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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1988-02-17, Page 21Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, February 17, 1988 -Page 19 Jump Rope Program at school going well By Jason Stanley and Justin Murray Kindergarten February is such a happy month for the 'children in Kindergarten. We made Valen- tines to decorate our windows at home and had a Valentines Party on Friday. We had delicious heart cupcakes and Love Potion to drink. We delivered our Valentines to all our friends. We have also enjoyed all the snow in Feb. and sliding down the hill in our snowsuits is our favourite activities. Grade 1 Grade one is working on our farm unit this month, collecting and classifying pic- tures, listing words in categories, and making 'farm' stories. Our centres begin next week, all about farming. We enjoyed the speeches on Thursday - they were all interesting. On Friday we shared our valentines with our friends and had Olympic snow games outside with grade 1/2 & 2/3. We enjoyed healthy snacks of celery, apples & carrots. A big thank you to the Moms who helped out. • Grade '1/2 Last week we welcomed a new classmate to our Grade two class. Our new friend is Shane Kuell and he comes to us from Kitchener. We finished our "Snow & Ice" unit by talking about the groundhog and also completed groundhog centres in Language Arts. This week we begin our • study of "China". After an introduction to China, we are now working on our China centres. LCPS !INSIDER 1 Grade 2 - 3 Everyone worked very hard to give a speech in our class. Andrea Hiller, Jonathan MacKinnion, Shane Petteplace and Darren McCallum were brave enough to give their speeches in the Gym. We have been busy learning about the winter birds and many of us made bird feeders. Now we are enjoying many Winter Bird activities. On Thursday Nathan Knorr brought his. baby kid to our classroom. Everyone loved this wee animal. Thank you Nathan for sharing. On Friday we held our Winter Carnival for the Primary students. Thanks to our great volunteers Mrs. Cougheed, Mrs. Colwell and Mrs. MacKinnon. Grade 3/4 The grade 3/4 class has had a busy week with their speeches and Valentine's Day activities. Mr. Dennis would like to thank all of his students for their hard work on their public speaking skills. Lucas Thacker, Shelly Johnston, Ryan Hackett and Steven Sellars were the class representatives at the "school, public speaking contest assembly", on Thursday and all of them did a super job. The Grade 3/4 class has completed their math until on Multiplichtion and is now set women's Institute The Lucknow Women's Institute met in the town hall on Tuesday, February 9 with Mary MacGillivray, Rhoda MacKenzie and Susan McNaughton serving dessert and tea. Dorothy Brown chaired the business sec- tion of the meeting. Final arrangements were made for an upcoming card party. The rollcall, Name a good public rela- tions gesture, was answered by 14 ladies. Mary MacGillivray, PRO chaired the meeting for the program, opening with a poem Friendliness. Lois Goodhue garne the motto, Friendship is the cement that holds the world together. Rhoda MacKenzie gave a reading on Valentine's Day and told of its origin. Mary MacGillivray played several selec- tions on the piano pertaining to Valentine's Day. The topic, public relations build a good foundation for the world, but aparthoid destroys it, was ably given by Susan McNaughton. A contest was conducted with Stella Tilbrook the winner. St. Andrew's congregational The annual congregational meeting of St. Andrew's United Church was held on Sun- day., Feb. 14, following the worship service. • A potluck lunch preceded the meeting. Rev. Glen Macpherson opened the meeting with prayer and the In Memoriam. Motions from those present resulted in Sheila MacDonald acting as secretary and Joyce Osborne as press reporter. The minutes of last year's meeting were read by Mrs. MacDonald and were approved as read. Reports from the Session, Board of Stewards, the United Church Women, the Sunday School, Explorers, Messengers, and the Choir were received. Katherine Collins will be the • new elder with Donald Mac- Tavish, Lorna Phelan and Lorne Emmerton beginning three year terms on the Board of Stewards. Presbytery representatives will be Linda Ernmerton and Elaine Pollock, with Joyce Macpherson as