South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-01-21
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COQUHLARD SCHOOL.
by Russell Meyers
English.


The 6B grammar class are pTepar-
Ing for their final examination TO be
given this week Their promotion
VIII depend a good Bit If not quite all.
on the marks they receive.
The children In SOON were told
the story OF The Sleeping Beauty"
They liked II very much.
The third grade are dramatiZing
1.-THE Little House in the Wood"
The las were given an oral test IN
grammar on Tuesday afternoon. Each
pupil was expected to tell The parts OF
speech of every word In a verse OF
The 6B grammar class have studied
sentence diagraming and adverbs this
week The diagram work has been
very simple and the pupils all seem
10 have it well In mind.
Reading.
The 6B reading class have read the
Odyssey half through. They have
finished the story OF Penelope's Weav-
ing, Odysseus, the Greek hero, and
Wandered is on his way home to
Ithaca
The IA reading class have labored
heroically to finish Legend of Sleepy
Hollow" and we believe we shall
finally succeed. A final test over the
two stories, king OF the Golden
River and Legend Of Sleepy Hol-
low" will be given this week.
The GA reading class have finished
reading "Odysseus PlOughs the Sea-
shore" They are just getting thor
Oughiy Interested in the poem, or
story, in which form we are reading
The ga reading class are also deep
" interested in the Odyssey. They
have followed Odysseus to the beauti-
ful isle where the wicked but beauti-
fu1 Gree keeps him captive for seven
long years.
Literature.
The las are enjoying the story Of
Hans" a little Eskimo boy.
The children IN ! Bare learning the
story Of The Pig Brother"
The second grade is reviewing all
the memory gems it has had since
September.
Spelling.
Mary Stech, Maude Zimmerman.
Hazel Zimmerman and Henry Miller
of the third grade, are competing for
the highest record in spelling for this
quarter. At present all have five
headmarks.
In the 6B spelling test there were
only four who got 100. They were
Mabel Isum, Edward Carpenter,
Frieda Vedder and Esther Thompson.
In Tuesdays regular lessons there
were only four who did not get 100.
They were Russell Meyers, Howard
Love, Marion Lymangrover and
Neva Bradley, Margaret RoesSler,
Herbert Zielke. Genevieve Blodgett,
Harold Zimmerman, Louise Helquist,
julius Boyer, Ada Waechser. Willard
Goehner and Frank Erhardt of the
Ii grade were perfect in spelling
last week.
History.
Lewis and Clark started from Pitts
burgh with one big boat and two lit
tie boats. In the little boats they had
coffee, sugar and other things to eat.
They had other treasures for the In
dams, too. The reason they took
these for the Indians was so that the
Indians would not harm them on
their way.
All the upper grades in English
are reviewing carefully all technical
points. We are finding out what we
do not know as well as what we do
know.
The third grade history lesson this
week was on the Greek myth, Echo
and Narcissus."
The las had their final history
test. He have four more lessons be-
fore we finished Revolutionary war.
Lewis and Clark were two eXplOr-
ers. Mr.. Jefferson was president at
that time. So Lewis and Clark start
ed out TO explore the land. First they
got d boat and sailed down the Ohio
river 10 the Mississippi, then up 70
the Missouri river. There it was very
muddy. They met lots of Indians and
gave them presents. The Indians
were friendly and said If they went
any farther they would be their
guides.
Lewis and Clark started out to ex-
plore the land west OF the Mississippi,
Tor you know that Thomas Jefferson
bought this land from the French.
They started from Pittsburgh. and
took them presents for the Indians
They also took a few horses and %
men in three boats. One boat was
large and the other two were small
They sailed down the Mississippi un-
I'll they came 10 st. Louis. st. Louis
was at that time just a little trading
station. They sailed on until they
came 10 the Missouri river. Some
times they struck a sandbar, then
they used cables.
Arithmetic
The 3As are reviewing the tables
from 2's to 6s this week
In "A arithmetic test the boys and
girls had forgotten how to spell min
uend. suotrahend, division. dividend
and quotient. So the teacher used
them for a spelling lesson.
Miss Vaughn gave the 4A's. 5Bi
and 1A's written tests in arithmetic
this week
The hardest work the Obs had il
arithmetic this year was reducing
complex fractions.
6B's thought their arithmetic ties
would come on Wednesday morning
Miss Burton told Miss Malone that j
they had worked all year as well a.
they had from S.10 20 $3.50 they
would surely be perfect students.
Geography.
The A class studied differen
forms Of government this week
Tribes, kingdoms and republics wer,
studied. The class decided that tn,
republic was the best kind of govern
ment.
The AS had a geography test OF
North America on Wednesday morn
ing
The 5A's have been reviewing tn,
cities OF the Central states. Special
attention was given 10 the lake ports
The 6B's had "a final examination
this morning in geography.
The next study that we have viii