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Show REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. 415 well conducted, teaching the girls cooking and general household work receiving special attention. The irrigation system has been improved and extended, and the gardener, with the assistance of the boys, raised large quantities of vegetables. A local institute wast held here in September. Day school No. $7.-The teacher is a full-blood Sioux, a graduate of a Government school, and is one of the best teachers on the reser-vation. He had a pupil teacher at the sand table giving the small children constant drill in the use of English words, while he was giving the larger pupils ractical instruction in buying, selling, weighing, measuring, etc. R e brought a class of full-blood Indlan children to the institute and gave an excellent demonstration lesson for the benefit of the teachers. Day school No. .&-The housekeeper was giving practical in-struction in cooking and sewing. She had the Ingenuity to use the Government dress material in an artistic manner, and the girls seemed proud of their clothing. The children were carefully looked after, and everything about the school was immaculately cfean. Day school No. g5.-The teacher is an enthusiastic agriculturis,t, and the 'extensive garden cultivated this year demonstrated hls ability in this work. This is one of the best located schools in the reservation and surrounded by good agricultural !and. Day school No. 5.-The teacher conducts a miniature store in the class room to give pupils a knowledge of business methods. An Indian boy acts as storekeeper, and pupils are required to make purchases at current prices, and are taught to observe whether or not their weights are correct. They are also taught the value of garden products raised, Government supplies issued, etc. The children read remarkably well and did rapidly more advanced prac-tical arithmetic work than I have seen in many of the large boarding schools. Day school No. 11.-The teacher had been in the service but a short time, and he was urged to study the methods of several teachers on the reservation who were doing remarkably good work, to familiarize himself with the literature sent out from the Office relative to teaching Indian children to speak English, and to attend the sectional teachers' meetin s Several years ago the day-school inspector adopted the plan of having, three or four teachers meet at some one of the schools once or twice a month. A teacher who was unusually successful in teaching arithmetic would demonstrate his methods, another would show how he taught reading, and so on; This plan is especially helpful to new teachers. Day school No. 10.-The housekeeper, not bein ah ampered by the care of a family of her own, was able to give care 1 attention to the lndian children and tanght cookin and sewing unusually well. The cleanliness of the school was remar % able. Day sdilaol .Vo. 9.-The buildings were in excellent condition; the class-room methods were practical; the children were ambitions, and the day-school inspector stated that marked improvement had been made here in the last two years. The housekeeper did not have any small children of her own to look after, and her work was unusually good. Day school No. $6.-The school was in charge of a temporary teacher and housekeeper, and they were doing excellent work. With |