Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-11-20
SCHOOL NOTES
Old Town.

Preparation for the coming Of
Thanksgiving is in the air at the
Old Town school. Turkey. pump
kins, pilgrims, fruit and every
thing that reminds one of the sea-
son are in view.
Hot lunches are still proving
successful and popular. Various
menus make up the week and
low charge Of three cents is asked.
The girls II the eighth grade help
prepare the lunches and are hav-
ing real kitchen experience. The
making of good potato soup won
the state championship.
Agriculture class is very inter-
esting this year. Booklets contain
ing essays and pictures of the va
riOus vegetables are being made.
Captain ball is very popular
game on the school grounds. Two
teams are being used and the child
rem enjoy it as well as basketball,
The Walter Camp health records
are being used faithfully in the
second and third grades and are
enjoyed by the children.
The Halloween carnival made
ten dollars, to be Used in the pur-
chase of a piano stool or bench,
much needed at school, as a COM
mon chair is uncomfortable.
The members of the eighth
grade will give a Spanish play on
Friday. November a. at the Old
Town school house, beginning at
o'clock.
The program will consist OF
songs and the play, "Uno de ellos
debe Casarse." The characters are:
Tia Maria .........A Anita Springer
Luisa .Adelina Chacon
Sr, Professor Diego Ruiz .,....
............. Matthew ortiz
Sr. Professor Jean Ruiz .......
................ Fidel Montoya
The play is comical and the
Spanish folks will enjoy a good
laugh in their own language. Miss
Sanchez and Miss Balling are in
charge Of this program.
North Fourth Street School
The North Fourth Street school
now has an enrolment of 433 pu-
pills. Mr. S. j. White has been
added to the faculty, and Is now
teaching the eighth grade.
The enrolment of thu first grade
is 4S. The children in this grade
dTG uOlllS SOlIlS SOOu WOl ~ III SillS
ing. These children had a per-
feet attendance record, last month,
Ella Fajardo, Evelyn French,
Dorothy Burt. Nell Belts, Josefine
Colvin Viviana Carriage, Wilma
Easter, Floye Wycoff, John Davis,
Lynn Moore, Thomas Taylor, Tony
Baca, all members Of the first
grade.
Hot lunch is being served to
ninety children.
Thirteen pupils of the fifth grade
made 100 per cent in spelling last
month. They were, Micah Goret,
Barbara Faris, Sylvia Wader,
Ocariz Griego, Andy Park Billy
Hunter, Henry Cantrell. George
Burlington. Roland Boyer, Joe CAL
legos Mark Moore. Marion Hunt
Lula French.
Several states of the middle-west
are now represented in the eighth
grade by children from the North
'ourth Street Tourist Camps. Their
fresh viewpoint adds considerable
interest to the work Of the class,
particularly in agriculture.
The maps of Europe drawn and
coloreG by the class rival those or
Rand -McNally in accuracy and
coloring. They form an attractive
border for the room.
Enrolment in the eighth grade
is twenty-six pupils. which Is the
largest number for that grade In
the county.
Winstons Cumulative Loose
Leaf Encyclopedia has recently
been added to the school library.
The enrolment Of the seventh
grade totals twenty-six to date. OF
this number nine have had perfect
attendance.
Willie Thiehoff aud Joe Motley
received Els in all their subjects
| for last month.
The meeting of tie Parents and
Teachers Association which was to
have been last Friday has been
postponed until Friday, November
| "a.