the alternate. Mary Worthington will attend Conference in May with Elaine Pollock as her alternate. The Mission and Service Fund objective for 1988 was set. The Observer Every Family PIan will continue. In new business, various projects for the upcoming year were suggested. Irene Boyle announced the Interdenominational group who are beginning to meet in the area. Their - Feature of the Week r v 103/4% 5 Yrs. HSP /1)) INVESb TMENTS Goderich 1.800.265-5503 concern is the Family. Also, Bonnie Boyle is leaving soon for two weeks in the Missions Field on the island of St. Vincent. Rev. Mr. Macpherson expressed thanks on behalf of the Macpherson family and ask- ed God's blessing on the congregation in their work. to tackle Division. Grade 4/5 This has been a very busy week for grades 4 & 5. Everyone has been preparing and giving speeches and we are pleased to congratulate Amy Sutherland for placing second with a great speech on her "Sisters", in the Junior division. Grade 5 This week we have been busy working on our speeches and Amy Austin, Heather Asks, and Jesse Park went to the gym. We are now learning Verbs! We are gow starting measurements after hard work on fractions. Every Fri- day in Grade Five there is a colour day. This week the colour is red. Grade 6/7 The Grade Six class are almost finished a series of lessons in the V.I.P. program. They completed multiplication using decimals this week. Many students p ,ovid- ed interesting facts through their public speeches. As the St. Valentine's Day ar- rives Brenda Gordon and Jolene Weber will be reading many cards made by the students in their class. We hope these• cards will make them feel better soon. Grade 7/8 In public speaking this week the Grade 7/8 class was represented by Dean Tiffin, Jennifer Porter, Jamie Wyndam, Tara Thacker and Tanya Sutherland. They all gave it their best effort in front of the school. Fortunately, Tanya and Jen- nifer were able to impress the judges and placed in the top three. Congratulations to all for a job well done. Our "Jump Rope" program is now well under way. Many children are taking an active interest on a weekly basis and the majority of the school has expressed an in- terest to take part in the "Jump-a-thon" to be held on March 7. We are looking for- ward to this new event. Grade 8 This week in grade 8 has once again been an eventful one. We finished our class speeches and have one school winner - Marita MacDougall who will be speaking at the Legion. Our class was represented by Connie Husk, Jennifer MacKinnon, Erin Johnston, April Brindley and Marita MacDougall. On Friday we had our Valentine's Dance for grades 6 - 8. The money raised from this event will be put towards our trip to Ottawa. The boys volleyball team had an exhibi- tion game with Huron Heights Public School to get ready for their tournament this weekend. General The school was extremely pleased with the quality of speeches given this week in our school competition. The eventual win- ners were: Junior - 1st, Alesha Moffat; 2nd, Amy Sutherland; 3rd, Jesse Parks. Senior - 1st, Marita McDougall; 2nd, Tanya Sutherland; 3rd Jennifer Porter. We will be celebrating the Olympics, through,a number of events during the next two weeks. Best wishes are offered to the boys' volleyball team who will be com- peting in the country finals on February 13th. Just rollin' along Mixed Couples Team standings: Chipmunks 201, Kangaroos 184112, Wolverines 184, Gophers 171,'Tigers 166, Squirrels 1641/2. Ladies high single and triple went to Mary Lou Raynard with 255 and 626. Men's high single was earned by Ron Elliott with 284 and high triple of 691 went to Harvey Livingston. Games over 200: Mary Lou Raynard 255, 210, Lucy Miller 247, Betty Mole 235, Nancy Swan 230, Beryl MacDonald 209, Barb Tyler 203, Ron Elliott 284, Gerald Rhody 263, 231, Harvey Livingston 253, 239, Muray MacKinnon 252, Steve Carvell 222. Monday Night Ladies Team Standings: Toucans 5, 57; Parakeets 5, 38,• Peacocks 2, 73; Flam- ingoes 7, 68; Parrots 0, 31; Cockateels 2, 69. High single and triple went to Pat Liv- ingston with 250 and 670. Games over 200: Kathy McNee 200, Roberta Whytock 202, Shirley Kennedy LI 202, Joan Livingston 200, 207, Alice Ritchie 207, Kim Philips 210, Betty Stanley• 213, Betty Van Osch 236, Pat Livingston 236, 250, Barb Ross 239, 200. 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