Hamilton 3 may be a small eight room school, but we try to utilize every inch of it in our efforts toward interesting, meaningful education for all of our children. We can boast of many unusual reading incentives. Room 103 has a lovely, green, fully carpeted and pillowed reading bathtub which the children love so much that now they have another “reading hideaway” in production. Very shortly the room will have a reading house made from a giant cardboard box. The children will paint and decorate this house for silent reading.
January was named “Read a Book Month” at the school. Everyone signed a bulletin board display titled “I resolve to read a book.”
Learning is always more fun when the students are actively involved and Room 204 is actively studying Hawaii. Not only have they read about this most interesting state, but they have enjoyed making leis and hosting a luau with such treats as coconut cookies and pineapple juice. (We’re glad someone is thinking warm during these cold winter days!)
Room 203 is beginning a special historical study of St. Louis brought to them by CEMEREL in cooperation with the Missouri Historical Society. They anxiously awaited the trunkload of artifacts and field trips to the museum. This was a special experimental curriculum of which one of our parents, Mrs. Pat Krippner, informed us. We are the only St. Louis City school participating.
We have a new teacher in Room 201, but we are happy to welcome her back. Mrs. Cardwell apprenticed with us last spring and immediately began doing a fine job in her new classroom.
Original photograph caption
A Hamilton Branch 3 reading corner. Photo by Z. Ratliff. The Paper, February 1978, page 4.
Originally published in The Paper, February 1978.
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Archival transcription note: The printed “CEMEREL” is retained.
Original source: SD_Times1978_02.pdf, printed page(s) 4; PDF page(s) 4.
