The Citizen, 1989-11-01, Page 13Bear Facts
THAT’S A SWITCH!
There were nine new faces in
classes at Blyth Public School on
Wednesday morning when school
began. On that day, all high school
teachers in Huron County were
visiting a public school of their
choice.
At B.P.S., the nine visiting
teachers rotated through each
class, joined the children on the
yard at recess, and a few even
joined in a soccer game.
The purpose of the visit was to
allow the secondary teachers to see
the progression in learning and to
observe the programmes covered
by the elementary teachers.
A reverse visit was made to the
high school classes by elementary
teachers the previous Monday.
HALLOWEEN LITERATURE
Grade two has been busy writing
Halloween poems. Below are some
of their products.
THE JACK-O-LANTERN
by Darrell McDougall
Orange Jack-o-Lantern
Come to me
Your face is so clean
Your head is so round and
I love you
Because you are
My Jack-o-Lantern
A WITCH POEM
by Karin Schroecker
A Witch fell in a ditch.
“Oh No,’’ said the Witch.
“Yes,’’ said the ditch.
The Witch said, “Ah! Who Was
it?”
MAGIC HALLOWEEN
by Bryce Toll and Elisha Courtney
Black cats ride around on witches’
brooms
And they go, “Meow’’
Witches make spells and turn
People into frogs because
It’s magic Halloween night.
SMILE
by Jody Button and
Rhonda Gibbons
On October 27, every pupil from
grade K-8 were videotaped by
three Royal Canadian Legion mem
bers.
The pupils were asked to line up
in alphabetical order. While the
tape was running the pupils were
instructed to walk across the gym,
say their name, age, grade and
teacher’s name.
The Legion does this because it’s
a record of how the students walk,
talk and look in case they are
kidnapped or lost.
This record is sent to the police
to help identify the missing child.
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BUSY AS A BEAVER
by John Ramirez
On the foggy morning of October
25, the grade ones of B.lyth P.S.
treked to see a beaver dam. This
dam is on the Blyth Creek. From
the road, we followed former
railway tracks across an old train
tressel bridge. It was an enlight-
ning 10-minute walk that led up to
the dam. The dam, about four
metres long, consisted of leaves,
rocks, mud, and twigs. Actually,
there was a lot more than just
twigs. Large sections of lumber
were found here. It is amazing to
think that these little animals, or
should I say architects or engi
neers did all of this.
As we walked farther down
stream, the autumn smell of de
composing leaves was quite evi
dent, along with the refreshing
sound of rippling water. But what
struck the parents and students the
most was the size of the some of the
stumps of the felled trees. The
average diameter of most of the
trees was 15 to 20 centimetres!
Going farther from our place of.
origin we saw a very large timbered
tree, possibly the foundation for a
future dam. Farthest upstream,
just before the vanishing point,
another dam seemed to be under
construction. As we see, beavers
are busy. We would like to say
thank you to the landowners for
their permission to explore the
dam, and to Dave Cook and Fred de
Boer for helping transport the
students.
COME ONE COME ALL
by Erica Clark and
Tina Burkholder
On Thursday, October 26, Blyth
Public School held an Open House.
Students from Kindergarten to
grade 8 were asked to bring their
parents to meet their teacher and
show them the school work that
they had been doing for the past
month and a half. The Open House
went from 7 until 8:30 p.m. There
was a very good turnout.
On Friday, October 27 Blyth
Public School held a dance as well
as the first hot dog day of the year.
ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, GO!
by Jen Stadelmann and
Steph Lentz
For weeks, students of Blyth
Public School have been practising
Cross-country running. On October
16, we had the run-off to decide the
runners for competing at Hullett
Central P.S. On the afternoon of
October 24, nineteen students went
to Londesborough to represent our
school. We placed third out of eight
schools with 259 points. Congratu
lations to Jodee Medd and Kurt
Lentz for placing high in their
categories. We would like to thank
Mr. Livermore, Miss Morgan and
Mr. Sygrove for their supervision,
coaching and encouragement.
People
Sympathy is extended to the
Lawlor, Anderson families on the
death of Mrs. Gordon Anderson
(nee) Pearl Lawlor who passed
away in Alexandra Marine and
General Hospital on Wednesday,
October 25 in her 78th year.
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Fat Cattle - 12:30 p.m.
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Stockers - 2:00 p.m.
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Full steam ahead
Eight schools from the East Region of the County participated in a cross-country meet at Hullett
Central Public School in Londesboro on October 24. The winners of this Senior Boys Group was
_____Clinton Public School while Huron Centennial Public School in Brucefield was overall champion.
The Worldview from Mabel’s Grill
Continued from page 4
passing the table, there’s one body
of water she’d like to see dry up
completely: Meech Lake. She’s sick
of hearing about it.
WEDNESDAY: Billie Bean was
saying this morning that there will
be a lot of editorial cartoonists out
of work if the auditor general
doesn’t find more wrong with
government spending that he has
this year. “I mean the cartoonists
used to get at least a week’s worth
of work out of the auditor general’s
report every year,’’ he said.
Yeh, said Julia, it may be good
that the government isn’t wasting
so much money but it doesn’t make
for as many jokes.
And who knows, Ward said, if
people can’t complain about the
new goods and services tax by
saying the government should cut
waste instead, they might just
admit the tax is needed.
Now, that, said Tim, really
wouldn’t be funny.
FRIDAY: Billie Bean said this
morning he has one thing to look
forward to on the weekend: picking
up an extra hour’s sleep when they
turn the clock back.
“The way my schedule is,” Tim
said, “I could get along just fine if
they would turn the clock back
every week.”
“It would need to be every day
for me,” Julia said.
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