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Brussels PS news
Students and staff enjoy day at Brussels fair
Students. staff and parent
volunteers had a marvellous and
educational day at the Brussels Fall
Fair this past Wednesday.
After marching in the parade,
students had a snack and proceeded
to take in a number of shows and
exhibits, including the sheep and
calf shows, an entertaining magic
show, displays by area businesses
and community service groups, as.
well as the impressive crop, garden,
craft, baking, artistic and scholastic
exhibits.
Many students expressed
admiration for the amazing talents of
the many individuals in our
community that work so hard on
their fair entries. Hopefully
everyone's contributions to the fair
have inspired some new exhibitors.
Congratulations to the many
runners who trained for and took
part in the cross-country running
event held at Grey Central last
Tuesday. For under eight boys.
Brody Ten Pas placed third.
Mackenzie McGavin placed fifth for
the eight-and-under girls. Jeremy
Ross placed fifth and Zack Watson
and Marissa Pipe both placed sixth
in their respective categories.
Both kindergarten A and B classes
have been very busy during the
month of September. Ms Carter
states that the kindergartens have
adapted very well to all of the new
faces, new routines, and the new
classroom atmosphere.
The kindergartens have been
working on several things like an All
About Me booklet, songs, counting,
weather and calendar charts. They
have also been helping Ms Carter
write and read the morning message.
Ms Carter says she is very excited to
be the Brussels kindergarten teacher
this year. and she is looking forward
to a wonderfully busy year with all
of her kindergarten students.
Mrs. McGavin's Grade 1 students
have been writing, writing, writing.
Students report that they particularly
enjoy journal writing time, when
they are encouraged to communicate
using all of their wonderful reading
and writing skills.
Alphabet and phonological
awareness activities have been a
focus.
Miss Graham's Grade 2 class has
been looking at number patterns and
addition fact strategies. They are
beginning a new unit on sorting. In
language, students have been
exploring vowel sounds and
reviewing reading strategies. They
have started the editing process in
writing.
In science, the class has developed
their own animal classes and looked
at the actual classes. In social
studies, the class made a pictograph
about family origins and are learning
about the family traditions of others.
Grade 3/4 has been enjoying many
wonderful stories while reviewing
re ading strategies. We started to
make connections and ask questions.
strategies that great readers use all of
the time, while reading the books
Tight Times and Fly Away Home.
These books also helped students
in the class understand about
fatnilies in need as we collected
food for the Drive Away Hunger
Tour.
The class has also discovered
many interesting picture books
written in letter format as they have
been learning about writing a
friendly letter.
As they gear up for their
autobiography presentations,
students have also been writing
poetry about themselves, following
classroom models. They really
enjoyed hearing poet Jack Prelutsky
read Louder Than a Clap of Thunder
on-line. Check out his poetry writing
tips on the Grade 3 page of Getting
Students Connected at
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writew
i t/poetry/jack_my_poem.htm
Grade 3 students are enthused
about working with their literacy
coaches from Grade 7/8 each
morning. Thanks to Mrs..McKee for
organizing the Literacy Coach
program for the entire primary
division and training the
intermediate division students as
literacy coaches so early in the year.
The individual attention students
receive both at home and at school
as a result of this one-on-one reading
. program is extremely valuable to
students and their progress in
reading.
The small group of Grade 4s in the
Grade 3/4 class has started tracking
their reading and are attempting to
Read Across Canada. Each page a
student reads counts for a kilometre
of the Trans Canada Highway.
Students have started their reading
journey on the east coast in
Newfoundland and are discovering
great Canadian authors as they
proceed west. Students have been
reading a bit about the TransCanada
Highway at
http://www.transcanadahighway.com
During the last couple of weeks,
students have been getting back into
routines, like doing homework and
Studying for spelling tests. Mrs.
Mitchell reports that spelling scores
the second week of the program
were much improved over the first
By Elyse DeBruyn
Citizen staff
At the Sept. 21 Huron East council
meeting, a representative from the
Vanastra Curling Club approached
council regarding equipment
upgrades.
