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GRADE SCHOOL NEWS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1954
FIRST GRADE
We were pleased to have so many visitors during American Education Week. The following parents and friends came to visit our room: Mrs. Wm. Farley, Mrs. Bill Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Pardee, Mrs. H.D. Richardson and David, Mr. Frank Dolezilek, Mr. and Mrs. John Simekca, Mrs. Leroy Parr, Mrs. Albert Coleman, Mrs. A.M. Sieck, Mrs. Donic Parr, Mrs. Hope Meade, Mrs. John Foresman, Mrs. C.E. Gresser, Mrs. Oliver Tuller and Dennis, Mrs. Clyde Rogers, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Gene Reding and Doris Jean.
Myles Preble and Clyde Parr celebrated their birthdays recently by passing candy bars and balloons to the boys and girls. In art we made them birthday cakes. They also had their pictures taken for their mothers.
Jane Parr, Bobby Dolezilek and Carl Farley visited their dentist in St. Marys and have returned their pink dental cards.
We are becoming acquainted with spelling by having one easy spelling word a week. We have a Spelling Flight Chart on which our airplanes fly if we receive 100 on our words on Friday. We are happy to say all our airplanes are in the air. After Christmas we will have harder spelling lessons.
All of us have finished our second pre-primer. Some of us will finish our third one this week.
Larry Wehner told us of his first bus ride to Sabetha to visit his grandparents. His sisters, Helen and June, accompanied him.
Steven Pardee, Dale Stiles, Bonnie Tuller, Rudy Bailey and Bobby Dolezilek were absent because of illness this six weeks.
The next three weeks will find us very busy getting ready for our Christmas program, for our mothers, making gifts, decorating our room for Christmas and writing our letters to Santa Claus.
We all enjoyed our Thanksgiving vacation. Some of us stayed home and had family dinners. Others journeyed quite a distance to spend the day.
Aex Sieck was in Council Bluffs, Iowa, visiting his Grandmother and Grandfather Sieck over the holidays.
June Murray accompanied her parents and sister to Kearney, Nebraska, Thanksgiving Day, where she spent the week end with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L.W. Murray and Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Deaver. She also visited her two great-grandmothers.
John Simecka and Larry Wehner ate their Thanksgiving dinner at the home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Wehner in Delia.
Robert Dolezilek visited in Topeka with his brother George and family.
Tom Foresman and Clyde Parr ate dinner with their aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Max Lemon in Topeka.
Rudy Bailey was a visitor in the home of Dr. and Mrs. S.F. Zickenfoose Thanksgiving Day.
Dale Stiles had as his guests over the holidays, his aunt and uncle and cousins from Akron, Colorado. Also his grandfather from Anton, Colorado, was a guest.
Myles Preble and his parents ate Thanksgiving dinner with his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. J.N. Wood. Carl Farley was also in Manhattan for the day.
Jane Parr spent the day with her aunts, uncles, and little cousins at her Grandmother and Grandfather Keller at Delia.
The following ate Thanksgiving dinner at home with their parents and invited guests: Larry Reding, Allen Jackson, Bonnie Tuller, Susan Nadeau, Carolyn Gresser, Steven Pardee, and Mrs. Ramey.
SECOND GRADE
This is where we spent Thanksgiving – Carolyn Farley went to Manhattan. Vauncille Avers spent the day with her grandparents in Burlington. Bruce Shannon went to Auburn. Daryl Mitchell visited his grandparents at Paxico. Helen Wehner ate dinner with her grandparents at Delia. Rebecca Zeller went to Kansas City. Sandra Heiland went to Topeka to be with her uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. John DeGraff and family. Laura and Parker VanVleck left Wednesday noon for Fayettville, Arkansas. Freda McCollough ate dinner with her grandmother Burton in Wamego. Gary Dick went to Springfield, MO. Charles Meade spent the day with Mr. and Mr.s Max Lemon and family in Topeka. Diane Murray visited her grandparents and great-grandmother in Kearney, Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Challis ate dinner with relatives at Garrison.
Those of us who stayed at home and had company were: Virginia Stach, Donald and Ronald Harmon, Amy Jones, Dwight Martinek, Barton Larson, Artie Campbell, Henry Wade, Marilyn Trubey, Connie Bahner and Diane Cowan. Diane said there were fourteen guests at her house.
We are so sorry about Mr. Baker’s and Bruce’s accident.
