The Citizen, 2003-12-17, Page 15THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2003. PAGE 15.
Grey Central Echo
Grey ‘buzzing’ with festive preparations
Grey Central is buzzing with
Christmas preparations and
festivities.
Last week, amid concert practices
and special baking, students
participated in a penny auction and
white elephant sale. For the past
week, students have assembled once
a day for a carol sing.
The Grey Central Christmas
dinner will be held on the Tuesday.
Dec. 16 for the entire school.
Kindergarten B will enjoy their
special meal when they come to
school on Wednesday.
Family and friends are invited to
Grey Central’s Christmas concert on
Dec. 17 at 7:30 p.m. There will be a
silver collection at the door.
Kelly Byles’s piano students will
be providing a prelude to the concert
starting at 7 p.m.
On Thursday, Dec. 18. the
Listowel District Secondary School
choir will be performing for the
students at Grey.
On Friday afternoon, students will
be bussed to the BMG Community
Centre to skate.
In Miss Hill’s Grade 1/2 class,
they are enjoying language
activities. In math, they are adding
and subtracting doubles. They are
learning about different Christmas
traditions in social studies and in art
they are making decorations for the
Christmas play.
Last week Mrs. Smith’s Grade 2
class participated in several
Christmas activities, including the
making of a Christmas Favourite
Recipe Cookbook, Christmas
alphabet activities and writing
letters to Santa. They are also
working on a personal time line,
which is a record of important
events during their lives, birth to
present.
Mrs. Taylor’s Grade 3s are
reviewing photosynthesis in science.
They’ve been learning about how
the pioneers kept Christmas in social
studies. They have also been singing
Christmas carols in music.
Last week the Grade 4 students
read and responded to a story called
Joe’s Junk, which is part of a new
assessment kit called CASI. Each of
the stories in the CASI kit is
accompanied by a set of follow up
questions that evaluates each
student’s performance of a variety of
essential reading skills.
Mrs. Mitchell is scoring the class
set of Joe’s Junk papers against the
evaluation criteria and work samples
in the CASI kit. The information that
comes from this assessment will
help her plan the reading program.
CASI stands for Comprehension,
Attitude, Strategies and Interests.
It is an assessment tool that was
developed by the Toronto District
School Board and has subsequently
been purchased by the Avon
Maitland District School Board.
All of Grey Central’s junior level
(Grade 4. 5 and 6) teachers have
attended in-service in the last month
and will be using CASI as an
assessment tool.
The Grade 4 students will be
bidding a fond farewell to Mr. Al
Harrison at the end of the week.
They wish to thank Mr. Harrison for
being an super math and language
teacher this fall while Mrs. Mitchell
was on maternity leave.
In Mrs. Murray’s Grade 5 class,
they're working on the Christmas
concert called A Real Canadian
Christmas on Dec. 17.
Some of the students are proud
because they have improved their
reading skills by reading aloud to
Mrs. Wood, whose help is greatly
appreciated.
In Mr. Payne’s Grade 8 class, they
are starting a new story in literature
called The Gift of The Magi by O.
Henry. It is a Christmas story
dealing with love, giving and irony.
In drama they made sentences
with two nouns, one verb, one
adjective and one adverb and put
them in a hat. Someone had to reach
into the hat, pick a sentence and act
it out.
The Grade 8s enjoyed this game of
charades.
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