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Show 0k school nans ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY The fresh snow has afforded the kindergarten children the opportunity op-portunity of studying snowflakes. The children caught the falling i flakes' upon a black paper and ex-! ex-! amined them. Then they cut some large, lovely snowflakes out of ; paper napkins. The kindergarten children are constructing a doll house out of ; cardboard boxes and making clev- er pieces of furniture' from milk cartons. - Mrs. Gardner's first grade is beginning be-ginning to work on their assembly assem-bly program which promises' to be a lively and colorful event. Their program will be about the ;- circus and will feature everything ; from circus animals to trapez ;! acts and ballet dancers. ' Mrs. LaRue Burgess, elemen--, tary supervisor and talented artist ; visited the Roosevelt Elementary School two days this last week and gave the fourth, fifth and fl sixth grades some excellent dem-1 dem-1 onstrations of water color technique. tech-nique. She came into the various classrooms and painted' some love- - ly pictures as she explained how : i to mix colors and how to best 'i achieve effects in landscape paint-:j paint-:j ing. Students were very interested in the lessons and are eagerly ; trying to apply what they have learned. Many children have ex- - pressed their appreciation for these' special lessons. The two fifth grade classes en-j. en-j. joyed a film, "Deep Roots," which explained the lumber industry and - paper-making as well as the care of our forests and the replanting of trees. The film was part of a project on western states, which Mrs, Phillips' room has been studying. Mr. Mitchell's room is developing develop-ing an appreciation of our Amer- ican heritage through the' study t of the pioneer movement west-ward' west-ward' and the famous men who took part in it. Students are reading read-ing extra books for information and are writing and giving special reports. They are doing fine work and interest is high. In Mr. and Mrs, Blaines' sixth grade, radio scripts are of paramount para-mount interest at present. A committee com-mittee of students from the class recorded a radio script on the tape' recorder last week. It was a clever little radio play entitled "The Apple of Contentment." -The committee worked hard producing the play and' creating the sound effects and were very proud to play it for some of the other rooms in the school. Many students have written original or-iginal radio scripts which we plan to record soon. One of our best days was Friday, Jan. 20. That was the day we gave our assembly program. We had worked hard on it for three weeks'. We were so excited because it was the first assembly we had ever given. It was'' called "The Princess Chooses a Kitty." Marjorie' Dawn Crittenden was the Princess, Clifton Laris, the Town Crier; Joyce Wilkerson, a sweet little White Kitten that the Princess chose; and JanJet Knight was the lovely Dancer. The village boys and girls were: Dale Bascom, Dorothy Bird, Jack Buchanan, Kenneth Davis, Rosalie Rosa-lie Dennis, Allan Frandsen, Bert Jensen, ' David' Labrum, Galen March, Danny Miles, Gene Ostler, Jane Pike, Judy Sprouse and David Truman. And you should of seen the Kittens. Kit-tens. They were: Hilldra Brode'r-ick, Brode'r-ick, Robert Carter, Rocky Hansen, David Marx, Charles Mitchell, Nancy Olpin, Charles Stringham, David Young and Sherry Ausborn. Susan .Whitmore was sick and could not be there. We all had so much fun. We would like to give another assembly as-sembly program. Mrs, Harrison's First Grade |