expensive supplies. The child learns to adapt means at his disposal to ends in which he is interested. This should do much to keep him profitably busy and out of mischief when he is not under supervision. The educative value of waste material over expensive prepared material is suggestively treated in The Place of Industries in Elementary Education by Katherine Dopp, on pages 175 to 192. The kindergarten child who uses a hat box and paper found at home to make a doll's room similar to one made in school is learning to solve problems independently. This is a test of successful teaching. Material on the values of handwork may be found in the following: Julia Wade Abbott: The Use of Materials in the Kindergarten. Teachers College Mendel E. Branom: Boston. Grace Brown: The Play Motive and the Experimental Method. Teachers College Patty Hill: The Kindergarten and the Elementary School as Illustrated in Their Laura L. Plaisted: Handwork in Early Education. Oxford University Press. Descriptions of projects may be found in the following books and articles: Jessie H. Deuel: Use of Cardboard Boxes. Kindergarten and First Grade Magazine, November, 1920. Ella Dobbs: Primary Handwork. Macmillan Company. Katherine E. Dopp: Place of Industries in Elementary Education, Revised Edition, 1905. University of Chicago Press. Bess Durham: May Baskets from Wall Paper. Kindergarten and First Grade Magazine, May, 1918. Marion A. Smith: How Waste Material May be Used with Profit. Kindergarten and First Grade Magazine, January, 1918. Anna Wiecking: Some Suggestions for Primary Industrial Projects. School Progress, November, 1919. Leon Winslow: The Organization and Administration of Art and Industrial Arts in Elementary Grades. School Arts Magazine, March, 1921. COURT UPHOLDS ACT OF MISS FARRELL ONLY SHE CAN CLASSIFY UNGRADED PUPILS The indisputable right of Miss Elizabeth E. Farrell, inspector of ungraded classes, to determine what pupils shall be assigned to ungraded classes in public schools was upheld by Magistrate Harris in the Municipal Term of the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Samuel Kastenburg, of 850 Longwood avenue, Bronx, appealed to the magistrate in an effort to have his daughter Esther, eleven, taken out of the ungraded class in Public School 52, Bronx, and restored to her former class in Public School 39, Bronx. Mr. Kastenburg explained that his daughter was examined last October and ordered by Miss Farrell placed in the class with "atypical" children. He declared that she had cried on returning home after her first day in the class and declared that she could not stand the silly faces the other children made. "Why," he said, pointing to the girl, who was in court with him and her mother, "any one can see to look at the child that she should not be placed in an ungraded class." Mr. Kastenburg said that he had appealed to Miss Farrell, but that she announced her decision was final. He asked if the magistrate could not take some steps to have Superintendent of Schools William L. Ettinger order the girl placed in a normal class. Magistrate Harris replied that Miss Farrell had supervision over ungraded classes, and was qualified to decide whether children were normal or not, while neither he nor the girl's father possessed that qualification. Finding nothing could be done, Mr. Kastenburg declared that he would not consent to his daughter being a pupil in an ungraded class, and that he would engage tutors to teach her at home. Magistrate Harris informed him that this would be permissible provided he complied with the educational requirements. This matter will be looked after by District Superintendent William O'Flaherty, in whose district the girl lives.—(Reprinted from the Evening Mail School Page.) SONGS FOR EACH SEASON EVELYN B. BARRY February Hymn. Lullaby-Moon Boat-Green Gaynor, p. 61. Action Song-Marching Songs-Green Gaynor, pp. 32 and 33. Flag Song-Flag of the Free. Seasonal Songs America. Hail Columbia. Valentines-Poulsson. Postman-Poulsson. Valentine Song-St. Nicholas Songs, p. 38. March Hymn-Be With Us-Blue Jenks, p. 7. Lullaby Doll Song-Poulsson. Action Song-Boating Song-Gaynor, p. 53. Wind Song-Hill, p. 68. Nature's Easter Story-Hill, p. 37. April Hymn-Song of Thanks-Kg. Chimes. Lullaby-Cradle Song-Hill, p. 50. Action Song-Frog and Horse-Green Gaynor, p. 114. Seasonal Songs Bobolink-Yellow Gaynor. Swing Song-Red Jenks, p. 90. Flying Lesson-Neidlinger. In a Hedge-Mother Play. Sunshine's Message-Hill, p. 39. May and June Hymn-God's Blessing on Work-Hill, p. 18. Action Song-Around the May-Pole, Poulsson, p. 46. Seasonal Songs Frog-Yellow Gaynor. The Butterfly-Green Gaynor. Rose Bush-Neidlinger. Tell Me Pretty Rose Bush. Buttercups and Daisies. Morning Ring 1. Good Morning Song. 2. Prayer. 3. Calendar work and weather observation. 4. Salute to flag. 5. Red Cross Offering. 6. Memory Gems. 7. Songs. 8. Morning Talk or Story or both. 9. Rhythms. BOOK REVIEWS History of the United States. By Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard. Macmillan Co., New York, 1921. This new high school text book of the history of the United States emphasizes those historical topics which explain how our nation has arrived at its present status. The authors have set forth in concise but accurate manner the important problems and movements of each period, dwelling especially upon its social and economic aspects. The wars of the United States are treated not from the standpoint of military strategy, but with a view to their causes and results. Little has been said about the period of exploration, so that more special attention might be paid to the history of our own times. Realizing that America is a part of general civilization, due space has been given to diplomacy, foreign affairs and world relations. We recommend this book because it is not a mere narrative history calling upon the student's memory, but a suggestive manual, well calculated to stimulate habits of analysis, comparison, association, reflection and generalization. A Painter in Palestine. By Donald Maxwell. Illustrated by the author. John Lane Co., N. Y. Net $2.00. The writer of these interesting pages journeyed by cart from Galilee with an Italian monk, a Syrian medical student, and an Armenian commercial traveller. He went to Jerusalem by way of Samaria and then proceeded on horseback through the desert of Judaea by the Kidson Gorge to the Dead Sea Cleft. The most interesting part of the volume is his description of the Holy Land of to-day, which he makes most vivid and real to us by his excellent sketches. Hero Tales of Ireland. By Jeremiah Curtin. Illustrations by Maurice Day. Little, Brown and Co., Boston. Net $2.00. The children, boys and girls alike, will read with intense delight these stories of ancient Irish folk lore. The Black Thief and King Conal's Horses, the Green Enchanted Cat, the Princess Stolen by the Fairies, the Amadon Mor and the Gruagach, and the Cow Clas Gainnach-all carry the children in a moment to the very heart of fairy land. They are full of the charm and the poetic spirit of old Ireland. |