Old Trail School - Vestigia Yearbook (Akron, OH)

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5 5 Ax, ms.. FOURTH GRADE Front Row: llicky Shulrnan, Pam Riggs, Buddy Loomis, Middle Row: Cheyrle Belancy, Evon Snow, Victoria Reiter. Buck Row: Gail Schulman, Elizabeth Caldwell, Dick Hanson, Charlie Riehl, Edwin Morgan. Absent: Ann Poole. New experiences for our fourth grade this year include learning cursive writing and writing in ink, taking part in our first Candlelight Service, and attending our first Childrenls Concert. In the fall, we each made a science notebook. We drew pictures of different classes of animals and gave a description of their structure. For the all-school Thanksgiving Assembly, we each told part of the story of the first Thanksgiving. At Christmas time, we made all the ornaments for our tree as well as painting a plate as a gift for our parents. In February, we planned an assembly program Celebrating Lincoln's birthday. We told about his life and acted out stories about him. During the year, we drew several maps which showed the early we were studying. In the spring we presented a play which we had written ourselves. 55

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FIFTH GRADE Fronl Row: Stephen Steinreich, Emery Leuchtag. Middle Row: Tom Roush, Blake McDowell, Jackie Griffiths, Sherry Reiss, Jack Davenport, Tom Wagner. Bock Row: Mike Hall, Fred Haake, Joseph Cirielle, Arthur Smith, Douglas Jennings. Absent: Bill Botzow. With picnic baskets packed full and two school station wagons loaded to the top, the fifth grade started their annual trip to Schoenbrunn in October to begin their study of pioneers around which their year's work centers in geography, history, reading, and art. Other highlights of fifth grade life were their swimming program for both boys and girls at the Y.W.C.A.g their Art Museum trip and Seiberling Rubber Company visit to study their own city, their outstanding performance of the play, The Proud Princess, which was performed for both Upper School and Lower School Assemblies and parents to earn money for the Assembly Room drapes. Near the end of the year fifth and sixth grades always take a three-day train trip together to some outstand- ing place of interest as the Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to see an industrial city. All such trips add much to the experience of living together in fifth grade. 54

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5 Ffa ,Lt MT i . THIRD GRADE Seated: Kathy Walker, Billy Jateff, Judy Jyurovat, Michael Danesis, William Caldwell, Cathy Clemmer, Anne Robinson, Carl Oldenburg, Victoria Copping, Stephen Belaney, Karen Jones, Lenord Smith, Diane Rosenfeld, Charles Hall. Absent: Robert Keener, Stephen Noble, Kristina Tolan, ln addition to their work in Reading, Spelling, and Arithmetic, the Third Grade included many activities in connection with Social Studies. Some of them were a visit to a dairy farm and the making of butter and bread. They were enthusiastic pioneers in learning how to play a melody, and they composed some original songs. As a correlation with their reading of Tortor and Tristan in French they made some puppets and presented an original puppet show. 56