Texas Tuberculosis Association Led Child Health Effort
The Texas Tuberculosis Association promotes child health ahead of May Day Child Health Day, stressing early diagnosis with tuberculin tests and X rays. Despite progress, Texas faces bed shortages. 55 counties have volunteer associations aiding communities and children.
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Texas Tuberculosis Association
The
Tuberculosis Association
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National Tuberculosis Association
Texas
Glow Worm Circus Unit At Grammar School
The Glow Worm reports on a Circus unit in the grammar school. Second grade students created animal booklets with brief descriptions and made a parade in the auditorium. Jimmie McSpedden and Pat Gray delighted the audience with clownish antics as wagons became animal cages.
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Gainesville
Greenville
Bonham
Jimmie McSpedden
Pat Gray
Circus Parade Sparks First Grade Reading Unit
The second grade teacher uses the first grade reader Good Friends to bridge gaps with vivid pictures and simple words. Pupils, absorbing familiar animal stories, shed fear of a new teacher and engage in pet centered activities leading to their first unit the circus parade.
Thanksgiving Study Sparks Indian Themed Play for Second Graders
At a Thanksgiving unit the second graders in Miss Fletcher's class explored Indian history by reading stories, crafting a wigwam, painting chairs, and selling candy to raise funds. They built a museum of relics, observed Indian signs, and culminated in a dramatization titled The Coming of the First White Man.
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Miss Fletcher
Second graders study Eskimo life with snow unit
A light snowfall shifts a first snow unit toward Eskimo life with igloo sand-table displays and stories. Students, inspired by the season, create jointed Santas and a glittering tree to honor Christmas and share in the learning experience.
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Christ
Children Build Travel Themed Arts And Visit Train Station
Pupils from the class craft aircrafts from cigar boxes and hangars from boxes while Lonnie Myrick enlarges a toy airport. They meet a conductor at the 10 36 train and later create a large hand cut poster of a train with roadside scenery. A Queen Mary travel folder and vehicle drawings cap a study of travel by water and land.
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James Johnson
Lonnie Myrick
Fletcher
Travel modes chart outlines post holiday journeys
A school project revisits travel after holidays, compiling a chart that compares journeys by air, rail, and water. The exercise highlights differences in speed, cost, and convenience as students analyze transport options.
Second grade post office unit inspires Valentines day lesson
Early February activities included making a room post office after Whitewright visits. Pupils learned stamps costs and mailing rules, weighed packages, and made change while taking turns as postmaster. A surprise game gift for Tommie Bartlett showcased secret-keeping. A clock unit followed, building many clock styles and Roman numerals, with a prize clock by Pat Gray, Billy Blackerby, and Jack McSpedden.
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Whitewright
Lonnie Myrick
Tommie Bartlett
Lonnie
Pat Gray
Billy Blackerby
Jack McSpedden
Telling Time Through the Ages Booklets Debut
The class produced ten page booklets with diagrams and stories about timekeeping devices such as the sun dial candle clock sand glass knotted rope and clocks from Grandfather to Big Ben Colgate the world s largest clock in Jersey City Winners were Billy Blackerby for blue Betty Ann Darwin for red and Lonnie Myrick for white The unit taught new words information and Roman numerals and the teacher calls it the year's most successful study.
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Jersey City
Billy Blackerby
Betty Ann Darwin
Lonnie Myrick
Birds and Flowers Study Begun
The second graders have begun their birds and flowers unit likely their last for the year. The year has included pets the Indian the Eskimo travel post office clocks and consistent work in reading writing and numbers by the energetic young students.
The Fiftieth Boy virtues in Beeville Bee Picayune excerpt
Dr Frank Crane extols a model boy described as the Fiftieth, noting his honesty, helpfulness, restraint, and respect. The piece praises his refusal to lie or tattle, his tidy conduct, and his courage to do right, urging readers to seek such traits at home.
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Frank Crane
Beeville
Bee- Picayune
The Comeback Doctor and Patient Exchange Banter
A humorous exchange features a doctor noting the return of a check and a patient quipping that his lumbago has similarly returned. The light dialogue plays on medical and financial woes with quick wits.
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New Era
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Jack Patton
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Dallas Journal
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