Snowden Junior High School - Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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A To do this, one mast have the right tools, knowledge, and experience. W e first graders have to start from scratch. Last year at Easter time the first graders decided to hatch their own chickens. They took a box, some tin cans, and some electric bulbs and made an incu- bator and in due time the chicks began coming from the eggs. My! What a commotion there was when the chicks began coming from the shells. The chickens gave us our first responsibility. We had to feed and care for them. 1-2 FRONT ROW: Fowler, Faquin, Mc- Whirter, LeQuire, McNelly, Tigner. SEC- OND ROW: Jones, Mitchell, Zangwill Brown, Ray. THIRD ROW: Bond Tucker, Ward, Weber, Thompson, Mc Knight. FOURTH ROW: Blanton Rodgers, Wallace, Shelby, Fiveash, Dan iels, Waltemath. Along with learning letters and reading words, we learn to rec- ognize numbers and what they stand for. To learn to count is our first step in arithmetic. This sounds simple but really it's a difficult problem when you have no idea how many apples it takes to have 8 apples and to find which block follows the 3. 'S y f...x. .. .--.sz ,N-,

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The first nine grades of our school life are concerned with laying a strong firm foundation. We learn to control our hands so we can hold a pencil, chalk, and crayons and to make letters and numbers which are necessary tools. To use these tools well is the first step in our readiness for future learning. Our first problem is to draw our own hand and to print our own name under the pictured hand. Kim Evans has drawn hers. When we had learned to use our pencils andrcrayons we made a plan of the neighborhood in which our school is located and where we live. Mrs. Horton, our teacher, showed us how to come to school from our house and where to cross the street. We learned lots and had fun. A 71 , SQ? 1Q.,igiQf 1-1 FRONT ROW: Kynerd, Hull, Arnold Peterson, Sprolt, Luton. SECOND ROW McDuffie, Radin, Nicholson, Eyrich Skefos. THIRD ROW: Avent, Evans Askew. Kingsley, Yancey, Barnett FOURTH ROW: Linhoss, Wilson Wallace, Davis, Wilson. NOT PIC TURED: Adams, Rutkowski, lobe. 9 4...

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In school we find there is no end to new things to be learned. We 2-1's, Sharon Tant, Douglas Matthews, Virginia Breytspraak, and Caroline Fowler combined what we had learned and held our own presidential election. We made our own ballot box, printed the ballots, and voted. Our arith- metic lesson was to count the ballots. What do you know! Mr. Kennedy was elected. Last spring we second graders had a lovely Easter Party. Each of us made an Easter bonnet. Even our teacher Mrs. Miller joined in the fun and made a bonnet. There were really some original creations, and everyone had fun. 2-1 FRONT ROW: Seros. Fowler, McCor- mick, Gilmer, Tant,'Breytspraak, Felt, Ruffin. SECOND ROW: Switzer,.Beard, Morgan, Susan Wallace, Alley, Mat- thews, Wilkes. THIRD ROW: Harris, Johnson, Boswell, Steckol, Wallace, Van Middlesworth, Fawcett, Goddard. FOURTH ROW: Sturdivant, White, Hubbard, Ward, Kynerd, Shaw, Culp, Linhoss, MCMUIIY. NOT PICTURED: .lack Embury.