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FITE GUARDIAN, CHARLOTTETUWN

THE EDUCATIONAL AVORIZON

\ PNESEQVVTING NEWS AND VIEWS OF INTEREST T0 TEACHERS AND ALL OTHERS SEEKING

IMPROVEMENT IN EDUCATION

CURRICULUM

‘ T)... curriculum is the environ- mmt communicating itself to us ‘my we to them. In its most ~con- mte form it may appear to some , booklet presented to the teacher mm the Board of Education. How- “... it would be well to forget m,” booklets for a time and look biteiiigently at their real meaning.

There are two other words which ﬂaw us somewhat closer to our “m. life and yet mean much the ram-e as the word "curriculum." rm, words are "escperien ' and wnvironment."

To a certain extent the environ- ...u.t_ that is the world around us. i, our lesson. Our surroundings must be natural ones for us to live and learn in. Thus the Prl- Mry pupils must have plenty of coloring books. BIIUQ. 5W» W Dlll’ \\|‘li. Older pupils will need sup-

liCS and equipment of various iiind and libraries and a position (or work in the community.

5.1m. things are the basic funda- mentals for learnlril. Y0!‘ ll- ‘l5 froth thcos things that the PuDii rail: forth learning. They destroy idleness and bring the pupil to action-

Learning is s direct reaction be- 511E811 the learner and his envir- Jiinicni.

ln u well set environment pup- ill go into action. They do things: iliey write. they play music. incl! nake such things as model oi:- rlsncs. These Win85 which m" lo are their experiences, and are iriuaily the curriculum, for in vhlitv the curriculum is what earners do. while they learn. For il-e teacher's own convenience. this my be written about.

Knowing the curriculum is like mgwing your cards in a game of

A JOURNEY TO

we should be very happy if we were actually permitted to travel to all the places about which we have learned in our irially studies. it would be much more interesting to actually sec the people o1 other countries ra- ther than to merely read about them. wouldn't it’! However. none of us have nearly enough money to travel around the world, so let us put our imaginations to ivork mid go on an imaginary trip. l think it would be interest- ing to visit Carlson's Territories, that great stretch of land to the north of us. -

First oi all. let us turn to a map o! Canada. book in the pro- riiite of Manitoba, and there you will find a town. The Pas. The Pas happens to be one of the old- est towns in Manitoba. Let us begin our Journey from here. We shall hoard an early morning train ivhich is going to travel on the ilusdon Bay Railway. 1t is not many yesre since this railway has been built. As we travel farther north, we realdze that the men who built this railway must have had a very difficult job because the country is very level. very poorly drained, and much of it is covered with mirakeg. Such a spongy soil must have been s very poor soil, indeed. on which to build a railway. However, this railroad is of great. benefit to the farmers of the prairies. They are able to send much of their wheat be train to Fort Churchill where it is put on board the ships This route iomort Churchill is a much shorter land route than that to Fort William. the place to which all of the prairie wheat had to be sent to reach a altip before the Hudson Bey Hallway was bulls. It is much cheaper to c good: by ship than by train. T erefore, the prairie farmers are saving much money by means of their new land route.

Finally, we reach Fort Church

bridge. If you know your cards you play them to suit the play. Just so with the curriculum. if the good teacher knows what ex- perience his pupils are grasping for. he can provide it for sacn learner at the right moment. For the timing of curriculum is very important as it is necessary to suit the pupils’ moment of learning so that he may be given what he is grasping for, and grasp what has been given him.

It must be remembe ad that th- place of foaming is just as im- portant as the time of learning The place the learner is in is the definite determiner of learning. Thus one learns of printing news- papers at a printing office.

weaving in a cloth factory. In myl

opinion there is entirely too much teaching done in empty class. 700ml.

Pupils should be taught lo think for themselves. to contribute the improvement of their fellow men. But the teacher will not find this outlined in her curriculum. She will find method outlined but she will not find method itself. She will have to adapt herself to her pupils and they in tum to her. She must remember that what goes into schools will go out liito society. Active and happy schools will productractivc and happy peo- ple. lt is iii this way and this way only that the generation of today will grow up and produce a ‘nappy and cooperative generation of tomorrow, and thereby insure tho peace and prosperity of all ria- tions.

The following was contributed by the teach of the Charlotte- town Urban Local.

ESKIMO LAND

try. Fort. Churchill is situated on the banks of Hudson Bay at the mouth of Churchill River. Here. we see many ‘whaling vessels. If we are lucky we Jilll)’ get passage on one of these vessels to the ter- rltorles in the north. Suppose ave do get passage on a vessel to Chesterfield Inlet. Let us find this inlet on our maps.

