The Sauk Centre herald., 1936-10-15

tain fine information and are
splendidly illustrated.
One of Miss Swopes English
classes has organized itself into a
better speech club called Coast to
Coast English" Grammatical err
rors made and noticed by a fellow
student are put on paper in the
stumble box" They are later ta-
ken out, discussed In class, and
handed to the person who made the
error.
The business side Of planning a
trip Is occupying the minds of the
business training classes. Reading
time tables Is one of the complica-
tions Of a trip which they are mas
tering. Along the same line they
are studying the old transportation
methods as compared with the
new.
The early history Of Germany is
being taken up by the students of
German. They are taking up noun
case endings, present and past
tense, comparing adjectives, and
normal and inverted word order.
AT THE LIBRARY THIS WEEK
There will be a story hour Satur-
day at the Library.
There are more new books which
will be ready this coming week.
Some Of them are: The Columbia
Manual of Knitting and Crocheting,
by Sarah Barnes; My Ten Years in
a Quandary, a very humorous
book, by Robert Benchley; Popu-
larity. by Wieman; Hungary, a
travel book, by Humphrey.
COMMERCIAL NEWS
Tipping I classes are beginning
Unit 3 this week. From now on they
will complete one lesson of each
unit a day, ending the week with
self analysis lesson, one in which
each student records his progress
for the week. Besides counting the
number of errors on this day, the
strokes are counted and the num-
Der of words written per minute
recorded. Each error counts off
ten points, SO students are realizing
that accuracy pays"
Shorthand classes are reading
letters and short stories from their
shorthand readers and then writing
the same from dictation and read
ing back from their own notes.
Stenography II classes are re-
viewing all brief forms, thus build
ing up speed on all dictation work.
They will use the block style of
letters, writing IN all letters typed
this week.
ELEMENTARY BUSYBODIES
Last week the Kindergarten
children made their first SCRAP
booklets in the home unit. They
were made with pictures of chill
dren and animals.
Next week they are going to be-
gin on articles for Halloween.
One day a little girl brought Miss
Jensen a bouquet of flowers. An
other little girl wanted to give her
some flowers, but she didn't have
any SO she said, Here are three
pennies; you can buy yourself a
bouquet"
The boys and girls are already
talking about Halloween, telling
things they are going to do at that
time.
Donny Pangburn brought a pum-
pkin to school-one he had grown
in his own garden this summer.
Last year in Kindergarten they
made Jack-o-lanterns. Donny took
some of the seeds home, washed
and dried them, and planted them
in the spring which brought forth
the pumpkin he brought to school
this year.
Miss Henkeps first and second
graders are making Halloween dec
orations for the room. They are
working individually on original
Halloween pictures from which the
best ones will be selected and put
up in the room.
Next week they are going to start
Indian Projects.
The first grade is starting new
workbooks named Peter and Peg
gy."
The Rabbits" in Miss Chap
mans room have started new
reader and workbook. It is called
Friendly Stories"
They have pictures of various
animals in the room and are learn