The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-03-04

earnest" because they have been
memorizing psalm of Life" by
Longfellow. They have also been
studying Whittier's works this
week. Just for fun and as ques-
tionnaire, the students were asked
to name prominent writers from
foreign countries as Greece,
Spain, France, Italy, Belgium and
several others. Can you name at
least one author or poet from each
country? What country do these
authors represent: Tolstoy, Ger
vantes, Dante, and Socrates?
English II students are still
studying '3Idylls of the King; ard
as means of comparing the mod
ern gentleman of that time and
now, the class will work out
modern code for the gentleman of
1897.
Under the sponsorship of a car
toon-conscious Boys Club, high
school students are being urged to
enter the drawing and snapshot
contest with view to the making
of a more interesting illustrated
school paper, the Reflector. A
committee made up of Allen
Fobes, Howard Baldwin, and Leon
Pease is supervising the collecting
and displaying of the cartoons
produced by the students. Some
subjects which get the amateur
cartoonist's attention are the bas-
ketban team, the new school and
some of the publicly known
school romances.
In the Grade School
First Grade-Miss Jolly
This week we have been PLAN
ming our newspaper. We are
going to make up stories and
poems to put in it. We are also
beginning our bird book. We are
making the bird pictures oursel-
YES. 1t is fun watching the men
on our new building. We have
found out where all the wood they
are using has come from. Some
of the boys and girls brought pic
lures to show us how the trees are
cut down and how they 60
through the mill.
We are glad to welcome jeanne
Deutschman and Richard Peder-
son to our class.
Second Grade-Miss Faber
Our second grade arithmetic
race has been an exciting one. The
Terraplanes proved faster than
the Lincoln Zephyrs. Alice Will
liams was captain of the former,
and Donald Kruger Of the latter.
We still enjoy our post office.
Last week we made pennies, nick
els, dimes and quarters as well as
stamps of various kinds. We like
to buy special delivery stamps to
put on our letters. We take turns
being poStman.
Second and Third Grades,
Miss Tafin.
We are all very much excited
about our new spelling chart. The
Easter Bunny brings us Easter
eggs for perfect scores in spelling.
Last week we had twenty-one
zoos. This week we had twenty
two.
Fourth Grade-Miss Thomson
We are enjoying our study of
long division. We are working
hard to master all the steps ev-
cry day. Those receiving GA" in
the first day we had long division
were: Corrine Arnett, Marjory
Brirker, Eleanor Engeman, Ruth
Dale Gold, James Gray, Rose
Heath, Bernice Johnson, Raymond
Knisley, Robert Wood, Janice
Nupson, Roger Parsons, Robert
Pryor, John Smith, David Stems
vad, Lola Symes, Bobby Treus-
dell, Verniel Washburn, and Elroy
Young.
In language class we learned
the meaning of ''homonyms." We
write sentences to prove that we
understood the meaning and SPELL
ing of each word.
Our movie "The Story of Sal
mon" was very interesting. We
found that many people work and
earn their living in many different
ways before a can of salmon is
ready for us to buy at the store.
Fourth and Fifth Grades,
Miss Morrison
The fourth and fifth grades had
Program Day" in music Friday.
There were several solos, duets,
trios, quartets and group songs.
Fifth Grade-Miss Mclean
The fifth grade enjoyed trip to
the postoffice Friday afternoon.
Mr.. Farver showed and told us
about the mail. We decided that
it was an interesting way to learn
our citizenship.
The sixth grade pupils in Miss