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Valentine Day As
(hase 1. School
Was Happy Event
Kindergarten
We have been very busy and
oxcited about Valentine’s Day. We
made valentine pockets with our
names on them and they were
almost spilling over with valen
tines on the 14th. We also had
many nice surprises that day.
Today is Carole Cameron’s
pirthday. She chose Teddy Guest
to be her king.
We are building a house. Yes
terday we made the roof, today
we will paint the house white and
put up the green blinds.
Miss Smith’s Class
Valentine’s Day was so much
fun. We had a valentine box. Pat
Ruark’s mother gave us a party.
We enojyed it.. Pat's aunt came
to help us. We had pretty baskets
with eandy in them and had scme
ice eream. Susan Davis’ mother
made us a pretty heart cookie with
our mames on each one. "Our
Grade Mothers gave us chocolate
hearts with our names on them.
Susan Davis’ mother sent us
some pussy willows. They are
rooting and have some leaves put
ting out. We have enjoyed the
pretty flowers in our room. They
tell us that spring is here.
We are beginning to learn to
spell. Soon we can write stories
when we know enough words.
Mrs. McGarity’s Class
We enjoyed our valentine party
this week. We&ad games, singing,
stories, valentines and refresh
ments.
We have had perfect attendance
three days this week. We are glad
Frankie Johnson and Donald Scar
boro are well again.
We are beginning to decorate
our room for George Washington’s
birthday.
Mrs. Ison’s Class
This has been a very happy val
entine week. Mrs. McCranie gave
us a party. She served ice eream,
valentine eakes and candy. We
also had cakes with red hearts
on them for lunch Tuesday.
We made beautiful heart-shaped
folders to put our valentines in,
We had so many we took turns at
being the postman.
Our class is planning to give
Cinderella as a musical play. In
it are songs and dances. We play
part of the music on our flutes.
Mrs. Thomas, our art supervisor,
says we are making fine progress
in art. She took a number of our
bictures to show other classes.
We are very glad Faye Butler
has come back to our class.
—Melba Phillips
~Elizabeth Freeland
—Darlene Smith
~~Dannie Porter
—Barbara Jean David
Mrs. Tabor’s Class
Tuesday we had a valentine
party. It was lots of fun. We
had & huge box full of valentines
and each of us had a . handful.
Those who decorated the box were
Carole Roberts, Barbara Saye, and
Geraldine Wilson. It was very
pretty. Troy Reid’s mother brought
;ls ice cream sandwiches to eat,
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The music committee planned a
musie program for us for Thurs
day. Sherrie Everett is chairman
of the committee, and these people
wvere on the program: Patricia
Reynolds, Sherrie Everett and
Johnny Carter played piano solos.
Carole Roberts played an accordi
an solo, and Doug Hale played
“Yankee Doodle” on his new cor
net. Johnny Carter and Martha
Puckett both sang songs for us. It
Was a very nice program.
Dickie Crane brought all the
¢lass some eandy Wednesday, and
Trene Hurt’s mother brought us
some beautiful flowers.
Thursday afternoon Sally Mont-
Jomery had a skating party at the
Y. W. €. A. The whole room was
'nvited and we had lots of fun.
We went from school.
—Bonnie Adams
—Nadine Hicks .
~Johnny Biggs
—Collier Chapman
Miss Jower’s Class
Our class mothers, Mrs." R. L.
BGarrison and Mrs. W. W. Bouli
€au, surprised us February 14
Vith a valentine party. Jeanette
Collins and Billy Herring were the
winners of our valentine: gamae.
They were able to make more
vords out of “Saint Valentine”
than anyone elge in the room. We
21l enjoyed our party very much,
Mrs. Howard Thomas came to
ur room and gave us 2 demon
stration In water colors. Our bul
letin board is now decorated with
some of the best pictures. The
young artists of these pictures are
Latrelle Skelton, Peggy Garrison,
Gerald Saye, Martha Fortson, Wil
liam Kidd, and Willie Lois Maxey.
We were delighted to notice the
progress we have made in writing.
We save our papers and at the end
of the year we will put them into
a booklet. Almost all of us have
written with ink.
A new addition to our Friday
schedule is the spelling bee. We
have fun trying to spell one an
other down.
Our class has been interested in
watching the weather in different
sections of the country. We use
our-map to point out the different
sections. a
Miss Clark’s Class
This week we have been study
ing very hard on our arithmetic
and English. We have had several
tests on them and many pupils
made excellent grades.