Perhaps it. would be interesting to find out something of tli: geography of the new land we are going to visit. The captain or our vessel may be able to tell us something. The captain. we shall imagine. is a friendly fellow who is glad to talk to us. Prom his pocket he takes a asap of tht North West Territories. and be- gins by telling us that the tcrrl~ tor-lee. are divided into three pro- visional districts. On the map we see that the largest of these dis- tricts is MacKenzie which extends from the Yukon boundary to the meridian of 108 degrees west. We also see that Keewatin includes all the mainland from the merid- ian of m degrees to Hudson Bay. Since all of the mainland is oc- cupied with! these districts. ws conclude that Franklin must in- clude the great many islands which we also see on the mag. The captain tells us that the dis- trict oi’ MacKenzie has the larg- est population and the best land- Much of the territory of the other districts consists of barren or tree- lcss plains on which are found vast herds of caribou or musk-ox.

We are nearing our destination now and are anxious to visit e§n Eskimo home. Nearly all of tic population is made up of Eiskr- mos“ When we reach an Eskimo

house. which is celled an igloo. w":

find that it is made of lat-gt blocks of snow piled up in the shape of a dome. To enter the house we must pass through a io-v hall which leads to the living room. the floor of which is nrudc of snow, but it is covered with

iii after travelling a long distance through forest and barren coun-

rugs or furs, so that the people may sit or lie in comfort. The

‘igloo has only one window. a .1130. clear block'of ice. Above jthe window is a hole for ventila- ltion. Light and heat are supplied to the igloo by means o! a seal ‘toil lamp. i Our Eskimo friends are very friendly and they invite us to stay for a meal. The lady of the house has Just finished ' boiling some seal meat. When she takes the meat out of the pot, she pours into it a bowl of cold seal blood. which. when boiled is used for soup. To each of us is given a piece of the meat. I imagine we should refuse to take‘ the soup. ‘Thetlilskimos tell us that they eat reindeer meat. whale meat. and walrus meat. Sometimes they dont ‘even bother to cook their meat ‘before eating it.

After finishing our meal, let. us ‘suppose that one of our Eskimo ‘friends tells us how they hunt the seal. The seal lives beneath the thicl: snow which covers the ice All winter the seal keeps a hole in the ice large enough to slip through if he hears an enemy ap- proaching. The Eskimo and his dog go hunting together. The dog smells the seal and brings his master to it. When the seal hears the footsteps coming near. br. dives. The hunter strikes his long harpoon through the snow until hc finds just where the hole is. Then he waits for the seal to re- turn. Sometimes he has to wait for hours. When the seal does come back he finds his doorway frozen over. He breathes on it in melt the ice. When the Eskimo hears the seal breathe, lic strikes his harpoon through the ice ano i kills the seal.

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Ellen ’s Diary

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had "a plcnty of feed" in the barns, with prospects of “some Foil; over." I I I

But our farmers. hauling the. threshing gear from Autumn stor- age at the other farm. thrashed this week. though only in the af- ternoons the shoring taking up their mornings to the exclusion of all else. So that if lofts had been baring distressingly, again they are full. Jamie himself told me s- bout this. “We had to put the last length of pipe on the straw bloivcr. and that" he laughed ."sli.~ulti fill lrcr to the roof." Jamie. took a brief spell at handing sheaves to Rob at the feeding. and which one was more pleased with the success of the endeavour, James or his namesake, I could not de- icrmliic.

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Certainly Jamie was puffing from his exertion when red-checked and eyes sparkling he came indoors. "Whew!" he gasped sinking down in the old armchair. "I‘m pretty nearly played out. I've been wok- ing hard. handing sheaves. Daddy said to keep them coming -—vhei1 grarfdaddy was "away to the house I picked out. the easy-to-get ones and kept her going ‘till he camc back." Jamie had a second trying mission in connection with the threshing. that of getting grand- daughters favorite cats. sway from the house across the lane and lo the granary where until then fair game was being sadly

uvastcd. "Big mice and young one."

Jamie reported. adding "I wondtr lVlllCll they like better?" I i O

One day of this week. saw Mrs. B. good neighbor to Rolfe and ah of llS. go iii the Doctor! siiowmo bile. a merciful --and magical ma- chine to hospital. And their "all on a market clay” Mr. B. wi.h spirit undaunted by adversities yet

While visiting the Eskimo home we notice that the children are not obedient‘ to their parents. The parents do not even try to make their children obey them. Let us’ ask our cap-tails uhy the children act in this way. On our returr. trip the captain tells us that the Eskimos have a strange belief that wh n a person dies, his soul

lwaits outside the dead body unti‘. a baby is born. The soul then en- ters the baby and takes care of the child until he reaches the age of DWCIVCyBO the Eskimo parents dc not think it necessary to train their children until they reach the age of twelve.

