Old Trail School - Vestigia Yearbook (Akron, OH)

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SIXTH GRADE Front Row, Left to Right: Susan Heiser, Sharon Men- sching, Leslie Mollin. Back Row: Carol Repasky, Nancy Rexroad, George Roush, William jateff, William Klein, Tom Gardner, Earl Simendinger, Larry Smith, Peter Wagner, Monica Wood, Risa Bear. Abrent: Coralee Has- sell, Robert Loomis. FIFTH GRADE Back Row: Jill Klein, Andrea Belet, Harolcline Ellis, Wes Smith, Alexis Bierman, Jenny Kaufer, jim Wagner, Patty Tambling. Front Row: Eddie Thomas, Bernadette Jennings, John Tatum, Suzy Cohill, Kimberly Pierce and Skeeter, Kolce Kibble, Betsy Lame. Abrent: Nancy Gard- ner, Allen Loomis, Roger Widmeyer, Valerie Tolan. Miss McKean Mrs. Townsend wguvv'

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KINDERGARTEN If you want to drop in on us someday during our activity period, you might find some of us playing house, another group taking a boat or train trip after these had been built with blocks. Others of us might be painting with poster or finger paint, drawing pictures with crayons, modeling many different objects with clayg or cutting, folding and pasting with bright colored paper. You would find us learning how to do many other things, too. We sing, we play games, we have a kinder- garten band, and we have fun acting out some of our stories. Sometimes we take trips. Our last trip was to visit The Yankee Lines Trucking Company. We are trying to learn to work thoughtfully, play together pleasantly, to listen well and to follow directions so that when we go to First Grade we will be ready to do our work well. FIRST GRADE Reading is our most important activity. We are learning many things along with our reading program such as: phonics, writing, numbers, French, sports, rhythms, art and music. We had fun popping corn at Christmas time. We ate some and strung the rest to decorate our beautiful tree. Our goldfish, guppies, and turtle are always interesting to watch. For Valen- tine's Day the boys made a post office with the building blocks. Of course, we all made many Valentines for our parents and friends. A trip to a real post office will help to teach us how our mail is handled. There will be other field- trips in the spring which will culminate our units of work. SECOND GRADE We second graders think that one of the most important and interesting things we did, was to look for information in our World Book at school, and in our encyclopedias at home. Each of us made a report in Assembly, concerning some sub- ject we chose. We found material about the stars, sun, moon, and planets. We found unusual facts about sea life, especially the whale, starfish, squid, porcupine fish, and turtle. Some of us made reports on the material we found about our favorite pets. We think we had a wonderful year ! THIRD GRADE In addition to our regular work this year we have painted murals on Indians and Pioneers and read some extra books on the subjects. We did some weaving from looms we made in shop or at home. We made some butter and did many interest- ing experiments connected with our Science classes. We also went on some field trips. The visit we enjoyed the most was our trip to the dairy farm. FOURTH GRADE The fourth grade has a special interest in having pen pals in New Zealand. In addition to exchanging letters we are making a scrapbook to be sent to New Zealand before the end of the school year. We also had fun learning songs and pre- paring for our first Candlelight program. FIFTH GRADE Fifth grade not only learned much in their academic subjects but has many plus values in the extracurricular activities. We took a trip to Schoenbrunn in the fall and another spectacular trip on the B. and O. train with sixth grade to visit Washington, D. C., in the spring. We all made puppets out of paper mache, then dressed them and wrote original skits for them. We presented The Proud Princess for lower school assembly and guests. We girls spent busy hours making bed dolls and knitting scarfs during our free time. Our ten weeks of swimming produced several future life savers. SIXTH GRADE The sixth grade had a busy year filled with many inter- esting activities. They enjoyed participating in the Fall swim- ming program at the Y.W.C.A. A highlight of the spring was their four day trip with the fifth grade to Washington, D. C. In the area of studies the sixth graders were very busy too. In Science. they built a model oil field and in French did advanced work in the book - French Storybook Grammar. Tracing the development of civilization from primitive times to the present in social studies provided material for oral and written reports, art work and extra reading. This also gave opportunities to practice what had been learned in English classes. In Arith- metic they worked to develop greater reasoning power, and learned how to use whole numbers, decimals, and fractions more skillfully.

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Mr. Doutr Miss Schell FOURTH GRADE Standing, Left to Right: Stevie Pedler, Pamela Walker, Kiki Walker, Chris Walker, Holly Heslop. Seated: Margaret McDowell, Diane Coughenour, Sally Carkhuff, Billy Lambert, Priscilla Buettell, Craig Chamberlain, Hank Rosenfeld, Martha Poole, Tinya Hall. THIRD GRADE Back Row CSeated on Cbairrb Left to Right: William Lame, john Nobil, Patricia Thomas Andrea O'Reilly, Lucinda Weiss, Natalie Kibble Thomas Novkov, Robert Clark. Front Row: Mark Zaharopoulas, Stephan Sugar, Robert Hall James Pedler, Mark Chamberlain, David Levey. x 1 s