McKinley Junior High School - McKinleyan Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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'f THERoAD TO HEALTH trition Class, but here we have the advantage of them. Besides the fun part of it,.1it is for your own good. The person that is of proportionate weight is healthier and better looking than the person that is underweight. Being under- weight also causes bad posture. , Every day at the third period the girls have their daily hottle of milk and are allowed to be late to their third period class. A chart is kept, on which each girl can see whether she has lost or gained. It is very interesting to . I A I t Y ri: V 4, f-lad li i Ll' ff-. - 1 i - -A V l:5 :Qa1-.. ' 5 - , - , 1 W f , . i nl iff' V l l I - al , ,4-

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THE How T0 HEALTH AHB HAPPINESS u, VERY helpful department in the school is the Corrective Speech De- partment, in which all pupils who have a defect in their spech are 't helped hy different methods. Exercises in reading aloud, in concert lf pl and alone, in singing, in breathing, in relaxation, in phonics,, and in de- veloping the muscles of the mouth are given to improve hesitancy of speech. ' Miss Marie Lawton of the Speech Department reports to our school every Monday morning. She conducts small classes, though all pupils who need to do so may take advantage of this privilege. Each one receives indivicimial at- tention. Many pupils taking this corrective work have been able to overcome the defect in their speech, which would in time have hampered them in their way to success and happiness.-Lormic Sanders, AQ. The Nutrition Class Have you ever been to the Nutrition Class? If not, you do not know what you are missing. Some of the heavyweights would like to be in the Nu- .. H , , - N ' ' - i . A-1: ln' . il ' 'fri Lg lic-E: lin' ' E 'l , ' ,

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, l - --' - - v x THE ROAD T0 HEALTH I watch each girl putting on weight. By the end of last semester so much good had been done that many girls did not need the aid of the Nutrition Class to keep them on The Road to Health. -Gladys Hinrlrs and lrmze !llacl1'vmll'a. Corrective Class for Girls The corrective class is a great help to many girls who need physical cor- rection. Some of these are girls with weak hearts, weak arches, overturned ankles, round shoulders, or hollow hacks. In the gymnasium there are many plinths and mats which are for the use of the corrective class. There are also stall bars, a horizontal ladder, and a hori- zontal bar on which they take hanging exercises. Marbles are used in the cor- rective class for foot exercises. Twice a week the corrective class goes out of doors to play games such as baseball, long ball, end hall, and volley ball. A few girls who have very weak hearts or very had ankles or arches have to lie down during the gym period. NVhen they are on their beds, they can hardly keep from talking, but they know if they do they will get demerits. By co-opration, and by the help of the teacher the class hopes soon to be able to take regulargym. Some of the children from our school go to the Vermont Corrective Center. Many children from other schools are there too. There are boys and girls that are all by themselves with the doctor, and there are also classes such as the foot class and posture class. The room the classes are in has many pieces of ap-