The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-12-29
Oak Grove School Dist. I35.

A<oAIOA arthur 1TOn6SS.
Teacher-Ellen Ecklund.
Our third month of school ended
on December %. Those having per-
feet attendance for this month are:
Arthur Troness, Arthur EckIund.
Arnold Blank and Jerome Ecklund.
Our motto for this month was:
When you've work to do,
Do it with a will;
They who reach the top
Must first climb the hill.
The primary grades have been
studying wool. During it's study,
they made two posters; one to il
lustrate the first step in the man
ufacture of wooden clothes, this is
a shepherd herding a flock of sheep.
The other poster illustrates all the
different stages wool goes through
until it is ready to wear.
The third and fourth language
classes made booklets illustrating
the twelve months by a free hand
picture, and poem for each month.
The sixth grades have now COM
pleted their booklets on Europe;
the seventh and eighth grades on
U. S. and the outlying possessions
of the U. s.
The second grade reading class
received a new Laidlow reader last
week. The first grade has monkeys
climbing in the schoolroom, provid-
ing their seatwork is neatly DONE
All of the grades have been work
ing hard for spelling, and as a re-
suit, all of the cars are now trav-
cling on the paved road.
The sixth, seventh and eighth
grades are racing around a history
diamond, moving one-fourth of the
distance to, a base each day they
have a perfect history lesson. The
sixth grade is ahead at present.
We have a chart above our Ii
brary, including the books to be
read by the upper grades. For
each book read and reported that
persons name and the book read.
Most of the pupils have read more
than half of the books required
this term.
The Pribble-McCrory language
tests were given to the pupils dur
ing the month of November, to see
which language points we are weak
in and will have to work hard on
us. Some of us were above the
grade median and some below, but
as rule we all did quite well. We
will have two more tests during the
term, and see what improvements
have been made.
" We have been taking some les
sons in letter cutting, and have
glued our letters in our loose leaf
notebooks for future reference.
The eighth grade have finished
the study of "Snowbound," by Whit
tier. They made drawings to Illus
trate some scenes of the poem.
The Sixth grade have completed
the study of Irving's Legend of
Sleepy Hollow" They also made
drawings to illustrate parts of the
story.
We worked hard just before
Christmas to sell Christmas seals.
We succeeded in selling enough
seals to amount to three dollars and
seventy-nine cents ($3.79). For our
premium we are receiving a play
ground bat.
We made many decorations for
our room this month, each of
course, illustrating some part of
Christmas.
The intermediate and upper
grade children made calendars for
the New Year, designing their own
pictures and outlines.
We entertained our mothers with
a short program last Friday af-
ternoon. After the program, Santa
Claus paid us a visit. Each of us
received several gifts and bags of
candy, nuts, apples and popcorn
balls. After Friday our school
closed for a three weeks Christ
mas vacation.
We wish you all a happy and
prosperous New Year.