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

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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'

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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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ffX,,,f'N .. Ver 'L V- KINDERGsnTEN f' ,N We have a lot of fun drama- ,, tizing, retelling, and making up stories. Little Red Riding FK g Hood and The Three Bears were our favorites. we have telling time every day. It's fun to Q'uQ ,A tell our playmates what we did N' Lx 9 f after school. ,Jb- ' f f In numbers, most of us can KJ' R' IQ? N ' count to 50 or lOO and we can E9 read them up to lO. Efiedf' We liked the free activity period the best. Wesebuld draw, color, play with our toys, or anything else we enjoyed doing. At the first of the year ve didn't have any consid- eration for our classmates, but as time passed we developed a liking and learned to ploy and work with each ether. ' We had several special units such ns: the grocery store, the circus, the airport and the postofflee. One day we took n trip to the city post office, and saw all the boxes and where our mail is sorted. Our reading was made interesting by stories, personal, and group experiences, labels, games, and our teacher drew pictures on our seatwork which we vere allowed to color. Af- ter going through our workbookNEefore We Rerdn we read in the ' first Pre-primer We Look and See. 'V-JL: new have a vocabulary of 50 or more verde. Every one of us can write our name in man- uscript writing. We studied several differ- Richard Riley, and Sharon Haney. ent themes, such ns: school, playground, pets, food, travel, etc. ,cffg We enjoyed listening to a 'tfhlx fglgg radio program once every day ff 5.411 and twice on Friday called The Q. , K Q V Chil5.rens'Corner Hour over WOI. fjegg Here we heard music and stories f f fdrlfhviw which gave us much joy. KQV Ll February brought a great , 4 , fl, frxt, .K experience into our lives. Our QQ-xfv J teacher, Mrs. Maron, left us, . N Kris and Miss Kinzer became our new Ng, teacher. -1 ,lln We began the school year K with 22 pupils. Since then we Ci, M, N' have lost l girl and l boy,Mary 49 . Walker and Richard Gallentine, U and gained 3 boys and l girl, 3,1--Efxxgffi -12-Q2,:,yL,?E !-Jaw, Jimmy walter, Larry Anderson, -2g-