in life—his master work—is generally what he wanted to do. We. as educators, believe in play, but work must be done and we just can’t fix our eyes *on what must be done and play our way to it. Any task, no matter-how arduous, when the element of play is introduced, immediately ceases to be irksome. Like a sugar-coated pill, we may actually take it with pleasure. The play of children, in the main, is not play at all in our ' grown up” sense of the word. To the child, and particularly the small child, play is not a luxury; it is a necessity. It is not something that a child "‘likes to have”; it is something he must have if he is to grow up and

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Miss Jeanette Le Saulnier, 1347 North Pennsylvania street, and Thurston Harrison, 347 North Audubon road, Shortridge high school students, who will graduate this year with a straight A plus record in their studies. “Making an A plus took about all my time,” said Miss Le Saulnier, “except for school activities, I did not go out very often. ’ “I would rather have an A plus than a Shortridge S,” was-the way Harrison commented on it, “Although I believe anyone trying to make a high grade should not study too much. I went out for track and mixed as much outside school as I could and was able to study better by doing it,”

develop normally. It is more than an essential part of his education; it is an essential part of the law of growth, of the process by which he becomes a man. Play is said to be natural expression of child nature. If this be true, then it is incumbent upon us to study the psychology of childhood so that we may interpret and understand the many forms of activity natural to children. Again, if play is a natural form of activity for children, we must admit that it is not of recent origin

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and we are justified believing that its history dates back many thousands of years. SCHOOL GETS PICTURES Graduating Class Gives 6 Paintings to No. 42. Six pictures, including “Sir Galahad,” “Spring,” “The Dance of the Nymphs,” “Monarch of the Glen,” “Baby Stuart,” and “Aurora,” have been presented to School 42 by the 8A graduating class.

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PUPILS TO USE STATION WLW Music Memory Contest Will Be Broadcast April 3. Indiana this year will use Ohio's largest radio station. WLW, as the medium for transmitting its annual music memory contest to its schools Wednesday, April 3, at 11 a. m. “It is hoped thSt many schools over the state which have heretofore been unable to enter the contests bcayse of the failure of small Indiana stations to reach distant points, will enter the contest and will try to win the three handsome radio receiving sets to be awarded as prizes,” says the announcement sent out by the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs, sponsor of the consist. All rural and grade schools from the sixth grade and up, and high schools taking the music appreciation course, are eligible to enter the contest. The numbers to be broadcast will be chosen from the stale music memory contest list of 19281929. ENTER 60 AIR MODELS Variety of Miniature Planes in Museum Contest. Sixty models have been entered in the Children's Museum first annual airplane model exhibit. The smallest one has a wing spread of four inches and is built absolutely true to scale. The largest model in the exhibit measures five feet across the wings and is powdered by a compressed air motor. The exhibit closes April 15. Officer to Speak in School 61 Police Lieutenant Frank Owens w ill speak at a safety meeting to be held at School 61 the evening of April 12. A play will be given by traffic boys.

Graphic Rules A graphic manner in which to bring to the students* mind the traffic rules and regulations has been evolved by School 21. A race track has been laid out in the hall of the building and on the track are miniature automobiles, each with a room number on it. . A week represents a lap and if a room has had no accidents for the week past the car representing that room is moved up a lap. The rivalry brought about by this system is said to be producing results.

SAND SCENE ARRANGED Dutch Landscape Laid Out by 1A Children at School 76. A Dutch landscipe scene has been worked out in a sand table by the 1A class in Mrs. Armstrong's room at School 76. Windmills, cottages with tulips around them, and the blue sea held in check by a dike are in the scene. And to complete the Dutch atmosphere, a pair of wooden shoes is placed in front of each house. ~ EXHIBIT BIRD HOUSES 2A Class of School 67 Plans Annual Affair. The bird house exhibit at School 67, sponsored by the 2A class, is becoming an annual affair. Green ribbons will be given to each entrant this year, but no prize will be awarded. HOBBY FAIR PLANNED P. T. A. at School 46 to Sponsor May Exposition. The Parent-Teacher Association, teachers and pupils of School 46 are planning a hobby fair, to be held late in May. The object is to get the children interested in housework. to keep them off the streets.

SET APRIL 12 AS ARROR DAY Schools to Hold Exercises, Change Sessions. The seond Friday in April has been designated as Arbor day by Superintendent Charles F. Miller. In his bulletin he emphasized the fact that appropriate exercises suitable to the day be held in all schools. Following the spring vacation. Miller says, in schools having half days, the children who have been coming in the morning should change to afternoon and vice-versa. Where this is not desirable other provisions will be made. HISTORIAN TO SPEAK School 18 Teachers to Hear Talk on April 10. Dr. Ralph C. Carter of Indiana university will address the teachers of School 18 at their professional meeting April 10. In line with the problem of “Study” which the Lincoln teachers have been working on throughout the year Dr. Carter is preparing a series of study helps for elementary students of American history. DEDICATE BELL IN MAY Chimes Are Donated to School 12 by P.-T. A. The Knowlton Memorial Chimes will be dedicated in the auditorium of School 12 during May. The chimes, are the gift of the Parent-Teacher Association and will be encased in a cabinet, the gift of J. H. Emrich, former member of the board of education.

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Ambitious Girl A George Rogers Clark fan hat. been found in Pearl Spry of Room 1 at School 8. During tire last week or so she has brought in forty clippings of Clark and says “I have not stopped yet.” The reason for the clipping hunt is an ambition to make a high grade in history.

PUPILS VISIT CITY HALL Hear Talk by Mayor; Examine Germs in Health Bureau. A short visit to the city hall was made recently by the 6A class of School 25 with Mrs. Des Lafuer, Mayor Slack talked to the group apd promised to come out to then sphool for a talk if they kept their traffic record perfect. The board of health was the next stopping place of the children. They were shown all the things necessary to do in the service this department gives to the city. They were permitted to examine germs under the microscope and learned about the examination of cultures taken for tuberculosis and diphtheria. ART STUDY IS STARTED Pupils at School 19 Prepare for Memory Contest. Pupils of School 19 have started studying for the annual Art Memory contest to be held May 6. under direction of Mrs. Sarah Olive, department art teacher. Pupils Show Handiworkk • At School 51 the Atypical group, under Mrs. Robinson, has completed several examples of practical handiwork. The girls made stocking caps of bright colored wools, with pocketbooks to match. Work on their spring project of bird houses has been started by the boys.

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MAP COURSES FOR TEACHERS Education Studies Planned for Summer Terms. Special lecture courses in elementary education will be given during the summer sessions of the Teachers College of Indianapolis, which opens June 17, it was announced today. Dr. Emma Grant Meader of Russell Sage college, Troy, N. Y., and , teacher's college, Columbia univer- | sity, will offer “Teaching Speech in the Elementary School” June 17J to 23. J Other courses to be offered arej “Industrial Arts for the Grades,” by Dr. Lots Coffey Mossman, associate professor of education at Columbia university. This course will be given June 25 to 29. Dr. Gerald S. Craig, associate professor of natural science at Columbia university, will lecture on “Content Material in General Science for Elementary Grades.” from July 1 to 6. New studies to be given at the summer school are: “Professionalized Subject Matter in Science for the Elementary Grades,” “Psychology for Young Children” and "American Government.” A kindergarten under the direction of Miss Rubie Stapp will be open through the summer in addition to the Jackson demonstration school for all grades. The summer session of the Teacher’s College will be divided into two terms, the first from June 17 to July 20 and the second from July 22 to August 24.