Artie Campbell has joined the Boy Scouts. Parker VanVleck is also a member.
Vauncille Avers treated us to frozen chocolate turkeys on her birthday November 20th.
Marilyn Trubey, Rebecca Zeller, Helen Wehner, Henry Wade and Dwight Martinek were absent because of illness the past week.
Amy Jones, Charles Meade, Carolyn Farley and Connie Bahner have returned their pink dental cards since our last news.
We hope to have our Christmas decorations up very soon as our room looks so bare with our turkeys and other Thanksgiving decorations gone.
The First and Second Grades have started working on a Christmas program to be given before vacation. You will be hearing more about it, so plan to come.
THIRD GRADE
The boys and girls in the Third Grade came back from vacation with many exciting stories to tell about their vacations. Many of them took trips or had company visiting them for Thanksgiving.
The “Spelling Speedway” contest closed the last day before vacation with Linda Simecka’s race car coming in first. She hasn’t missed a spelling word since school started. Finishing close behind Linda were Douglas Kelsey and Myrna Perry. They both missed getting 100 only once. The race starts again with the start of the new six weeks period and everyone plans to move his car faster this time.
We had two birthdays in the Third Grade this month; Marilyn Simpson and Pat Royal. They both treated the class with candy bars.
Again it is time for grade cards and there are still 19 Third Graders who haven’t missed a day of school.
The honor students for this six weeks are Jimmie Fauerbach, Da Gee, Douglas Kelsey, Myrna Perry, Marilyn Simpson, Lillian Reser, Donna Tuller, and Connie Zeller.
We are now starting to work on Christmas decorations and are all looking forward to the visit from Santa Claus.
FOURTH GRADE
In checking our clean plate chart we find that of those eating at school regularly Judy McCollough, Bobby Stach, Jean Stiles and June Wehner have had clean plates since we started keeping the record in September.
Many of the children spent Thanksgiving away from home. Richard VanVleck in going to Arkansas traveled the farthest distance. All or most of the others had company come to their house.
FIFTH GRADE [notated from here forward is from December 9, 1954]
Christmas spirit is showing itself in all the rooms.
The fifth grade have been assigned to their parts for the assembly program which will be coming in the future. Further information as to time and date will be announced later.
In the fifth grade, we’ve been working long division and some division in fractions.
Improper fractions are still giving trouble to some.
In English, we are building sentences and learning the different kinds of sentences.
We have about 90% of the class this six weeks with an A average in spelling. Phonics and lots of practice are helping our spelling.
We had a birthday in our room last week. We wish Buddy Mogus many more Happy Birthdays.
Our Safety Motto is – Stop! Look! And Live!
Maxim: Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
SIXTH GRADE
The boys and girls in our room were very sorry to hear that Mr. Baker had to be hospitalized. We are studying hard and trying to do just what he would want us to do during his absence.
We are very glad Mrs. McClellan is helping us, but we will be happy to have Mr. Baker back again.
Mr. Baker had our room decorations for Christmas planned and nearly prepared before the Thanksgiving Holidays. We put up his decorations and fixed the room just the way we thought he would want it. We hope he can see it soon.
We wrote letters to Mr. Baker for our English assignment Monday, December 6.
Our reading class has continued our study of phonetic sounds. We have been studying prefixes and suffixes. Each student is keeping a list of words in his note book.
Wanda Harmon and her parents spent Saturday in Topeka.
J.W. Adams visited his Oculist Saturday and was glad to find that he had no ill effect from an eye injury received last summer.
J.W. Adams and his father have completed an outdoor Christmas scene for their home.
Gene and Dean Davis had a busy weekend. They helped their father repair the pony pen. They assisted their mother with some house work, and last but not least, enjoyed a visit from their grandmother, Mrs. E.P. Bahner.
Wayne Miller reports that his parents have moved into the Bailey home and they are now comfortably settled.
Curtis Berkey helped his father build fences and feed-troughs this weekend.
Sally Nadeau attended the 4-H Achievement party in Topeka last Saturday.
Don Rogers and his mother did their Christmas decorating last weekend.
In the Spelling Contest for our grade the scores for last week’s total ran as follows: “Yankees” 100%, “Termites” 95% and “Indians” 96%.
Mr. Baker will be happy to know that our room again has the highest percent in church attendance. We are very pleased about it, too.
All of us are counting the days until Christmas – Are they sure the days before Christmas are the shortest – They seem like the longest days to us.
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