Tuesday, our Grade Mothers vis
ited us and brought the class de
licious refreshments, which we en
joyed very much. We appreciate
all the nice things they do for us.
A friend of Miss Clark’s in New
York, who had been impressed by
a visit to Chase Street School, sent
us a big box of chocolate candy
for Valentine. This was quite a
nice surprise. We hope she will
enjoy reading the notes of thanks
we wrote. LaFreda, Helen, and
Jean designed some very attractive
cards.
The pupils whose Valentine pic
tures were put on’ bulletin board
were Helen, Nancy, Jackie W,
Thomas, Jimmie, Silas, Joe, Sara,
Elizabeth, Freda, Ray and Elmer.
Ronnie Healan and Jackie Woods
had. their spelling papers picked
out as the best in the class Tues
day. We are trying to improve
our penmanship.
The pretty spring flowers have
added much to the attractiveness
of our room this week,
Oconee Pupils
Enjoy Parfies
During Week
Kindergarten
Last week was a week of sur
prises. Carolyn Gann's mother gave
us ice cream and little-heartshaped
cakes with our names embossed
on them. Sharon Strickland’s mo
ther brought a large box of candy
and each one of us a valentine.
Valentines had the right of way
on Tuesday. We played post-office
and mailed and delivered our val
entines.
Every day we see several birds
feeding near one of our windows.
They come for berries which grow
on the shrubs. We made a feeding
station for these birds so they
could have other foods. The boys
and girlss bringing food for the
birds were Gloria Spence, Carolyn
Brown, Jerry Adams, Sharon
Strickland, and Harold Morris.
Our room looks so pretty with
lovely yellow jonquils. The boys
and girls bringing food for the
were Larry Aaron, Margaret Wil
liams, Linda Sue Coile, John Wil
liam Gruson and “Butch” Threl
keld.
Mrs. Allen’s Class
Yellow and white are our school
colors. We brought yellow and
white flowers to school. They were
used on the tables Friday night
when we had a school su‘sper par
ty. We used white eandles with
them. How pretty they looked
Our attendance was good last
week. We had only one absence
during the week.
Mrs. Thurmon’s Class
We were.so happy last Friday:
most of us had been to school
every day; we had only three ab
sences which could not be helped.
On Valentine’'s Day we had so
much fun, Mrs. Seagraves, Mrs.
Patman and Mrs. Williams, ouy
grade mothers gave us a lovely par
ty. We had the prettiest Valen
tine box, and oh so many valen
tines! 5
Some of us were glad to see the
clear cold weather so that we
could get outside again for our
games. We don’t like to stay in
the house.
Miss Hancock’s Class
Mrs. Thomas came Thursday
and showed us how to use water
colors. After watching her paint
we painted pictures. We tried to
remember all the things she told
us so that we could have nice
paintings.
Our science shelf is pretty now.
Melinda and Laura brought flow
ers for it. Peggy Adams brought
a tadpole, Patrica brought a carv
ing of an African riding an ele
phant. Her uncle brought it from
Africa. Alton and Sandra brought
some foreign money to add to our
collection.
In social studies we ar visit
ing Eskimos on Baffin Island.
We enjoyed studying about the
different animals they killed. We
ar glad we have something to eat
beside meat and fish.
Linda Crowley °
Alton James
Miss Wallace’s Class
At devotional period Monday
we gave the following program of
Georgia.
Scripture—Anne Strickland.
The story of ihe life of James
Oglethorpe, Johnny Tolbert.
A poem—The Song of the Chat-
tahoochee,
Song—Georgia Land,
Danny’s mother and father gave
us a lovely valentine party. The
cake was embossed with real
hearts, was served with ice cream
and for favors each student was
given colorful balloos.
We are enjoying the study of
Stephen Foster. He was a writer
of melodies. In his songs he made
pictures and described experiences
which many people have enjoyed.
Some of his songs we already
know and we are learning others.
Our favorite is “Jeanie With the
Light Brown Hair.”
Mrs, Hopper's Group
Of all of the mnappy days at
school none is ever more enjoy
able than St. Valentine’s day. We
had a very enjoyable valentine
party last Tuesday. Gary, Larene,
and Edward brought .: beauti
fully decorated walentine boxes
for our valentines. Edward also
brought large hearts for room de
coration. Every one received a
number of beautiful’ valentines
which we all enjoyed. Mrs. Hop
er’s valentine to each one was
a delicious ice cream,
During the last quarter our at
tendance was the best in our
school. The boys had perfect attend
ance and the girls had only two
absences. We are always so hap-
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py to see everyone each day.
