Milford chronicle., 1962-02-02
Lulu M. Ross Elementary
School News
Grade 6 Mr.. Edwin Simpsons
Section 3

Grade 6 Mr.. Edwin Simpsons
Section 3
Recess Activities
We stay healthy by exercising in
our room every day. We have
learned: the jumping jack; the
deep-knee-bends; toe-t o h i n g
and sit-ups.
We also play games on rainy
days We sometimes play seven
up. Everybody in the room, except
seven players and the captain, put
their heads down, cover their eyes,
and put their thumbs up. The other
seven players come along an
hammer their thumbs down When
this game is over there are usually
only seven people able to stand.
Other times we play Ore G o n
Trail. Everyone but the chief starts
on their journey to Oregon. With
out warning We are ordered to
make camp. Then Indians attack
and take hostages. Sometimes they
even take scalps. We also play
other games such as "Charades" :
"Plcture-On-the-Wall," and Guess
What"
So you see we get plenty of ex-
erclse even on rainy days.
Mark Cardonick
Sandy Draper
Karen Kitchens
Leslie McClung
Margaret Ann Stokes
Ronnie Davidson
Square Dancing
We have been square dancing in
our music and gym periods. We
have been staying in at recesses,
trying to get our dances perfect
Among the dances We are doing
are Gustaf's Skoal, Lott Ist Tod,
Oh Susannah, Solomon Levi,
Double Sachet, and Mexican Hat
Dance The Gustaf's Skoal dance
and Lott Ist Tod dance are the
dances we know best.
For Gustaf's Skoal we have four
couples. They make a square boys
across from the girls Two couples
go up and meet each other and
bow. Then the next two couples do
the same. Each pair of couples
does this twice. Then pair of
couples go up, meet, separate, and
go through the inside of the side
couples, go around them, m e e t
their partner, swing, stamp their
feet and say, "Gustaf's Skoal!" The
set goes through this many times
Linda Tingle
Our Student Council
Our Student Council is the group
OF representatives of the Student
Body who meet together regularly
and decide what to do about prob
lens that come up.
Each classroom has two repre-
sentatives. Our class representa-
tives are Sandra Draper and Robt
Wagner They attend the meetings
and report to us what takes place
there. They also bring any bust
ness we have before the Council
The Student Council committees
supervise such activities as Safety
Patrol, Savings Stamps sales, rails
ing the flag, and the care of the
trees that are being planted "a
round our school.
We like our Student Council be-
cause it gives US a voice in the
affairs of our school, and gives us
practice in using our government.
Margaret Ann Stokes
Have a Heart.
We have been studying about the
human body The body has many
systems. One is the circulatory
system, which is the circulation of
the blood
Blood enters the right auricle of
| the heart. This blood contains car
| bon dioxide, waste product of the
body. 1t then goes to the lungs
where the carbon dioxide is re-
moved and fresh oxygen is picked
up. No blood goes out the left
auricle without fresh oxygen.
Joan McColley
Tumbling
We have gym every two weeks
with Miss Rissmiller. We are doing
tumbling. When we go to the gym
we line up against the wall and
| take our shoes off We do all our
exercises on the mats. Two of our
exercises We're the forward roll
and the backward roll Then we did
the wheelbarrow walk. When you
do the wheelbarrow walk you walk
on your hands
Last we did the seal walk. The
way you do that is to put your
hands on the mat, then you pull
yourself forward, letting your feet
drag as a seal does its tail.
Steve Hollenbeck
Jack Mills