Missouri State University - Ozarko Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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The Elementary School of Greenwood In the hustle and bustle of the S. T. C. campus, one can spend but a few moments before something of Greenwood's Grade School is heard. We wanted to know of the projects developed in the elementary school of which we had heard so much. We went to Mr. M. A. O'Rear, the director of the Training School. He explained that Greenwood is little different from other schools, in that the pupils are taught the customary 3 R's, but these are accompanied by other activities which serve to stimulate the interest of the children in their work. He suggested that we see some of the projects for ourselves. We first visited the Kindergarten. Miss Dora Hennicke, the supervisor, told us that their work centered about the home. They outfitted a life-sized play house with crate furniture. The class was taken on a number of trips among which was an excursion through a Pullman car. Miss Hinton informed us that her class, the first grade, had built a train, in which they could actually ride, from crates and a keg. They used it in a play which centered around a train trip. Every type of their regular school work was furnished by the project. Miss Esther Hennicke showed us about the room of the second grade in which are found an art gallery, a post oiiice, and a store. The pupils had studied primitive man, and had painted characters of their studies on panels which extended the length of the room. The post office and store were pat- terned and managed after the plans of the public concerns. Miss Highfill, instructor of the third grade, told us of the work of her grade, which centered about the Indians, the Eskimos, and the Hebrews. The children visited a dairy farm and a creamery in connection with the study of the Hebrews. They presented a play as a fitting climax to their studies. Grade four, we were told by Miss Eva Allen, the teacher, made a memory book of samples of their work. The largest project was the study of Egypt. They wrote and presented a play. They painted their own scenery, and after we had seen the artistic work, our only regret was that we did not see the play. We found the fifth grade at work with brushes, painting pictures in the most delicate of pastel tints. Miss Rutledge, the supervisor, said that they had written a fairy tale, and that they were illustrating it. When the pictures were finished, the pupils bound the volume themselves. In the sixth grade, we found the most interesting project of Mrs. Bragg's class to be the editing of the Pee Wee Standard, which was fashioned after the Southwest Standard. The writing was done by the students themselves, and the work of those little journalists would be valuable to any paper. The projects of the classes were so numerous that we could not begin to tell all that was showed to us, but we hope that you can gather from this short account. what many interesting things happen within the four walls of Green- wood. l26l

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