Fort Worth Country Day School - Flight Yearbook (Fort Worth, TX)

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a. ,lulia Butterfield and Elizabeth Beier discuss their upcoming Hhotw dates. b. Miss Forsyth catches the eameraas eye. e. Witch Jodie Robbins enjoys scaring people on Halloween. d. Third ilrarle-rs perform their annual Halloween program for the Lower School. e. Tim Williams does his impression of 'ililvisw during the Middle School's Hlfiftics Dayfi f. uDr. Dixon, l presumefw masked Kindergartners aren't certain who the man with the funny face on really is. 1' i 'LJ 45 'XM A ,Hwy ,V asv' fl if Nr .Q-agtwm QQ , f 'F 7 5 . V ,:i,, p J .QT

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I pooks And Goblins Cavort 4'Trick or Treatli' g'OooooohI', i'MeoW.', Did you get a pumpkin?', 'eLook at that green Witch! ltis Cynthia Parker. uYeah, and look at Greg Stephens With that black cape and those fangsf' On Wednesday, October 31, Halloween came to Country Day again. Third graders Guy Holland, Eric Gardner, Michelle Phillips and Pamela Corbett won first prizes for the ugliest, funniest, most unusual and cutest pumpkins. Third graders also did Gertrudeis Broom with Gertrude the Witch fl-Brooke Hydej, Scratch the Cat fTommie Duncanj and Boogie-Woogie Ghost QStacey Sheltonj. Orange paper sack pumpkins, totem poles and masks enlivened the atrium. The Middle School Student Council organized a uFifties Dayf' Kathy Stoddard fEighth Gradej and Bill Cowan fSiXth Gradej slickly won firsts as Mr. and Miss Grease. With their over-sized sweaters and their long, straight skirts, Miss Forsyth and Mrs. Mattiza added to the nostalgia. At the party, Middle Schoolers demonstrated skills by dunking for bubble gum, shaving balloons, doing the cupcake Walk and taking part in the dog race. Scream- ing 'teenie boppers thrilled to the tunes of Elvis Presley fTim Williamsj and Chubby Checker QPeter Courtneyj. ,,- ., V ,, g, f , V 5, vw D -M wa, , 0, ,, . MW' 11: Q MN! H fi 5 1 I .3 , 1 age 2, V F 'L J .1 - . is ,Q -NIV 3 , 'carry 5 Y i g yissst , K -fi 5 wus, . Q. ,. i ff' K 1 b- ,..,,. fi' Qi E f it I PN-... W 1-,XX -. ,N XX N'-xxj x -C PN-.X XX.. , xxx ii 'Q , . . Mxix is, I TNNN, iii QQ , ' is

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How D0 You a The Language Department at CDS offered French and Spanish to students from the Third through the Fifth and the Seventh through the Twelfth Grades. The Lower School French students worked on vocabulary pertaining to parts of the body, weather and other conversational words. They learned French numbers by playing nu' merous games of bingo. The Lower School Spanish stu' dents got a taste of Latin American culture through lis- tening and dancing to the autoharp and the maracas with Mr. Venagas. The kids worked hard at learning all the pieces of furniture and parts of a house from a large poster. Mr. Schwartz offered Latin to Seventh Graders. They translated chapters from his Hlittle bookf' The Seventh Grade French students acted out dialogues and plays while the Eighth Grade Frenchers worked on grammar, used phonetic spellings to aide them in pronunciation, and wrote scripts for silent cartoons about Monsieur Carre . The Middle School Spanish students used photo- graphs of themselves as characters of Spanish stories, and reviewed their vocabulary with flashcards. The Eighth Graders acted out chapter supplement wordsw and had group sessions about dialogues. That In... . l 5 ,ss 1 365' At Christmas time, French III had a party at Kipis with Mr. Avery and Mrs. Knecht. Academics were as follows: French I, Il, and III studied composition and grammarg French IV worked on novels that dealt with existential- ism while French V studied the history of French litera- ture. The Upper School Spanish students learned to un- derstand and speak as well as read and write through the ALM program. Spanish III discovered that the chapter readings turned from a few paragraphs in Spanish II to a short story in Spanish III. The AP Spanish students studied nineteenth gand twentieth century authors in Spanish. WW s 4 ' , aid fifty E f 3 ' , f,,,.ffi tae. N vw me- 't .5 Q 2. til -Hg