East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1955-11-24
SIX SKIES

perhaps. The Mayfair top-graders
asked Mrs. Gregg all sorts of ques-
tions about the royal family, and
the Thames River and Parliament,
and the downs" and "moors," )"
and they were charmed by her way
of speaking, too, and asked her
many questions about the names
of things in England. And she
was just as interested in finding
out facts about American ways of
doing things.
One typically American custom
is the one that is in all our minds
today, and that's Thanksgiving.
Mayfair celebrated the holiday with
a musicl assembly today, at which
each class sang something and all
classes sang many songs together.
Some of the selections were cover
the River and Through the Woods, !"
America the Beautiful" and
"Come Thankful People, Come" >"
Musicsl-minded pupils helped out
on some songs with piano and other
instruments. Everyone from the
kindergarten on up through the
sixth grade took part, and felt
the holiday spirit coming on that
makes Thanksgiving such a jooy-
Gus time.
ROZELLE
Rozelle School is having a big
Thanksgiving celebration, too. Only
theirs is two separate programs,
rather than one.
Tomorrow morning, at 1915,
the lower grades hold their Thanks
giving program in the gymnasium
with Miss Mary Warner the chair
man. The kindergarten and the
first and second grades sing
Thanksgiving songs, and the sec
ond and third grades recite poems
and stories in addition to their
singing.
The three upper grades assemble
in the main hall of the building
just before noon on the same day,
and give program Of their own,
under the direction of Miss Ruth
Hodson. A feature of this occasion
will be the use of several instru-
mental accompaniments with some
of the traditional songs: a trumpet
with God of Our Fathers" a
violin with Thanksgiving Hymn"
and an autoharp with the fifth
graders singing of Now Thank
We All"
The upper grades will also have
Thanksgiving programs in their
rooms in the afternoon.
CALEDONIA
The Caledonia undergraduates
will celebrate their first Thanks
giving tomorrow morning at $3.50.
Both morning and afternoon groups
will assemble on this occasion, to
give thanks in music and to hear
the story of the Pilgrims first
harvest-time festival. They have
their own bonnets and Indian head
dresses, which they will wear for
their feast at the school, featur-
ing apple sauce and butter made
right at Caledonia.
The other Caledonia children
celebrate the holiday a bit later in
the day. The three lower grades
meet at 1890, and the upper
grades in the afternoon, for their
Thanksgiving programs.
A fourth grade dramatics group
directed by Mrs. Ruth WeIter will
present one-act play, Little
White Cloud" just before the lunch
hour for the fourth grade reading
groups.
1t seems to he hard to get away
from the subject of food these
days. At Caledonia, Tasting par
ties" have been going on for the
last two weeks, conducted by the
two student teachers from West
ern Reserve, Mrs. Lois Marine and
Mrs. Dolores Waldron. The idea is
to expose the children to the
flavor Of unfamiliar fruits and
vegetables, and TO get them in
terested in further sampling on
their own. Carrots, for instance,
led one youngster at Caledonia to
remark the other day, 81 didn't
think I'd like carrots, but these
taste good"
All of this talk about estables
leads SIX SIZES to look forward
more eagerly than ever to the rich
holiday season ahead of US. There
will be no grade-school column in
next weeks Leader" while we
all recover; however, it will resume
the following week.
Happy Thanksgiving, and have