These days, we are reading
many library books and making
book reports. When we make our
reports we stand straight and
tall, look directly at our au
dience, speak clearly and loudly,
keep our sentences apart, and
try to use correct words. In our
reports we try to tell enough of
the wook te make others want to
read it. 4
Spring 1s a wonderfui time of
the year. There are so many pret
ty flowers, trees, and birds to
make the world beautiful . Ven
ese and Delores brought us some
beautiful flowers for our room.
We have been watching for the
coming of many different kinds
of birds. We have seen many red
birds, blue jays, rohins, etc.
We saw two very intresting
movies last week. These were
“Irish Children” and “Southeas
tern Africa”. Both were very. in
teresting. We get much of ‘our
Irish linen from Ireland. We saw
the people digging peat for fuel.
In Africa, we saw many people
working in the huge diamond
mines.
A healthy body is desired by
every one. Gr:l health is the key
which opens the way to a useful,
happy life. We are very interested
in_foods for health and growth.
There are many foods to supply
the many needs of the body. Our
bodies are wonderful machines
which change our foods into forms
to supply the body needs. We can
trace a mouthful of food until
it is ready to be absorbed by the
blood. . sk o
Mrs. McCoy’s Class
In English we have been study
ing courtesy and how to answer
social telephone calls. Several
of our cless dramatized different
conversations and situations. x
We are practicing how to speak
clearly over the telephone. One
pupil serves as telephone opera
tor and other pupils make calls.
In social studies we are studying
“How France because a Nation”.
It tells about Joan of Arc and
how she saved France. We enjoy
it very much.
We have had 100 per cent atten
dance for the past week and so we
received a gold star on our chart
Last Thursday we had a turkey
dinner and we all enjoyed it very
much. We have nice lunches all
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The Class
the time, -
Thursday we drew some pic
tures for cur art lesson featur
ing a booklet and grassy mea=
dows., We are learning the song
“The Brooklet.” It is very prat
ty. Mrs. Thomas thinks we are
doing well in art.
We are studying three part
singing now and we like it. Every
one likes to sing.
Mrs Marden’s Class
Tuesday Mrs. Hansfor® and
Mrs. Howington surprised us with
a nice Valentine party. They gave
us Valentine men and women, also
'a candy valentine, We cnjoyed the
party.
We have fun studying arithme
tic. Our teacher gives us five ad
ditions and subtraction cards to
study every night then we have a
test over them each morning. Jer
ald Bell, Donald Cronic, Carl Dos
ter Linda Hawington, Vivian
Coile and Robert White have made |
one hundred per cent every day
this week. Most of us plan to do
this next week.
Miss Ellice Wood’s Class
Last week in our spelling les
son we had some good health rules
using our words. They were good
rules. Miss [llice asked each child
in the class to think of another
rule.
Then we wrote these new rules
up on the board and talked about
them. A
Mrs. Marden's second grade
came to our room one day and
sang with us. We want them to
come often and sing with us.. We
like for music period to come.
There are some new pictures
hanging in our room. They are
very nice.
We are learning something
about ‘artists who have painted
pretty pictures.
Valentine Day
Is Big Event
Jack Frost has really been nip
ping our noses and biting our toes
this week.
We missed Mrs, Chandler when
she was sick. Mrs. Webster came
over and helped Miss Thelma and
Miss Boots. We had no much fun
with the new games and songs
Mrs. Webster taught us. We like
to hear her stories, and we want
her to visit us one day so that
Mrs. Chandler can enjoy her. Mrs.
Webster thought we had grown
so much since the first of school.
We had so much fun on Valen
tine day. Our grade mothers
brought us the nicest Valentines
with candy and cookies in them.
All of us got our Valentine heart
full of Valentines,
The first and second grades
joined us to see several good pic
ture shows this week. We especial~
|ly liked the one about the three
| bears—They got into so much
| mischief. When they got into the
| pies we laughed and laughed.
| Peggy brought her record play
| er and some good records to school
'| one day. We all sat on the floor
around it and sang the ones we
knew. It was lots of fun,
: Florine Stovall
First Grade
\ High and proud on the barnyard
' fence
Walks rooster in the morning.
| He shakes his comb, he shakes
i his tail
| And gives his daily warning.
j “th up, get up you boys and
, girls
| It’s time you should be dressing.”
