The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-27
GRADES
kindergarten

kindergarten
In order to be in readiness for Hal
lowe'en, which will soon be here, the
children of the Kindergarten have
been busy this week making black
cats. witches and jack-o-lanterns and
other decorations peculiar to the oc-
casion On Tuesday afternoon the
kindergarten pupils will be seen
dressed in costumes to suit the day,
visiting the other rooms of the
school
This grade is taking up the subject
of Brownies in connection with the
paper cutting and coloring work.
This week fresh sand was placed
on the sand table.
Two new pupils. Mildred Shepard
and Peter Peterson. enrolled in the
kindergarten this week.
First Grade
In the nature study work the chill
dren are studying the caterpillar and
are going to follow it through the
various stages until it becomes a
butterfly.
In art work the first grade pupils
are making simple landscape scenes
in water colors In the clay mod
cling part of this work they are
m,king toy chairs and next week
will begin making set of toy
dishes
The second grade pupils were
guests at a Halloween party given
this week by the first grade. Games
suited to this particular age of child
hood were played and later the
goodies" were brought forth and en-
joyed by all.
Second Grade
The children are busy making
Halloween posters in colors which
will be put upon the blackboards as
soon as they are finished.
The girls of the class defeated the
boys in an exciting word drill held
the latter part of the week.
The task of making go to Bed
posters has been assigned to Frances
and Ruth Bradley. and these posters
will be finished soon.
Third Grade
miss Meecham.)
With the arrival of the new sand
for the sand table. the project OF
"An Eskimo Village" has been
started
Those receiving 100 per cent in
spelling xhis week and entitled to q
place on the honor list are as fol
lows: Dorothy Bake, Wilma Wall
stedt, Winfield Pullen. Juanita Nc
keNe. Verna Hurley, Phyllis Friend,
Alvin Bloomquist. Albert Schramen.
Claire Wernecke. Paul ,Ozawa. Bobby
Henning, Hazel Jensen, Lloyd Peter
son, Robert Simpson. Mary Maxine
Winifred Drake, Malcolm Radell and
Asunta Campetti.
In tlfe number work contest the
beers still hold the lead by wide
margin over the Zebras. The score
now stands: beers q, Zebras II.
The health instruction work is pro
crossing very satisfactorily in this
grade and this week new poster on
the value of drinking milk for CHI
0ren mas DeSu StdTtcu.
Malcolm Radell entered this grad !,
as a new pupil this week and rs
good start on the spelling honor list
speaks well for him.
miss Abrahamson.)
Posters in color of the Ginshanl
Dog have been made and placed on
the wall. This work was done ii;
connection with tk reading and
study of the story, "The Giaaham
Dog and the Calico Cat"
In art work cart has been made
and also several water colorilcs be-
gun. A new sand table project will
be started the first Of next week.
Fourth Grade
The new snow on the mountains
Tuesday morning was used by t5e
teacher as a practical examination
OF the fact that the temperature is
lower at higher attitudes.
In history the VOYAGES OF Ba- hoa
and Magellan have been the subject
this week.
In health instruction work book
lets on "The Care Of the Teeth have
been finished. Specially designed
covers in water color have been add
ed and give the booklets very at
tractive appearance.
Fifth Grade
The arithmetic relay races which
were held this week proved success
full for the girls. they having won
TWO out OF. three contests held.
In spelling the pupils have com
resRcA me work On the 100 demons