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THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1961
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School and Your Child
By: John Corey
Edueatioi Department Appalachian State Teachers College
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Handwriting: It’s Less
Fatiguing To Write “Pretty”
Forty years ago teachers treat
ed handwriting chiefly as a act
of skill- Today it’s considered
more as a method of communica
tion, like the typewriter or the
old Indian smoke signal.
The modern viewpoint appears
to be that the content of a mes
sage is the important thing, not
how “pretty” it’s written.
A warning against this -logic
comes from Mrs. Ennis R. Davis,
14-year .veteran teacher of
handwriting at the laboratory ele
mentary-school on the campus of
Appalachian State Teachers Col
lege, Boone, N. C-
Handwriting must be. legible
enough for the content to b>. un
derstood, says Mrs. Davis. Other
wise communication falls. And as
long as one is writing, she asks,
why not make it attractive, es
pecially since a graceful style
pleases the eye and actually fa
tigues the writer less?
Dr. Frank Freeman, dean emeri- ■
tus of the University of Calif- '
ornia (Berkeley) sdksol of educa- 1
tion and probably the nation’s 1
foremost authority on teaching *
handwriting, paints a displeasing '
picture of handwriting practices
in school- 1
After examining 135,000 hand- 1
writing specimens collected from <
all parts of the country, Dr. <
Freeman notes that (1) students’ :
handwriting improves compara
tively little after the sixth grade;
(2) an ercessively wide gap ex
ists between the best and poorest
of handwriting; (3) and the major
writing' faults are not in legibi
lity of' individual' letters but in
smoothness, eveness, and line
fluency,
Di\ Freeman would suggest that
formal handwriting instruction ex
tend beyond the sixth grade
and that teachers place greater
emphasis on smooth, fluent strokes
as a n essential to really good]
writing.
line with Dr. Freeman's sug
gestion, North Carolina several
years ago adopted a plan for
teaching handwriting as a sepa
rate subject through eighth grade,
states Mrs- Davis.
In fact, the book METHOD OF
HANDWRITING, Nome and Noble,
was selected and is available to
Tar Heel schools. It’s now up to
administrators and teachers whe
ther the skill is taught formally
beyond the sixth grade.
Just how is handwriting taught
in schools today ? Mrs. Davis,
who instructs teachers to be at
Appalachian State Teachers Col
lege how to teach writing, ex
plains it this way.
The first grader begins with
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“manuscript writing,” which con
sists mainly of circles (o’s) and!
straight lines (l’s). Some par-ents
incorrectly call this “printing.”
There is a difference between
“pridted" and manuscript letters
This doesn’t mean manuscript
writing is a “baby” method of
writing, however. Actually it’s
better for many purposes, states
Mrs. Davis.
All through the first grade
and on into the second -the* child
works at perfecting his manuscript
writing. Usually o he’ll write on
unlined paper with crayons at
first, ■ fading;
Change-over time to cursive
writing occurs in the third grade
in most schools. This is the writ
ing that mother and father use.
Junior considers starting it as
an important milestone in his
education. The youngster also be
gins to use regular pencils in the
third grade. Pen and ink come
later, in the fifth and sixth.
All along the teacher continu
ally helps Junior improve—the
shape, size, space, add slant of
his writing. She gives him oppor
tunities to practice writing words
that have real meaning for him,
Mrs. Davis points out.
And as Junior grows older, he
finds his own ways to practice.
He’ll write letters to grandmother,
order model airplanes from cereal
companies, send thank-you notes,
notify the milkman to deliver ex
tra bottles of milk —all of which
is good writing experience.
Dr. Freeman of the University
of California, warns parents to U
careful not to force Junior’s writ
ing pace too fast- Muscular co
ordination has much to do with his
progress, says the handwriting ex
pert. The first grader’s small
wrist and aim muscles, for ins
tance, are not so well developed
as the larger muscles and. they
need space and materials to
“spread out” in their writing,
j Understanding teachers and par
ents realize that Junior’s imagina
tion often surpasses his ability to
write, and they don’t fuss when he
misspells or uses the wrong words.
They know that accuracy and
speed improve in time.
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PLEASANT GROVE HOME
DEM. CLUB
By: Mrs. Andrew Johnson
The home that has charm is
one where the house furnishings
have been selected carefully to
make the room more attractive.
The furniture need not always be
a new piece. A refinished piece
of furniture can add a different
kind of atmosphere in the home.
One just seems to admire and ap
preciate a piece of furniture which
he has done himself.
The Pleasant -Grove Home De
monstration Club - has done , some
furniture refinishing, including
the renovating of several old pic
ture frames which we love and
admire. These old pieces bring
back useful and new beauty to our
homes of today- By the help of
the county Home Economics Agent,
these things have been made pos
sible. She has arranged county
and community workshops and'
has given individual assistance.
