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Show Jefferson School reports news Susan DeRose and Kathleen Clayson, reporters. Have you ever seen a praying pray-ing mantis? Robin brought one Most of us do much more than a half hour nightly. We have a big chart in the form of a U.S. map. Each has an area and for the amount of time we show on our parent-signed time card we can color in a portion of the map. We are seeing who can get across the country first. Each week we each write one or more stories. Some are true experiences, but others are make-believe. Some are funny and now because hallo-ween hallo-ween is coming we are making scary stories. The boys are filling fil-ling their stories with baseball and football heroes. We are making books of our stories to keep. Mr. Lundell brought back from the UEA convention a big balloon. It was a weather balloon. It stood eighteen feet high after we had used Kathy Lowe's mother's vacuum cleaner clean-er to blow it up. We could even try to climb on it, but somehow some-how we popped it and ruined it. All of the teachers and children chil-dren are congratulating our fifth grade teacher, Juan Whiting, Whit-ing, because Mx-s. Whiting had a ten-pound baby boy born Saturday. Sat-urday. All of the teachers are back with new enthusiasm after to our first grade. It is long legged and covered with a sort of armor. It catches other oth-er insects and eats them because be-cause most of its prey is harmful harm-ful to crops, the praying mantis man-tis is considered beneficial. It gets its name because it stands on its long legs as if they were bent under in a kneeling position, so it is kneeling to pray. Sometimes it will grab a bee, and then without getting stung it will lift the bee to its mouth and proceed to eat it. The third grade students are making puppets so they can have these little puppets act out plays to entertain the class. We are drawing the figures, fig-ures, then we cut them out and put them on sticks. We can then manipulate them above a curtain over a table. Groups are working on such plays as "Three Billy Goats Gruff," and "The Talking Fish." The fourth grade students have set a minimum of a half hour each night for home study. Our parents sign our report of time, and Mr. Lundell Lun-dell is keeping a chart of it. their meetings in Salt Lake City, and the children are refreshed re-freshed after two . extra days of vacation. |