Richburg Central School - Quill Yearbook (Richburg, NY)

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i- First row: Mary Lou McCrea. Saunders Kenyon. Gordon Mason. Doris Clark, Howard Green. Dona d Shannon. Second row: Edwin Gibbon. George Cowles. James Cornelius. Dorothy Jordan. Edward Wallace, Laura Earl. Third row: Wayne Milliman, Donald Otis, Nedra Burrows. Wesley McCrea. Jerry Faulkner. Fourth row: Irving Burdick, Alfred Jones. Gerald Monahan. Janet Billsborough. Keith Steiner. In the extra seat is Earl Harriger. Miss Mary Hornsby (teacher). Absent from picture: Edith Greene and Virginia Cooley. Second Grade HERE the second grade boys and girls are writing their spelling lesson in a class that combines spelling and writing. Although reading is still important, second graders begin to make use of the A B C’s, as spelling is introduced in this year of school work. They begin by studying the alphabet until they are sure that they can recognize the letters; then they learn to spell simple words. Towards the end of the year, they can spell quite difficult ones. Their writing improves, too, in this year at school, because they are more accus- tomed to holding a pencil and to following lines. This year they tried an experiment. When their pencil writing became very good, Mr. Loomis made ink one day in their science class. Then they used it for some of their lessons, but they found that it was more difficult than writing with pencil. The second graders are in a health competition with the first graders. Their rules and the points which they get are the same as the rules which the third and fourth grades have.

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First row: Carol Cole. Leo Kenyon. Barbara Womer, Elaine Corbin, Elizabeth Corbin, Oliver Ames- bury. Second row: Harriet Sharp. Ward Keech, Carl Monahan. Kermit Billsborough, Jean Dutton, Betty Kuhn. Third row: Marjorie Ramsell, Llewellyn Monroe. Joan Webster. Mary Ann Dixson. George Steiner. Fourth row: Robert Sortore, Anne Jandrew, Julia Cook. Earl Jandrew. At the table: Lester Stuck, Betty Sutherland. Evelyn Hedden, Frances Burlingame. Elvin Cline. William Hosmer. Mrs. Cady (teacher). Absent: Geraldine Burch. Marjorie Middaugh. Sherman Foster, Naomi Pangburn. Third Grade THE students in this picture show how diligently they study geography in the third grade. They begin the study of geography in this grade. On the walls are paper dolls dressed in cotton wool, linen, silk, and rubber. They have cotton growing in the room. They have made booklets illustrating land and water forms. These booklets have pictures and definitions of the different forms of land and water. They also made a picture of the shadow of one child, drawn at noontime. The shadow is taken four times a year: September, March, December and June. This is to show the change in the position of the sun, at different times of the year. The third grade have a health contest with the fourth grade. To win a health banner at the end of the week is the coveted goal. Twenty-nine points is a perfect score each day. This is a list of the points and how they are won: Head cleanliness 2. hair combed 2, brush teeth 5, clean hands 2. clean arms 2. clean nails 5, clean ears 2, clean face 2, clean neck 2, clean handkerchief 5, Friday showers 5, clean underwear 5. We have won the banner fifteen times this school year.

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First table (left to right): LeRoy Green, Lois Cowles. Ronald Green. Second table: Donald Foster, Jack Dutton. Patty Billsborough, Betty Stead. Winston Monahan. At Post Office: Lawrence Cook. Merrit Burdick. Circle: Gertrude Peterson. Herman Foster. Kenneth Skinner. Arthur Sharp. Norma Hardman. Shirley Hardman. Douglas Benjamin. Mrs. Carr (teacher). First Grade THESE first graders are very interested in getting the story which they are reading ■ just right. Neither do they want to miss any of it. The curriculum includes, as major subjects, reading, writing and arithmetic. Reading is the most important. Children are not ready to read on the first day of school. It takes from two weeks to perhaps four months to build up an interest in, and an understanding of. reading, before they can begin their first book. Through the year they expect to complete about three pre-primers, two primers, and two first readers. The child is expected to learn approximately six hundred new words. Arithmetic has been simplified in the new syllabus so that now we are only ex- pected to learn to count and write numbers to one hundred by I s, 5's, and IO's; learn the simple combinations whose sum is ten or less, and to understand a few simple mathematical terms. Activities correlated with social studies included a model Post Office named The Cotton Tail Hollow Post Office. and a model farm in the sand box. Correlat- ing art and science, the children put paper leaves and clay birds on a real branch to add to the landscaping around their play house which has been part of the first grade equipment for several years.