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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1993-02-03, Page 15They're getting ready for speech day by Carolyn Andrew, Lisa Caesar, Jassie Dhaliwal, and -Shelly Irvin • Primary Mrs. Cameron's kindergarten class is hoping for lots of snow while they do their unit on snow. They made snowman booklets, and made two big books about what everybody likes to do in the snow. They are practicing snow words, and are learning to tell time, along with the days of the week, and some of the months.. Mrs. McMillen's kindergarten class has also learned to tell time. They are all in rhyme, when they learn about nursery rhymes and rhyming words. They are having fun in the snow by doing lots of snow activities, inoluding stories, poems crafts and songs. Mrs. Hodsman's Grade 1 class browsed a collection of alphabet books, and now they have started making their own A B C books, with pictures, words and sentences.. They are thankful that the, snow is here. The children have lots of science activities planned for the week.' Miss Rob ' and • Miss Anguish's Grade 1/2 class just finished a science unit called Bounce, Spin and Roll. The kids also made chicken soup with rice. In math they were doing geometry centres. Mrs. Baker's and Miss Wise's Grade 2/3 class is working on a unit about snow wffiich will con- tinue into February. The Grade 2s are memorizing poems and the Grade 3s have been working with geometry and multi- plication. Quilters gather in Lucknow Fifty enthusiastic ladies attended the Five Star Quilters' Guild meet- ing in Lucknow last week. Rollcall was to name; show and tell what you have made since the December meeting. The block lottery was won by Anne Hawkins. The February block lottery will be Valentine patterns in shades•of red. Two quilts made for charity were tied. Sharon Stein taught a class on hodge podge.Mrs. Hawkins demon- strated the quilted flowers and many of the ladies made them. Quilting was demonstrated by Betty Ritchie. Plans for the February/ meeting include how to make a quilt in a day. Barbara deBoer is in charge of Hidden Wells, Sharon Stein the Morning Star and Manji Mantel -the Lovers Knot. The ladies were given the patterns and instructions and it is hoped these . quilts will be com- pleted during the 9 a.m. to 4 p.m: meeting in Teeswater. Various bus trips have been organized. Raffle quilts for next year will follow, a theme, with Anne Hawkins in charge. R. Roberts will be speaker.:.. from page 13, at the Dungannon United Church. Mary Garriock very capably pro- vided the organ music. The sermon was' based on the scripture reading, taken from Matthew 5: verses 1 - 12, Jesus taught the disciples gathered on the mountainside a lesson best known as the Beatitudes. Approximately 40 members of the church . remained following the service for a pot luck luncheon and annual meeting. Rev. Garth Bogan was chairperson with Sheila Faber as secretary. Plans for the anniversary, service on May 2, at 11 am were made. Guest speaker will be Rev. Robert Roberts •of. Ridgetown, formerly of the' Dungannon Pastbral Charge. BROOKSIDE BROADCAST Junior Mrs. Worsell's Grade 5/6 class' is busy working on speeches. They willhe saying them in class during the first week of February. They are just completing a science unit on Simple Machines. Thanks to Mr. Wilkins for his help in class dem- onstrations. Both grades are work- ing on geometry in mathematics, and a mystery novel study in Lan- guage Arts. Many pupils are on the school volleyball team and they have been practicing faithfully for the upcoming tournament. Mrs. Tebbutts' Grade 3/4 class has been working on speeches and story telling for the public speaking competition to be held on February 9. Many of the students have enjoyed the Book Club Meetings, The plays and poems have been, well presented. We are really work- ing hard on learning multiplication tables in both classes. Mr. Culp's Grade 5 has been exploring the question "What's your angle?" When it came to light the students have learned that careful sighting results in equal ,angles. They're enjoying the Typeaway sessions in the library on the computers. They started with the correct finger posi- tioning and now they're working on speed and accuracy. Mr. Lobb's. class, Grade 4/5, will be learning about the government after research in the library. They . have made "research cubes" (showing their agricultural information) to hang, in' the room. They are trying to get fit in gym! They have wonderful papier mache animals!! . Intermediate Mrs. Dozois' Grade 6/7 class has been busy workink 'on Typeaway (keyboard training) in,. the library the past week. Both Grade 6s and 7s have been working on three book reports with Canadian authors. They also have been working on speeches which they will start to say next Monday to Friday. The Grade 7s will be going skiing Fri- day, February 19. In Miss Morton's Grade 7/8 class, the Grade 7s have been busy fin- ishing up a story that is due at the end of the month. They are also busy doing two spelling exercises and finishing them up. The Grade 8s are finishing, up their Johnny Tremain book report. Mr. Hazlitt's Grade 8 class is busy working on area and units in math. They are also reading poems out of a reader and then making up their own poems 'using the same techniques. They are also busy saying speeches in front of their class. Special events The students from Grades 1 to 8 are all preparing for their speeches. They will be presenting them for their classes the last week of Jan- uary and the first week of February. The people picked to represent the classes will speak in front of their grades in the gym on February 9. It will start at 9:15 and any parents that want to come are welcome. The junior girls and boys volley- ball teams are picked and have been working very hard to compete in the tournament on February 11. On February 26, the school will be going skating, and any moms and dadswho can tie skates are welcome. Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, February 3, 1993 - Page 15 LUCKNOW DISTRICT COMMUNITY" CENTRE Lions Bingo February 7, 1993 Saturday, February 11 LUCKOW KINSMEN MUSIIBALL OPEN DATES February Fridays 5.12.19.26 Saturday .6 "ONLY" CALL 528-3532 • 9a.m.-5p.m. Happy 20th Anniversary ,Mom & Dad (Sherry & Don Alton) February 3, 1973) Steven Poli and his mother, Kim, were one of the parent/student duos constructing Bluebird boxes last week at Brookside Public School. The project was one taken on the by the newly -formed Pollution Solution Club that alms to do whatever they can to protect the environment. (Pat Livingston photo) Pollution Solution Club makes Bluebird boxes Brookside Public School's Pollu- tion Solution Club has drawn strong interest from the Grades 3 to 6 students. Formed. in 1992, the club stresses recycling but is basically designed to do whatever they can to protect the environment. . . Members of the club have become , involved in bringing litterless lunches to school and hope in the spring to do some planting around Brookside. Their latest project was making Bluebird houses by recycling wood. Tony McQuail was instrumental in the project corning to fruition. Mi. McQuail hosted a workshop at his farm where the wood was cut into the proper size pieces. Last Wednesday, the club met at the school and completed the actual construction. Each club member will take one Bluebird box home and the remain- der will be donated to Cedarvale Sanctuary. Sheila Clarke, who leads the club, said parent participation has been excellent. What regulation about Lighters' footwear is included in the 12 Mar- quis of Queensberry Rules, which. have governed boxing for over 100 years? "No shoes or boots with springs allowed." 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