Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-16
Interesting Items Of News
Written For The Press By
El CentrO School Pupils


played two pieces on the piano. Mr.
Scoville gave talk on CLEANLINESS"
and Not To Be Tardy." He told
us a little story and repeated it with
us several times.-Virginia Cosby,
i TAP.
/ Last week during orchestra prac-
: tice We made record After prac-
ticing the piece for time, the mi
crophone was set up and connected
to the record. We were afraid to
i breathe for fear we might ruin the
record. 1t was surely novelty to
hear ourselves play.-Robert Graves,
/ To.
/ The girls of the sewing classes are
making a notebook. In these there
! is to be sample of darning, but
tonholes, sewing on lace, and sewing
on buttons. Besides these there are
written pages of instructions. AT
F., the back of the book is a complete
wardrobe for ourselves.-Phyllis An
/ derson, BAL.
The banking percentage of our
room has increased very much. We
/ had IA bankers last Wednesday
The percentage averaged "a per cent.
Helen Nakagawa, 8B.
/ The art room looks very lovely
now as the new drapeS are hung up.
i They were made by the girls special
art class.-Betty Surface, 8A-2.
In physical education our squad
is doing acrobatics and trying to
improve the distance we can throw
the indoor ball.-Ruby Schultz. 81
For music the pupils are collect
j ing all the pictures on musicians
and all about music they can find.
/ These We are going to put into
music scrap books.-Billy Moody.
/ 8-A-1.
The 8-B pupils having the high
est grades in English this week are:
Mary De Longchamps. Pat Nickel
gan, and Randall Milner.-Naomi
Woodbury.. 8-B.
Strange as it seems. the eighth
grades are taking up the begin
ming of algebra. The first was very
easy. but it is getting harder
Robert Ferris, 8-A-2
Last Friday we mad a Spanish
test. This covered most OF the
work We have had this year. NAL
= colin Mckenzie was the only pupil
/ that received 100 per cent. NAL
| colin has done very good work ali
! year.-Ethel Pearl Cross. 8-A-2.
The girls glee club is learning
Stars of the Summer Night, Were
/ All Pals Together; and our school
i song, in three part. with the uke-
/ lie accompaniment. Elizabeth
i Meyer. 8-A-2.
The boys Of Wilson school are
/ playing football, the rules ,sed arr
! like those in 1890 In other words.
j it is a free for all tight. II was
lots OF fun.-Hall Longacrn. 7-A-2.
We have Just finished STUDYING
about the worlds three greatest
empires, England France and Ger
many, in social studies Our
teacher has drawn the flags Of the
countries on the black board
Roberta Barratt. TAI
The Spanish class is now study
] ing past participles 1t seems verbs
ere the hardest part of any lang
uage. Everyone Is trying hard to
master these yerbs.-Malcolm Nc
/ kenZie. 6-A-2.
| In the IA English classes We
are writing stories for our April
! edition of our magazine This will
be the third magazine we have
published this year.-Mary kath-
ryn Horton. 7-A-2
Mckinley School
Each child that thinks he can
save few cents each week starts
a school bank account Donald
Bell in the kindergarten started a
new account last week. The IA
at Mckinley is quito often the
room with the highest percent OF
children bringing bank money on
/ Wednesday. bank day. Last We'd
nesday the IA had 25 banking
cut OF 35 present. That was our
II per cent banking. Although
any amount from one cent to one
dollar was brought in, tho total
amount banked was s1205 which
makes the average amount nearly
so cents each. Every child bank
ing brings the per cent up conSid-
orably, and every cent banked
brings the average amount up.
The IA class did some very nics
art work this week. They made
some yellow birds, free hand cut
ting. and mounted them on green
/ paper Every member OF the class
made a good bird
Mrs. Edith Smith has been out
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