East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1956-02-16

and told stories at their party
Food, also, ice cream and cookies
Misses Estelle Linton's fourth
graders had a suggestion box to
decid how they were to spend
their Sales Tax dividend money,
and they came up with the idea
of buying their ice cream with
it. Their cookies, as was true with
each of these rooms, were baked
by their mothers. The children
told jokes apd riddles, and some
played the piano.
Mrs. Oleantha Smiths fifth
grade children made Valentine en-
velopes instead of boxes, and deco
rated them in individual ways.
Food (thus making it unanimous) !:
ice cream and cookies.
Just about everybody in school
gave Valentines to the kindergar-
ten children. They got so many
that their teachers set up a mail
box-the regular RID. kind
outside the kindergarten room, for
Valentines to be mailed" in. 1t
was full just about every night.
Chambers
Chambers School has one huge
Valentine, of large bulletin board
size, in the main hall, that is ad-
dressed to-just about everybody.
Separate hearts on it bring Valen-
tine greetings to the PTA mothers,
the custodians, the teachers, the
cleaning women, the Superinten-
dent the school nurses, the Prin-
cipal, the school doctor, the secre-
tary-as we said, just about every
body. On many of the hearts the
names of the persons involved are
pasted, to make the greetings even
more personal.
But then there is an unexpected
touch, as is so often the case with
children. There is one more Valen-
tine on the poster, addressed to
Our School'-which means, we
the children sending one
to themselves!
Mayfair
Mrs. Dorothy Hartland's kinder
gardeners can count to ten, which
IS an achievement usually delayed
until the first grade. But they
nave put this knowledge to good
Use in their play stores, which they
rave stocked with empty cartons
brought from home. They learn
about food products and their i'm
oortance, too, as well as about
ems.
In fact, maybe ten has been
by now. They have a
OF of egg cartons marked "dozen"
md "half dozen;" and what is
lozen if it isn't more than ten?
f you have to learn half-tens for
lickels and dimes, you might just
is we'll go on and learn half
Iozens for eggs.
Another recent Mayfair achieve
nent is the production of an oak
rec in the office of Miss Sarah
Nyncopp, Mayfair's principal. The
ak tree is only six inches tall,
ut it grew from an acorn found
month or so ago, and planted in
oil in a glass bowl on the office
ounter.
The children could wait until
pring and transplant it some
,here, and perhaps eventually set
out in the school yard. But it |
lready has five leaves on it, and |
'ustodian Leonard "Bud" Majcher, |
about possible leaf |
aking job several seasons hence,
j not much in favor of this latter
love.
Caledonia
The fifth grade children in Miss
dina Juergens' room at Caledonia
re constructing a large fall frieze
ntitled "The Discovery of the
.mericans." Based upon the chill
ren's work in History, and CIV
lg them practical art experience,
MS composite picture will be made
p of four different sections, one
Or each Of the four explorers, Lief
ricson and his Vikings, Christie
her Columbus, John Cabot, and
edro Alvarez Cabral.
A committee of children is in
narge of planning and executing
he details for each of the four
anels of the plaque. Each child
I the room is on one Of the COM
littees. Soon after they started on
his project, they discovered that
1ey would need help in the pro-
of the figures in such
roups, so they called on Mr..
ruce Holderbaum, Art Supervisor
or the grade schools, to advise
1em on the dimensions to be used.
-e gave them assistance on lay
lg out and scaling the figures, to
chieve better overall appear
nee Of the frieze.