Milford chronicle., 1960-01-15
Lulu vi. Ross Elementary
School News


Christmas OF 1859 has gone but
it is not quite forgotten by ages 6
and z. Show and Tell hour brought
forth toy helicopters, missiles, roc
kets and space stations. Stories
from the library book corner ex-
plain why our space-gadgets stay
on earth. David LeCompte was able
to supply the word, gravity. Stor-
les about the sun, moon, earth, and
space followed. We have a chart
for the room showing the path of
the earth moving around the sun.
1t also gives a few facts:
The sun stays still.
The earth spins once around its
axis in "a hours.
The earth goes completely "a
round the sun in 365 days.
The trip around the sun causes
us to have four seasons.
Because we are now having our
winter season we listed some facts
about winter:
We have long nights.
We can make snowmen, maybe.
We can try to keep warm.
We can feed the birds.
Some of our winter birds in Mil
ford are: cardinals, wood-peckers,
blue-jays, pigeons, buzzards, and
sparrows. Some of these birds live
in our backyard, and like to eat
crumbs, seeds, corn, suet, pop
corn, peanut butter and cereal. The
cardinal has a sharp whistle. Some
of us, who have our front teeth
and can already whistle, are prac-
ticing so we can initiate the cardin-
al.
All of us have reading books. We
are already looking forward to be-
ing in the second grade. Shortly,
there after, we are expecting to be
I'm high school to study more about
real space missiles, rockets, etc.
We are saving our money for the
space age by buying bonds. We
have from 13 to 18 stamp buyers
each week. To date we have in
vested $3.50. 80.
Mrs. DOmke's Grade 4-SectlOn
A Present for Mother
In November we started making
a gift for our mothers. We made
papier-mache bowls and food. Our
Art teacher, Mrs. Kunkle, made
three bowls of clay. These are
called molds. We put strips of torn
newspaper over the molds and
pasted them with wheat paste.
When they dried we took the paper
bowl off. We painted the bowls and
they were very attractive.
We made our food with paper
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bowls. We rolled up paper in the
shape of fruit and vegetables.
Some of the children made meat
also. We put strips of paper and
paste over the shaped paper and
waited for them to dry so we could
paint them. 1t took some time to
make them but we enjoyed it. We
made over 200 pieces.
When all the bowls and food
were made, we put the food in the
bowls with pieces of evergreen.
They made nice display so we
asked Mr.. Hickman to photograph
them.
We took them home for the holi-
days. Hs
Linda Tingle
Mary Beth Holleger
Our Assembly Program
The four Fourth Grade rooms
had the pleasure of working to-
gether for the Christmas assembly
program.
The Boys Chorus under the di-
rection of Mrs. Bennett, opened our
program with several musical Sc
lections. Then followed the tradi-
tional Christmas story with read
1ngs and carols. A puppet show was
given. The puppets were ma5e by
the chilrren and the stories were
original.
Church Bells, jolly Old st. Nick,
and Silent Night were played on
flutes by the four classes.
The program was presented to
the school and parents.
Beverly 10 Southard
A Summary
We began our school year with
the study of the human body. Our
unit was called Know Yourself In
side and Out. We read from many
books, saw filmstrips and movies,
and discussed our own experiences.
There were many things to learn.
Do you know where the smallest
bone in your body is located? You
will find it in your ear.
Do you know how the blood cir
eulates? How food is digested? ?
How to protect the different parts
OF the body? Have you learned a.
bout how to select foods for a good
meal! We have a much greater ap-
probation for our wonderful bod
les now that we can answer "yes''
to these questions.
Glass discussion led us to ask
ourselves just what we know about
some of the many foods we see in
the stores and markets. We found
we did not know where chocolate
came from; how pineapples grew:
now wheat grew and was made into
bread; how rice, potatoes, oranges.
salt, sugar, and shell fish are pro-
duced and prepared for us to use.
We then began to search for this
information.
We used clay, chalk, maps, cray-
ons, pictures, and drawings, to
snow where the foods were grown.
the kinds of climate they need.
and how they are transported to us.