Dave Townsend, club president
asked about the replacement of three
pieces of club equipment, which
under the lease agreement between
council and the club, is council's
responsibility.
Council decided to defer their
decision to the 2005 budget meeting
after receiving the cost estimations.
Townsend told council he was
doing a follow up from a meeting in
the spring of 2003, where- they
discussed the state of equipment at
the curling club.
At that time, the condenser
required immediate replacement as it
leaked freon into the atmosphere on
two different occasions during the
2002/2003 season. The chiller and
brine pump were also in desperate
need of being replaced in the
following year or two.
He said council reached an
agreement that stated the
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week and encourages students to
keep up the good work.
Mr. Stewart looks forward to
marking the Grade 3s problem-
solving test that the students have
been preparing for in class and at
home this past weekend.
The Grade 4/5 class has come
together nicely and shown how well
they can learn together using co-
operation. They enjoy learning about
the human body in science and have
started a research project about
Canada for social studies.
The class has also completed the
first chapter in math which involved
finding patterns using shapes and
numbers.
In language arts, Mrs. Bann's
Grade 6/7 class has been reviewing
the writing process as they write
stories. In reading they are learning
about the characteristics of fiction.
The Grade 6 class has been working
on patterning in math and exploring
elevators as they learn about motion
and forces in science.
In the French room Grades 6, 7
and 8 have worked on a personal
profile presentation. The students
introduced, described and shared
their interests with the class.
The Grade 7/8s are also learning
about food from the 'Au casse-
responsible for all maintenance of
the building and for all operation
expenses of the club, except for fire
insurance on the building and
fixtures for which the club takes all
responsibility for.
Since the last meeting, the club has
raised $15,000 for equipment funds.
"Fifteen-thousand dollars in one
year is pretty good. We feel we did
enough fundraising that we want to
do _at_ this: point in time," said
Townsend: -
- Hs also said that the cost of hydro
at the building is high due to
inefficient equipment.
As calculated in Townsend's 2003
report, replacing the compressor
would cost $21,000, a chiller would
cost $23,000 and a brine pump
would cost $6,000, leaving a
$50,000 total. But he said there was
about a 25 per cent adjustment for
the 2005 prices totaling about
$62,500 to replace all three this year.
"Since we're going into the season
now, we wanted to budget (for the
equipment replacement) as well,"
said Townsend.
Forthcoming
Marriage
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Neil and Ruth Olson
and
Doug and Mary (d. Apr. 30, 2004) k
Heard
are pleased to announce
the forthcoming marriage
of
Joanne and Brian
Sunday, October 3, 2004
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croute' unit that they are studying.
The 6/7 class is learning about video
games and vocabulary dealing with
space in their unit "Galaxie
virtuelle'.
The 4/5 class has practised saying
the alphabet, numbers, days of the
week and months of the year.
All students seem to be
comfortable in the French classroom
and Miss Mathieu has enjoyed their
participation.
The Grade 7/8s have had an
excellent start to the new school
year. In language, they are working
on increasing their vocabulary skill
in all subject areas, writing a fairy
tale, and reading many short stories.
They are learning about the patterns
in human geography, and in science
they are learning about structures.
The Grade 7s are thrilled about
working with their new textbook.
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raws: 1st prize - Queen size
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rafts, bake table, penny sale;
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and
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are pleased to announce
the forthcoming marriage
of their children
Cheryl Kerr
and
Beau Riegling.
The wedding will take
place on
Saturday, October 2, 2004
at St. Joseph's
Catholic Church, ' •
Kingsbridge. •
Peddle hard
Putting strength to the test, area children participated in the
kids tractor pull in the Brussels arena. Emily Mitchell used
all her power to drive the little tractor that had a very heavy
weight attached. (Elyse DeBruyn photo)
Vanastra curling club needs upgrades