A Classroom Tour - Miss Gladys Goddard's fourth grade at Sherman School spent an afternoon last week trying to put clowning on the city's educational curriculum. While their antics may have been excited by a Journal visitor, the boys and girls gave every indication that their campaign had been underway for some time. Stuck-out tongues, wild arm waving and shouts of "Take my picture" were the order of the day. The group, made up of students that recorded the highest achievement scores of any third graders in the city last year, rushed through school work quickly, to have more time available for classroom fooling. Of course, some students were quieter, but the wild, clever ones set the tone. Things began when the class played a language game. Pupils closed their eyes while a classmate hid an object. The hider then asked, "What have I taken?" Did you take a sponge or a cup or a pencil, etc., were the responses. The idea was for the students to use forms of the verb "to take..."

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