Milford chronicle., 1959-11-06
Lulu NJ. Ross Elementary
School News
Grade 24SectiOn 4
Mrs. Marian Lynch. Teacher

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Grade 2-SectiOn 4
Mrs. Marian Lynch, Teacher
This is the first news we have
written this year. What would you
like to know about US? We have Is
girls and II boys in our class. We
are busy every day learning new
things in Reading and Spelling and
Numbers and Science.
In September we brought shells
to school that we had found on the
beaches this summer. Some were
big and some were little but they
were all very interesting. Mother
and Daddy will be surprised next
summer when we can tell them the
names of the shells we collect, and
at least one interesting fact about
the animal that lived in the shell.
The shoe boxes we brought to
school made lovely shadow-boxes.
We made beach scene by painting
water and sky in the box and then
gluing sand in the bottom of it.
Last of all we glued in our prettiest
shells.
Now that Autumn is here, some
of us have been bringing in col
lections of leaves, seeds, and nuts.
We are learning how to dry and
press the leaves so we can keep
them for a long time. We will learn
the names of them and some inter
esting facts about the trees on
which they grew. Do you know
which tree gives us baseball bats
Or which tree goes to the butcher
shop? Or which tree wears nit
tens? Or which is the sugar candy
tree? Or which tree went to sea
Or which tree wears tulips? We do.
Seeds are interesting, too. They
are all sizes, shapes and colors.
Did you know that seeds are travel
ers? There are some with wings
that fly like afrplanes or gliders.
Some have stickers and travel by
hitch-hiking, and some seeds roll
or float in the air or on the wa
ter.
Miss Wainwright found us many
nice books about leaves and seeds
and plants. We have been reading
these stories and have been writ
ing some stories of our own. When
we finish we will have nice tree
booklet to take home and keep.
Mrs. Kunkel will show us, in art
class, how to use our leaves to
make spatter-paint pictures.
Each day we learn something new
that's what makes school so much
fun.
Grade 6-SectiOn 8
Mrs. Magdalene Mcclure, Teacher
Social Living
For the past several weeks our
room has been studying about wea-
ther. We have learned how clouds
are made, how hail is formed, why
there is wind, the wind belts, the
different types of clouds, tides, in
struments used to predict the wea-
ther, and many other useful things
about the weather.
We have also been discussing the
following topics on weather:
What weather is.
What makes the wind blow?
Why is the sky clear or cloudy?
How water comes out of the air.
What the weatherman does, and
how weather forecasts help us.
We also did some experiments
that showed us how rain is formed,
how hot air expands, that air is
do Of I1o oil
and that cold air contracts. In the
following paragraphs our room has
written something about the wea-
ther.
Hans Feindt
Weather
Weather is the condition of the
air around us. The air around us
is made up of water, vapor, and
gases.
Wind is, moving air. 1t travels
when cold air and. hot air meet
the hot air rises and that is wind.
There are many kinds of winds. A
calm wind is when the wind is
moving less than one mile an hour.
Moderate winds are winds which
are moving less than Is miles an
hour. Fresh winds move up to 20
miles an hour. A gale usually
comes with a storm and is up to so
miles an hour. Hurricane winds
come with a hurricane and are over
rs miles an hour.
Precipitation is a form of wea-
ther. There are rain, snow, sleet,
hail, dew, frost, and fog. Rain is
formed when a cloud of water vapor
gets heavy and falls. Snow is form
ed in the winter when rain falls
and freezes. Sleet is formed the
same way. Hail is formed in the
summer during a thunderstorm
when the winds are going vertical
and horizontal. The water goes up
and freezes, comes down and gets
more water, back and forth many
times until it gets heavy enough
to fall. Fog is a low cloud on the
earth.
Clouds are made up of tiny
drops of water. There are several
kinds of clouds including: cumulus,
stratus, cirrus, and nimbus. Cumu-
lus clouds are white fluffy clouds,
and they usually bring fair wea-
ther Cumulus means pile Stratus
clouds form in layers and are grey.
They bring rain or snow. Stratus
means layer. Cirrus clouds look
like bits of ice high in the sky.
They bring sleet or hail. Nimbus
clouds are thick low-hanging clouds
which are fog.
Beverley Denney
Wind Belts