ELEmENTARY Student activitiesbenefit community The elementary students had many enjoyable activities and projects, but the most helpful was collecting Campbell Soup labels to raise money for playground equipment. At Thanksgiving the fifth graders took food baskets to foster homes , and at Christmas all grades went to the Oakdale Nursing Home to cheer the patients with songs and fruit. Learning about music played an important part in the students' education. Hymn sings each Friday helped the students to learn to sing hymns properly . The annual Christmas program 362 ~ Elementary featured the "Sounds of Christmas" as its theme. A musical revue was presented in late March. The PTA did a tremendous amount of work for the school. An important project which they sponsored was the October "Country Fair ," with such diverse activities as an old-fashioned hoedown with country fiddling and games of walking the plank and bursting (I balloons. The Safety Patrol was treated / to an end-of-the-year picnic as thanks for their help in directing traffic at Blakeney and Center . 8 • ,
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