Originally published in The Vidette-Messenger of Porter County on November 12, 1955.
Pupils Show Varied Forms Of Education
By ROLLIE BERNHART
Many of the grades throughout the schools in Valparaiso were actively engaged this week in producing some form of pictorial instruction in conformance with National Education Week which officially closed today.
During the week of observance of the national event, which opened on Nov. 6, classes throughout the schools in the city contributed various types of educational endeavor which aided materially in giving the pupil a better understanding of the subjects.
During the current week, The Vidette-Messenger published photos of several of these activities which graphically depicted pupils in action during actual class instruction.
Photos shown in today’s series are the remainder of contributions of Education Week class instruction as snapped by a V-M photographer.
Bulletin Board Project
In the top photo, second grade pupils at Banta school are shown combining a science lesson, art and social studies in a bulletin board project.
After a study of leaves, the pupils organized into committees to make the fall bulletin board showing a life-sized boy raking leaves. In the photo, left to right, are: Peni Coon, Kenneth Barber and Terry Giesler.
In the second photo, a typical Valparaiso Junior High school scene is shown, placing primary stress on the use of the library for reference purposes.
The number of the students in the library each period ranges up to approximately 100 students. All students, except those who must leave early on the bus, are assigned six periods of 55 minutes each in the library, thereby providing time for work on class preparation, reference, and perusing of various fictional books and magazines to which the library subscribers.
Depict Luther’s Life
In photo three (from top to bottom), members of the fifth and sixth grades at the Immanuel Lutheran school are shown during an act of the play “Life of Martin Luther,” produced by the combined classes for Education Week and Christian Education Week. The play was shown to parents and teachers of the LaPorte avenue school Thursday.
Characters in the play as shown in the photo are: Jackie Peck, Jeannette Binder, Linda Rechlin, Bruce Martin, seated right; and Norman Dygert, center, as Luther.
At the Central school fourth grade, photo four shows three pupils using their word attack skills (phonics) in their geography lesson. Together with the use of the vowel sounds, they are able to learn the use of the vowel marks. Left to right in photo are: Jimmy Shinabarger, Kay Nielsen and Lois Flesner.
At Northview, the sixth grade instructor Mel Crisman, employed the use of clay to depict the country of Egypt as a history lesson. The girls shown examining the clay exhibit in the bottom photo are Sarah Brown and Judy Jones.
It was found that both teachers and pupils in the schools visited during Education Week exhibited considerable enthusiasm and unusual thought in presenting their instructional projects.
