Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-03-07
EXTRA SCHOOL NOTES

Miss Anderson's pupils are learn.
ing new song.
The II. s. Bookkeeping class is
learning to post accounts.
Most of our absentees are now
back in the primary room.
The physics class is tudying re.
Election and retraction of light.
Frances Heath is new pupil in
Miss Hensley's room this week.
Herman Jensen was enrolled in
Miss McAninch's room Monday.
A test was given in the fifth his.
tory last week. Every paper wae
good.
The ninth algebra class is work.
ing with fractions in all their va.
ried combinations.
Phil Guernsey has completed q
map of South America that is a
creditable piece.of work.
Elda Wheeler was again in her
classes Monday after an absence OF
a few days visiting at home.
Monday the Virgil class was
given written test in that part OF
their work recently completed.
The eighth grade pupils are yet
working on measurements in arlth.
metic and doing some hard work
Some work was done this week on
the old blackboards and desks to
make them more presentable and
usable.
The seventh grade history clase
are now studying the record of the
stormy times just preceding the
Civil War.
The Plane Geomtry class is deal.
ing with proportion and they have
found come work that holds them
pretty level.
Miee Anderson visited at home
in Anita WEE ago Saturday and
reviewed the school exhibit at that
place.
The seventh grade arithmetic pu-
pills are now giving most of their
time in arithmetic to the subject
of Ratio.
Several of the boys of the third
and fourth grades are spending
some of their spare moments weav-
ing rug 3xl12.
At the teachers meeting Tuesday
evening plans were discussed and
partially perfected for the closing
days in all the rooms.
James Rendleman and Arthur
Na1nnv1 ov 1,a
ceptionally quick and correct in
algebraic computations.
Mise McAninch had her boys
working on reed baskets Monday
and the girls on their aprons, al
the regular period for hand work.
Miss Hensley gave her pupile
come new copies in their req ula1
drawing lesson Monday. Some OF
her pupils are exceptionally good
in this work.
An Arithmetic test was given in
the sixth grade. Ethel Hensley
and Dena Nelson received one hun.
dred per cent and only one mark
below ninety.
Lessons on Longfellow were Civ
en- in several of the rooms on Feb.
rnary 9th. Miss Anderson had
her pupils read a lesson selected
from Cyr's Second Reader.
Miss Hensley's room will have
two debates on the program fol
next Friday. Most Of the pupils
take great interest in the literary
work and good program is
expected.
Puma Freeman substituted ir
the intermediate room Friday
afternoon while Miss McAninch
took charge of the Second Gram
mar room in the absence of Miss
Stroebele.
Miss McAninch's pupils appro.
priately arranged and decorated
their room on Washington's birth
day and gave a little program
largely of their own selection
Good spirit and good results were
shown.
Bonnie and May Hunter severed
their connection with our school,
last week owing to the family NOV.
ing to Guthrie Center. Weiregret
very much to lose these pupils as
Ivy "ClC dLAouS oUI mOst agree
able and hardworking students
They intend to enter the Guthrie
Center High School at once.
The arithmetic work in the sew.
eral rooms is proving most salts.
factory this year. The Smith three
book series put in two years age
brings better results than the va.
ried texts used before. lackinor in
system and unity. The arithmetic
course in our schools is exactly the
same as in the great majority Of
the best schools of the state and
we are proud of the good work.
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