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Show Grade School Notes FIRST and SECOND GRADES We have new books. They are called Number Stories, Book Two. We like them very much. Betty Jean Thompson We have two new girls in our room. Their names are Beftty Sue and Effie. We like the new girU very much. They are iboth in the first grade. Bobby Osborne. FOURTH GRADE The Sequoia Tree The sequoia trees are the oldest trees in America. There is a sequoia se-quoia tree named after General Sherman. It is thought to be more than 3,500 years old. This tree is 273 feet high and 116 feet around. They grow on an elevation between be-tween 6,000 to 7,000 feet above sea level in California. We gee the word sequoia from an Indian fr)om the Cherokee trilbe n,amed Sequoyah. He made the Cherokee alphabet. Elmer Anderson. The iSequoia Tree The sequoia tree is Ithe largest kind of tree ever known. It is 273 feet high or aibout as high as a 2b story skyscraper. The trunk of the tree measures 116 feet around. The wford sequoia se-quoia came from the name of a famous Cherokee Indian who livea in our country about 100 years ago. If the sequoia tree could talk it could tell of the life long ago. It could tell of the wild animals ani-mals that once walked ibeneath its branches. One sequoia tree has a road built through it. Giant sequoias se-quoias are often called big trees. They are different from the redwoods red-woods which also grow in Califor-oia. Califor-oia. Both are evergreen trees and have cones. Jacquelyn Nichols. SIXTH GRADE The Herring The herring is the most important import-ant food fish in the world. It is said that about three billion ana a half are taken each year out oi the North sea and Atlantic ocean. Herring are found in the temperate temper-ate and colder parts of the north Atlantic. The chief fishing centers are the Grand Banks of Newfound-! Newfound-! land, a plateau which rises from i the sea bottom and on the Dogger I Banks near the east of Englana in the North sea. When it's time for spawning they gather in great schools. Herring are the greatest migrants among fishes. Their enemies are the cod, haddock, porpoise, por-poise, seal and whale, but their worst enemy is man. Their fooa consists of small creatures belong ing to the crayfish tribe. Max ' Roberts. An Interesting Lecture Yesterday Major Schoof of the Canadian mounted police gave a ; lecture and shewed skins of wild i animals. He showed us polar bears zebra, lion, snake and alligator j skins, Tx took him 50 years to, collect these things. He has been ! in the mounted police in Africa Mexico and Canada. He still spends his summers as a policeman in the Peace river valley of Canada Cana-da even though he is 72 years old. Dem Outzen. |