Milford chronicle., 1960-02-05

Donald Atkinson
Gregory Grant
Reading
We have three reading groups in
our room. We read every day, US
ually in the morning. When we be-
gin a new story we look at the first
picture and the title and then we
try to guess what might happen in
the story. After we ali have finish
ed reading the story silently, we
talk about it, then we have one or
two of the people in the group read
it aloud. We have workbooks which
help us learn consonants and VOW
els, and how to divide words into
syllables.
Once every two weeks we go to
the Library Miss Wainwright helps
us find books to read. Sometimes
she lets us help her check the
books out.
We like to read and we want to
learn to read well because books
can take us on imaginary trips to
far-off lands. Books can answer
many of our questions.
Carolyn Watson
Charlotte Tucker
Lillian Lewis
Social Living
We have three big Social Living
Units this year. We studied the
country Switzerland. Some of our
activities, when we studied Switzer-
land were working in committees
to gather information for our book
let's, and seeing filmstrips. Japan
was our second big unit We made
booklets i N c1udi ing paragraphs
which we wrote on Japanese child
ren, food, homes, transportation,
and many other things Mrs. Snapp
from Wyoming, Delaware, came to
our room to tell us about her life
in Japan. She brought Japanese
dolls, clothes, dishes, model houses,
and many other things for us to see.
Now we are studying maps and
globes and our earth We have seen
some filmstrips, read some books.
and are starting to make our book
let's. We like Social Living because
it is helping us to become good citi-
ZenS.
Jack Mills
Allen Warren
Charles Williams
Steve Hollenbeck
Spelling
We have two groups in our spell-
ing class. The names of the groups
are Busy Boys and Busy Beavers.
We have new words each week. One
day we write stories using the new
words. Another day we study our
words by putting them in alpha
betical order, dividing them into
syllables, finding the opposites, and
other things. Every Friday we have
spelling test. We think that SPELL
ing words correctly is very import
ant because we write many stories,
paragraphs and sentences. We read
lot of books, and we talk a lot.
When we do all of these things we
use our spelling words.
Elizabeth Still
Patsy French
Sharon Mitchell
English
We have book called English is
our Language. We use it to helm us
TO learn to write and speak correct
ly. Our book has helped us learn to
write sentences and questions. 1t
has helped us learn about punctua-
t1on marks and when to use capital
letters. Some of our activities in
which we have used good English
have been writing letters. making
paragraphs for our booklets. writ
ing our own sentences and quest
IONS using our Spelling words and
telling stories to the class.
we enjoy writing stories and
sentences, and we think that .it is
important to learn how to sneak
correctly because English is orr
language.
Mike Dyer
Donna May Donovan
Bobby Field
Art
we have Art with Mrs. KunkIe in
our room once every two weeks
we p ain ted many interesting
Lnlngs. We have made a mural of
switzerland. We painted the hack
ground and made the people. hons
es, and animals with coIored naner
We have done some modelling with
clay. Some of the things we model
ed were dinosaurs, people. eIe-
phants and snowmen. Before
christmas we made puppets ont of
SOCKS and bits of yarn, buttons.
ana scrap material After we fin
lshed the puppets we made stages
and wrote plays. We have also done
some weaving and sewing on bur-
lap. We are proud of the things we
have done in Art this year. We are
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