File:Annual report of the Board of Education of School District Number One in the City and County of Denver, Colorado (1918) (14780265504).jpg

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Title: Annual report of the Board of Education of School District Number One in the City and County of Denver, Colorado
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: School District Number One in the City and County of Denver, Colorado. Board of Education
Subjects: Public schools Public schools
Publisher: Denver, Colo. : Merchants Pub.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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, birth, early ill-ness, and later development. The children come from all sections of the city to the centralstreet railway loop, from which point they are accompanied by ateacher, who returns with them at the end of the day and sees thatthe more helpless ones are safe on their cars. At the school they are taught to bathe, care for their teeth,and cleanse the bath tub after using it. They are also taught to makea bed; to sweep and dust; to launder the towels and doilies; towash dishes and care for the kitchen sink; to set and serve the table;to behave well at the table and to be courteous generally; to use thesewing machine and carpenter tools; to weave rugs, baskets, andbobbin lace; to make small hammocks; and to do some chair caning.Much time is spent in the open where they learn to care for thelawn; to make and cultivate the kitchen garden; to gather and pre-pare the vegetables; to enjoy and protect the flowers; and to lookafter the poultry and rabbits. 214 Sixteenth Annual Report
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Learning Typewriting, Meeker School They are taught to spell and read through the use of the type-writer at which they spend hours, working alone and spelling aloudthe lists of rhymed words from which their primer is constructed.They learn to write by tracing script letters cut from emery cloth.The foundation of their number work is games with domino anddice, the clock, the calendar, various car numbers, street addresses,and the money paid to them for the work about the school. This school has been in existence for ten years, the first eightyears being spent in the shelter of the Corona School, where it wasknown as the Corona School for Exceptional Children. Its aimhas been to develop mentally as well as to train physically and thusto fit the child for a life of usefulness. It has met with such markedsuccess that many of its former pupils are now self-supporting anda credit to the community that gave them their chance. Lydia G. Meeker, Principal. Denver Public Schools 215 (OOt(Dg 3UIU

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