Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-12

A Arhor and Bird day in the schools, but in most instances with the distri- button of the catalpa trees by the teachers there was a talk upon the day and the trees given away by the Porteous & Mitchell Go.
 Programmes were carried out in few schools as follows:
 Laurel Hill sckooI.
 The governors proclamation was read, as was also The Value of For- ests, after which this programme was given:
 Readings. TO the First Robin, Miriam Bliss; Tree Planting, Jols4. Blair; Ma sture Songs. reading, The Bluebirds, Arthur Ferguson.
 In the kindergarten the. children told how and where they planted the trees given them.
 West Chelsea Schools.
 As is customary. the schools of the West Chelsea district held special Ar Dor and Bird day exercises. The trees presented by the Porteous & Mitchell Co. were greatly appreciated by the children and many were taken home to be planted in the yard or by the street At the West Thames street school maple tree was replaced pretty exercises being carried out.
 The West Chelsea grammar school was given an afternoon recess during which games and athletic sports were much enjoyed
 Attractive programmes were held in each Of the several grades of the building.
 Nit. Pleasant Street School.
 Grade vII.-Governor's Proclama- ton. George Sanders; The Tree, Edith Swain; He Who Plants a Tree John Shea: song. April school: The Grass, ort1 Trao ar1x,e, Weinstein. song, Wishing, school; Historic Trees Abraham Levine; The Yellow Violet, Lena B1umentha1; song The Shell. school: The yioIets. Ida SadInsky; The Daffodils. Dorothy Raw som song, Welcome Pretty Primrose, school.
 High Street School.
 Grades " and V.-Miss Stanton, Miss Crooks teachers. Governors s Proclamation, John Crinlmins: Origin or Arbor Day and Uses of Trees, z13 pupils from Grade "; singing. May flower, The Bee, Grade ", The Brook and the Wave, school: The Dandelion, Gertrude Harris; The Chickens Mis- take, Grade ": The Little Planter, Joseph Marx; singing, The Brooklet, school; The Snow Bird. Grade V. The Bluebird, Etta Rosenberg; quotations, q pupils; singing. In Boat, Grade lV-; America, school. uQ. Song, Arbor Day school; The Useful Tree Isaac Mapou Arbor Day. John Fogafty: Spring, Sarah Sachner, Anna Cohens Lena Fishman: Answer to a Child's Question, Sarah Stamm Hia- watha and the Birds. Joseph Shea l; song. The Bluebirds. school; Blessings Tor the Tree Planter, Ida Lubcha nsky :: The Robins Song. Florence Emback, Rebecca Wax. Fannie Rosenberg. Ely, Little Birds. Eva Blinderman; Birds Trades, Jacob Segol: The Secret Dora Jennes; Rollicking Robin. Annie Vein stein; The Seed, Madeline Gibson; The Morning Song. Joseph Smith; song, Suppose. school: Birds. Ida Wechsler, Theresa Saunders. Mollie F'eItstein, quotations. four boys. salute to flag. song America. school
 Grade IL-Reading of governor $ pf2clamation; song. Pussy Willow. by school; Arbor day verses for second grade, by Arffy Haddad, Victoria Stranb, Eva Lubschansky, Lizzie F'o- garty. Annie .5eckt. Dorothy O'Connell. Rachel Marshak Florence Nightingale: song, Daffodil, by school: Arbor Day recitation by six boys, Jacob Sachne1, Louis Marx. Jacob, Hertz, Sammie Fiskin, Nathan Wyse,4 Sammie Swatz- berg; song and march, Little Seed, by school; planting seeds. Arbor Day, talk by teacher
 Grade l., Winifred A. Skelly, teach er--Song, The Bluebird. school; song. Pussy Willows, school; reading, The Earth. Ethel Deyoe: song, BIuebird: recitation. April, Sarah Miaftz; reeita- tion, Why We Plant Trees, Josephine Defnonte: song, The Great Brown House. school; recitation. The Brook, school; song. Pussy Willow. song, Mistress. Mary planting seeds. by school.
 Grande 1B.. Elizabeth NJ. Cherry, teacher-Song. Spring is Coming; rec itations. I Wonder, John Mccarthy j; The Bluebird Ida F'iskiT; A Wish, Helena Straub: song, Brother Robin; The Rotsin, Benjamin Sachner; Plant ing d Tree. John Denegan, Mary Moz- rieoach, Isadore Hecht. Irene Buckle. The Meadow Lark, Molly Levinson; song, The Woodpecker; Leaf Buds, Rosa Cohen: concert recitation, Little Bird Blue, school: game, Five Little Chickadees: solo. Pussy Willow, EIean : or Fitzgerald; The Little Birds, Louis Gordon The Woodpecker, Mary Gib- son; song, Song of the Rain.
 West Thames Street School.
 FiGth anG sixth grades-Proclama tion, John Brewer: song, The Blue birds, school: April. Winifred Egan: The Four Winds Albert Bowe; April Song. Leora Beetfam; Birds Music Robert Byrnes; Discontent, Earle Scnlayer; The Scarecrow. Elizabeth NdecI1, QuoAitloES Tor <aipoi i1dy ,-uei ) English Harold Parkharst, Catherine Diffy: song, The Whippoorwill: song. The New Ten Commandments fof Spotless Town, by sixth grade pupils Lucius Lacy. John Clabby, John Brew CT. Winifred Egan. Walter gSussynsh Laurence Collins Ruth Connolly and Samuel Hussay. The Oak, John Glab- by; readings by Irene Malconl. Theron Woodmansea and Lewey Hust; class
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