We wonder if he keeps a clock
i | Or if he’s only guessing. }
'l Cock - a = doodle - doo, We
.| hope that big rooster keeps wak-\
i ing us up and getting us to school
on time. i
It was fun reading in our book;
the story about the rooster and
the farm animals, We write stories 1
and paint pictures about them too.
Did you love Valentine Day,
very much? We really did—be
cause we all got such a wonderful
Valentine, A new record player,
and some records. Our Mother’s
and Daddy’s gave it to us. It was
.| certainly a happy love day and
s | thank you for helping to make it
0. \
1 Ernie Crymes, Dot Dobbs, Beth
| Heys and Larry Baxter, brought us |
chocolate candy hearts and sucke=
ers.
| Some of us write stories at home
and bring them to school. We like
to hear them read. When we have
| a new word in our stories the rest
of the class wants to learn to write
it too.
We were proud of our 2 days
perfect attendance this week. Our
thermometer is moving up. We
| go up a little every time we are
all at school. ;
Mrs. Killingsworth’s Second Gradel
We had a Valentine party Tues- ‘
day. We opened the Valentine
| box, gave out the Valentines and
Alex Patterson’s mother brought
‘i us some Valentine cookies, Every
| one had a good time.
' Our room has been 100 percent
in attendance everyday this week.
We hope we can keep up this good
record.
| Today we went to the Kinder~
garten room and saw some movies.
One of them was entitled “Fair
Play,” we enjoyed it very much.
This picture showed us how to be
better citizens.
Barbara Ann Wells was elected
president of our Citizenship Club,
Rebecca Johnson vice-president,
and Billy Carter treasurer. |
‘ Third Grade — Mrs. Bell
Last week the girls and boys in
| our room had fun making Valen-i
| tines. All of us made two or three,
and they were very pretty.
'l Our grade mothers, Mrs. W. K.
| Hartley and Mrs. O, S. Harrison,
gave us a surprise Valentine party
| Tuesday afternoon. They served
| Valentine candy and cookies. We
| had a Valentine box, too, and ev-!
eryone received many Valentines.
| We all had a good time and thank
| our grade mothers very much for
| giving us such a nice surprise. |
| Mrs. Thomas, our art teacher,
came to see us Wednesday and
'| we enjoyed our painting lesson.
: CAROLYN DENMAN
35y DANA WOODWARD
| Mrs. Hitchcock’s Grade
| We thank our grade mothers,
| Mrs. Strudel and Mrs. Hudgins,
for the lovely Valentine Party
| Tuesday afternoon. Henry Grif
| feth, Buddy Chandler, and Karen
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| Bass each treated us this week for
Valentine, too. We thank them
| very much.
| Our room is practicing for a
| George Washington program un
| der our speech teacher,
| We welcome to our class SBandra
| Brooks from Kinston, North Caro=-
| lina, We hope she will enjoy being
| with us. ¥
Several members of our class
have been sick this week. We hope
| all will soon be back with us. Ray
| Singleton, John Thurmond, and
| Billy Amis are still on the sick
| list. We miss them.
| The flowers in our room are
| pretty and we appreciate different
ones bringing them.
| This week we are gathering ma
| terial for our science. We are
| studying the different kinds of
force and how force works.
- - JACKIE THORNTON
. DENNIS WOOD
; Mrs. Dunson’s Class
| Our grade mothers, Mrs. Dudley
and Mrs. Hooper gave us such a
| nice Valentine party at the skating
| ring Wednesday afternoon. We en
| joyed skating for two hours and
we especially enjoyed the good
refreshments,
| Miss Echols is helping us with
|our study of light and eolor in
| science, We have done several in
teresting experiments and fixed
| the bulletin board to illustrate
| different facts we've learned.
| We are studying lige in the
| middle ages in social studies, Aft
| er we all completed the required
| reading we divided into groups
| to do special assignments on the
| kind of medieval life we were
| most interested in. Some are doing
life in & monastery but most of
| us chose some phase of life in a
| castle. : ;
We have had some very good
prints brought for our art. Edith
Molder has brought four albums.
Jeanne Ferguson brought her col
lection and John Talmadge is
| bringing us copies of What New.
| Others bringing pictures are: Bob
| by Towns, Charles Singleton, Pat
| Pittard, Catherine Byrd and
| Billie Ruth Duncan. {