East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1957-12-05
Where We Are Now

downtown are ablaze with colorful
holiday decorations. 1t seems that
more and more each year, the time
between Thanksgiving and Christ
mas is becoming one long prepara-
ton season for the midwinter va
cation. But there is almost full
grade-period Of school work ahead,
from now until the end of January!
The second periods grade cards
were brought home just this week,
weren't they? So there are six
full weeks-or five, when you read
this-during which your child can
get in some really productive
learning before the end Of the Sc
mester on January oath.
With so much holiday spirit in
the air these days (and on the air,
tooD it takes that little extra eff
fort to concentrate on the business
at hand, learning things at school.
h0ZelIe
A fourteen-page mimeographed
newspaper, written by the children
were distributed to students at
Rozelle School just before Thanks
giving. 1t sold for two cents. 1t
contains poems, short essays, book
reviews, jokes and riddles, puz-
zles, a full-page picture for the
younger students to color, and 9TH
er features (as they say) too nu-
merous to mention.
The new newspaper is under the
sponsorship of two of Rozelle's
teachers, Mrs. Edna Kennedy for
contributions from the first three
grades, and Mrs. Marjorie Dion
for those from the three upper
grades. The first grade children
will be responsible for collecting
the money for the paper, and the
fifth grade will help with making
up its form.
Every real publication needs to
have a promotion" contest or
similar activity to build up inter-
est in it, and Rozelle's new jour
nal is no exception. Since it does
not have a name as yet, it prints
a coupon in it's first issue for Roz-
ellie students to fill out and suggest
a name for it. The winning sug-
gestion will become the official
name of the paper.
1t is hoped to bring out two more
issues of this new publication dur
ing this school year: one in Feb
ruary, and the other some time in
May.
Chambers
One thousand, six hundred and
twenty-three homemade cookies
were brought to school and
wrapped in gift packages by
Chambers Kindergarteners before
Thanksgiving, for gifts to shut-ins
through the Junior Red Cross. The
children, members Of Mrs. Helen
Griffiths' class, did the wrapping
of the packages themselves; their
mothers did the baking Of the
cookies. The 1,624th cookie got
broken and was left over in a
box, and it was very good.
Usually the work done in the
elementary schools by the Junior
Red Cross does not reach the tiny
ones in the kindergarten and the
first grade. But the Chambers fac
ulty sponsor Of this activity, Miss
Winifred Savage, and the school
office felt that experience in CIV
ing and sharing would benefit the
youngest children just as much as
it would their older brothers and
sisters, if not more; so they were
asked to bring along these gifts
for sick people and others in need
Of help. The first grade children
were assigned a different project,
the sending Of holiday remem-
brances to Sunny Acres sanitar-
ium.
Prospect
Prospect Schools fifth graders,
in Mrs. Hazel Struggles and Mrs.
Ruth Neikard's rooms, have just
completed an interesting science
experiment. 1t was designed to
show how heat makes the mole
cules in q substance race faster,
and thus make the substance ex-
pand.
One child in each room was
asked to have his or her father
construct framework from which
a weighted wire could be hung.
This framework-called, somewhat |
gruesomely, a "gallows"-was set
up in such a way that stone tied
to the lower end of the wire would
just swing free above the table on
which the apparatus was placed.
o Then the children lighted can
die, and held it next to the wire
holding the stone. Soon the wire
became hot, and sure enough, it
stretched so much that the stone
rested on the table top and would
not swing any more.
This is only one of number of
experiments in the
fifth graders science book, en-
titled "Adventuring in Science"
Caledonia
Cranberry relish and butter, both
made by the children were the fea-