First Grade Celebrates Valentine Day with Class Party
First graders held a Valentine party mailing cards from Valentine boxes. They played games after lunch of milk and Valentine cookies. Reading groups report progress with Fun with Dick and Jane Dot and Jim and Guess Who.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas Bram
Dor
Ian Charlson
Susie Burk
Jeri Erdman
Lions
Jane
Dot
Jim
Bluebirds
Sharon Erdman
February and March events in the eighth grade calendar
The eighth grade schedule includes a February 28 band concert a March 1 Junior High Tournament Finals at Corwith a March 8 District Speech Contest at Spirit Lake. Curricular notes cover savings accounts in arithmetic civics education in the U S and a new American History chapter Machines and Factories. Reading Wendell Wilkie and grammar topics on common and proper nouns are noted.
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Corwith
Spirit _Lake
U .S
Wendell Wilkie
Parakeet Joins Kindergarten Class in Bright Tale
The kindergarten welcomes a blue parakeet named Twin kle as students learn care feeding and training. A Three Billy Goats Gruff mural decorates the wall while Michael Hoveland shows a wasp nest. Absent: Lana McCarry, Laura Gist, Dale Thompson, Myral Swan, Rebecca Rademaker, Debra Johnson, Joan Fitch.
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Twinkle
Billy Goats Gruff
Billy Goat Gruff
Michael Hoveland
Sander
Cheryl
Lana McCarry
Laura Gist
Dale Thompson
Myral Swan
Rebecca Rademaker
Debra Johnson
Joan Fitch
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Boone Valley Home Economics Class Hosts Visiting Children
Boone Valley students in a home economics unit invited eight children aged nine for a Friday session. Senior girls supervised the group from nine to ten o'clock and explored age variations, aiming to improve future mothering skills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boone Valley
Paul
Law’ce
Nielson
Connie
Jim Nelson
Greg
Norman Larson
Curtis
Larry Liscum
Valerie
Vicky
Ted Vandevier
Donny
LeRoy Thompson
Galene
Clyde Gist
This Is Your Life Kermit Dale Nine
A nostalgic piece chronicles Kermit Dale Nine born February 10 1939 in Chariton Lucas County Iowa. It lists favorite places times people and films and recalls his high school senior year subjects and family including parents Allan Otto Nine and siblings David and Frank. He is seen driving a black 1952 Pontiac.
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Kermit Dale
Chariton
Lucas County
Iowa
Webster City
Marvin Rainwater
Cornell Wilde
Sophia Loren
Bomber
Movick
Allan Otto
David
Frank
Kermit
Fourth Grade Play Delights Parents With Pioneer Theme
Fourth grade students staged a Valentine day play titled Susanna Jane's Secret for parents grandparents and friends. Cast included Su sanna Handy Marolee Neuberger and Jonathan Harlen Heggen Mrs Hand Barbara Crone and many others. After the program students shared newspaper dolls drawings of Norway lobsters lighthouses and fishing unit visuals.
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Reading
Susanna Jane
Jack
Larry Nelson
Tim Sparks
Larry Dobson
Mrs Sparks
Mary Ellen McCurry
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
First Grade and Second Grade Read Eskimo Tales
Jimmy Schipull won prizes as Sharon Erdman Shirley Philipp and Julie James brought cookies for the class. Julie James’s mother and two brothers visited during the party. Second graders begun reading Eskimo stories and plan posters. First graders enjoyed a talking scarecrow tale and made George Washington emblems in red white and blue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy Schipull
Sharon Erdman
Shirley Philipp
Julie James
Julie
George Washington
Washington
Second Grade Learns Thermometers and Readings
A second grade class studied heat measurement and reading thermometers on Monday. Students practiced with a bulletin board temperature display and a play activity. Norman Marty was absent. Mr Wittmer visited reading classes Thursday morning.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Colleen Sanders
Bookpassers
Carol Purcell
Donna Martin
Randy Anderson
James Charlson
David Anderson
R—V—H
Kermit Nine
Norman Marty
Marty
Bess
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