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Show Brookside Classes Visit the Bank top north of the school May 14, beginning at 5:45 p.m. Last week Mr. Mason's 5th grade group from Grant school invited the Brookside fifth grade over for an evening of dancing. They had a program and also had refreshments to serve to the group. Ronnie Listen and Ray L. Huntington, reporters. Last week both the first grade groups went down to the SpringviUe Banking Co. for a tour. Several of the parents of the children came with their automobiles to help transport the children. The children were able to see many of the parts of the bank and to be instructed instruc-ted on how banks handle the money and what they do with the money that comes to them. horned toad which they caught up Hobble Creek canyon and have at school. Danny Lamb has some new baby rabbits to show us. Mrs. Wright's class is getting ready to put on a little operetta, "The Ugly Duckling," for our parents. Mrs- Keith Robinsin was reelected re-elected as our PTA president for the next year. Paula Jones was elected vice president and Isabell Hardy was re-elected secretary. Next week will bring to a climax all the preparation we have been making for our spring festival. Each of the groups will present one or more dances. We also have a group of dances that the whole school is learning. We hope the general public will also join us in these dances. Our festival festi-val will be held on the black- Previous to this trip, Fay C. Packard, bank president, came to the school and gave the children a talk about thrift. Carol Heninger had her 7th birthday this week. Paul Wheeler, Craig Child, Mac Loveridge, Mart Gardner, and Steven Parker also turned seven the past week-Last week-Last Friday Mrs. LeRoy's class had a May Day Party. They danced, went for a walk and had refreshments. They all had a good time. Leanne Whitney is back in school after an accident in which she received a compound fractured arm in a fall at her home. She was in the hospital for a few days. When the fourth grade came to school this morning they found a beautiful tree all in blossoms. The tree had been drawn and the pink blossoms had been formed from paper and pinned onto the tree. It will be a background back-ground for our May calendar. Mrs- Anderson's grade is having a Mother's day party next Friday. We have prepared a very good program for our mothers. In Mrs Hearn's room science is now a favorite subject. The special interest this week is the bee hive. It has a queen, at least a drone, and hundreds of workers. The hive is glass on both sides, and the honey comb is rapidly filling with honey. There is a small hole in the window, hooked by a tube to the side of the hive. The bees pass in and out of the hive to gather nectar.. We have been studying booklets to learn what each bee does- We try to identify the kinds of bees and decide what the job is for each. Several baby bees crawl from their cells every hour and are soon ready to join the other workers. Last week we hatched frog eggs, and the tadpoles are growing rapidly. We also had six cocoons which hatched into Isabella moths. Doran Fox also has two grown frogs at school. John Roylance has a lizard and Joanne Bartlett has a large |