The Sauk Centre herald., 1941-02-13
High
School

at very inactive period right now
because Of the coming operetta.
They have not held their regular
basketball practice this week.
They are planning, however, to
take another bus to a basketball
game If there are enough inter
ested.
Radio Club: Newly organized
this club is out to do great things
This club is made up Of boys in
terested in radio. Some of the
members are: Ira Plummer, Rich
ard Hedin, Donald O'Brien, Junior
Schmidt, Franklin Koterba and
Johnny Kleinschmidt. They meet
every Thursday evening in the
Physics room. Mr.. Schwartz is
their leader and supervisor, and he
takes charge Of the meetings. The
boys spend their time working on
radios and learning new methods
The school has furnished some sets
for the boys, and If any people
have old radio sets which they do
not want any more, they would be
greatly appreciated.
Elementary Busybodies
The kindergarten has their room
decorated for February with flags
and pictures Of Washington and
Lincoln. They have made valen-
tines and have two valentine boxes
in their room, one for the morning
class and one for the afternoon
class. The Gallup twins brought
cookies for lunch one afternoon
The first grade room is now look
ing forward to Valentines Day
They have the room decorated with
valentines, valentine pictures and
they have a pretty valentine box
Friday, the fourteenth they will be
having their valentine box "open-
ing" and party.
Miss Chapman's first and second
grade classes have a valentine box
in their room and the children
are very busy bringing valentines
They have their room gayly dec
Grated for February. This week
the children studied about Abra.
ham Lincoln and George Washing
ton. In art they are making free
hand cut illustrations Of the stor.
les Of "The Three Bears" Little
Black Sambo," '"The Three Goats
and Little Red Riding Hood" The
best ones will be picked to make
frieze in the children's reading
room. The first grade class has
finished their "Day in and Day
Out" reader and will start the
Round About" reader.
Miss Boehmke's second grade
class is starting a spelling chart
on unit thirteen. All children who
receive one hundred in spelling will
receive a gold star on the chart
The following have received one
hundred in spelling and have a gold
star on the chart: Joyce Besser
Harry Cole, Robert Eckberg, Oar.
leen Emblom, Dorothy Essler, Bet
ty Fredericks, Beverly Griggs, Mar.
ilyn Hansen, Donald Hanson, Pa.
tricia Marthaler, Melvin Peterson
Ray Steffes, Beverly Theirs and
A new girl, Leaette Kohler, has
started the second grade class.
In art Miss Dybdals students are
making covers for their spelling
booklets. The following had very
good covers: Richard Holbrook
Charles Walker, Yvonne Cumming,
Betty Koterba and Gerald O'Gara
In the six weeks test they took
the following received one hundred:
Betty Koterba, Jerome Determan,
Charles Walker, Norval Trattles,
Charlotte Potter, Richard Holbrook
Joy Gray, Yvonne Summing and
Charles Hesse. The student that
has shown the most improvement
since school started is Donald
Parker. On the back Of the board
they have all the names Of the stu
dents. This is a department chart
All of them start out with one hun
dred, but four already have ks
by their names.
Miss Beck's third and fourth
grades have had the library ban
ner for half of this week. The
grade will be in studying Pioneer
Life" following the study Of "Pil-
grims," which they have now COM
pleted. The room is being decorat-
ed with patriotic posters of Wash
ington and Lincoln which the chill
dren have made.