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Show WOODWARD NEWS NOTES Major activities reported at the Woodward school fourth grades this week were projects in history and geography dealing deal-ing with the pioneer life and early settling of Dixie. The project proj-ect is carried over into language and art work also. The teachers. Misses Florence Fore-master and Ruth Soreuson, have had groups of youngsters si-curing pioneer history and telling tell-ing the information they had gathered to the class. Classes in fine are application and art appreciation were started start-ed tin's week in Harold Snow's seventh grade and Miss Linda Larson's sixth. The lessons are taught by Mrs. George Lytle, who for several years previous to her marriage taught art courses in high school. Payment for the instruction in-struction is to be made by Mr. Snow and Miss Larson. Max Empey brought a pet rabbit to school one day last week, and Miss Harmon's first grade had their first reading lessons les-sons from stories they made up about it. They named the rabbit Snowball, and after they had written a story, they showed their pet and read their story to pupils of the second, third, fourth and fifth grades. The seventh grade students I are working on a Columbus day program to be presented on Fri-i Fri-i day, October 9. The program will consist of songs, readings and playlets, and parents and i friends are invited to attend. To promote more originality in language and art expression, . second grade students of Mrs. . Berneice Robbins have told stor-; stor-; ies and painted pictures of their pets. A small library has been established es-tablished in the fifth ' grade, taught by Miss Bessie Atkin, and the students are having a reading read-ing contest which will extend over a period of four months. They are also learning health laws and rules of language. One of Mrs. Rose Graham's first grade students found a small china doll, and the whole class is helping to dress it. Boys and girls alike have made dresses. dress-es. Tuesday they moulded clay dolls, and during the rest of this week they intend to make a doll house out of an orange crate. A boll of a cotton plant which Mrs. Graham has had potted and in her room, burst last week, and students of all the school have been in to see it. Her first and second grade students are studying cotton culture in nature na-ture wcrk. A reading circle has been organized or-ganized is Miss Tillie Winsor's third grade. Billie Morris is president pres-ident and Maude Bentley is secretary. sec-retary. Dixie College training students will begin observation in special rooms this week. After a short observation period they will begin be-gin actual practice teaching. Critic teachers are Vernon Worthen, Wor-then, Vivian Frei, Mishie Seeg-miller, Seeg-miller, Rose Graham, Emily Harmon, Har-mon, Tillie Winsor and Karl E. Fordham. The boys and girls of Mrs. Graham's first and second grades, Miss Winsor's third, and Miss i Seegiuiller's fifth, hare been i made very happy by the presentation presen-tation of citizenship training 1 books by the education department depart-ment of the Dixie College. Each students is a member of Uncle Sam's citizenship training corps. Work on the "Weekly Readers" Read-ers" has started in the fifth grade of Miss Seegmiller. Reading Read-ing lessons from the new folders fold-ers are given one or two days each week. |