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Show Duchesne School News MANUAL TRAINING DEPAKTMENT We have been very fortunate this year In receiving some new equipment 'for our shop. This will enable us to Introduce new fields of work for our boys. Tile new work will include leather, rope, sheet metal, and cold metal work. , The first half of the year will be devoted to wood work. It Is expected that each sLudent will make some useful use-ful project for the home or farm. The following is a suggestive list of projects: pro-jects: bread board, checker board, clock shelf, cutting board, hat rack, match box, taboret, tooth brush rack, child's table, ironing board, mail lxx, wash bench, toys, broom holder, chick feeder, coat hanger, dish cloth rack, hog trough, milk stool, tie rack, book shelves, hall tree, ladder, towel roller, woo dbox, double trees, foot stool, harness har-ness hooks, plant stand, screens, tool Lor, door frames, lamp stand, sheep feeder, bee hives, porch steps, gates, liHrary table, saw buck, single trees, work bench, kitchen table, saw horse, cedar cheat, hay rack, small chairs. Any suggestions on projects will be welcomed. ' FIFTH GRADE The fifth grade of the Duchesne school is having a drive for the use of better English. Following are two paragraphs written by students of this grade to show what kind of work they are doing: "A Boy's Birthday By Lela Mott It was a little boy's birthday, and his sister gave him a nickel for a present. When he went to bed that night he wanted to take the nickel to bed with him, but his mother wouldn't let him: Instead, she slid a chair up close by his bed and put the nickel on it. When he went to sleep his mother put five pennies beside the nickel. When the little boy woke up in the morning, he looked at the nickel and pennies, then- said : "Oh, mother, my nickel hatched little ones in the night." "Maggie and Jiggs" By Wanda Johnson When we lived in Payson we used to go to the park. Here there were turtles, ssebras and bears. But most of all I liked to watch the bears. Their names were Maggie and Jlggs. Their cage was nil of cement except the top which was wire, and in the middle there was an old stump of a tree. 'People would hand out candy, peanuts pea-nuts and all sorts of things to the bears through the wire. There was ft Ulltle tricycle down In the cage and a' man would go down lu and make Jiggs ride it VThey were good bears all the while we were there, but after we left Pay-son, Pay-son, we learned that Jiggs killed Maggie, Mag-gie, then because Jiggs was alone so much he Jjecame mean so they had to kill him. SIXTH GRADE We have something that our parents didn't have when they went to school. It is a little language work book. When we work with them we don't need a teacher, because it tells us jufst what to do. ' - ; There. Is a little speedometer lu the back of the book that tetls us what we score, and a foreword to. explain what to do. '--.' I think they are the nicest little books we have had to help us with our language. Leltoy Parr, THIRD GRADE . In the third grade this week' we luie been making new Hallowe'en curtains. cur-tains. We have witches, cats, huts nntl pumpkins on them. -- Last week we all made Hallowe'en posters Some of tho'pu'pils put witch- i es. bats and puhkins ou them. Thursday we started to learu a poem abilut Hallowe'en. In nature we are studying about how soil Is made. The school Is having a drive to keep the school yards and rooms free from paper and other things that make it look unsightly. Each grade is huAing a week In which it is especially responsive re-sponsive for the appearance of the grounds. The ninth grade took its turn first. They went out as a class on Monday and In twenty niniutes had all the paper gathered off the grounds. The students were so enthused about the project they have written essays and stories in their English classes about keeping the grounds clean. Following Fol-lowing are some of the best from the classes : "Keeping Our School Yard Clear" By Larue Mnrrett, 4th Grade Do you like to see a dirty, yard with old tin cans and paper sacks and other oth-er trash thrown about? Do you like to scatter things all over the yard for your mother to see when she comes to visit the school? If your little brother or sister should come to school, they might pick Tip things and put them In their mouths. We would hate to get some disease from things thrown about the yards. . Let us all try to keep our school yards clean. "PAPER GHOSTS "Paper Ghosts' Shirley Wardle, Oth Grade One night as I sat at my desk, I had a very strange feeling, O' horrors! what was that? An army of ghosts that were reeling. They came silently treading along. Until they reached my room, Then they broke into a song. "Ohent! Robber! Destroyer! Dis-gracer!" Dis-gracer!" They pounded out nt me. But all that I could hear or see Was paper ghosts,, rubilfish ghosts Coming to torment me. I awoke then with a start. And began that very day . ' To do my bit to keep the school grounds clean. Johnny's Nightmare Helen Birch, 9th Grade It was a big clean up day at the school. Oh, how the children worked to clean the grounds. Their worst job was picking up scraps of paper that covered the grounds, and gave it a very untidy look. Finally, the work was completed, and the children stood back and proudly surveyed their work. Johnny was ready to start -home from school and he found that his IKckets were full of pajers of every sort that he had put there during the day because he was too lazy to go to the waste paper basket. At first he decided to go over to the garbage can and empty his pockets, but being a lazy fellow, he thought it much easier to empty them where he stood. So away fluttered the papers in every direction over the clean grounds. As he glanced back over his shoulders, he had a guilty feeling, but kept on going until he reached home, . That night when he was In bed and asleep, he had a very queer and disagreeable disa-greeable dream. He thought he was on the school grounds', and that a large horrible, grinning ghost was chasing him round and round the school house. Once' when he got uway from the ghost and breathed a long sigh of relief,' re-lief,' thousands of pieces of paper came fluttering at him. They clung to his mouth so he couldn't scream. They fastened his arms to his sides. They pinned ids shoes to the ground so he couldn't tun. The ghost was coming nearer and' nearer to him but he . couldn't, move, and all. the while .the. papers were screaming at. him, accus-; accus-; ing him-fov leaYnlg Thtfm on the school grounds. Suddenly two icy arms closed around him, and the ghost! had him fast. He felt himself thrown into the air. Then he was falling, falling. Bump! He lit with a loud thump and jiwokc to find himself on the floor. .The next morning. Johnny was at school early, picking up the' papers he had dropped there the night before. be-fore. : "A Ilallotve'cn Scare" Thelda Morrcll, 10th Grade I went to the Hallowe'en party given by the ninth and tenth grade students in the school building. We played Hallowe'en games and told ghost stories. Nearly every one was dressed in some costume. Everything Every-thing seemed so mysterious that 1 was almost afraid to go home. After the party, I came out of the school house and started for the gate. I could hear something coming J ehlud me, rattling like the bones used In the decorations for the party. I started to run for the car, but. the thing kept following me. Finally, safe in the car, I looked back to see what tt was, and to my great surprise saw a lunch paper blowing across the school grounds. What a shame that, we cannot even go to a party and be free from the nuisance of lunch papers! |