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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-04-22, Page 9GODERI,CH SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, APRIL. 22, 1987 PAGE 9 svc-'4' CARPET CLEANING SPECIAL 2 Rooms and a Hall (Regardless of Size) 0 Et 11 CARPE' CLEANING Call Collect Ask for Alex 'Bur_e 271-5431 r THE SIGN OF A GOOD BUSINESS NEIGHBOUR -iflenbrr� THE SIGN OF A MERCHANT WHO CARES ABOUT PEOPLE f hi, emblem ,identilie, the t iv i( -minded hu,ine„men ,ti ho ,pumur erilme �a>L ui 1he i ommonitl For information call: 524-4516 524-4863 THE GODLRICH BIKE -A -TI -ION FOR CANCER SUNDAY APRIL 26 2O0 P.M. starting from THE LIVERY rain date: MAY 10th 2:00 p.m. Grade 7 and 8 students from Holmesville Public School travel to Victoria Public School in Goderich weekly, for classes in family studies taught by Mrs. Bruinsma: Iif this unit, the students learn about `families in•the community', one of which would.be'the Men- nonite community. In the photo at, left, Derek Dixon and Greg :Crawford prepare to eht a Mennonite meal which they prepared. Paren on st At right, Chris Laithwaite sews potholders similiar to ones which the Mennonites • make. Other schools taking part in the family studies pratgram'at Victoria include Brookside Public School, Col- borne Central School, Vanastra Public School and Robertson Memorial Puhlic School. (photo by Lou -Ann Hope s join Brookside grade ents for Easter brunch BY JASON CAMERON, ADRIAN RAW TRISHA MacDONALD and JANINE HELM • Grade 1, Room 1 Mrs. 'Young was away all week, Mrs. Cull was theteacher for this week. Some of the grade two students. put up a graph.to"show ' the results of their' shoe survey. The class made butterflies and flowers to decorate - . their room for spring. - • Grade 1 • Miss Mather's grade •one students have had a fun week. We worked at -several Easter -centres and on Wednesday we wore our newly -designed Easter bonnets n our parents joined us for Easter Bru� They had a great time and thankedus for in- viting them to share -with. us and•rneet each other. Grade 5, Portable I • Grade five students in Mrs. Worsell's class are interviewing each other to write a .biography of each class member. They are studyirlg4famous people and they have read biographical summaries of several famous people. Grade 7, Room .12 On Monday, April 13, some people inour class attended the annual Basketball Tour- nament, The boys played at Robertson and the girls played at Colborne. Both teams played well but we didn't manage to bring back the pennant: Most of our class is get- ting ready to sing ''Rock Around the Clock", "Cats in 'the Cradles" and "Music Moves Me" in the concert. On Wednesday in Phys. Ed. we ran the tracj for the first time this spring. We are also learning how to play football: . Grade 8 .The grade eight class is busy with props .and other duties, getting ready for the`spr- ing.concert at our school. The concert will be held on. April 29 at 8 p.m. All grade eight's are looking forward to the Easter 'weekend. BROOKSIDE BROADCAST ST, Visitors Visitors in the school this week included. Mr. Arnold, Mathers, superintendent; Mr. Tony McQuail and •• Mrs. S. Rathwell, trus••tees; Janet. Bannerman, physiotherapist; and 'Margo Clinker- F,arquhar, speech consultant with Horne, Services. Grade 3, Room 4 Room 4, Krakatoa, has beenfinishing pro- jects this week. Our book group is putting the finishing touches on (heir very fine stories and our spring project group is corn- pleting'a variety of activities. Some people have written plays., brainstormed places to hide eggs and carriedout spring . animal research: As our class,Easter treat,. we fingerpained with chocolate pudding and then cut the dry paintings into rabbit shapes to -make — of course, chocolate bunnies. , Fun• Fair Excitement was high at Brookside on Thursday, • April 16• when the Fun ,Fair organized by the Grade six students was in progress. There was a bake table, a toys and book table, several draws and several games of chance. Classes were scheduled in at different times during the afternoon and 'many happy children came out of the gym clutching treasures they had bought. Mr. Liddle and his grade six class planned this event and proceeds are used for school activities. • ,. Results of the draws at the Fun Fair were as follows: the cake draw - Linda Hayden; the kite - Craig Moffat. In the senior draw, the winners were: two bottle of Pepsi - Melanie Wylds; badminton -tennis set - Barb Nfvens; chocolate bunnies - Terry Liv - Robertson students prepare for Spring Concert Grade 3 (rade three students are busy preparing for their production, .The Ugly Duckling, in the Spring Concert to be held on Wednesday, April 29. A• very special thank -you to Mrs. Venkitesuaran for her invaluable computer assistance in enabling the children to do their Faster cards for their parents. Grade 4 The grade fours will be participating in a swimming program each Wednesday at Yanastra for an eight-week period starting April 8. They will leave the school at 1:10 p.m,. and return at 4 p.m. Grade 2 We have been working on mini - experiments and putting our Easter bunnies on the mural On Tuesday, we had grade four partners helping us make crossover animals. What do you get when you cross a porcupine and a rabbit? A porcbbit. Grade 6 The grade six class is working on beavers in science class. (rade six has also been working on the book stories for the Book ROBERTSON ROUND -UP Writing Contest. They have been playing a game called "Math Busters" for .computer class. They have read a story called Two Against the North. They are working on a rain period that Mr. Scratch has assigned. Grade 7-8 Grade eight pupils will habe ,their in- diuidUal graduation pictures taken April 14 beginning at 1 p.m. The light at the end of the elementary school tunnel should be able to be seen by most, if not all, grade eight pupils by now. Grade seven.just completed a simple but effective Geography project. It involved finding six interesting facts about an industry and recording these facts on the six faces of a student -made cube. Grade 8A requested that they be made a part of this week's Robertson Round -up. Now they are! Swingers host guest night The Huron -Bruce Swingers played host to 10 guest couples at their regular Thurs-, day evening dance, April 9. Most guests had little experience with modern square dancing but after a few words of instruc- tion from caller Lorne Lockrey, and a'few walk-throughs, everybody was quite com- fortable dancing .through Six of the basic dance figures. Every other tip throughout the evening the club dancers would strut their stuff for their guest's. Occasionally the club dancers demonstrated "Round Dancing" to their guests. This dance is done by individual couples dancing "round" the room to either a two-step or a waltz step. Similar)Co square dancing the round dance contains various combinations of basic figures and. is "cued" by a round dance caller. A full evening of fun was enjoyed by members and guests and was followed by . a delicious lunch. The guests were invited to return •in September for a series of classes to learn the 'basics. Anyone in- terested in attending these -classes could call Don or Helen Gard at 524-7992. ingstone; $2 MacDonald's gift certificate - Elliot Bauer; watch - Warren Andrew; two bottles of Orange --Bryan `McCann; and a case of .Pepsi = Nicole Middelcamp. The winners of the. junior draws were: chocolate bunny - Debbi Lyn Greene;'fixrt in the sun kit - -Catherine Brindley;' snuggle baum color- ing,book = Jennifer M.K.; transformer color- ing book - Rachel McQuail; MacDonald's gift certificate - Michael MacGillivary; Easter eggs John S. Dalton; ' watch - Heather Alton. In the "Guess how many candies in the• jar" contest, the senior win- ners .were (tie) Rhonda Dickson, Shane Webster ' and .Marcie Dawson; and in the junior division., Arron Merriam, Matthew Sproul and Joyce McWhinney. 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