Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-07

o, little shellsl o, little shellsl
To me you look like little bells.
You tinkle all the whole day long,
And sing me such a pretty song.
Warren Houghton, 5-3.
EAST SIDE SCHOOL
The kindergarten made a house.
1t is made of boxes. 1t has four
windows 1t is painted brown,
green and white.
Our class has read stories about
the cat. the dog, and the rabbit
Betty Jean Young, Grade l.
I learned to write the word met
today l like to write. Della Her.
nandez, Grade l.
I am learning to read-Arbutus
Dixon, Grade 3.
I am learning to spell.-Rosa
Washington, Grade 3.
I like to sing best of all.-Con-
cha Leyva, Grade 3.
l had 100 in spelling both weeks. /
Villa MCGOWAN, Grade 3.
We drew some pictures of boats.
-Adolfo Valenzuela, Grade 3.
Our class made some pictures of
Indians. Manuel Barragan made
an Indian chief. Raul Lopez
Grade 4.
We have been studying about
dogs and Willie Davis, Cruz, and
Louis brought some pictures of
dogs--Clarice Phelps, Grade 4.
We have a new teacher in our
school. Her name is Miss Comfort.
She teaches the kindergarten. She
came from Los Angeles. I like
her. She is nice teacher.-Ver-
nell Bellamy, Grade 5.
My school has a lawn. 1t grows
very fast. When I came back
from Phoenix, it was pretty and
green-James Dewitt, Grade a.
have a dog. His name is
Skippy. He is a German police
Theodore Wright. Grade 4.
We have been studying about the
Indians. Each pupil has been
working on some problem about
the Indians. Thursday we had
class discussion on the problem.
Some of the reports were very in
teresting. I was very interested
, in the Indians known as the Iro-
quois They were civilized and
could farm. The Indians worship
! ed spirits, gods, the moon, and the
stars.-Quilon Wiley, Grade 8.
The pupils of our school are very
. proud of our nice green lawn. They
are doing all that they can to keep
: it nice. Our safety committee does
great deal to help keep the lawn
, looking nicely. When it is being
, watered the pupils are not allow
, ed to play on it. No hard game
like ball can be played on the
lawn.-Myrl Shaw, Grade 8.
MCKINLEY SCHOOL
, We played Little Miss Muffet to-
: day. We have two new dolls. One
> doll is JOAN We have not named
the baby doll. We have a new boy.
, His name is Leonard.-Grade l.
Miss Eplers third grade class
| has been studying about Columbus.
We are preparing play to be Civ
en- next Friday. We are painting
the scenery for our play. We are
making sails like the ones Colum-
bus ships had.-Grade 3.
: Our third grade will play store.
S Some boys and girls brought emp
s ty butter and egg boxes. We have
paper money. Roy Ohta his toy
, cash register. Viola Cox brought
her little dial telephone. We must
take orders. We must make change.
, We all want to be the storekeeper.
. The boys in our fourth grade are
r making some Wickiups. The girls
are making some acorn mush We
are making Indian pictures and de-
= lsigns.-Anpara Ortiz.
Today the girls made acorn mush.
l First, we cracked the aeorns in a
, mortar with a pestle. We had to
/ grind them a long time with the
| pestle. After the acorns had made
l fine meal, We soaked it, We have
+ to let it soak overnight. We
, worked very hard today.-Marjorie
Cook, Grade 4.
We are studying about Indians
+ because we are interested in them.
' We made Indian wickiups and are
, just about finished. The girls are
{ making acorn mush and Indian
skirts. They will make iewelry lat
, er.-Harry Tsujimoto, Grade 4.
HARDING SCHOOL
We have been studying about
water. We learned how it rains.
We learned how electricity is made,
We are learning about the Hoover
dam.-LeSlie Horton, Abb
Our teacher is reading to us about
gold. We found that gold was un-
der the ground a long time ago.
, Also we learned about coal We
learned that there are three kinds
Ignite, coft; bituminous. medium:
and anthracite, hard-Johnny Pull
lenza, Alb.