Old Trail School - Vestigia Yearbook (Akron, OH)

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Dr ,. - ,.,. K -X ' if 'X W' A as ,.y. ,il , , .,.Q' .1 . Lb cn. M 3 I ef into thu it EJ Wi! ., 1: V., X' ' w SECOND GRADE Front Row: - Shelly Osmun, George Roush, Carolee Kosman, Connie Jansen, Pete Wagner. Back Row: Sharon Mensching, Monica Wood, Chuck Van Buren, Carol Rc-pasky, Lynne Rowan. Absent: Ricky Stephenson, Risa Bear, Robert Loomis, Cheryl Schott. If you visited our room during the year, you might have seen us making plaster casts of leaves. We collected many kinds and learned their names. After they were painted and shellacked, they made colorful paperweights and wall plaques. Perhaps you saw our mural, Down the River Road, or one of the experiments we made when we studied the weather. You might have been surprised to see us playing games in French, composing a song for Music, or wrapping the handsome wooden trays we made in Shop for Christmas presents. Or you might have seen our play about Indians and cowboys called The Lucky Stone. Perhaps you saw us working in committees to plan our model community with its homes and stores, the fire department, airport, and radio-'I'V station. These projects were all important aspects of our work in the Second Grade. 57 1

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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

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9 . it E S, ,, ,.,.,f 9ll+5e- ' I ht 5 'J-1 1 y Qc f l, .K s, ,S'?,,l DN V 4 K 1 , . W xsaiilmis. FIRST GRADE Fronl Row: Betsy Lane, Jill Klein, Bernadette Jennings, Eddy Thomas, Sammy Smith, Koke Kibble, Ricky Bahcox. Middle Row: Jimmy Wagner, Stevie Falor, Skippy Latum, Sheila Taylor, Tommy MacGowan. Chris Snyder, Terk- Calhin, Kate Myers, Christine Babcox, Bobby Schuman, Back Row: Suzy Cohill, Allen Loomis, Eddie Blower, Tommy Fitzgibben, Bobby Wilcox, Valerie Tolan. Absent: Alexis Leventhal. Reading was our primary activity in First Grade. Our painting and drawing, writing. and making up stories all correlated with learning to read. We learned to tell time. The First Grade learned to read the calendar. We have also studied seeds, plants, and roots, school helpers, family helpers, animals, and holidays. We worked on original songs in music. Free time is used in creative work such as block-building, painting, playing in the sand, and playing house. 58