Gilman High School - Hi Lites Yearbook (Gilman, IA)

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SECOND Q THIRD GRADES W When our classes gathered in September, we found sev- enteen familiar faces in the second grade, and thirteen in the third grade. In January, Jerry Riley moved back and en- tered second grade. New additions to the third grade in the spring were Shirley Olson, Martha Brush, and Marvin Shine. Marlys Huiini moved in February, leaving fifteen third grade pup. s an etg een second graders. h goretta Egwery and Katherine Peak are the only ones who ave een nei er absent nor tardy. Each grade had two sets of new readers this year. Those gor tge segogd grade were, nFriends and Neighbors' and WMore rien s an 'eighbors. Those for the third grade were Streets and Roads and More Streets and Roads. c We have found that they contain many interesting stories about anim- als, people, and fairies. Other new books this year includ- ed 'Animals, Round the Year , The Insect Parade', An Aqua- r1um , Plants Round the Year , Doing Work , Water Appears and Disappears.n These were used by all the primary grades. Art work, especially that of the boys, has shown a def- inite patriotic trend. Bur materials have been crayons, co cred chalk and paint. Many mothers visited our room during National Education Week and at other times throughout the year. We are always glad to have them and others visit us. In late October we, along with the other grades, pre- sented the operetta, NThe Early Bird Catches the Wormn under the direction of Miss Gray. Most of us ordered garden seeds, and are planning vic- tory gardens for this summer. The third grade has studied units on the Farm Home,L1fe in a Large City, A Truck ska, Farm, and have learned the names of the continents !QqQgpe in their study of geog- raphy. They have learned XQ'feL9 how to carry in addition borrow in subtraction, '-aff'-jg multiply, and divide. The second grade hit, have learned all the ' We addition and subtraction have also learned to add are now learning how to .ant Q, ,free 4 giaefkggsgiebcombinations. fjgfqgpvawp. dollars and cents. We fvtgyfgifkfffwrite the ABC's. ,'f.LQ,,-gg'-gif At the end of the .T first semester the third fyyjft :P graders were given the Mah 3 T QKQQW agp 'lgf Iowa Every Pupil Tests. 44ff1 ,,Lf Q Qqifg' They have learned the use of ff ev the emtiensry, the index, '-4 the table of contents, and ffjgf 3f,4afi7 ' f4JgU reference books. IQAQEQEK jigzgxs ,!4?4gmJ' Our activities for the year QEEQJ7 E55 tvykqw 1 ended with a picnic of the pri- '-:qEff,di1v, ' mary grades at the park the last week of school. -25- I

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mousm gg FIFTH GRADES We had a.pBrfect record on our Junior Red Cross Honor Roll. We also have a Spelling chart to show us our progress in spelling. Four colors are used.' Blue--no words missed, yellow--one word, green--two words, and red--three words missed. Our Health Honor Roll succeeded in keeping most of our faces and hands clean. On our book table is a display showing the stages of our milk supply--from the cow to our table. Freddie Weaver brought some snails while several others brought frogs at the beginning of the year. ' In fourth grade health class we made health booklets on foods for healthy bodies. the care of the teeth and proper -CSM We also made posters 111- ustrating some phases of our health study. H -A if---N Our geography class ff' ,17ffa!!4'XXj!y5 ,.'f-.-- N studied many interesting 65 ,Q 'X -L 7 children. When studying a J, , , farm life, we made godel ' 'fw plans for a farm an put ' 2' 3 A them on oak tag. We gave fl ' ' . ' -1 reports on sea foods when Y -. N9 N, talking about fishermen. ,5fQXNM ff ' History is an inter- ' ' esting subject. We spent l', E23 !fQ7!! some time in marking ex- plorers' voyages on maps MANY A SPANKING FOR THISLLIE We succeeded in mastering our multi in different colors. Re- ports on these men were given from. time to time. pllcation tables in Arith- metic. Correct usage, short talks, letter writing, and poetry are some of the things we have done in fourth language. In the fifth grade we made a poetry booklet to be left in the room for others to enjoy. Some of the topics are: Weather, Trees, Birds, Holidays, Animals, People, Fun, Fairies, and Travel. Our next project took us into puppets. We all brought potatoes and string beans to art class to make animals. Also vegetable men proved interesting. We've illustrated jects. The Honor Roll so far this year is lowingg Fifth grade--Jo Ann Lovig and Jane Sears, Wayne Stonewall and Norma L. Stonewall took part in the Spelling contest. We gained Russell Shrine in the fourth grade but lost Richard Phillips. While losing Norma Hamre, we gained Mari- lee VandeKamp in the fifth grade. -25. out of colored paper many other art orc- composed of the fol- Norma L. Stonewall. Lili

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FIRST GRADE We do manuscript writing in first grade. We can print our ABC's, our names, and all the words that we've had in reading. In Numbers we have learned to count and write by ones to one-hundred, by fives to one-hundred, by tens to one-hun- dred, and by twos to one-hundred. We also learned our addi- tion combinations through 5 plus 9. Art has many interesting phases. We don't go out af the line when we color. We try to make it as neat as we can. Drawing and cutting are a lot of fun. We like to see how well we can draw and out things out free hand. Sharon Lee Long and Nancy Brown are especially outstanding in Art. Units made our studies more interesting. When wc read about transportation, we brought all kinds of transportation that we had. Toy cars, trucks, horses, wagons, etc. Pic- tures were drawn to illustrate the different ways of travel- ing. In our grocery store unit we brought boxes, cans and bread wrappers which we stuffed with paper to make it look like a loaf of bread. One pupil brought paper money and we learned how to count money and make change. It was great fun to play store. .One day We read a story about the farm and we decided to make a farm in Art class, so we gathered together all the cardboard we had and divided ourselves into groups. One group made the barn and silog one group a houseg one group a shedg one group pictures of a garden, oats, corn, and wheat, and another group made the fences. Someone brought a toy truck, car and a wheel-barrow. Toy animals were made to put in the poster. ' Our last large activity of the y ar was a Victory Gar- den. We used an oblong sand box. The boys brought soil to put in the box and the girls brought seed to sow, We had sweet corn, radishes, lettuce, 27. carrots, Swiss Chard, beets, 5ZQpi?5 zinnias and sweet peas. These ' J B 9 were planted in V-shape rows. qQ'5'ifH , l,ijj:2 Outside of our Victory Qarden, tgi 'WL6 Qizigggfgym in tin cans, we planted field f4QmQZjJ5jU' Epzflwkr! corn, sweet corn, potatoes, beans, and oats. To brighten up our school- . 2x,4gf room, one of the girls brought kgkfgfzes bright colored material to cover 'X f f7xf the open shelves, and our teacher K klfpj' j Miss Ver Ploeg, brought a fish ,Qxj,X, I j bowl with water plants and two Qggffsgsig' Q34 goldfish. We had a lot of fun I fb L, Q seeing the fish come to the top ,f,,WfrL4,Q2kj?' of the water to get the food that '4'i+i lhqiiiii we fed them. -27- 'h'