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

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HOW WE FOUND GLACIAL STONES One sunshiny day, we went to the lake to get some stones from the beach. Frederic Helmholz found a big stone in a bank of soft clay. The clay was left there by a great glacier that covered Canada and the northern part of the United States thousands of years ago. When we went back to school, the boys took turns carrying the stone. It weighs 20% pounds. It is granite. Another day, we went to John Elting’s yard to see a glacial stone. It is granite and has a great deal of quartz in it. It is about a yard high and about two feet thick. A few weeks after Frederic found the stone, Hughes Dallas found another glacial stone right outside of Eliot Hall. It weighs almost thirty-one pounds. We knew that it was a glacial stone because it has deep and long scratches and is polished so smoothly. We are going to give Hughes’ and Frederic’s stones to the school. —Third Grade. A TRIP TO THE CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY We would like to tell you about one of the interesting trips that we took this year. A few weeks ago we went to the Chicago Historical Society and saw many relics, models, pictures and maps. There are many Indian arrow-heads and Indian ceremonial robes. We saw a collection of Revolutionary War relics. In a room up¬ stairs there is a model of a pioneer’s cabin. You would enjoy seeing the model of the first Fort Dearborn and the b’ttle block house made from the wood of the second Fort Dearborn. There is a case on the first floor that has in it a beaded purse that belonged to Mark Beau- bien’s wife, a trunk covered with deerskin that belonged to Mrs. Heald, and Captain Wells’ own sword and toma¬ hawk. We saw many Illinois relics, too. Some day, we would like to visit the Historical Society again to see the CivT War relics, the Abraham Lincoln collection, and the Chicago fire relics. —Fourth Grade.

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LOWER SCHOOL “A Trip to the Farm” One day last fall, the first grade went to a farm. We rode m automobiles and went west of our school till we came to the farm. w The « we sa ™ h° u w the fa ™er got ready for the win- ter. The corn had been gathered and stored in big cribs beCn pUt lat0 the h ay-mows. We climbed up mto the hay-mow and jumped on the hay. That was lots of tun. We saw the ploughs and harrows and the winter 8 ™ Imp ement s m a shanty, put away for the The turkeys and the pigs and the cows were all get- ting fattened for the winter. n, 1 ) V Ti br °i , ' ?Pht SOrm ‘ of the eorn stalks hack with us for our thanksgiving exercises. Wo were glad to see how the farmer prepared for the u inter Now we are planting a garden of our own to heln get ready for next winter. We hope to have corn and pumpkins next fall. —First Grade. Poems f love to hear a bluebird sing In the warm days of spring. 1 love to see the sky so blue When the flowers are wet with dew. —Henrietta Pirrung. woke up in the morning, 1 heard a bluebird sing. I loved to hear him trilling, I knew that it was spring. —Anna Howe. I looked out of my window one day, 1 heard a bluebird singing his lay. The bluebird was happy and gay And this was far away. —Marjorie Friedmann. Second Grade.

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POEMS The Spring has come And hearts rejoice, To hear the bluebird’s trill. The flowers open their sleepy eyes And the daffodil spreads her yellow frill, For Spring has come again. The bees are humming around the hive And many a song is sung, The oriole swings in her leafy nest, For the world is at its best. —Doris Ferry. Fifth Grade. SIXTH GRADE to the tune of “My Spanish Guitar.” The Sixth Grade wrote the words for the school song EIGHTH GRADE Ah! we all know t’is Spring; And summer is near The birds singing clear, Oh! surely it is Spring! Cold, bleak winter has gone; The babbling of brooks In cool, shaded nooks, Welcomes us with a song. Fleecy white clouds hang above; Tim soft breath of May Makes the whole world play And think of our Heaven above. This poem was written by Mary Louise Fenton, and was given by the May Queen as her speech of welcome on May Day.