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John & Marie McIntosh
June 7th
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PAGE 22. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1998.
Blyth PS news
Grade 3s study les fleurs et les insectes
By Dane Cornell
In French, Grades 3, 4 and 5
students have been studying les
fleurs, les insectes et des mots du
printemps. After publishing
booklets about things they see,
hear, and feel in spring, they held
spelling competitions using these
new words.
The winning team in Grade 3/4
was Les Chiens Inuits and in Grade
4/5 the winners were Les
Panthdres.
One day at noon this week these
two teams will have a spell-off.
Bonne chance!
Grade 6/7 is working on booklets
about "collections." When they are
completed, the students will present
them to the class "en francais."
TRACK RESULTS
By Alicia Marshall
On May 19, Blyth Public School
held their annual track and field
meet.
The people who won in their
divisions were: Midgets — first,
Josh Albrechtas; second, Darcey
Cook; third, Adam Young; first,
Kerissa Van Amersfoort; second,
Brittney Peters; third, Jenna Rinn.
Juniors — first, Justin Peters;
second, Raymond deBoer; third,
Korey Machan; first, (tie) Michelle
Cook, Jenna Taylor; second,
Meagan Campbell; third, Lisa
Baarda. Intermediates — first, Cole
Stewart; second, Jesse Hakkers;
third, (tie) Kirk Stewart, Micah
Loder; first, (tie) Charlene
Bromley, Candi Bearss; second,
Veronica Edwards; third, Courtney
Bakkcr. Seniors — first, Andrew
Toll; second Steven Empey; third,
Devin Shannon; first, Jamie Lewis;
second, Ashley Taylor; third,
Sonya Schultz.
The events involved in thi,s
activity are 100 metre, 200 metre,
400 metre, and 800 metre running
events, high jump, running long
jump, standing long jump, softball
throw, shot put, and triple jump.
By Scott McLellan
For the last while the Grade 2/3s
have been experiencing the theme,
dinosaurs. A trip to the Stratford
Museum is planned for June 4 to
take part in a fossil program.
They are also writing stories,
singing songs, and finding eggs to
go along with this unit.
In math they are learning how to
tell time, and working on
measurement dealing with mass.
They're learning' how to graph their
weight and the Grade 3s are
studying fractions.
The Grade 3s are taking part in
the EQAO testing, so the Grade 2s
and 4s have been with Mrs. Grail
until they're finished.
Another project for Grades 2 and
4 students is to construct a small
vehicle!
For gym they are playing with
the parachute, practising track and
field events, running races, and
playing dodge ball.
JK/SK
By Katelyn !inner
JK/SK is hard at work trying to
end off the school year right, with
all their work completed. JK/SK
students are continuing to learn
about sounds and the actions of the
alphabet letters.
They went to see Charlotte's Web
at the Blyth Memorial Hall and
painted pictures of their favourite
parts of the play.
They also enjoyed the play day
activities which were held on
Thursday, May 28.
They are still busy having their
pledge sheets signed for the
Walkathon on June 2 to raise
money for the new computers for
the school.
Brussels PS news
Students buy gum license Help protect the environment
Reduce Reuse Recycle
By Andrew Smith
and Kendall Jutzi
This Friday at Brussels Public
School the student council
organized a Gum Day. The students
bought a license and a piece of gum
for 25 cents.
The kindergarten classes had a
Teddy Bear Picnic. The A class had
theirs on Wednesday and the B
class on Thursday. They ate snacks
and lunch outside with their teddy
bears. Each child's bear had to have
a name tag.
They watched the movie the The
Teddy Bear Picnic.
They have Gideon a new
computer program called "Jump
Start to Kindergarten", thanks to
Matthew Cardiff's mom.
This week in Grade 1 they are
talking about the three little pigs.
The study is actually about fairy
tales.
On Tuesday they ate lunch
outside. In reading buddies they are
making people on paper.
In Grade 2 this week they did
fractions with pizza. In art they
made butterfly books. They made
mosaic fish out of paper. They are
now practising their relays for
Howick.
Grade 3 testing was this past
week.
They also started selling
popsicles on Wednesday.
Grade 4s had a French test and a
Canada test.
They have started studying the
human body and finished up their
book reports.
Grade 5s started writing creative
paragraphs for the fall fair.
On Monday they are choosing
their instruments for next year.
'hey are now learning about flight
ENGAGEMENT
PARTY
for
Dave Cowman
and
Susan Jewitt
Friday, June 12
9 pm - 1 am
at
Huron Fish & Game Club
Clinton
Lunch Provided
Age of Majority
$5.00 per person
and flying which entails making
paper airplanes and flying them.
Grade 6/7s have started to write
in their response journals. Mrs.
Whyte will read them in a Reader's
Digest story and they have to write
a response.
They made paper mache masks.
Four copies of their writing
assignment are due on Monday.
The Grade 6s have finished up
their family tree's for Canadian
studies.
In art, Grade 7/8s drew faces,
wearing some sort of gesture.
They are having a math test on
Monday on the work that they did
last week. They had a French test
given by Mme Ringette on
adjectives.
The grade 8s have started their
backboards.
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June 7th
Tribute
Fresh Horses, a Garth Brooks tribute band entertained at
the Brussels Lions elimination draw on Saturday night.
The lucky holders of the $4,000 final ticket were Bruce
and Doris McCall of Brussels.
OPEN HOUSE
to celebrate 50 years
of marriage of
Ivan & Mary Grace
Wightman
SUN., JUNE 7, 1998
2-4 p.m.
Brucefield United Church
Meat w alEea enev
With
special guests
Mark Laform and
the Formula
Tickets: $28.50 in adv. $32.00 at door
Available at: Crosswinds - Mitchell;
Ernie King's (1993 Ltd.) - Wingham & Goderich;
Dixie Lee - Clinton; Blyth General Store - Blyth
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