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Grey Central Echo
Grade 7 students learn calligraphy
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INTERMEDIATE NEWS
by Reporter Ann Stephenson
The grade sevens have been
working heard at learning
calligraphy. They were to complete
two projects, such as monogram
paper, book marks, poems, and
bible verses.
For language arts, they are
reading the novel “Tom Sawyer,”
on which they will be doing
activities.
As a fundraiser for their trip to
Quebec, the grade sevens will be
selling cheese in the upcoming
month.
Mr. Colquhoun's grade eights
have been very busy lately. They
have been studying such topics as
square roots in math, classifying
animals, and studying the War of
1812 in history.
In geography they are working
Brussels P.S. news
Teachers attend Quest
by Janice Jacklin
On Tuesday, Nov.3 the grade
sevens, Mrs. Perrie's class, had a
visit from Mrs. Homuth. Mrs.
Homuth is a “Transition Years” co
ordinator. The transition years are
grade 7, 8 and 9. The lesson she did
with Mrs. Perrie's class was
“Conflict Resolution”. Mrs.
Homuth mentioned that “working
with others will be an important
skill, now and later in life and
learning how to solve, problems is
a desirable skill.
Last week Mrs. Perrie and Mr.
Wanless went to a Lions' Quest
Program in Kitchener. Mrs. Perrie
said she enjoyed the three days of
the Lions-Quest training because it
was great to have a sharing
experience with others who are
dealing with grade 7-8 students.
She said her group of 36 people
was evenly divided between men
and women. There was a first year
teacher and a couple near
retirement and teachers with a
variety of experiences in between.
She learned that the Lions Quest
Program helps young people deal
with the challenges of our changing
world. It also helps students
develop positive social behaviours
of self-discipline, good judgement
and the ability to get along with
others while establishing
commitments to home, school and
community. The program
emphasizes a positive, healthy life.
She said she will be teaching the
Quest program in grade seven after
Service award
Barb Bosman a teacher at
Hullett Central Public School
received a gold pin for her 25
years of service to the
teaching profession at the
Huron Women Teachers'
Association fall banquet in
Brussels recenlty.
with maps and scales to find out
distances. Rumor has it that the
teacher is sending them on a
fictional 1000-1500 km. trip with
only their ruler and map scale! It
sounds like fun.
They are enjoying the opportun
ity to choose their own reading
material, and read at their own
pace. They have written many
compositions about themselves, our
country, and some of their favourite
things.
PRIMARY NEWS
Mrs. Douma has been keeping
her class happy and busy. They
have been talking about fall and
signs of fall. They even made
applesauce. The class made Canada
geese and is going to let them fly
south in a “v” formation on the
ceiling.
Miss Rose's grade one class has
the first term reports.
Mr. Wanless said he enjoyed the
Quest Program. It was an
exceptionally exciting workshop.
The facilitator, he said, was
stimulating and the group dynamics
demonstrated the power of synergy.
Mr. Wanless added he would love
to attend an additional session.
We are glad that Mr. Wanless
and Mrs. Perrie enjoyed their three-
day program.
We would like to welcome a new
visitor working the odd day at our
school. Alex Motley is from
Pleasington, California. He is
staying at the Sauve's in Brussels
and likes Canada. Alex is bar
coding books in he library and
entering them in to the data base.
He is 18-years-old and playing for
the Brussels Bulls Jr C hockey
club.
We hope Alex enjoys the rest of
his stay in Canada and make lots of
friends.
Graduation
CHARLENE RENIzE
STEPHENSON
Fred and Sharon Stephenson
of Brussels are pleased to
announce the graduation of
their daughter Charlene from
Sir Wilfrid Laurier University,
Waterloo with an Honours
Bachelor of Business Admini
stration with Distinction. The
convocation ceremony was
held October 25,1992 at The
Kitchener Memorial Audi
torium. Charlene presently
resides In London and
attends Althouse Teacher's
College at the University of
Western Ontario. She plans
to teach accounting and
marketing at the high school
level.
Congratulations Charlene!
been talking about healthy
lifestyles.
Their hamster Heidi now has a
penpal in the grade six classroom.
Mrs. Starkey's class was learning
about Canada and its women.
Miss McKinnon's class has been
having an especially good time
learning about estimating food -
whatever they estimate they get to
eat.
Mrs. Henry's class was very
lucky to see an opossum even
though it was dead.
The whole primary side learned
about their surroundings on Tree
Day. It was held outside so they
even got to enjoy some fall
weather.
by Krista Hunter
The time of year arrived again
when Grey Central School held the
annual elections for their student
council. The student council for
1992-1993 is: Mike Menzi,
treasurer; Shannon Conley,
secretary; Konrad Wemham, vice-
president; and last but not least
president, Ulrich Hammel, who
hopes this will be the best student
council Grey Central has ever had.
We, the students, hope this will
be a great and fun year for all of us.
JUNIOR
It's hard to believe that it's
already October and just look at all
of the things which have been
done. The grade 4/5 class has been
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studying plants, trees, and animals.
During one science lesson they
found an opossum in the woods.
In math they just finished telling
time, rounding numbers, addition,
and subtraction, and are now doing
problems solving. They are also
doing activities with stories by Bill
Peet.
Welcome Chad and Christy
Neville. The students hope they
enjoy it at Grey Central.
In grade 5/6 the student's are hard
at work doing a unit on dogs and
are reading “White Fang”.
The grade fives and sixes are
learning about decimals and
rounding numbers.
Congratulations to Becky Edgar
for being “Student of the Week”.
The grade sixes should be
healthy because they are doing
“Project: Apex.” It's about eating
nutritious food and being healthy.
In environmental studies they are
travelling around the world. They
even have their own passports.
Right now they are studying
Europe.
During math they are doing
whole number activities, “Reach
for the Top” and crib. “Reach for
the Top” is a math game. You
really need to know your adding,
subtracting, dividing, and multiply
ing. It's really fun.
HALLOWEEN AT GREY
by Marion Haller
Send your
The North Huron
On Friday, Oct. 30, Grey Central
Public School held the annual
Halloween activities for grades
kindergarten to grade four.
At 1 p.m. the students went into
the gym for the costume judging.
Afterwards, they took part in such
games as “Pin the Stem on the
Pumpkin”, “Musical Chairs” and
many more including the Haunted
House, all run by the grade eight
class.
Later grades five to eight had a
school dance, organized by the
students' council. That night, the
older students had another dance at
the Ethel Community Hall.
MANY HAPPY
RETURNS
ALAN