File:Annual report of the Board of Education of School District Number One in the City and County of Denver, Colorado (1918) (14802464373).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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dows changed and enlarged, whichgreatly improve the lighting facilities; and a new heating plant in-stalled. In addition to the improvement in the main building, ad-joining property both on the north and south of the building waspurchased for larger playground and the establishment of adomestic-science cottage and a manual-training shop. After the yearsof dingy walls, unsatisfactory heating, dark basement rooms, and theinconvenience and waste of time for the pupils in going to otherbuildings for manual-training and domestic-science work, the changewas greatly appreciated by pupils, teachers, and patrons. The cottage is an attractive four-room building having a fullyequipped kitchen, dining room and sewing room. It has also its in-dividual yard, which the girls of the housekeeping classes take pridein keeping in good order. With help from the boys of the seventhand eighth grades, they made garden and planted flowers. Theyprovided fresh vegetables and flowers for the cottage. The sewing
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Denver Public Schools 117 classes have had, in addition to their regular course, practical workin preparing household linen and curtains for the cottage. Besidethe regular domestic-science classes held for the seventh and eighthgrades, these girls have housekeeping periods three times a week, inwhich they receive actual experience in the daily care of a house.That each girl may develop a spirit of responsibility, daily lunches,at a cost sufficient to pay for the material, are served to a group ofteachers, two girls having charge each week. Every effort has beenmade to have the cottage a home in spirit as well as appearance. While the girls of the seventh and eighth grades are havingtheir housekeeping periods, the boys of those classes, under the direc-tion of the art teacher, have instruction in book making and bindingin the manual-training shop. This work has been of great value tothe boys in the practical experience of construction which it hasgiven them. Departmental work is carrie

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