Window boxes [essays]

Title

Creator

Jose, Alfredo

Language

English

Source

Young Citizen, 7 (9) September 1941

Year

1941

Subject

Essays

Do-it-yourself work

Gardening

Rights

In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

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SEPTEMBER, 19.p A Friday Program By DOROTEA REYES THE YOUNG CITIZEN Window Boxes By ALFREDO JOSE 337 Making a Scrap Book By SERAFINA GRAVADOR (12 YEARS OL~) (14 YEARS OLD) (11 YEARS OLD) AT OUR SCHOOL in grade six LAST YEAR mother and I MY FATHER always buys every Friday we have 30 were visiting in a neigh- the Sunday paper. After minutes for a free activity boring town. As we were he has read it, he gives the period. Two weeks in ad- walking along -the street section to me which convance of each Friday our one day, we saw a number tains many pictures. This teacher appoints a commit- of window boxes in a beau- supplement of the Sunday tee of three pupils who are tiful home. The boxes had paper tells many interestto arrange a program for many different "flowering ing geographic, industrial, the Friday activity period. plants growing in them. or historic stories. So from There is a different 'com- Mother- liked them so them I have made several mittee for each program, well that I told her I would scrap books which I have and of course each commit- make some for _our home carried to school and placed tee tries to do as well~or when we returned. And on the reading table for refbetter-than previous com- I did. erence work. mittees have done. I got some boards from This is the way I make Sometimes we have some wooden boxes which a scrap book: I cut some instrumental or vocal mu- bought at a store in our sheets of heavy paper seven sic, some poems read by town. Then with a ham- liy twelve inches in size. I good readers, a short dia- mer, saw, and small nails paste a picture cut from ·a logue or two, some stories I constructed six long, nar- supplement, with its printed read or told, or anything row window boxes, all of description, on each side of else the committee can the same size. I painted each sheet. Then I write as think of and prepare. them green. neatly as. I can some quesSometimes we get one or I filled the boxes with tions under each picture .. two parents to be the speak- rich black soil, having first When i have a number ers ori the program. put some stones and so!lle of sheets prepared, with a One time we got a man dried moss in the bottom. punch I make two holes on from Manila, who is an This was to hold the mois- the left side of. each sheet. amateur magician, to come ture and supply good drain- Then I make· me a nice and do some tricks for us. age. I got the moss in the .cover for my scrap book. I We all liked that program woods on the mountain punch two holes on the left (Please turn· to page 339.) (Please turn to page 339.) . (Please turn to page 339.) SEPTEMBER, 19+1 THE YOUNG CITIZEN 339 A FRIDAY PROGRAM FLYING WHEEL MAKING A SCRAP BOOK (Continued from page 337) (Continued from page 332) (Continued from "page 337) very much, ·tor the magi- Then between these draw side of it also. Then I loosecian did many marvellous two more lines, and then ly tie all the sheets and the things. He taught us all four more, so there are cover together with a fancy how to do one trick, but eight lines crossing the cen- ribbon which. I ·save from there· is no fun in a trick ter at equal distances apart a bqx of candy. after you understand how as shown in the first picture. I find great pleasure in it is done. With a sharp penknife making a scrap book in_ this The program committee cut along these straight way,. and the scrap books never tells what is going to Jines and then turn the which I have made seem to ?e. given at the program- poin;s upward and down- give pleasure to my classit is always ,kept secret un- ward alternately, as shown mates. Mother is glad to til the thime comes: 1 And in the second. picture. The have me make su. ch scrap then-w at a surprise. · · b k · W II . 1 . flying wheel 1s now com1 oo s, for she thinks I learn e a enioy p anning 1 S . II' h · · h A the programs, getting them p ete. et 1t ro .mg out- t ,mgs mt at way. ny way d d . . th doors during a windy day 1t s lots of fun to make one. rea y, an giving em. . T . · Our teacher thinks this is on a smooth walk, .and 1t ry 1t. an incentive to cause us to will whirl along at a great ----------read stories' and poems in speed. BALANCING ZOO search of program mate- (Conti11ued from page 333) rial, and teaches us to have WIND-BALL well. The reason is that by initiative and executi,·e (Contiliued frorfl page 332 ) curling the tail and curving abil_ity. on one side of the table, the body the center of WINDOW BOXES another boy on' the other gravity of the whole object . side, and the two boys can is kept down towards the ( (iontlnu•d from page 337 ) blow it backwards and for- lower half and under the slope; I washed the earth wards. projecting claw, so that the from it and dried it. After the six boxes were Y o.u can make a game by animal is not top heavy. filled with soil and were in drawing a chalk mark The same principle apthe windows, my problem across the - center -of the plies to each of the. toyswas to find suitable flower- table. One boy tries to blow the shaping and curving ing plants. I planted some the wind-ball across the keeps the center of gravity wdena-de-amor in each box line. The other tries to just where it should be to' and some nasturtiums. prevent him from doing preserve the balance. This got some petunias also, and this and at the same time is often done by means of some small sized mari- tries to blow it acros& the a lead weight. If these cardgolds. After a few months line. When a boy succeeds, board animals are well my plants began to bloom. he scores one point. The made, no. lead weight is How pretty they looked, boy scoring five points first needed. and how attractive· they wins the game. Don't you So these interesting toys made the windows appear! 1 want' to make a wind-ball?, are quite scientific.

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