Now, all of our exploring or nearly all has been done at night because the Eskimos have daylight only for a couple of hours at noon each day during this season l... the year. Some day we shall find out why the Eskimos have .such a short day. We shall learn jmore about our Eskimo friends o! ‘another imaginary trip. Did 5'0»: enjoy your trip today?

Each of your will now take a notebook which you will use as your diary and write a record o. our trip. Perhaps some ruemko: of our class will be able to find out for us the journey we shoulu take in going from our homes v‘- The Pas. the town at which our journey b88811-

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with heart a bit heavy away along the fields to town with his fat hogs. A paircf them. James ant. Mr. C. mention them now. "They were both selects“ James says "funny thing too", he continues "but every one of that litter grad- ed ‘first’ ". Mrs. B .in new and e» tremely strange quarters to her. is reported to be "resting comfort- ably" tlicrc. She was nevcr om: who wished to go far from her cozy home. To a neighbor's per- haps; to the adjacent community or odd times on a shopping ‘.r'p to the city. At her duties, she brought grace and interest to the most humble task. Our kitchen la crowded this ivc-ek. sincc the old hooking frames, idle for years were brought from an upstair clos- et. James clings to the notion that the craft is ainroiig Sataiils iiivcn

lions. so fascinating it is io feini

iiinity, and tlicsc days. he goc. about with rt lung-suffering air that would clrznv iaity‘ from any heari. Pat came on lantern-ht steps one evening to make excuse" for me ~aiid tvomcii-kiiid in gen- cral over tucks ircglcctcd. "The two are in the wurlcl together. the man and the women, the one to help the other -or that's the way l see it" and "none is perfect -nor meant to be." However Pat says one should remember "to pray to the Good Man above" the same One who numbers the sparrow- birds . . . and the wayfurers , . . and they who are ill or troubred . or lonely for "iii His hand arc the deep places“ and "the strength

of ‘my hills‘ ". Until Monday -- Diary —G0ud- night.

resulted at... steam; “mission recently tum- Mtar my is "the that... ailerons oeiuauuioa will be the government of

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pea-numbness:

nibble‘ mam to Jewish charges that Palestine.

_ Britain‘: high conanissloner Sir Alan Cunningham, is re-

aunts that my set ported to nave est the machinery in motion for British withdrawal frotn

and rescue workers the Holy Lend and be has announced he would assume special pots-era "Nita" (bye from March t '

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Halifax h... President 0f Dominion Burlers

CALGARY. March 8 — iOP) _. Prof. Murray Macneill of Halifax, first winner of the Canadian curl- ing churspionship in 1927, today was elected president of the Do- minion Curling Association at the annual meeting of the organization.

Delegates promised their full support for high school curling and ntaclg preliminary plans for holding a dominion curling championship for students next season. A West- ern Canada serles was held at Wiri- nipeg this year with rinks from the four Western Provinces. Ont- ario and Quebec competing,

Retiring president. Hon. Colin A. Campbell of Sault Ste. Marie. Ont... reported that i’! curling as- sociations were munbers of the Dominion body. The associations comprise 902 clubs and have a membership of 51,514 curlers. He reported that some 8,61’! student curlers were looking to the Domin- ion Association for assistance and guidance.

Mr. Campbell also reported 4O Scottish curlers would visit Canada in January. 1949.

The Northwest Territories Curl- ing Association was admitted to membership and Senator John T. l-laig of Winnipeg also gave a re- port on the Dominion organiza- tion's activities durini 1M7.

The following officers were elect-

ed:

Colin A. Campbell, Sault Ste. Marie. honorary president; Prof. Murray MacNeiIl. Halifax. presid- ent; Gordon Hudson, Winnipeg. ‘ii-st vicepresident; FJ. Lucas. Toronto. second vice-president: 15.1’. Atkinson. ‘Toronto. honcrary secretary: R-Ii. weymui. Quebec City, honorary life member; Rev. J‘.D_ Fitzpatrick, Toronto, chap- lain '

The executive appointed includ- ed:

New Brunswick-HI‘. Rankime. lalnt John.

Nova Bcotia —— P.A. Curry. l-ial- lfaX

Prince Edward Island _-- LB. McMillan, Charlottetown. Newfoundland - 11.0. Leding-

ham. Si. John's.

BRISTOL. hrgiand - (OP) __ Britain will buy 46.000000 pounds of tobacco from Southern Rhodesia in each of the next five years. In X90 nearly 20 per cent of tobacco

sold in Britain will come from that terri

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