With the return of warm weather our students have returned to neighborhood activities. Room 101, deciding that they “deserved a break today,” cancelled their school lunches and walked to McDonald’s for lunch. They are now working on a unit called “Signs of Spring.” Many activities, such as nature walks around the neighborhood and to Forest Park, have enhanced this. They have collected and sighted many signs of the season.
The third grade classes are participating in a Citizenship in Education Project (CECH) which involves locating and securing the return of the trash containers that last year’s students had decorated in bicentennial colors. These receptacles were quite vital to the immediate vicinity of our school because, in reinforcing our efforts of cleanliness and civic pride, the area surrounding our school was noticeably freer of trash. As a result of participation in this project the students will acquire letter writing skills, increased civic pride, and a better knowledge of our political leaders and their roles. A petition will be circulated throughout the neighborhood. Please help our third graders and our neighborhood by signing your name in support.
Many rooms have budding gardens. Room 101 has planted popcorn seeds. Room 103 not only has flowers, peas, corn watermelons, beans, and pumpkins but also little chickens hatching from their incubated eggs. You should come see. Both third and first graders will make a trip to the City Greenhouses to learn more about plants and to do some planting themselves.
Educational Field Trips:
Fifth and sixth grades — Cahokia Mounds Museum—April 29.
Rooms 101 and 102 — Shaw’s Garden April 29.
Rooms 202 and 204 — Shaw’s Garden May 9.
Fifth and Sixth Grades — Huck Finn River Trip — May 17.
Third and Fourth Grades — Samuel Clemens River Trip — May 18.
Rooms 201 and 203 — Shaw’s Garden May 19.
Rooms 103 and 104 — Wonder Bakery May 4.
Rooms 202 and 204 — Gateway Arch May 4.
Special Events for Total Student Body.
Bel Canto Ensemble — Little Red Riding Hood, May 3.
Dine Out, Heritage House Smorgasbord — May 24.
School Picnic — Forest Park — June 8.
Originally published in The Paper, May 1977.
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Original source: SD_Times1977_05.pdf, printed page(s) 11; PDF page(s) 11.
