The Redwood gazette., 1935-11-28
SCHOOL NOTES

Book Week was celebrated in
the schools with appropriate pro-
jects developed and programs pre-
sented in the grades and junior
high school. In Miss Johnson's
fourth grade a program was Civ
en- to which various grades were
invited and it was also presented
in the junior high school. Well
known characters from familiar
books were dramatized, among
them being, Pied Piper of Hame-
lin, Josepha in Spain, Ume San in
Japan, Sigurd, the Noble Knight,
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry
Finn, Ali Baba and the Forty
Thieves and Sleeping Beauty and
the Prince. A short demonstra-
tion on how to care for books was
included.
In Miss Tronson's room the
children learned how to be friends
to their books by caring for them
properly. 1t was discovered that
it was fun to read during leisure
hours, and a Library Reading
chart was kept and each child had
a library table. Beryl Radtke in
the fifth grade and Vera Wolver-
ton, fourth grader read the lar
gest number of books in their re-
spective classes.
Miss Hopes class spent some
time at the library where Miss
Holland read them about "Snip,
Snap and Snur" and "Who Ate the
Dollie's Thanksgiving Dinner.
Booklets were also made of all the
stories read this year.
Miss Vittum and Miss Holm
gren had charge of Book week in
the junior high school and every
person had a project. Posters and
newspapers were made, there were
soap carvings and exhibits of hob
bies and good books were display
ed. In Miss Vittum's room, the
old woman who lived in the shoe
was washing while her children
were reading books. Dolls brought
by different girls in the seventh
and eighth grades were the chill
dren and the mother.
In connection with Thanksgiv-
ing, the third grade has just
completed an extensive study of
the American Indian. Each child
helped to make a Navajo rug as a
class project and booklets were
constructed and displayed.
Attempting original compost
tions for the first time, the second
graders have completed interest
ing Pilgrim stories. The contents
of Thanksgiving baskets in Miss
Hopes room are part of the
training in good health and proper
foods.
The junior high school merit for
the week is "a thankful heart is
not only the greatest virtue, but
is the parent of all other virtues" F"
In art, the second grade is max
ing large books to preserve the
best drawings of the year. The
Fourth and Fifth grades have
been making pictures of monoch-
romatic harmony and the scenes
showing tints and shades OF one
color were quite successful. In
Miss Jacobson's room, the children
are making a frieze "The Pill
grim's Going To Church" in which
cut out figures are used.
Recent programs included an as
sembly in the junior high school
with Rev. G. E. Martin using as
the subject for his talk Education
and The Good Life" To explain
what it is to be good Mr.. Martin
used the Scout Laws saying that
trustworthiness, helpfulness, 10y
atty, friendliness, courtesy, kind
ness, obedience, cheerfulness,
thrift and generosity, bravery,
cleanliness and reverence separ-
ately or in combination produce a
good person. In closing he said
that good health, good minds and
good character were necessary Tor
good lives.
The Christmas Seal play, using
twenty five junior high school peo-
pie under the direction of Miss
Daisy Vittum, was given for the
grades and junior high school at
an assembly in the auditorium,
Tuesday, November 10. The play
has been very successfully given
three times.
Besides the radio contest in
tubercular prevention, which is
explained in another section OF
the paper, the Minnesota Public
Health association offers a shop
drill to the high school which as
school has the best project in
education against tuberculosis.
Arrangements are being made for
Lois Anderson, winner in the ra-
dio contest, to give her talk at
several assembly programs, before
women's organizations and to
have it published and explained in
the weekly newspapers.
The annual boys and girls club