Smithville High School, The Searchlight, 1960, Page 45

Description:	OUR TEACHERS SPEAKFIRST GRADE; Forty-six children entered the first grade this year. Many came anxious and ready to start,some were very unhappy, some curious, some shy, but all wanting with all their hearts to read and write.After a few weeks of the reading readiness program, the children have become adjusted and happy nowthat they are reading well. They are in a contest to see who can read the greatest number of library books.Writing, too, has been accomplished and they are having fun writing sentences.We have been working on phonics and to their surprise they are learning to “sound out” words.Mrs. Mary Martin.SECOND GRADE: We love to read, and each day we learn new words. Our English is correlated with ourreading or is seasonal. It helps us to write sentences and stories. Spelling helps too. We learn to listen, toenjoy stories and poetry, to share, and to discover new things. We study numbers and delight in competingat board in addition and subtraction.The most exciting activity in second grade is learning to write the cursive writing which comes duringthe second semester. We take pride in being able to write like “grown-ups.” Mrs. Wilma Weimer.THIRD GRADE: The third grade began their third year with an enrollment of forty-one. Then later Judy Dyercame to us from McCalla school, Ronald Axsom from Hillside School in Bloomington, and Patty Perry camefrom Clear Creek School. Alma Jane Gemeinhart was in a school in Kentucky last year. The third grade isversatile in their talents. We can boast of several story writers and a few poets. Some are making excellentstory tellers. We have a group of baton twirlers and an accordionist. Miss Majorie Burris.FOURTH GRADE: The fourth grade is studying geography for the first time this year. They are interested inthe maps and the globe. We have used the electric light bulb and the globe several times to show relationships between the earth and the sun. The first time we used them we discovered why we have day and night;the next time we found why the seasons change; and the last time we found why Norway is called “The Landof the Midnight Sun”, and why it has two months of darkness in winter. Miss Julia Deckard.FIFTH GRADE: We have an enrollment of twenty-nine pupils in Grade Five, eleven boys and eighteen girls.Six of these boys and girls attended other schools last year. We are having fun doing fractions and havelearned to divide by two numbers. In spelling we divide the words into syllables and mark the vowels. Wehope this will help us to spell and read better. In h’Story we are studying about the Revolutionary War. Alsowe have been learning about common, proper, singular, and plural nouns in our language. We are learningmany other things too, and we enjoy doing our activities. Mrs. Wilma Wisley.SIXTH GRADE; There are forty pupils in the sixth grade. Thye are having their fourth grade teacher again,and I find the individual patterns of the class have changed greatly. With our new geographies and the“Weekly Reader” we find there are new nations being organized in our changing world! In our study ofAncient History we are making a “timeline” as a class project (shown in our room picture). We are lookingforward to another great change--being a part of the next class in Junior High. Miss Vannie Wampler.
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