Times Advocate, 1995-02-22, Page 13Page 12 Times -Advocate, February 22,1995
A busy month for staff and pupils of J.A.D. McCurdy School
Early Years students, teachers, parents and the acted out Mortimer for two other
February has been a busy month community is immeasurable. Stu- classes and with great enthusiasm.
for the Early Years classes. We dents seem to enjoy learning the For math the students are diligently
have been counting the days of fundamentals of the business working on plus and minus word
school since September. Both class- world. Public speaking season has problems to help understand the
es are very excited about celebrat- again arrived in the junior and in- concepts. Most of the students have
ing Day 100 on February 14 and termediate classrooms at McCurdy. been studying Canada in integra-
15. The children have collected 100 Pupils have spent many hours tion.
items to share with the class. We learning to write and speak proper- Grade 6/7
have had some very interesting col- ly. Most students are taking part in The days since Christmas have
Iections - 100 stamps, 100 buttons, our annual skating program. Stu- been busy. The grade sevens have
100 hockey cards. It has been fun dents are enjoying the exercise and been working on novels written by
counting and sorting these collec- the fresh air that this activity pro- Canadian author, Eric Wilson while
tions. On our 100 day celebrations vides. It is great exercise as well as the grade sixes have read Canadian
the children are doing a variety ofgood fun, short stories. Both grades have
counting activities, reading, singing CLN been preparing their speeches as
and writing about 100 and sharing The CLN class starts their day well. Science has involved an inte-
100 treats with 100 friends! with an exercise video - a great 4' grated unit on measurement. To
Grade 1/2 way to get set for a busy schedule.
We have been busy reading
books for the read-a-thon. Many
students have read ten books. Some
students have read more than ten
books. We enjoyed skating last Fri-
day afternoon. We are looking for-
ward to skating each Friday in Feb-
ruary. The students are enjoying the
snow. They especially like to play
on the snow hill.
Grade 3/4
During the past six weeks the
children have travelled to the
Grand Theatre, participated in the
World Book Read-A-Thon, com-
pleted co-operative Icarning activi-
ties, sent letters to our pen pals in
London and mastered basic com-
puter skills. The pupils have also
seen presentations by school Peace-
makers, student public speakers,
Ausable Bayfield Conservation Au-
thority staff and Bluewater Recy-
cling personnel. Some class mem-
bers performed in our Festival of
Movement and others will soon be-
gin the rainbows program. Other
highlights include pizza days,
Groundhog festivities, a 100 day
event with our Early Years buddies
and a Valentine's party which in-
cluded a tribute to our classroom
volunteer, Sheryl Crawley.
Grade 5/6
The students of grade 5/6 are in
the midst of a busy and enjoyable
winter term. Computers are being
used for word processing, research
and entertainment. The Junior
Achievement program has made its
debut in room 12 at McCurdy and
is proving to be very interesting to
alt participants. This program stim-
ulates a positive attitude toward
business and gives eager minds a
chance to stretch and grow. By do-
ing so, J.A.'s indirect influence on
Local resident
recipient of
academic
award
Spaghetti supper
planned for March 4 at
Brucefield
By Joan Beierling
.VARNA - The open crokinole
party held last Tuesday evening
proved successful with six tables in
play. Marg Hayter won high lady
while Joe Fulop won for high man.
Kevin Trewartha took the prize for
the most twenties. Low man was
Blair Trewartha and low lady was
Hilda Bell. Next meeting for the
crokinole club will be February 21
with singles in play.
Teens Youth Group
The Teens Youth Group met last
Thursday evening and made plans
for a spaghetti supper to be held
Saturday March 4 from 4:30 to
7:30 at the Brucefield United
Church. Adults $5, 12 and under $3
and preschool free. Proceeds to
help support the teen set activities
and the Mission and Service Fund.
Tickets can be purchased from the
manse in Brucefield 233-9959 or
Kim Taylor at 482-9976.
United Church
Bernice Reid has retired as Treas-
urer of the Varna United Church af-
ter 41 years of dedicated service.
She was presented with a Royal
Doulton the day of the annual meet-
ing. Ruby Hill has taken over this
job.
Sunday February 26 the Varna
congregation welcomes the Exeter
United Church Youth Choir and
Director, Deborah Wood.
Sunday February 19 both Varna
and Goshen churches focused on
the Canadian Food Grains Bank for
the childrens time and a further
look at CFG& was part of the wor-
ship service.
Family Fun Night
Remember to mark your calendar
for the Family Fun Night spon-
sored by the Stanley Township Rec
Committee to be held Friday
March 17 from 8 - 11 p.m. Further
details to follow. Soon time to dig
out the canoes for the canoe rally to
be held Sunday April 2.
Julie Webster was recently se-
lected as the recipient of the 1994
Ontario Medical Association
Award for having the highest Aca-
demic standing in the office Ad-
ministration Program upon gradua-
tion at FAnshawe College. Julie is
now employed at the London Re-
gional Cancer Centre in the Human
Resources Department. Congratu-
lations Julie.
Games night
The Teens Youth Group meet
once again this Thursday evening
at 7:30 p.m. This will be a games
night so bring your favourite board
game.
The Varna U.C.W. are having
their annual pancake supper Tues-
day February 28 from 4:30 - 7:30
p.m. at the Varna Church. Every-
one welcome.
They have been listening to Robert
Munsch books and writing sum-
maries in their booklets. They even
keep everyone physically fit we
have been playing floor hockey and
basketball in the gym while making
sidetrips out of school to skate, to
cross country ski and soon, to curl.
Students have been looking for-
ward to the Valentine's dance on
the fourteentft. Any spare time has
been used to capacity preparing for
the school's operetta, and reading
for the Read-a-thon.
Grade 7/8
Our overall theme "The Environ-
ment: continues. Groups have re-
seafi:hed the recycling of various
products such as newspaper and
plastics found in the blue box, then
made an oral and visual presenta-
tion to the class. We have also writ-
ten environmental stories for the
primary students and are now pro-
ducing them into illustrated story
books. Speeches are the big topic at
the moment. Everyone worked hard
on writing outlines and effective in-
troductions, then on memorizing
for those three minutes at the front.'
Library Resource Centre •
Inmate Library Resource Centre.
authors Robert Munsch and Gordan
Korman were the focus in January.
The students learned about the au-
thors and enjoyed their work. Some
students wrote letters to Robert
Munsch and they are anxiously
waiting for a response from him.
We are enjoying reading Valen-
tine's Day literature and learning
about poetry. Students have made
valentines for their favourite char-
acters, authors or illustrators.
We are writing our own book
based on a poem called "I Love
You More Than...". Students are
also involved in a program recom-
mending books to each other;
books that should "heanly" be
missed.
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