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The Citizen, 1998-01-28, Page 18PAGE 18. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1998. Preserving memories Students in the Grade 4/5 class at Grey Central Public School, Ethel have been part of a pilot project for the Alzheimer Society, with the VON and Town and Country Homemakers. A program which originated in the St.Thomas-Elgin area, the students in Grey and at St. Columban have created posters, from which 12 will be selected to be made into a calendar. They have also written memories that they would like to preserve, which are being displayed with the posters and with poems from Grade 7 on an Alzheimer board at the school.Teacher Marilyn Elgie,back left and VON, Theresa Rice stand before the work with the Grade 4/5 class reps Daniel Adams and Laura Armstrong. Brussels PS news Friday was hat day at BPS RRSP INVESTMENT SEMINAR * Wednesday, February 4 at 7:30 p.m. * Learn about mutual fund selection, dollar cost averaging, RRSP loans, reduction at source, etc. Seating is limited, so call to register Linda Henhoeffer 1-800-667-3887 or (519) 335-3887 ?Investment Centre Blyth PS news Students hear tales of life Down Under By Brook Wheeler and Elyse Wilkinson We're having a great time at Brussels Public School this week. Friday was hat day and we were all looking gorgeous in various sorts of hats. This week we interviewed Trista Deitner and Brendan Stretton from the Kindergarten A class. They said that Friday was their dino-day and the beginning of their dinosaur unit. They read about them, draw pictures of them in their journals, and play with them. They also brought in dinosaur figurines, Barney dolls and dinosaur eggs. They have also been learning their birthdays, phone numbers and drawing pictures of snowmen. In Grade 1 we interviewed Brianne Wheeler and Thomas Johnston. They told us that with their reading buddies, they watched the Paper Bag Princess. They are also making snow books and safety books. In spelling they are learning lots of new words. For Grade 2, Evie Horne and Robert Cochrane were eager to get interviewed. Like the kindergartens, they have been By Liz MacGregor KINDERGARTEN The Early Years classes have enjoyed doing activities and reading books about transportation. Painting with vehicle wheels was especially fun. We welcome our new junior kindergarten pupil, Brendon Boven. Michael Fan, Jeff Plaetzer and Venessa Wilts in Kindergarten B, and Katelyn Roetcisoender in Kindergarten A, celebrated their birthdays this month. Everyone thought the cupcakes they made were delicious. GRADE 1 The Grade 1 class is setting up a general store for the study of money. They are buying and selling many useful things such as food and books. They received a new book called "Chime In" and are learning many fun new poems. They made a new class book called "Snow, Snow, Snow" by Grade 1. They will be able to take it home and share it. GRADE 2 learning about birthdays too. hi Art they made some really good looking pizzas which are located outside of their room. Yesterday they had 'game day'. Everyone brought in a game to share. Every morning they pair up in buddies and work on the computers in the library. The Grade 3 class has been learning new words like: tuktu, caribou, ptarmigan and tundra. They have been studying the 'Inuit'. In phys-ed they have been learning about gymnastics and movement. They collected snow for an experiment in science and discovered that the snow in the parking lot is very dirty. Jill Johnston and Cory Chapman wanted to tell us what was going on in the Grade 4 classroom. They are having lots of fun studying 'Mennonites' and having novel studies with their groups. In art they did some really nice pastel pictures of winter scenes. They have also had a few multiplication quizzes in math. For Grade 5 we had Brent Wheeler and Erica Thalen talk to us. Right now they are talking Grade 2 boys and girls are busy with language activities concerning "Winter'". They have developed a vocabulary list that is used for bingo. They are also reading the Snow Queen. Wonderful dioramas were made in art to illustrate important parts of the story. In environmental studies, they are continuing their Canada study with more mapping and discussing how people in different parts of Canada make a living. They have been very busy in Math investigating and comparing geometric solids and learning some new terms. There have been many birthdays. Happy Birthday to Amanda Zenker, Lisa Thiessen and Daniel Raidt. GRADE 3 As part of their study on Canada, the Grade 3s sent an e-mail message to every province and territory asking for information and pictures. Some have sent back packages of information while others have sent back web sites from which we can copy and download the data. about early Ontario in social studies. In environmental studies they are learning about nutrition. For art they are learning about different stamps. They are also learning how to tell time in French. Grade 6/7 is really busy this week. They have started their speeches and a new program in French. They are using cameras- and finding different angles. Outside their classroom they have started to work on their bulletin. Dividing and multiplying decimals are what they are doing in Math right now. Grade 7/8 has just started a new unit on poetry. For Canadian studies they watched a video on history. They have started a new assignment on inventions. It's about , _ who