Ranchester High School - Rustler Yearbook (Ranchester, WY)

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THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE ROOM The third and fourth grade room is the smallest group in school. This is fortunate as this gives them opportunity to do a greater variety of things, have more parties and more real fun. There are thirteen enrolled. During the year Lois Reeder moved away but Barbara Volney from Mon- arch, and Frank and Billie Proctor from Dayton joined the room. For “Stunt Night they did “The Kid With the Rip in the Seat of His Pants.” At the Christmas program, the fourth grade Brownies in the “Worry Elf’ were the outstanding performers of the eve- ning. Mrs. Carroll has done a great deal along artistic lines: drawing, painting, carving, design- ing, and embroidering. For music these pupils join the primary room where they can help the younger children learn the words to their songs. Parties during the year include the Christmas party, a wonderful Valentine party and Alexies birthday party. The following compositions written about various activities throughout the year reflect the excellent kind of participation the third and fourth classes have enjoyed. THE COUNTY CHOIR Last May we went to the choir with some of the children’s mothers in their cars. We practiced songs in the morning. Then we ate. It was a very good lunch. In the afternoon we sang songs for the people. Charles, the drum player, broke the drum when we were playing a song named Stodala Pumpa.” The other programs were very good. After the county choir, we got all the ice cream that we could eat. Some of the high school went to the show and just about didn't get a ride back to Ran- chester. A few of the children did not go to the county choir! We will all go to the choir this year. —Joyce Lou Cook, Grade 4 CITIZENSHIP CLUB Every Friday afternoon we have a Citizenship Club meeting. We organized our Club so that we could have experience in running a club and in being officers of one. We discuss behavior, both good and bad. We change officers every other meeting. The vice-president becomes president, the secretary becomes vice-president, and we elect a new secretary. An entertainment committee is chosen every week. It has arranged for such things as book reviews, music, records, dancing, and once we had a guitar solo by Charles Birdie for our pleasure. —Alice Ellsbury, Grade 3 JUNIOR ARTISTS We have made many pictures this year. We drew a picture about the boy in The Torn Hat.” The fourth grade drew some pictures of dogs and wrote descriptions of the different breeds. The class drew some pictures of Eskimo-land. We drew the peo- ple, igloos, dogs, kayaks, and the Aurora Borealis. We made models of camels, huts, and pottery from clay. We used stencils with textile paiht to deco- rate handkerchiefs. We made a lot of scenes of Switzerland, such as goats, cattle, people, and cha- lets (houses). We studied the picture, A Boy With a Rabbit.” The class made Hallowe’en masks and window decorations. We did some wood and soap carving. We designed paper plate plaques and shellaced them. We worked together on some large black- board murals in chalk. One of them was on trans- portation and one was of jungle animals. We are now making posters and a salt and flour relief map of Switzerland. We're glad to be such a small class so that we may do all these things. —Alixe Paulus, Grade 3 THE FIELD TRIP We went on a field trip. First we went to a play. The name of it was “Toby Tyler. Then we went to the Pioneer Park in Sheridan. We had lunch. Then we went for a hike. We went up on a high hill. Some of us got lost among the rocks. Pretty soon we found a slide that went down hill. When we got down it was time to continue our trip. Then we went to the animal hospital. A man showed us the room where they operate on sick animals. He showed us what they did to an ani- mal that had a broken leg. We next went to the Brittain Travel Agency. We saw some maps that showed where we could go on a trip. We got a lot of information there. Then we went to Mrs. Carroll’s house and wait- ed for another ride. After a while we went up to the airport. First we went into the weather of- fice. The man there showed us the machines they used. Then we went out doors. A pilot showed us an airplane. We saw the controls and safety belts. The next thing on our program was the train depot. There we saw a big scale that they use to weigh some shipments. Next we went to the tele- graph office. We watched a message come in. The railroad detective, Mr. Patterson, showed us some pictures of crooks and train wrecks. Then ve got on the train. Mr. Patterson showed us the diner, the compartments, and the kitchen. We arrived in Ranchester at 5:20 P. M.. tired but with many memories. —Allen Ellsbury, Grade 4 THE ATTIC Once I went up into an attic. It was dark and scary. I frightened the mice. I saw a broken toy horse and an old doll on the floor. I went over to look at a trunk and the floor squeaked. Just then a goblin put his hand out from behind that trunk and tried to get me. I went down stairs and told my mother there was a goblin in the attic. She said I was just seeing things but I made her come up with me. But then we couldn’t hear a thing. It wasn’t so dark either. I do not really have an attic in my house, but I think this is the way I’d feel, because the music of our song is so spooky. —Joyce Cook, Grade 4. SWEET BETSY FROM PIKE Did you ever hear of sweet Betsy and her hus- band who crossed the prairies and fought with the Indians with an old time gun? They camped on the desert for weeks and w’eeks. They had to cross tall mountains and swim wide rivers. Betsy’s hus- band wanted to go back gut Betsy said she’d go on without him if he did. They decided to keep going. They finally reached a country where everything was green. They had reached Califor- nia in spite of it all. It was warm and cozy. They got a homestead and raised cattle, pigs, dogs, chick- ens. geese, and good crops. They lived happily ever after. —Charles Birdie and Billie Proctor, Gr. 4 13—

