The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-11-11
GRADE SCHOOL NEWS

With Thanksgiving time rapidly
approaching one finds many evil
dences of it about the building in
Pilgrim and Indian pictures on the
walls and in the preparations that
are being made for Thanksgiving
assembly and program for which
each room will contribute a num-
Der for the others enjoyment.
The exhibit cabinet in the down.
stairs hallway is filled with Indian
curios made by the children of Miss
Thole's third grade. One would
never recognize the old family
newspapers in their new guise of
Indian dolls all properly bedecked
i'm Indian fashion. About them are
bows and arrows paper beads and
feathered headbands representative
of the race and customs In Miss
Pointers room several attractive
Indian rugs have been woven by
these other third grade indians"
Miss Lyons fifth grade also turn
ed Indian and hiked to the river to
gather willows for the construction
of a tepee and to enjoy a campfire
feast. A study is being made of
Indian picture writing collar and de-
signs and in music. Miss Poynter is
teaching them Indian music and
war dancing. .. O..
The building councilmen for the
second period are Corrine Bogue,
Charles Blackman Lorene Williams,
Billy Green, Rosemary Watkins,
John Hughes, Clarabel Johns, Rob-
ert Simmelink, Wilma Gravenslund,
Stanley Sans, Dorothy Ann Reed
and Calvin Liebel, all of whom are
performing their duties conscien-
tiously in helping to keep the build
ing quiet and orderly.
The attendance in all grades has
been somewhat affected by an cpl
demic of chickenpox. Miss Wom-
ack reported seven cases of it in her
room.
Word has been received that Anita
Fisher, first grade pupil of last
year, is progressing nicely from an
operation for appendicitis and is
hoping to enter school before long
and to carry on her second grade
work.
Merle Plat Of Miss Poynter's
room has moved to Finley.
Mrs. Hemenway's fourth grade
has just completed and imaginary
airplane journey from San Fran
cisco to New York and are now get
ting their luggage ready for their
first visit to foreign country.
The children Of Miss Womack's
room have finished their home
booklets this week. The fairies in
both first grades have finished
reading their basic pre-primer
Elson reader and a supplementary
Bob and Jane activity pre-primer
and are starting first primer work.
The elves started new supplement-
airy work in the activity pre-primers
this week.
The first grade rhythm band has
grown to an orchestra Of nearly
forty pieces and will be able to play
some selections for the Thanksgv-
ing program.
The cardboard walls of a house
have taken form in the kindergart-
en- and little hands are busy with
needles and thread making cur
tains and tablecloths to add coy
touch to their furnishings.
The following story written by
Norma Monaco describes one phase
of the work covered in Miss Muel-
-lers room:
The Amazon Valley
Our room is studying about the
Amazon Valley. We made animals,
rubber. They have a little Ratchet
and they cash the tree and put a
cup under it. Little drops of juice
oozes out in the cup and after a
while they come back and take
tablespoonful out. of each cup.
After they get the juice out of each
cup there is about a pailful.
The people in the Amazon VAL
ley eat turtle soup and fish. They
eat turtle eggs too. The turtle but
ter comes from turtle eggs. Flat
cakes are eaten on which they put
oily sauce.
The reason they have easy lives is
because there is always plenty of
food at hand. They have bananas
and cassava will grow everywhere.
They have monkeys and birds
fish and other animals. You can
hear the monkeys chattering and
the birds always sing. There are
lots of snakes in the Amazon Valley
When studying newspaper work
some of Miss Lampson's sixth grade
pupils wrote some interesting edi-
torials, which follow:
Helping the Library
Gertrude Quasi
think that If the school is nice
enough to have library the pupils
of school should be kind enough tc
not tear the books or write in them
or bend the pages back to mark
their place in the book. I think II
would be only fair to be more care