Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-02-03
BY MRS. DONALD HI. MELLON
Garden 4-88O7

It's a Wonderful, Wonderful
World" runs the theme song of
the Twinbrook School Science
Fair, but the parents and chill
dren who attended this hit event
of the school year are singing
the praises of a wonderful, Won
derful school.
The Science Fair is the culmi-
nation of months of science study
by each grade. Every nook and
Granny of the school is crammed
with classroom projects and par
ent-child exhibits, which have
grown out of the planned pro-
gram of study.
Mornings have been spent in
studying the fundamental SUBJ
jects such as reading, writing,
arithmetic and spelling. After
moons are devoted to social stud
les with discussion conferred
around the work of the morning
sessions. From the afternoon
projects the next days problems
are culled. BY this means the
social studies are closely CORE
lated with the three RS and the
basic subjects are given practical
everyday application. For in
stance, the class which conducts
the school supply store used their
sales sheets for problems in
arithmetic class.
Each class has chosen some
phase of science for particular
study and the Fair presents in
amazing array the results of the
various projects. AS you wander
through the halls, you will find
that the first grades have been
studying pets and toys.
One class has set up an incu-
bator for Matching chickens. An
other has constructed ,birdhouses.
Other rooms have sheltered Cup
pies and turtles and a duck
named Daisy May. A cluster of
helium filled balloons demon.
strate how things can be lighter
than air.
The study of transportation
has occupied the second grades.
Each room specialized in a diff
ferent type of transportation.
For example,, one class in their
study of airplanes made a trip
to the Smithsonian Institute,
clipped the weather charts from
the daily papers, and made a
windsock to check wind direc-
ton. They have on display jet
filed balloon.
The third grades have made a
study of homes. One room has
prepared puppet show of "The
Three Little Pigs" Another
class has fashioned an Indian
village out of clay. Another third
grade room has constructed a
lifelike African village. Water
and trees has been concentrated
on by the fourth grades. In one
room there is a student-made
crosssection of a house showing
the plumbing system.
The fifth grades have used the
all-purpose room to display their
knowledge of the solar system
which represents exploration into
higher mathematics teamed with
painstaking labor.
In the library are grouped the
many exhibits submitted by par
ents and children who worked to-
gether on their projects. There
are shell and rock collections,
scrapbooks, stamp and coin col
leetions. There are model planes
and boats and two gas-propelled
airplanes. A bridge, an airplane
and windmill have been con-
structed from erector sets. One
hopeful box contains a model of
a community swimming pool.
There are experiments in cleo
tricity and radio and chemistry.
Principal Edda Larrimore and
her teaching staff, as well as
the children and parents who CO.
operated so heartily, are to be
congratulated. When young and
old working together can pro
duce such an impressive scien
tiic exhibition, it is indeed a
Wonderful, Wonderful World.
The Feb. 81 Mothers March
on Polio found Twinbrook re
spending with a generosity thai
added up to an impressive
$726.44.
Mrs. John Eckhardt, Rockville
chairman, reports that this fig
ure tops the 1854 figure of S698.49
which included Rockland. This
year Rockland was totalled sep
arately with $151.50 Mrs. Eek
hardt asked that warm apprecia
ton be expressed for the cooper
alton Of the Twinbrook teams
headed by Mrs. Jack Cross, are;
chairman. She also asked tina
Twinbrook children receive /;
special thank-you for the contri