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January 13, 1955
"Progress of the Grades"
Rossville Grade School
FIRST GRADE
We are happy to be back in school after our nice, long vacation. Most of us stayed home and had lots of fun playing with our toys Santa Claus left us.
All of us would like to express our thanks to Mrs. Wehner, Mrs. Parr, Mrs. Foresman and Mrs. Simecka for the lovely refreshments they served after our Christmas Program. We also appreciated the nice attendance at our program.
Visitors in our room since our last news are the following: Mrs. Lorraine Bailey, Mrs. Frank Dolezilek, Mrs. Francis Pardee, Mrs. Nadeau and Mr. Simpson. Please come again!
Alex Sieck and June Murray have returned their pink dental cards.
We are working hard on our letters, sounds and spelling words. We made little Snowmen Books to write our spelling lessons in.
Many of us are doing outside reading. Several of us received a set of Alice and Jerry pre-primers for Christmas. We can see much improvement in our reading.
Mrs. Ramey showed us three films this week which we enjoyed a lot. We plan to have films every Thursday.
Bobby Dolezilek came back to school proudly wearing a new pair of glasses.
Alex Sieck spent part of his vacation at his grandparents in Iowa.
Our room certainly looks nice. Mr. Dolezilek worked hard during vacation to have it nice and clean for us. We are trying to cooperate and keep it looking that way.
Mrs. Shortall, our school nurse, paid us a visit recently.
In Art, we have just completed our snowmen and Kansas sunflowers.
Rudy Bailey is nicely settled in his new home.
SECOND GRADE
We were all glad to see each other after our Christmas vacation.
Some of us took trips during vacation. Virginia Stach went to California with her family. She told us many interesting things about her trip and brought back olives and fresh dates to treat us on her birthday.
Barton Larson went to Lyndon, Rebecca Zeller to Manhattan and Helen Wehner went to Sabetha. The rest of us stayed home and played with our Christmas gifts, which included bicycles, dolls, dogs, ponies, trucks and many other nice things.
Dwight Martinek treated us to popcorn balls a few days before Christmas. He also made the frame for our fireplace. Freda McCollough gave us our Christmas tree.
Gary Dick and Henry Wade treated us to candy on their birthdays.
Daryl Mitchell had his tonsils removed during vacation.
Artie Campbell ran a wire into his leg and had to have three stitches taken in it. Ronald Harmon stepped on a nail while playing at home.
We appreciate so many coming to see the program given by the Primary Grades before Christmas. Glad you liked it.
Parker and Laura VanVleck have moved to town. Parker isn't very happy about leaving the farm.
In Science we are watching for our winter birds and are remembering to put food and water out for them.
THIRD GRADE
The boys and girls in the Third Grade came back to school with wonderful New Year's resolutions to work harder, help mother more, and be good boys and girls. All of them are working hard to keep their resolutions and very few of them have been broken.
In the present Spelling race Linda Simecka, Myrna Perry and Connie Zeller are in the lead with Douglas Kelsey, Joe Mitchell, Jimmy Fauerbach, Daniel Gee and Lillian Reser following very close.
We have had one birthday this month; Myrna Perry treated us with ice cream bars.
For Art the boys and girls in the Third Grade have decorated their room's windows with snowmen and snowflakes. Most of their pictures now will be about Kansas until after Kansas Day.
All but two of the students in the Third Grade have read more than the eight required library books and many of them have read more than twenty books.
Marilyn Simpson had her tonsils removed during Christmas vacation but she is feeling fine now although she must keep quite in her activities for awhile.
Since we have been studying good posture habits in health, we are starting a posture contest between two teams in the room. Through this contest we hope to eliminate all slouching and carelessness in posture.
FOURTH GRADE
Our motto this week is, "No person is too big to be courteous, but many are too little."
The safety thought is Don't be a Jay, Play the safe way.
Last Tuesday the children each brought a Christmas game or toy and enjoyed sharing it with others during the rainy play periods. Carla Rasch came out the checkers champion.
We are learning the tables of sevens now in multiplication and division.
Those who made perfect scores in all the new lessons in regular spelling class are Anna Ent, Michael Gresser, Roger Hurley, Sharon Irwin, Judy McCollough, Carla Rasch, Virginia Rezac, Bobby Stach, Janice Vanderblomen and June Wehner.
In the supplementary Spelling Class perfect grades were made by Dale Dannefer, Sharon Irwin, Judy McCollough, Carla Rasch and Jean Stiles.
The Fourth Grade will have the assembly this month. We are planning it for Wednesday morning, January 26, at 9:15. We will welcome all of you parents who can come.
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Date: January 13, 1955
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Credit Information: The Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas
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