I Quilt making has been a pro
ject which our club members
have enjoyed. We have tried to
select colors which blend nicely
together and then do as neat work
as possible in quilting. Several of
these quilts will be exhibited and
sold at the Craft. Fair, which will
be held on the square in Burns
ville in Augqst. Quilting together
in the community is a good way
to bring community people closer
together.
Copper edameled jewelry -is a
craft w-hich our club has thoroughly
enjoyed experimenting with. Sey
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been made. 1* the club members.
Five robbers of our club at
tended the two-day craft workshop
held in Burnsville. At - these
workshops, we learned to make
copper tooled planters and plaques
and we did several ashtrays
and pieces of jewelry by the
aluminum chasing and embossing
methods. Our club is making
plans to continue these crafts at
other workshops in the future.
PENSACOLA H. D. CLUB
VERY ACTIVE
By: Mrs. Dawson Briggs
The Pensacola Home Demons
tration Club is small but very
active. We are in our third year
with Mrs. Wayne Ray as our new | §
president. -", g
Each year we have a workshop,' |
arr all-day meeting, a covered fe
dish lunch and a specific project. |
Last year we did brass tooling, |
making plaques representing the f
four seasons. Year before last we j
did platers in copper tooling. These i
are very attractive and the cost is j
a small per cent of the price of !
commercial planters.
The first week in May is Na- j
tional Home Demonstration Week I
and our club will give the pro- j
gram for the o Pensacola Com- i
munity Club. At-- tins meeting, j
which will be the 2nd of May, I
our work will be on display. ,
The club’s main- project last
year was feeding and clothing
needy children. Club members fur
nished money for school lunches-
Thirty pairs of new shoes and
socks, furnished by Horace D.
Ray’s store, were distributed to |
school children. A numbei' of new
T-shirts, sweaters and skirts were
also given to the children."' The
used clothiDg drive was a big suc
cess as we had clothing given for
all age groups.
We are very proud of our out
standing members. Mrs. Brooks
Wilson served as president for
two years and we think she made
a remarkable record in that she
was present for every meeting.
Mrs. Billy Brooks Wilson isj
adult 4-H leader. She won a j
certificate and a gift as __ the. most j
outstanding leader jn ’ county.'
Her 4-H boys and gills'"were a
part of the youth group that won
third place f n the district meeting
held in Asheville- The boys and
girs also won six awards at the
county Achievement Night. A
group of 20 will enter the Talent
Show to be held in Burnsville
April 28'. ' '
Mrs. H. D. Ray, Jr. served as
the Community Club president
last year. This year she is presi
dent of the county council. With I
Mary Ellen (Mrs. H. D. Ray, Jr.)
at the helm, the community club B
sailed in for first place in the I
county with a cash prize of $125 I
and won fifth place in the dis't I
trict with a cash prize of $l5O. |
Mary Ellen did the writing for I
the mechanical book which was a I
major part of the county exhibit, I
which won first place at the State I
Fair in Raleigh,"
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FREEZING. FOODS FOR
FAMILY USE
Ramaeyfown Home Demonstration
Club
We, the members of the Ramsey
town Home Demonstration Club,
have been freezing fruits, vege
tables and meats from our home
gardens. We find this process
time saving, economical and con
venient- We also have more tasty,
more nutritious and more attract
ive foods. We find most families
like frozen foods better, than can
ned or dried foods.
We have frozen many kinds of
foods from our gardens and
farms. We froze vegetables such
as Okra, beans, greens, carrots,
corn, pear, squash, beets, peppers,
pumpkin and other vegetables.
Mrs. Faye Adkins experiment-'
ed with a new vegetable broc
coli. She reports that frozen broc
coli is very good. She says her
, family likes it very much. We
find that selecting good quality
getables and preparing them
operly before freezing w very
iportant for good results.
We also freeze fruits and
ats. Some of these are —Sasp
rries, strawberries, blackberries,
apples, peaches, -cherries and
ibarb. Meats' are —pork, pork
usage, beef, chicken and fish,
me of our members have frozen
ggs which is very convenient at
. a. time eggs are scarce. They
freeze whole eggs for baking and
eating. They separate some eggs
and freeze them for special re
fines which call for only a part
• the egg.-
We freeze many kind of pas-.
'“•s. Some of which are prepared
nd frozen unbaked. Some are
fed and carefully wrapped. This
very convenient at a n
aexpected time when they are
needed.
Mrs. Fern Whitson prepares
cial diabetic foods for her son
who is a diabetic patient. She
i (Is that preparing and freezing
■se foods saves her time and
is very convenient.
e hope ti) freeze more fruits,
•'tables and meats this year.
We wish to thank Miss June
street, our Home Economics Agent,
for helping us out with our freez
ing problems.
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