HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1994-05-04, Page 25Activities at McCurdy
McCURDY - There are 19 JK students settling in to the routines of
a classroom. They will be working on activities for the Spring Cuu-
cert to be held May 5.
Grade one students are excited about creating characters at cut and
paste.
"Once upon a time there was a beautiful castle and inside Lived a
wonderful class of grade three and four students. One day, a giant
brought some magic beans to the grade one classroom. He told them
a story of what had happened to him many years before. The class
decided to plant the seeds. Magically a giant beanstalk grew to the
beautiful castle. The grade one class climbed up the beanstalk. Inside
the castle the grade one and three-four children read, wrote and per-
formed all kinds of wonderful fairy tales. They worked happily ever
after."
The Grade four/five class enjoyed their recent excursion to the
Seaforth Agriculture Exhibits, where they learned a lot about farm-
ing in Huron County. They have also been focusing on the environ-
ment during recent weeks. Rounding out Science Week has been
technology studies and invention designs.
Grade five/six students have been involved in cleaning up the
school yard after a long winter. They will be having speakers for a
panel on violence to help them understand the issue. Posters will be
produced to help promote the Grand Bend Air Show. Constable Mar -
$hall will be visiting soon to discuss VIP issues.
The S.C.C. enjoyed their involvement in the school -wide "Inven-
tion Convention" and are now comparing and contrasting fairy tales
from a variety of countries with those 'well known' versions we
have learned to know and love.
Grade six/seven is involved in the clean-up of the yards and road-
sides near the school as part of their recycling program. Mathemati-
cally, the grade sixes will be working fractions while the grade seven
learns about ratio and percent. Part of the language arts program will
involve "media literacy" studies.
Busy times continue in Grade seven/eight. They enjoyed their vis-
ual novel "Brothers by Choice" and are now studying various novels
under the theme, "Survival in the North", In the next several weeks,
they will be hearing speakers for a "Panelon Violence"; and visitors
from the Health Unit. They are practising for the spring concert and
are selling passports for the Up, Up and Awaves Air Show.
In Design and Technology, students are using the skills in machin-
ery to produce many quality projects. Excellent creativity is shown
in all the student's projects.
CLN students enjoyed making creations for "Invention Conven-
tion". They painted stained glass windows to brighten up the room.;
Many activities are getting the students in the mood to go shopping. `y
The SCC/CLN cooking groups prepared and ate veggies and dip and
then rated the dip - lemon dill was the winner.
Grades three/four have started a unit on "la Pollution", to tie in
with Environmental Week. The Junior grades are learning how to de-
scribe oneself and others in French. In grades seven and eight they
are discovering how to order different foods in French, and how to
say where they are going to shop.
Primary grades are involved in a Fairy Tale unit. In the library,
they will be dramatizing fairy tales and writing stories on the word
processor. Junior grades are researching "Endangered Animals".
They have purchased an acre of South American rainforest to protect
and each class will be doing related projects.
Some students in Junior Choir have been practising some "Envi-
ronmental" songs and chants. Senior Choir is preparing some danc-
ing and singing routines for the Spring Concert.
Students from Grade one to eight are working on gymnastic activi-
ties using mats, the mini -tramp and the big trampoline.
By Mary ieterson
CENTRALIA - Rev. Clare
Geddes and Rev. Peggy Campbell -
Geddes have returned from a two-
week trip, basking in the warmth
and sun in Cuba. They swam, went
horseback riding and biking, and
found time to catch up on sone
reading.
On Sunday, Centralia United
Church members welcomed Clare
and Peggy back to the pulpit after
their vacation. Rev. Geddes' ser-
mon was entitled "What Kind of
Demonstration Plot?" AIIap Powe
read the Minute for Mission. After
church, the men practiced their mu-
sic for next Sunday's Mother's Day
service.
Holy Baptism will be celebrated
next Sunday also. Anyone wishing
to have an infant baptized should
contact Rev. Geddes as soon as
possible.
Centralia U.C.W. will meet May
5 at 7:00 p.m. at the church to car
pool to the new Bluewater Recy-
cling Plant in Huron Park. The
meeting and luncheon will be held
at the church after the tour.
The Stewards will meet at Roh
Essery's on May 4 to discuss ar-
rangements for the food booth dur-
ing the Grand Bend Air Show.
Details are posted on the bulletin
board for anyone interested in at-
tending a workshop on long-term
care to be held Friday, May 5 at
Exeter United Church.
Zion West hosted a pancake
breakfast Saturday.
The Zion West U.C.W. will meet
Friday, May 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the
church. There will be a plant ex-
change.
Congratulations to Joanne and
Steve Jaques and their son Travis
on the recent arrival of a baby girl,
Ashlynn.
There will be a combined church
service on Sunday, May 15 at
Thames Road United Church. The
orchestra and hymn -sing will begin
at 10:30 a.m., worship at 11:00
a.m., with lunch following. Every-
one is welcome to attend.
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Exeter
LIONS TV BINGO
Game 1: $50.Mary Wells. Game
2: $25. Carol Finlayson, Cathy
Gage.Game 3; $50.Shirley
Barker. Game 4: $75 Carol
Redmond.Game 5 $100. Marion
Kerslake. Jackpot: Consolation
$100. Dianne Faubert.
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STORY HOUR for children ages 3 to 5 to have fun singing, listening to Bible stories.
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SINGLES DANCE, Sunday. May 8 at the Wingham Legion Hall. Dancing 7 to
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PRESCHOOL HEALTH Screening Clinics are being held in Grand Bend for all
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HENSALL KIN/CT-TES Annual Mother's Day Pancake and Sausage Breakfast and
Bake Sale, Saturday, May 7. Hensall Arena, 8 am. to 12 noon. Aduks 84.00, cMldren
10 and under 82.50, preschoolers free. 18c
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Eating with chop sticks can be tricky business as Kim Powell found out Thursday when
her grade six class had a Japanese lunch as part of their study of the country.
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Brandie Marshall finally got the hang of it and was able to enjoy her lunch.
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