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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. School News Howard School We have teen discussing and comparing seeds in Mrs. Dorothy Arney's first grade class. We made shadow boxes with weed seeds to decorate the border above the black boards. We are making fold ers to help keep our desks more orderly. Today we will make little walnut-shell Santa Marias to celebrate Columbus Day. Valerie Kruggel is away on trip this week. She plans to 6end us a post card. ing this six weeks. We can write from one to a hundred and know our combinations up to eight. Everyone in our room is a fire marshal." We have a red hat and a badge. Mrs. Margaret Mann's secre tary, Cathy Berritt transferred from Mrs.' Margaret Mann's second grade class to Jeffer son school. We are learning about the Monarch butterfly. We found out that it migrates south just like the birds. It has four stages in its life cycle: the egg, caterpillar, pupa or chry salis and the butterfly. The Monarch lays her eggs after she flies back north in the summer. After this she dies Butterflies have scales like fish. We saw a film and read two books about the Monarch We have two new pupils in Miss Klocker's first grade class. They are Ronnie Hop per and Dale Peerce. In science, we studied about fire prevention. Many of us became Junior Fire Marshals. To qualify, we had to make a home inspection with the helo of our parents. We had to bring a signed report id our teacher. Then we received a badge and a fireman's hat. i On Columbus Day we heard the story about Columbus and we made little boats with sails. ' On Friday students in Mrs. Ana McDaniel's second grade class made paper sack pup pets. There are owls, tigers, cats, dogs, cowboys and rab bits on our bulletin boards. We will make up plays for the puppets next week. In phonics we have been working on the short sound of the vowels. We played many games with these sounds. We will work on them all year We are getting ready for our six weeks arithmetic test. We have done a lot of review- In Mrs. Audrey Berry's third grade class we made three dimensional pictures for Columbus Day. We have read and discussed several stories about Columbus and feel that we have learned much about him. We have been discussing money in our arithmetic class. Curt Charley brought a collec tion of money from other countries. There were some old coins from our country that look different from those of today. In social studies we have been discussing buildings. Judy Bohannon brought a set of blueprints for us to look at. We are all trying to become Junior Fire Marshals in Mrs. Huldah Fisher's third grade class. We are asking our par ents to inspect our homes with us, in order to locate possible fire hazards. We have a bulletin board in our room. It shows Colum bus's three ships and the route he took from Spain when he discovered the new world. We are learning how seeds travel and have lots of sam ples' in our room. We have learned that some seeds are carried by the wind, some by water, and some are sticky and travel on people or an imals. ' . We read about Johnny Ap- pleseed in our social studies and learned a song about him in music, t We have a new girl in Mrs. Flossie Murray's fourth grade class.- She is Donna Pierce, who came from Central Point. Our class president for the month of October is Kathy Frohreich. We are working on a book to, send the children s depart ment of a hospital or a chil dren's hospital. We bring pic tures from home and write stories about the pitcures. We are .making a cover for the booklet, too. In Jack Baily's sixth grade class, we have a new student If. r "21 QUITS GSA POST - Harold J. (Butch) Powers, former Re publican lieutenant governor of California, says he has quit as deputy administrator for the General Services Adminis tration to campaign in Cali fornia for the Nixon-Lodge ticket. He says he will return to his Modoc county ranch after the election. (UPI Telephoto) Jody Givogri, who came to us from Los Angeles. We have been studying about the acquistion of terri tory west of the Mississippi river. This week we studied about Texas and how it be came part of the "United States, the settling of Utah by the Mormans, and the Cali fornia gold rush. In our reading classes, in the fifth and sixth grades, we