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MRS. WATT’S FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADE ROOM MRS. CARROLL’S THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE ROOM —12—

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MRS. OLSON S FIRST AND SECOND GRADE PRIMARY ROOM No one ever questions the fact that the Primary Room is the most important room in school—and the happiest. Here is where everybody is always anxious to do everything. Here there are no argu- ments or objections. Here is where the pupils are polite, mannerly and the kind of good citizens all students should be. Here is where children actu- ally want to learn! This is the room that had only one accident (Bobby and the swing) and only one good fight (—well, let’s not tell this one) all the whole year! There were fourteen beginners last September: Judith Rawlings. Virginia Pelesky, Gary Addleman, Byron Black, Brian Hauf, Elbert Belish, Mary Ann Kukuchka, Charlene Kaufmann. Lawrence Paustian, John Ferguson, Robert Klinkosh, Karen Shipley, Robert Fiedor and Cora Mae Graham. Then, there are twelve in the second grade. During the year Viriginia Pelesky moved to Sheridan, Joetta Frank- lin moved to California, and Dorothy Carden moved to Dayton. Cecilia Aksamit joined our second grade and Jack Proctor joined our first grade. The first exciting thing we did last fall was to practice our Primary Rhythm Band for the big “Stunt Night. It was a lot of fun. Big Frank Kukuchka from high school practiced with us be- cause he was stage manager. Rebecca Rawlings was director. Elbert brought his accordian. Bertie beat the drum. Our next entertainment was for the Christmas program. Tom Puett from the eighth grade was our “master of ceremonies. We did three whole scenes called, “The Skater’s Holiday. Both Beckie and Bonnie played xylophone solos! The first grade children sang Christmas carols. At the last Byron, Bonnie. Walita, Nancy, and Ronald came out on skates and pretended the stage was a frozen lake. While they skated the rest of us played “The Skater’s Waltz. Judy Rawlings directed the band. In May our band played at the Sheridan County Choir. All of us knew our sonks too. This means we knew our second verse as well as the first! This year we have drawn some nice pictures and murals. In October we drew “The Circus.’ Every- one drew a different animal on the paper across our bulletin board. At the head of the line we hung the funny paper-bag clown Dorothy Allen sent us from Laramie. In November we sent fifteen Junior Red Cross boxes to Mrs. Conley’s office so that our friends across the Atlantic could have some things they needed. We wanted them to know we do not forget them, especially at Christmas. In November we drew a fine Thanksgiving Mural. Everyone worked on it It had Indians, pilgrims, a church, cabins, turkeys, trees and tepees. In December we made some beautiful Christmas scenes. We cut out Santa and his reindeer, which we hung in front of the stage. We decorated a little tree in our room and the big one in the school hall too. We had Santa Clauses and pine trees all over the black boards and red candles in the windows. We had some parties we shall always remember: Last October all of us got to go to Sheridan to see the play. ‘Toby Tyler. We thought it was wonderful. Besides Christmas and Valentine parties, (Continued on Page 17) —14—