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Show WOODWARD SCHOOL i The P. T. A. sponsored a "pen-! ny day" to help with the school! playground accident mud. Every! room went well over 100 per cent with Miss Larson's running! 200 per cent and . Miss Seegmil-j Ier's a close second. j The two fifth grades have been1 studying about the life of Steph-; en C. Foster and his songs. After j having the story of his life read! to them, they were asked to1 write it in their own words. Of-the Of-the two grades this was chosen as the best, from Miss Seegmil-ler's Seegmil-ler's room. The Life of. Stepheu o. Foster By Emma Jane Schoonfold Stephen C. Foster was horn July 4, 1S26 in Pittsburg, Penn-j sylvania. He was. born while the Pittsburgh band was playing 'The Star Spangled Banner." Hisj parents were cultured and well! to do people who believed in a good education. From the time he was a very small child he' was a musical prodigy. pro-digy. He wrote many songs when he was very young and his first "Open Thy Lattice," was published pub-lished when he was only sixteen. From that time on he was very well known for his many negro melodies. He wrote one hundred and twenty-seven in all. 1 But though he wrote many fine songs. He was always very poor. "Oh Susanna," and "Uncle Ned," he gave to a friend who sold them for $10,000. "Old Folks at Home," -was the most popular of all his songs. His life would have been a greater success if he had not spent his money for drinking. He was killed in New York in an accident when he was thirty-eight thirty-eight years old. His body was taken back to Pittsburgh where he was buried beside his parents. Miss Cox's second grade We are studying about trees. We are learning all the names of our trees by collecting leaves in in 'and pressing them Every"" piS"0". 'n our 'room haTeheah0reading C'Ub '""I stori thl t, yaDd 6irlS i rd during r w e intakes charge of ou'mee l nl the secretary read? tht ;have stones. Our president for i is week is Clark McMullin an, ! 6 "cretary is Gaye Graff i 'T w read stories last Fri Suovf? CIal'e Cameron' A,raal Graff' E",a ""bury, and Gaye! much. eDJOyed them Mrs. Bradford's third grade-We grade-We are g01ng to f & books this year and have made --envelopes to put our hooj win? a HbraTy in our n I H good books and magazines! 1,1 that we like to read after, we' Bet our lessons. j We are studying motor trans-' l'O'.tation, so we are goin toj ake an oil we1l, a -gasoUne! storage tank, a service station,! and some camp cabins on our! sand table. Miss Foremaster's fourth grade! On Friday aftornoons we have a reading circle. Dick Miles is j president and Dawn Andrus is secretary. We are trying to be-! long to the State Reading circle.! In order to do this we must read twelve books. Paul Thompson! has read the most hooks so far. Dawn Andrus is head of the j puppet show committee. Last! Friday they put on their show of j (Continued on last page) ! 0 j WOODWARD SCHOOL (Continued from page five) Columbus in three acts. It was well done. We like it very much. Miss Sorenson's fourth grade j We have found our study of Co- 1 lumbus very interesting. After we had read all the stories and j poems about Columbus that we could find we thought it would : be fun to try writing some poems j . of our own. We had some very good ones handed in. Miss ETeegmiller's fifth grade In our room we have been studying our spelling in a very j I interesting way. Our teacher j gives us our wards Monday. We study them all through the week, j Then we have a test Friday. This week we had a test of all the words we have had this year. There were sixty all together. The following pupils had one hundred per cent O.K.: Leon1 Watson, Mary Judd, Emma Jane1 Schoenfield, Carol Sullivan, Jessie Jes-sie Gibbons, Lue Wen Atkins, Helen Bentley, and Muriel Can-Mr. Can-Mr. Stucki's fifth grade We are studying about Admiral Byrd : and the class is very interested) in him. They are trying to make some of the things that he took with him down . to the South Pole. We are making a sand table. We are divided up Into groups. Each group is making ; something about him. |