Richburg Central School - Quill Yearbook (Richburg, NY)

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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.

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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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Grade 5 (entreme left group) left to right (seated): Mary Lou Sisson, Elton Thurston. Robert Dennis, Ellodene Den- nis Betty Lou Lamb, Dennis Allen. Stand- ing Charles Woodkirk, Patricia Ann Lewis Audrey Murray. Grade 4 (center group) seeted: Frank A an. Standing: Guy Ham- • r.art Herring Mack Ray Wells. G■ -ide 6 (eitrema right) standing: Bruce B, «n Burton Allen Miss Louise Updyko (teacher). Manley Dennis, Denzil Per i.m Jr.. Arthur Higby. Sitting: Delores Carlson. Dora Crooks. Clarksville No. 1 GRADES 4-5-6 (UPPER ROOM) A GAME is being made of the fundamentals needed in arithmetic in the third grade. This particular lesson shown in the picture is a pupil conducted drill in multiplication. The farm on the sand-table is the center of home activity studied throughout the year in the first grade. This unit correlates with our English and art. A free reading period is being enjoyed by the second grade. GRADES 1-3 (LOWER ROOM) HOBBIES are being discussed in a socialized English class including the three grades of the room. During our school year we have centered our attention upon hob- bies. A feeling of self-assertion has been developed by each child explaining his hobby. Interest in others has increased, as we have invited guests to display their hobbies. Newspaper articles are being searched to find what type of hobbies other people enjoy. In our work we have broadened our experiences and created new interests that go to make up those ideals and objectives desired in modern education. Third grade at the blackboard: Jessie Kingsbury. Betty Lou Dennis, Gretta Carlson. Junior Carlson. Carlyle Short, Miss Ruth Briggs (teacher). Fir:t grade at the sand-table: Malcolm Woodkirk. Junior Hopkins. Billy Higby. Cs:il Cheney. Clifford Waters. Second grade at their seats: Eleanor Baxter, June Allen. Charles Crooks. Hazel Sisson. Teddy Butts. Barton Bowen. Anna Mae Burch.