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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1988-12-14, Page 18Page 18—Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, December 14, 1988 Local Book Fair was another smash success by Jennifer Cranston and Tara Thacker Grade 1 What a busy week' "Mouse Tales" pro- duction on Wednesday was excellent' Our Christmas concert on Thursday was a great success. Grade One had a super time at their mouse party, on Fri., with Kindergarten, Grade 2 and Grade 2/3. We played games and nibbled on Mouse snacks such as raisins, cheese, carrot sticks and crackers. A mean old cat even visited us' Then we went to Pinecrest Manor to entertain the residents with our Christmas plays! Grade 2 We had our final visit from our friend Nao. He prepared a Japanese dish for us. It was called Curried Rice. Most of us found this dish most delicious. We cer- tainly enjoyed having Nao in our classroom over the past few weeks. Mice are nice was a slogan in the school this week. The Mouse Tales presentation was excellent. So was the grade one "Mouse Party". We didn't know mice were so much fun. Grade 2/3 Mr. Pike has chosen us to be the "Class of the Month". We are very proud of ourselves. We have had a very busy time taking part in the Christmas Concert on Tues- day and Thursday at the school. Then on Fridaywe went to entertain thesenior citizens at Pinecrest with our Christmas program. On Wednesday the neighbouring schools came to join us in enjoying "Mouse Tales". Everyone thought the performance was "fantastic". "Mice are rather nice." On Friday Grade One plan- ned a "Mouse Party" and invited us. We had a' great time being mice, playing mouse games, and eating mouse snacks. Thank you Grade One and Mrs. Bell! Grades 3/4 Christmas continues to play an impor- tant role in the Grade 3 and 4 class. Christmas research and reading units are almost completed. In art class, old-fashioned Christmas balls were made. Thread was soaked in starch and wrapped around a balloon. The balloon was broken leaving a `CPS INSIDER spherical shape. We are looking forward to taking our creations home. Grade 3 students are learning how to borrow when subtracting while the Grade 4 class is just about finished with their multiplication tables. Grade 4 It has been yet another exciting week in Grade four. We finished our unit on Map and Globe skills. Most of us think we. could travel anywhere if we had a good map! We were all very nervous about presen- ting our Christmas play, The Reindeer's Dilemma, but it went off without a hitch. Thank you very much to Mrs. Mali and Miss Matte who helped us out with our costumes. Grade 5 This week Mike Johnston and Doug Johnston received their package from the NHL. They were quite pleased with the contents' We did a "Christmas. Survey" of sorts to determine the favorite store and shop- ping center of the class! The results showed that the favorite stores were; first Zellers; second TOYS R US; third Joy Sports and fourth Eatons. Our favorite malls ranged from The Trappers Museum m Northern Ontario all the way south to the mall in Kissimmee; Florida. We have set up a display of our Lego creations and they really look great. Special thanks are in order for Vanessa Breckles who has really helped out. Grade 6 We are studying "Phases and Eclipses of the Moon." We are making. a calendar for December with the moons on it for each night. Every one got a round ornament with a tinsel hook to put on a Christmas tree. On a tag on the ornament we wrote what we wanted for Christmas. It was a fun week in Grade 6. Grade 7 This has been a busy week for the Grade 7 class. Most .of us have been practising for the Christmas Concert, either as members of the senior choir or the band. During class our time has been filled with writing a math test, composing our entries for the Sentinel's Christmas Edi- tion and working on various Christmas related activities during Language Art classes. Grade 8 The Grade"8 students presented a play titled "The True Meaning of Christmas" at our Christmas Concert. The 4 act play was written, staged and acted out by class members. All worked hard to make this project a success. • Should children be alowed to vote? We discussed this interesting topic this week. The class was split when asked to make a decision. Many students showed quite a bit of wisdom regarding his topic and made mature arguments for and against this topical issue. Libary News The Book Fair was a smashing suc• - cess. Over $1,200.00 of books were sold for personal reading or Christmas ;sifts. This is proof that Lucknow public 1 eves to read. The money raised pays for author Martyn Godfrey visit plus some new books. Thanks for your support! 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Our room is decorated for Christmas. We've made Christmas bells, wreaths and reindeer. Grade 2 They have been making Ptranadons hangers, big books and reading them. Mrs. Graham, Mrs. Blanchette and Ms. Gauthier helped them paper mache the dinosaurs. They also made their own poems. Wonder Tree The Room 4 Wonder Tree is having a taste of the season this week, working on Christmas centres. As we do language, math, story writing and poetry activities, we practice making decisions and organization. We're also busy with highly secret craft activities! Laura Gilbert is our "Special Me". Room 6 We are doing maps of what we think Santa's Village looks like up at the North Pole. We are also planning to make a model of the village on top of the shelves in Room 6. We are making warehouses, workshops, an airport and a castle for Santa's home. We hope to do some Christmas baking before the holidays too. B ROOKSIDE BROADCAST Grade 5 As part of their government unit Paul Black and Lee Cairncross visited Portable 1 to talk to the Grade fives about Township Council. Ton McQuail came to explain the work- ings of the Board of Education and what is involved in running for an election. Grade 6 Christmas is coming faster than ex- pected even without snow. We have been busy making colourful snowflakes to decorate our room. We are also working very hard on the Christmas Concert. We hope it will be a success. We would like to say happy birthday to Mike Bakker On December 9 and also a belated birthday to Douglas Mclean, whose birthday was on December 2. Grade 7 This week in Miss Rennie's class we talked about alcohol. In Mr. Liddle's room we are presenting our projects on Scientists. Grade 7/8 This week we are busy working on graphs, such as bar graphs, line graphs and tallies. On Thursday, December 8 we finished the backdrop for our concert which was on Dec. 13th.