Milford chronicle., 1930-01-24

The third grade is making a drive
for better spelling. Each child is keep
ing an individual spelling graph. inns
is to encourage them to excel thell
own record rather than the record o. o.
another child. In third grade Language
the graphs are called Spelling PIC
lures" and were made by the children
This class has also invented trouble
Book" for troublesome spelllng WoruS
Each child keeps a record in this pooE
of the words that are especially marc
for him or her.
Small chairs for class use have beer
made by third grade pupils at the rem
Die. Each pupil is making his owI
chair for use in recitation. They are
made from orange crates and present
a very pleasing appearance when colll- cof
pleted. They are fine, lndeed' IoI
class use. Carl Scarborough mas peeH
chosen president of our Delaware Arr
ed. Ali pupils of third grade are mem
bers of the Art Club. The cutting OF
letters and designs for Safety Booklets
has been the art work for this month.
Everyone, too, is interested IN the
drawing of an automobile.
The two sections of the fourth grade
are beginning an airplane race IN spel-
ling. Each room has an airplane ana
every time everyone in one room mas
lOO IN Speuln6s lAAaN AOCAH
airplane moved by one letter IN tne
words-1OO Per Cent. Miss Carters sec
fion II in reading dramatized a story
for Miss Markert's class on FRIDAY. 1ne
bows in Miss Markert's room are MAX
ing a shelf on which to place Geogra-
ply reference books.
One day this past week Mrs. Blaoes
ffth grade English classes had a prac-
tical lesson in letter writing. Ihey
wrote letters to the PresloehIt panil anu
and Trust Company of Milford thank
Ing them for the beautiful historical
calendar and the very usetul copy Ot
''Washington's Farewell Address" tnat
was sent to the grades this year. Inc
hank has been presenting the grades
with these calendars for the past three
years These have been greatly appre-
ciated by the fifth grade and TO snow
their appreciation the best letter from
each section was sent to the presldent
of the bank The Shrine OF Beauty Ior
this month. in Mrs. Blades section OF
the fifth grade is quite different from
anything they have had before. IL Is
a souvenir from Cape May New Jer-
sey, brought by Norman Bennett.
form of horse shoe containing specl-
mems of sea plants with an odd frame
of sea shells. The souvenir is in the
form of a horse shoe and was brought
from Cape May thirty-five years ago.
The shrine of beauty in Miss Wat
sons room for this month is a display
of a group of antiques. This group con-
sists of an old fashioned English tea
Dot brought by Myrtle Farrow, an old
fashioned homemade butterfly tray
brought by Margaret Hammond, very
old Japanese vase, and most interest
ing of all is a small basket brought Dy
Margaret Deputy, which was made IN
Massachusetts from tiny pine PuTTs S,T
Jred Years ago Miss Watson's fifth
grade geography classes this month month
have begun an art project in correia-
tion with the geography reviews on m
dustries and products Of the United
States. This project is the making OF
a large wall map of our country meas
uring IA feet by ga feet. This is
free hand work and is being worked
out after the following plan. The large
wall map hanging in their room mas
been divided into % squares. measuring
II inches by inches. Two pupils were
assigned a square and they reproduc-
ed BY measurements a drawing OF the