This is Mrs. Linda Dowell and Mrs. Taunia Smith’s second grade class at Sandburg Elementary School.
The class is pictured with their “Pumpkin Patch News” display. Mr. Scarecrow keeps tabs on all the
news. Students search the paper for important headlines, comics and stories of the day and glue them
to the leaves that surround the pumpkin patch. Mr. Scarecrow gets a new Tulsa World to read,
periodically, after the second graders finish studying it. This one happened to be the day after the
election of Barack Obama as our new president. Students participated in the NIE Tulsa World Mock
Election and were excited to see the next day’s headline.
See your classroom here! Enter for the October Classroom of the Month by sending pictures and a short description of the featured activity using the newspaper to Sara Amberg, Educational Services Coordinator, Tulsa World 315 S Boulder Tulsa, OK 74103 or send an electronic image with description to
sara.amberg@tulsaworld.com. All entries that do not win this month are entered again the next month. Good Luck!
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Beginning June 6, 2008, at least 228 people across 23 states got
sick from eating raw tomatoes tainted with the salmonella bacteria.
The affected produce was
most likely from Florida or Mexico, although the investigation is not
yet complete. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suggests that
people not eat raw plum, round, or Roma tomatoes unless they know they
have come from
a "safe" state or from their own garden... 