learned "Bravery by Ed- mond Vance Cook and "In Flanders Field" by Lt; Colonel John D. McCrae. We have had oral and written book reports, In Mrs. Nita Birdseye'S fifth grade class, Linda Wolfe, Kaye Porter, Mary Wong, Ra- mona Bielby, and Tom Moser have chosen to sing at the Music Teacher's conference to be held at Hedrick Junior High school, Nov. 11. They will practice on Saturdays with students from other Med ford schools. Dr. Justin Dyrud will direct the group. The students from our home room meet weekly with stu dents from Mn Bailey's room for review and a film on so cial studies. We usually do this on Thursdays to review for our test on Friday. Penmanship folders to hold papers which we select each week from our daily work, are nearly completed. These will help us to see If our Denmanship is improving fast enough so that by the end of the year we may earn our Writing Certificates from Zaner-Ploser. We are hoping to earn them in the fifth grade, so that next year, we may be exempt from penman ship. . Two boys in Ronald Quack- enbush's sixth grade room have been nursing bruises, sprains and broken bones. They are Tommy Moser and Gene Head. Tommy broke a finger while playing football at home, and Gene was on crutches for a few days be cause of a badly sprained ankle. Mary Wong was selected as one of Howard's yell queens and Cherolyn Vosika is on the yell squad. We have some "Astronaut" food in our room. They are little bugs (crustacean) that multiply rapidly. - They are commonly called water-fleas. Men may use them for food while on space flights. In science, our class is studying sound. Some have made musical instuments to produce sound. Our room mothers this year are Mrs. Gary Poole, and Mrs. Elmer Dewees. Jacksonville School Mrs. Lilv Robisnn's first grade room has made a squir rel ouuetin board-a tree fill ed and surrounded by squir rels, leaves and nuts Thn stu dents have been bringing in prized stones, seeds and leaves lor their science. Big News! OrSortaeckf Here's ffie fast word in togetherness... candy V ice cream in a bar. The candy real HEATH TOFFEE... is in the ice cream, with crunch chunks in the milk chocolate, too! (HEATH chocolate, of course.) What a combination! You'll love 'em! (Don't forget the family.) The only ict cream bar wrffi ganulna HEATH EngliA TbfTee and HEATH Chocofafef NEW HEATH CANDY ICE CREAM BARS Atawfocrur Autftorind by LS. HEATH & SONS,INC Robinson, HlinoU Steven Dver is a new stn. dent in Mrs. Marilyn Blom quist's first grade. Judy Rob ertson brought a Monarch Chrysalis to school and Bill Lroraon Drought a caterpillar that has changed into a chrysalis. Mrs. Rebecca Lnnff's sprnnri erade class has been studvlnir how seeds are scattered and how to identify leaves of fa miliar trees. The students also watched two Mnnarrh VinHoi-. flies develop from two chrys alises, mis week we studied about fire nreventi nn nnrl about Columbus. The three new students In Mrs. Long's room are Shelly Tomnkins. Phvllis Snnw. anri uimora Hoiaen. Steven Cosier is a new stu dent in Mrs. Sally Widmer's second grade class. He came from Jackson school. We are studying community helpers in social studies and'plants in science. Mrs. Maude Hardy's third grade class has four new stu dents. They are Cathy Bower, David Durfee, Joe McElroy and -Nola Dver. We hnrt a film; "Our Community Help ers- ana we nave Been mak ing Dnsters in ahnw the heln- " ers m our own community. Mrs., Barbara Robinson's third grade class has been en joying the use of the school library. The students tell each other about the books they have read. We also enjoyed the film, "How Seeds Are Scattered." Several students made nice seed collections. The class officers In Mrs. Lucille McKemie's fourth grade class are Glenna Logan, president; Tammy O'Grady, vice president; and Lonnie Milligan, secretary-treasurer. New students in the class are John Bean, Tammy O'Grady, Virginia Neill, and Wynne Perryman. We have made a spacemo bile, using a hula hoop with rockets. In history we are learning about the early ex plorers. Every Friday the class goes to the library. We are learning to use the card catalog and how books are placed on the shelves. .Dan Davis, a student In Mrs. Ida Mc Arthur's fourth grade class has just rturned from a trip to Chicago. 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