North Shore Country Day School - Mirror Yearbook (Winnetka, IL)

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Standing — McKnight, Vandereook, Chase, Cain, Getz, Gerard, Hamm. Floor — Bowman, Tom Taylor, Kranz, Kolby, Simmons, Patrick, Wham, Packard, Paulman. 3rd Ljrude We have had some pets this year. First we had a rahbit who was the son of Thumper, the rabbit we had in the Second Grade. This baby was horn on July Fourth, and that is why we named it Firecraker. We have goldfish, and we found that algae formed in the bowl. So we found a science book that would tell us about a balanced aquarium. We bought water-plants and snails to keep the water clean, and we planted them in sand from Bert ' s beach. We have made several plays — some for Morning Ex and some for ourselves. We made the play for Valentine ' s Day with the First Grade. This year we started spelling for the first time, and we are making dic- tionaries of words we need to know. We have been writing stories, and we have been illustrating them. We have been reading a lot of interesting books, and we have a library of our own. Sometimes some of us read stories to the Kinder- garten children. We have had a lot of science. In the fall we learned how plants get ready for next year. They make buds that will open in the spring. Some buds, like the horse chestnuts, are sticky, to keep the birds away. We found galls on some branches, and we found leaves that bugs had eaten so that only the veins are left. We have examined many things under the microscope. We have used mag- nets, blown glass, tested foods with iodine to find starch, and experimented witli litmus paper. We are keeping a notebook of all the science experiments that we have made. We grew narcissus bulbs in stones, and we planted geranium slips in soil and they have blossomed. We have experimented with growing vegetables in water and in soil. We like the third grade.

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4-tn K-jrade This year in the fourth grade we have done a lot of interesting things. One of the things I liked best was when we studied about pre-historic animals. We made a mural about it which everyone helped to paint. It showed how the earth was formed from the time of volcanoes up to the dinosaurs. One day we went to the Winnetka Library. The librarian took us down to the Story Hour room and read us a story. We went to the fire-house too. The fire chief told us how to prevent fires. We saw where they slept, and we found out what the duties of the firemen were. We read a lot of books about George Washington and then made our own play. We called it The Making Of The First Flag. Another play we gave was a play called The Gingerbread Man. After the play we had gingerbread boys to eat. Our grade is very interested in foreign lands. We are studying about Green- land. We painted a mural about Greenland and put it in the hall outside our door. On March twentieth the whole class went to the Field Museum. We bad lunch there, and saw many of the animals we had studied about. Seated- ted — J. Sears, J. Blunt, R. Lowry, D. Shapiro, J. Kirkpatrick, J. Atwood, A. Harriet, T. Greenough, L. Hum- phries, Mrs. Killian, R. Vandercook, L. Clore. Floor — A. Bower, E. Waller. E. Isham, R. Howard, B. Cunningham, V. Adams, E. Favill. 38

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Back — Osborn, Graves, Colton, Atwood, Selz, Hines. Second row — Donnelly, Harper, Kidder, Alsdorf, Humpries, Anderson. Third row — Wallace, Wilcock, Smith, Michels, Dunham, Ruggles. d Ljrade :n We have had several pets this year. Cotton tail was our rabbit. Smelly was our mud turtle, and Nancy brought more than twenty fish for our aquarium. We learned many things about Indians, especially the ones that used to be around Winnetka. We found out how the people lived long before the Indians. They were Tree Dwellers and Cave Dwellers. We made a movie about them. At Christmas time we went carolling, and after Christmas vacation we began Spelling. Spelling is fun. We built a store from orange crates and covered them with paper. We painted the paper like red bricks. We brought empty food boxes and cans to sell. We took turns being Store Keeper. Each of us has a purse with paper money in it. We made a movie about the story of food. We opened a cocoanut, grated it, and made cocoanut cookies. We had a party and showed the movie to the First Grade. We shared our cookies with them. We are watching the birds as they come back and are making pictures and poems about them. I love when the robins come back in the spring. They hop and they chirp and they sing. Their eggs are so blue, shining and new; Soon they ' ll hatch and be big robins too.