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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1987-11-11, Page 8Page 8 —Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, November 11, 1987 Unique gift ideas • Historical map reprints dating from 1719 to 1865 • Books on the Great Lakes and their ships • Frameable art reproductions • Hasti-notes, cookbooks and much more. Send $1.00 for complete catalogue, credited to first order to Stonehouse Publications 17 Queen Street, St. Catharines, Ontario L2R5G5 (416) 684-7251 ADAMSON INSULATION LUCKNOW 528-211.3 Winter's On The Way It's time to insulate the walls of your home. It keeps out drafts and makes it warmer. Save money on your fuel. In time for Christmas iving. . The Lemon Tree ;pill open its doors Sunday, November 15th Open 12:00 Noon till 5:00 p.rn. It's your chance to. SAVE.. . 20%OFF STOREWIDE This year get into the Christmas spirit early with a visit to the Lemon Tree Sunday, November 15th. We'll be open with storewide specials to get your Christmas shopping off to a good start. Enjoy refreshments while you shop. KITCHEN AND BATH BOUTIQUE E. HODGINS LUMBER 11 Nbrlh St. E. WINGHAM. ONT. 357-3650 In the schools LCPC BY JUSTIN MURRAY AND CINDY RACZKFVI The Grade 1 November birthday people are Amy Blake, Michelle Kuntz and Mrs. Bell. On Monday they made a delicious cake to share with the class. They finished their reader How I Wonder and read their whole book along with the tape, made a chart on Beavers .after listening to tapes and stories and made a mural on Life in a Beavers' Pond. Grade '1 and 2 have really enjoyed the story at the listening centre called The Big Toe. Many books from the Story Box kit were read. A new unit called Canada has been introduced in Environmental Studies and they look forward to learning about their country. Grade 3/4 came back to school with big smiles thanks to all the Hallowe'en candy they received. Grade 3 started a new math unit, learn- ing about spheres, prisms, cubes and other. shapes. Grade 3/4 is finishing off a unit on Map and Globe skills. Mr. Dennis is reading a novel, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Crones, in which they are learning about life in Japan in the post atomic bomb time. This past week the Grade 4/5 class work- ed op the provinces in Canada; poems and posters and other things about Remem- brance Day. The Grade 6/7 class is going to the Out- door Education Centre in the near future. In the Grade 7/8 Class, they are learning about their houseleague countries and starting a major research project that will investigate their country in detail. Mr. McKeon's skipping club is off to the right beat! Grade 8 had an interesting week and are looking forward to their first fund raising event which will contribute to the Ottawa trip. The librarian was happy to receive two boxes of books which were found during cleaning days. Keep searching, we may find the missing encyclopedia. Congratulations to our cross country runners for an excellent effort in two meets. Some students still have extra energy and are trying to complete their lap running for badges. The students enjoyed themselves and improved their calibre of fitness. By Teresa Jefferson, Rhonda Dickson, and Joel Wright PRIMARY NEWS Mrs. Cameron's Kindergarten class has been learning about some fables such as The Little Red Hen, The Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Elephant's Child. We have enjoyed making puppets and acting out these stories. Mrs. Young's KII class has finished lear- ning all their colours. On Thursday we had hotdogs for lunch. Beginning November 9, Mrs. Barb Bakker will be our teacher until March Break. Miss Jewitt's Grade 1 class has been busy practising their adding facts to five. They will be visiting Wawanosh. Nature Center to learn how animals and plants prepare for winter. In the Dinosaur Den we made papier mache of things that come in a tree and painted them. We made nests, a pear, a raccoon, apples, a , butterfly, and treehouses! We are learning how to write in cursive. Wow! We are finishing up trees, and treehouses now. I wonder what's next? JUNIOR NEWS In Grade 4, our mystery person, Dr. S., was Mr. Farnell. He really spooked us and brought a mystery bag that really held tomatoes and squashed oranges: He told us ghost stories and we had apple cider and popcorn. It was good fun. This month we're studying the Kwakiutl Indians of. the Pacific Coast. Grade 5 is working on poems, stories and posters for Remembrance Day. Four peo- ple are sending poems to the Legion Con- test-ichelle MacGillivray, Doug! Barger/ andra Meader and Patricia Robinson: Michelle McClinchey is entering a story. Posters by Amanda Todd, Doug Barger, Michelle MacGillivray and Philip Dickson are also entered. Our class has been playing games to learn about On- tario. Our class and Mr. Spittal's have been selecting the cast for our Christmas Concert Musical. This week the .Room 6 Readers have been looking at stories about fighting and solving arguments. This fit right in with a lengthy discussion on Remembrance Day and what causes wars. We then wrote our own recipes for peace. Here is one example: Recipe For Peace 1 cup of love 2 cups of friendship Food for everyone A time to throw away guns Pour into a big friendship bowl and you get lots of peace for everyone. SENIOR NEWS Mrs. Tebbutt's Grade 6 class went to visit George Smith's machine shop. In the shop there were automatic rollers, a crane that can lift almost a ton, and a metal cut- ting machine etc.... When the class visited Mr. Smith, he was making sngwbl wer parts. Other things that Mr. Smith -hakes are grain buggy's and snowblowers. BROOKSIDE Mrs. Allen's Grade 7 class have started a study, of the North American Indians. They are doing research on different kinds of In- dian groups, and when they are done they will put the information on a mural. Mr. Spittal made the first cuts of the girls volleyball tryouts. They are also doing many projects and writing tests. Mr. Liddle's Gradeglass is working on. rounding numbers andl in art they are making Remembrance Dai posters. SPORTS NEWS The senior boys and girls volleyball teams are busy preparing, for the volleyball tournament which is on Nov., 28 at G.D.C.I. Mr. Spittal is Working with the girls and Miss Clynick is Working with the boys. The senior volleyball houseleague is well underway and the junior volleyball houseleague began this wee, COMPUTER SNARL-UP Our pilot project has 4`crashed". The new computer in the office has been returned because the hard disk is not operating correctly. We are afraid that three weeks of Mr. Blake's time may have been wasted. Those pink sheets with statistical information may be coming home to parents again if we are required to start over. The co-operation and patience of parents, teachers and Mr. Blake will be appreciated. INTERVIEW Miss Jill Clynick has been Brookside's Pys. Ed. teacher for '1% years. She has always wanted to be a Pys. Ed teacher. She thinks that Brookside is a great school. Her favourite sport is squash. Her hobbies are playing squash, jogging and cooking. She lives in Brucefield. Miss Clynick has five brothers and sisters. She went to the University of Western Ontario and on to teacher's college in Windsor. Miss Clynick is an excellent teacher. WICC Luc°know United Church Women have in- vited Mrs. Arvilla Leis of Elmira, a member of the Women's Inter -Church Council of Canada Executive td their Fall Thankoffering, on November 15. This Council receives and distributes the World Day of Prayer offerings each year. Grants are given inside and outside Canada. The WICC members work for the many concerns of women with resources, con- ferences . and aid. Another project is the Fellowship of the Last Coin, a. universal fellowship of prayer. Mrs. Leis will bring a slide presentation of the WICC work and women of all churches are invited.