Pulaski Academy - Bruin Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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ii l uf' utter up. Using peanut butter and seeds, third grader Lee Edwards makes a bird feeder out of a pine cone. ringing home the loot. Kevin Trammel. first grader, brings back a sack full of apples after visiting an apple orchard. The first graders enjoyed the field trip and bringing back some apples of their own. 4 in seisfsssfftIsas:wsssM.sft.N,.s.s ....,,,. . , K X - a K 2 K K K N aw i'A X ar Q- 1 ,s,,MW ei? sasilisif' Y. L W . 3 eepers peepers. Third graders Angie ameron, Leslie Simons and julie Harris X watch closely as baby chickens hatch out of their shells. Lower School.87

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Littl Learnin Making volcanoes, learning Creole and contacting foreign countries. These were just a few of the activities that made up a lower school student's life. Learning to read, write and add took up much of a first grader's time. I, like math tests. They are fun because they are so easy. We also have read a bunch of books. I like to read, said first grader Sara Leonard. Health and Nutrition was also a favorite unit among first graders. Within this unit, the children prepared a nutritious lunch and took a field trip to an apple orchard. Learning cursive and writing pen- pals kept second graders busy. While they waited for letters from their out-of-town pen pals, students wrote reports on different countries of interest. They also invited their parents to come to school for a book conference to help with their book reports. Busywork. Third graders jason Croom and lason Clayton draw the background for a play which Mrs. Nancy Massey's room produced. We went to Mexico Chiquito for lunch, said second grader Bryan Fuller. I ate a whole bunch! We also made fish that looked like they were swimming in the sea with a lot of sunken treasures and sunken ships floating around. We used colored paper for the background and cut out the fish and glued them on. Learning to speak Creole and studying about Haiti were part of the third graders' academic program. One day they even had the opportunity to eat like poor Haitian children. To help with the problem of poverty in Haiti, the children did a chore or task at home to earn money for a collection that went to purchase food for some children in Haiti. I earned an allowance from cleaning the table and raking the leaves from the lawn, said Daniel Gold. Student teacher. Alexi Gomez, first grader, teaches her class the colors in Spanish. Alexi, who came from Columbia, was happy to teach her classmates some of the native language. open Wide. For a change of pace in the daily routine, Marie Pace, second grader, eats ra Japanese meal with her classmates that Mrs. Carolyn Itzkowitz's class prepared. L! ' 86.Academics a '40 .

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Li Learning Fourth graders learned to make volcanoes in their science class. After studying volcanoes and how they work, the children tried to duplicate this eruption by producing miniature volcanoes in their rooms. I took clay and put it in a can and took paper and stuffed it into the can, said Lori Binz. Then I put matches and powder in it. jonathan Baumgardner said, Mom went and bought me some Playdoh, and we took a can and put the Playdoh around the can. I put vinegar and red food coloring in it. I boured baking soda in it, and it blew up. Oceans, sound, bones and muscles were just a few ofthe topics that were on fifth graders' minds. A doctor came in as a special speaker to talk about bones and muscles and how they work. Students also whafs up Doc? Reagan Duncan and Brett Heaston study their pet rabbit 'Thumper' for a farm unit. Third graders raised rabbits for study. 88.Academics learned parts of a newspaper and put their knowledge to work to make their own newspaper booklets. It was herder to get facts than to draw comics, and sometimes you can't get what you want, said Patrick Schuek. Mindy Moore said that working on the newspaper was a lot of fun. We had different sections, and I learned a lot about newspapers and how they work, Greek mythology was one of the social studies topics taught to sixth graders. They also learned about foreign affairs and sent letters to other countries to add to their learning experience. I wrote to Swaziland in Africa, said Shannon Hulett. We wrote a real informal letter that we needed information and pamphlets about their countries. Put on a happy face. First grader, Krista Cordan has her face painted by Mrs. Sunny Hawk. llfiti X L fwsf 1. amp.. .... . , .