made them, when, and where. They will soon be starting to write their speeches. They have started selling meat pies for a fundraiser so they can journey on a class trip to Quebec in May. They are also getting excited about the volleyball tournament on Jan. 26 and the skiing trip coming up on Feb. 18. GRADE 6/7 Grade 6/7 enjoyed a delicious multi-cultural potluck lunch on Dec. 17 as a finale to their study of Canadian Heritage. They sampled many interesting dishes from the class's Dutch, British and German backgrounds. The Grade 6 students have begun a novel study of the classic novel, The Indian in the Cupboard, by Lynne Reid Banks. They will be learning about the Iroquois nation and their way of life as they read the novel. Grade 7 students are busy planning, designing and drawing a birdhouse as a follow-up to the measurement unit they did in science. They are also looking forward to spending the day at Tech 21. They have started their speeches. They have also been working on a pilot project for the county on hyperstudio. They started with a tutorial on France. Now they are working on a pet project to be shown across the county. Hullett was one of only two schools chosen to participate. SUMMER HOLIDAYS IN JANUARY By Michelle Cook Last year a teacher named Mrs. Manic Lobb taught Grade 3/4 at our school. Her daughter, Miss Sherri Lobb, often worked as a volunteer for Mrs. Lobb's class. By January 1997 Miss Lobb was on her way to teach in New Zealand. Mrs. Lobb thought this would be a perfect opportunity to let her class and her daughter's class become pen pals. Grade 4/5 is still writing to their pen pals, so Miss Lobb recently dropped in to share some of her experiences. For example can you believe that in New Zealand the students have just finished enjoying their summer holidays, and that the temperature could be 30°C. They have a junior high school, so their public school only goes to Grade 6. In Math, Grade 4/5 has been covering metric measurement. They are estimating and then measuring items in the classroom, as well as converting one unit to another. In music they are comparing the value of notes and rests in different time signatures, and in writing mechanics, they are learning more about the kinds of sentences they can use in writing as well as the main parts of a sentence. The Grade 4/5s just finished an exciting study called "Owls" and are now watching a video and reading books about "The Phoenix and the Carpet". In science they are studying the weather. In this subject they are learning about the water cycle, clouds and weather instruments. They also go on the internet to a website where schools share their weather statistics every Monday. Grade 4/5 is the ONLY class in all of Ontario to participate. Grade 4/5 is very skilled when it comes to gym. They are working at volleyball skills at the present moment. Every Friday the students go through centres. These centres involve: research on weather and Nagano, Word Perfect Presenta- tion, story telling with a slide show, and poetry. CO-OP STUDENT AT BLYTH PUBLIC By Dane Cornell Chad Haggitt has been at Blyth Public School since the beginning of January. He is in the co-op program from Lambton College in Sarnia. Chad has been doing group work with the younger children and assisting all classes with their physical education programs. He will be here every Monday and Tuesday until May 1. Chad says, "I enjoy working with the teachers and students at Blyth Public School because of their friendliness. The staff and students really appreciate Chad's help. KEEP ON SMILING By Katelyn Linner Up, up and away is what the people of Grades 7 and 8 are going to say on their tournaments. Mrs. Speed is smiling all the way after the girls' team had five practices. Chad Haggitt is going to be rooting all the way after the boys who also had five practices. On Jan. 7 our teams travelled to Hullett for an exhibition game. Both teams showed good team work and each won one game out of three. On Monday, Jan. 26 they competed in a tournament at CHSS Clinton. In Mrs. Hulley's Grade 7/8 science class they have been testing different minerals and for history they have been studying the "Opening of the West". In math they have completed graphing and probability. They are also studying an individual novel study on a book of their choice. They have been busy preparing speeches for the Intermediate level competition which will be held on Feb. 11 in Blyth. The winners from this contest will compete at .Hullett on Feb. 18. AN UPDATE ON OUR LIBRARY By Heather A. Elliott Miss Sygrove has been very busy lately in the school library keeping track of the students with overdue books. Most of it is done on computer, but it takes a lot of work to make the computer run correctly. Mrs. Van Amersfoort, one of our parent volunteers, has just finished loading all of the magazines bar codes into the computers, so they are easier to access by our young readers. The Grade 3/4 students have been working on a mammal project. They are using a variety of different programs such as: Microsoft Encarta and Mammals. Mrs. Hulley and Miss Sygrove attended a workshop on Jan. 19 on "Hyperstudio". This new program will be helpful in multimedia presentations. Please continue to send your grocery tapes into the school as they go towards purchasing software for the library and school. Right now we have $26,548.79 in Zehrs tapes and $42,454.7 in Scrimgeour's tapes. New student in Hullett kdgn.