Show T y TY School Notes ea Mrs Airs Andersons Anderson's Primary Unit The children in Mrs 1 Anderson's Andersons Andersons Anderson's An An- dersons derson's Primary Unit arc are finding many interesting rocks and insects to bring to school This week we have been learning about the thc per These are arc some of the things we have learned about them Their chief food is the leaves of plants or the farmers farmer's crops So the farmer hopes they will all be eaten by the birds or that the wasps will sting them and carry them off for food for their young ones Sometimes there are arc so many grasshoppers the farmer poisons them In the summer the young grasshoppers may get as many manyas as five suits because he grows so fact his old skin bursts and he comes out in a new suit All summer he sings and eats but he has made no home nor stored any food for winter so he must die They use their front legs as we do our hands Their hind legs are strong for jumping Their ears are under their hind legs They have delicate thin wings and can fly but they usually jump They have tough front wings that cover and protect the back wings They produce their chirping songs by rubbing their hind legs against their wings In the summer the mother grasshopper lays her eggs in inthe inthe inthe the ground The next spring they hatch They look like their parents only that they are very small For our weight if we were a grasshopper we could ge to school in a hurry because we could jump at least half a block at a time Mr I Adams Grade Well hi there Were We're back again to report about our school class in reading writing arithmetic social studies health ana and spelling too In reading we have a new program called SRA which means to Survey Read and Answer In writing we have written letters to people and to our our- selves In arithmetic we have done division until it is coming out of our ears In social studies we have studied the earth and early earlyman earlyman earlyman man and how he lived and learned Now we are studying the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic In health we are arc studying the human body and how it works In spelling we have had spelling ball baU games and tests Reporters Kaye Goodwin Theressa Lowry June Cox and Grades NAVAJO I have chosen this tribe of Indians because I r would like to know about the Indians that lived on the reservation that we visited on our trip to Ari MI- zona This was the Navajo Indian We Ve took pictures and looked looked looked look look- ed inside a Navajo hoggan We Ve also treated some Navajo children We Ve felt sorry for them because it was so hot and dry and they looked quite dirty The Navajo Indians are no noted noted noted no- no ted for the fine and beautiful rugs The rugs are made of wool with native dyes and na native native native na- na tive patterns It takes many hairs to weave a rug but more practice makes it so they can cango cango cango go quite fast Each rug has a special pattern but they dont don't want it to be perfect because a perfect design is considered unlucky Navajo men make beautiful silver jewelry in a style learned learned learned learn learn- ed from Mexico 1 many years ago Many 1 Navajo Indians live In earth-covered earth dwellings called called call call- ed hoggans Many Tany of the In Indians Indians Indians In- In have long hair and wear silver trimmed moccasins and bright colored clothing But others wear more modern clothes and live like we do Navajo children learn to ride burros and horses when they are arc young The girls start when they are young to learn to cook maize in a shape of a pancake pancake pancake pan pan- cake weave rugs keep house tend younger children and other things the women do The boys work Is to tend sheep and goats If there is ismore ismore ismore more than one boy to a family then they trade off ore days to herd the flock When they are not herding the animals they work with their father Carol Cox Cot |