HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1989-11-01, Page 7Page 6 --L ow :Sentinel, Wednesday,' November 1, 1989
Iroc4sie's principal spent five years in the West Indies
Interview with Mr. ' W#hlteley
Mr. Whiteley was boron in Toronto,
then moved to Seaforth Mr. Whiteley
then moved out to the West Indies for
five years and then returned to Win-
gham. He has taught every grade from
kindergarten to grade eight. Some of
the schools he taught in before Brook-
side include Wingham and Grey Cen-
tral. Mr. Whiteley's favourite thing
about his job is working with the people
and that is what made hum want to
become a teacher. He enjoys playing
golf and a little tennis. Some of his -hob-
bies are fishing, scuba ,diving and being
a pilot.
From The
Principal's Desk
We have had a very .busy couple of
weeks here at Brookside. Our school -par-
ticipated
participated in the West Huron Cross Coun-
try Race. We had a beautiful day, and
our runners gave us reason to be proud.
Last week we had Constable Marshall
from the O.P.P. in to ,talk to .our entire
school about Block Parents.
The major event at Brookside is that
Mr. Caber has to teach at Goderich
District High School for the next ,5.6
weeks. In his absence, Mr. Yeo will take
over the Vice -Principal responsibilities.
Mrs. Cameron K1
We have been busy finding things in
our room that are small, smaller,
smallest and big, bigger, biggest. Our
trip to Mr. and Mrs. Stooges farm was
lots of fun. 'Thank you to Lucknow Co-op
for the 'hot dogs, milk and chips. Mr. An-
drew gave us a bag of apples when we
toured his orchard. 'Thank you! Our room
looks spooky with all of our Hallowe'en
stuff. Soon we get to plant our class tree
on the front lawn of the school.
Ms. Makers Grade 1/2
Miss Mathers' Grade 1 and 2 students
have been working on Hallowe'en ac-
tivities. We are reading and writing scary
stories, making spooky pictures and
decorating trick or treat baskets.
Ms. Watt Grade 1
We are taunting the days until
Hallowe'en. We have been busy with
Hallowe'en activities, crafts, stories and
scary songs. Yeses! We plan to carry a
Unicef box to help those not as fortunate
as us .and we will be wearing bright col-
ours so cars will see us. Boo from Grade
One!
Mrs. Scott Grade 2
On Friday, October the 6 it was
Jonathan's birthday. We have been .doing
lots of things with our calendar activities.
We have been doing lots of different
things with Unicef blocks. Every morning
we have a helper up to the front to do
the calendar. This week we started to do
spelling. On Monday, October the 16 we
got a tape tirder. Happy Birthday also
to Josh Mlddelkamp, Sheri Faber and
Jeevee Dhaliwal.
Ms. Morton Grade 3
Grade 3, Room 3 has been working
very hard on Math facts these past two
weeks. We've been playing Math Bingo to
help us. We've been learning how to
write. At this time, we know about half
the .alphabet. In spelling, we are choos-
ing words we want to learn to spell. A
couple of us chose Supercalifragilisticex
pialidocfous! 'Finally, every time a teacher
catches us being good we get a star to
decorate and hang from the lights, Soon
our classroom will look like the Milky
Wayl
Mr. Yeo Grade 3/4
Students have been reading monster
stories. Monsters were found to live in
many places. Each child created a
monster, in story form and in picture.
Everyone has a partner in either Mrs.
Young or Mrs. Cameron's Kindergarten
class. Most found their partners were
shy, enjoyed being read to and were
cooperative.
Leaf collections were handed in by
Grade 3. Grade 4 pupils adopted and
reported on a special tree.
Mrs. Worsell Grade 5
Mrs. Worsell's Grade 5 class is work-
ing on Food Novels. The Chocolate Fever
group had fun doing chocolate pudding
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Ms. Rennie Grade 5/6
In Art we are drawing with pastels. We
are smearing pastels to make the faces
more scary. A group of four people are
doing newscasts for the class in Current
Events. The Grade 6's had their Math
test. They did very well. We had our
science test about trees on Tuesday. We
will receive our results on Friday. In
gym we are playing volleyball. Miss Ren-
nie is teaching us how to volley. In Social
Studies we are studying the United
Kingdom. In Language Arts we are stu-
dying Mysteries.
Mrs. Webster Grade 6
Mr. Cober will be teaching art at the
high school for the next several weeks.
Mrs. Webster is our substitute for that
time. We are having fun with the "think
a-thon". It is a quiz for three teams We
add up our score for each team and see
who wins. On November 8 we are going
to West Wawanosh Nature Centre.
Mr. Meyers Grade 7
We've had a busy two weeks in Mr.
Meyers six and seven. On Tuesday the 24
we went to the Huron County Museum.
We've also been busy as bees doing all
the regular work. On Wednesday the 18
we had some guests in the class for our
Quest class. We'd like to wish a happy
birthday to Joshua Asnong.
Mrs. Graham Grade 7/8
This week we started volleyball. On
Wednesday the teachers from Wingham
and C oderieh High Schools came to visit.
It was pretty cool. On Wednesday, Daryl
Graham painted a dragon on the school
wall. It's really nicel
Mr. Harlitt Grade 8
In History Mr. Hazlitt has assigned us
to do .a research project on the Loyalists.
We are moving along quite well with the
help of Mrs. Clarke. In .Art we are doing
design work. Gur class has to hand in a
Book Bedew at the end of every moth,.
We are graded on it. We have a
Geography Test next Thursday,
November 2.
Library, Mrs. -Clarke
The Library ICON :cam are hum-
ming with story writing, keyboarding and
learning programs. Miss Ronnie's Grade
O's have two :mystery Centres in the
Library, and Mrs. Worsell's novel study
group followed up their book The
Chocolate Fever, with some unusual
finger paint! Mr. Hazlitt's Grade 8's are
doing a great job learning research and
note -fig skills ale learning about
the Loyalists. We enjoyed lasing Mr.
Gibson and Ms. with from the high
school helping us out on Wednesday!
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munity Arts, Commercial Recreation
and Therapeutic Activities for the
Elderly, just to Marne a few. The trip
was very worthwhile and the ex-
perience will ;be a very suable one
once she enters the field.
Tracy .will be attending the Society
of Directors of Municipal Recreation
:of Ontario conference as :a student
member on November 1 and 8 During
the conference which is being held in
Geneva Park, Onio, She will be :at-
tending such workshops as Special
Needs and ,Codnmunitypec l Events:
Tracy is also looking forward to her
Six week field placement in the ,A.ctiw-
`ty Department at ' Pineerest Punting
mom where ;she will ;solo ow ex.
penis in thearea of therapeutic
recreation.
`Upon ,graduation lift April Tracy
tO find employment'In r field
within the area.