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Show "Brog!s!de School Activities Michael Gardner, Reporter The marble tournament was completed the past week. It ended with a real surprise when third grader Wayne Smart cleaned out the other third, second, fourth and fifth grade contenders, and then beat Michael Davies of the sixth for the championship. Michael won second, Milo Smart, sixth grade brother of Wayne, won third, and Michael Haslam, of the fifth grade won fourth. First prize-was a pen and pencil set; second prize was an automatic pencil, and the others got soda pop. In the hopscotch, tournament, there was also an upset. up-set. At. first, this contest was to .be for just the girls, but the boys wanted to enter, so they had their contests, and the girls played against each other. In the finals, Paul Cherrington won over Carol Frazier for the championship, and Raymond Bird beat Marie Mason .for third and fourth places. The j players had become so proficient that they could go completely through a game without missing, and in the championship game, ; Carol had only one turn before Paul won the game. Prizes were the same for hopscotch hop-scotch as for marbles. We used the 'Centennial Hopscotch as it was played in the state contests in 1947. This activity created a lot of interest and will probably be repeated each year. We havo two new students again this week. Claudia Elliot has joined join-ed Mrs. Whitney's sixth grade, and Timothy Elliot joined Mrs. Oakes' third. They came from Pleasant Grove. We were happy to have Aaron Card, a former teacher from this school, visit us. He now lives at Concord, Calif., and teaches down there. We also had the four children of Oliver Parsons visiting us. They were all in our school last year and now live in Rexburg, Ida. In our PTA meeting this week Mrs. Wills' second grade furnished the program. They sang five little spring songs. Peggy Patten, D'Ann Ames, and Victoria Gurr danced together, and LaRae Diamond gave two solo dances. $ All of the grades had some sort 1 of Easter party either Thursday or Friday. In general, the room mothers moth-ers brought in treats, and the classes had parties, programs, or outdoor activities. There were many very pretty treats brought in. Mrs. Oakes' students made their own Easter bonnets and had an Easter parade. Johnny Sheffield, in Mrs. Anderson's An-derson's kindergarten, brought a pineapple to school. His father bought it for him. After they have watched how it grows out of the husk Johnny's family will eat it. As a hold-over of the Easter season, Miss Irons' class has baby chickens to visit them this week, as do some of the other grades. When Miss Irons' class went hunting hunt-ing hidden Easter eggs Friday, they found a lot of eggs but no little chickens and no bunnies. Nancy Weight from Miss Oakes' third grade had an operation for appendicitis. We hope that she will be back with us soon. Some of our other ill children are getting better. bet-ter. Bonnie Bishop is confined to her home, and so are Gary Rich-ins Rich-ins and Duane Riley. They have all had rheumatic fever or rheumatism. rheuma-tism. Dorothy Hall is recovering from a spinal operation and is well enough to do school work with the visiting teacher, Mrs. Whitney. Mrs. Young and Mrs. Musser brought treats to the fourth grade. They had Easter baskets made of spudnuts, green cocoanut and candy can-dy Easter eggs. This surprise treat came when we were in the middle of our lessons and we had to stop working so hard. Thank you, parents. |