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Show Week's News at Brookside School Reporters, Lynn Jeffers and Mary Strong Mr. Nelson's students in the sixth grade have been studying study-ing molds, yeasts and other small plants under microscopes. They are also making a salt garden in a pan in the window. The fourth grade'class is getting get-ting ready for a Valentine party. par-ty. This week Joyce Livsey, Linda Chadwick, Clifton Brails-ford, Brails-ford, from our fourth grade, have birthdays just as Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln does. The fourth grade is divided into committees commit-tees and are getting ready to make reports on science. They have been hunting material on a different subject for each committee. The kindergarten has enjoyed enjoy-ed making Valentines for their little friends. We have a big new thermometer in our room. We also have a big thermometer thermome-ter outside the window. We can adjust the large one in the room to read the same as the reading outside our window. Of course the weather does not change the one in the room; we change it with our hands. We have learned that when the thermometer is low we need more clothes to keep warm when we go outside the room. We have painted big Valentines and pasted them on the window win-dow glass. Our school has three new students this week. They came Jerry is a good ball player. James Cloward, from our second sec-ond grade had measles last week. Kathryn Strong, has a birthday this week and is eight years old. Saundra Nielsen has a baby sister born last Saturday. Satur-day. Dianne Perry's brother was injured at the Scout camp in Payson canyon and is now in the hospital in a cast. Mrs. LeRoy's class has been studying study-ing about Abraham Lincoln and the great things that he did for America. Abraham was a poor boy who had little schooling, but he studied whenever he could. The fifth grade, under Miss Davis, is preparing to give a twelve minute musical program at PTA this Wednesday night. With the beautiful weather coming to dry our playground, this Monday we had a noon ball game between the fifth grade boys and the sixth grade girls. The game is still progressing progres-sing as noon rolls around. The first grade class in Mrs. Anderson's room made a n aquarium in order to see what it takes to make plants grow. The third grade children at Brookside school will present the play, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," on Valentine day. The characters are Snow White, Cynthia Musser; Queen, Barbara Lewis; King, Douglas Strong; Maid, Marilyn Van Or-den; Or-den; Dwarfs: David Robinson, Vicki Lee Rowe, Randall Boy-er, Boy-er, Phillip Peterson, Larry Cas-tleton, Cas-tleton, Bruce Heninger, Leah Baker; Prince, Heather Lawrence; Lawr-ence; Marcia Shepherd, witch. from Orem. Jerry Dearing is in Mrs. LeRoy's second grade, and the twins, Pauline and Jolene are in Mrs. Anderson's first grade. They are identical twins and are the first twins in Brookside school for two weeks Their daddy, Wayne Dearing formerly lived in Springville |