Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-24
PUPILS CHRISTMAS EXERCISES.
Trees, Entertainments and Gift-Ex. changing Provides Pleasure in the Schools.

SCnOClS.
 All the schools of the town will close this afternoon for the holiday vacation, resuming sessions Monday. January third Many of the schools held ex- ercises Thursday. and the others will hold their Christmas festivities today. The Natchaug programme, which has already been published, was begun on Thursday, and will be concluded to- day.
 ParoehiaI Schools.
 At St. Joseph's and St. Mary's paro- chial schools special exercises were held Thursday, with a tree for the smalled grades. and gifts, recitations and music.
 At the Oaks.
 At the Oaks school, grades 4, 5. and had Mothers afternoon Thursday, morning there viii be a Christmas tree, with the distribution of gifts.
 Windham Street School.
 The upper grades of the windham Street school held Christmas exer- Cises in the Normal school Thurs day afternoon. The 5th, 9th, 7th and Sth grades had prepared a programme to which the parents were invited. A large number improved the Oportuni- " SA neal HIS lIlt ClllluEtH SHE ana recite. It was all well done. Per- haps the most enjoyable part to the children was the distribution of gifts at the end of the exercises. Every child had brought something for one other child and the exchange brought ou- the greatest interest and amuse- ment. The programme follows:
 Carol, Little Town of Bethlehem school; recitation, Lowel's Christmas Carol, Lcma Fullerton. grade 5; carol, Good King Wenecslas, grade 5: read ing, Some Birds Are Taught to Fly, Wiggin, Helen HerriCk, grade s: carol, Christmas Hymn. grade 6fi recitation, Ring Out Wild Bells, Tennyson, Ralph Gates, grade :; carol, Silent Night grade ,: carol, There Dwelt in Old Judea. grades : and S; A Christmas Story, Miss Quinn; carol. Draw Nigh tion of gifts; carol, Adeste .F'ideles, school
 Kindergarten Exercises.
 The kindergarten will hold exercises in their rooms in celebration of Christmas today. The children will have a tree which they have prepared. The programme follows:
 Morning Greetings: Dancing and Rhtyrns: Telling the Story of the First Christmas by the children with the help of pictures: songs and a story: Santa's Toy Shop, illustrated; tree prepared by children and distribution of gifts which they have made.
 Windham Street School.
 The first, second. third and fourth grades of the Windham Street school will hold their Christmas exercises in the Normal school this morning. The exercises open with the singing of the carols, and are followed by the play, The Toys Rebellion.
 The programme follows:
 Carols, The Midnight NIasse. grades two, three and four: Once a Little Baby Lay, grades IA and 2B: Manager Lullaby. grades three and four; We Three Kings of Orient Are, three boys and chorus, grade four: O Little Town of Bethlehem, grades one and two; Tfs Christmas Day, grades one, two, threC and four; Toys Rebellion; Night Before Christmas. Kris Kringle's Workshop, charactGS Kris Kringle, Joslph Pano. The Toys: MT. Noah, Kenneth Tripp; Tin Soldier Alan Burr: Sailor. Clarence Redman; Jump ing Jack, ThurstOn Brown; Diana, Gertrude Smith; French Dols. Doris Kelley, Grace Lowman: Wax Doll Margaret Persons: Rag Doll, Eleanor stanley Walking Doll, Mildred More: Schap Book Fairy, Ruth Pollard. Children: Josephine Atwood Eliza beth Case, Mildred Johnson, Doris Moves, Rer$a O'Brien, Gladys Rood, Celeste Roy. Agnes Speciale, Harry Brown. Jake Professionalism, Russell, Noys Christopher Case, Robert Caro- cari. Kendall Fullerton, Theo Perkins, Willard Olds.