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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-12-16, Page 41PAGE 16A—GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1987 School News Students on stage tonight f�r Robertson Christmas Conceit KINDERGARTEN We have a Christmas Tree in Kindergartn now, courtesy of Aaron Graf's parents, and it is looking pretty with the decorations which the children have been making. There are many song games and activities in which we can include our tree. Many thanks to Helen and Dave Graf. GRADE 1 All aboard for the Santa Claus Express. Mrs. Brown's Grade 1 class has discovered some wonderful actors and actresses while practising for their concert play. Jeff Livesy makes a great soldier, Amanda Ot- tewell is a furry, fuzzy bear, Amanda Wheeler is a very friendly lion, Melissa Kel- ly is a sad pretty dolly and Melissa Standen plays a very exciting clown. The rest of the cast is very outstanding too. Our narrators are Jessica Rudyk and Michael Mathers and they have worked hard to memorize a lot of lines. Thanks to Rosemary Mathers, Karen Trannemaker and Karen Livesy for their help with making the train costumes. Thanks to Miss Braid's grade 2 class for their lovely singing. GRADE 1-2 The Grade 1-2 class has been busy doing Christmas activities such as making wreaths and Rudolph singing Christmas ROBERTSON ROUND -UP songs and reading Chrismtas stories and poems and writing letters to Santa. They have gone skating three times so far this year and are getting better every week. They are counting the days until the Christmas concert as they will be taking part with the primary choir. GRADE 5 The Grade Fives have been studying a unit on Wonders of our Environment in our Literature periods. Did you know that you could get enough wood from one Douglas Fir tree to build three to five small houses? The pupils then, discussed some of the, problems caused by cutting too many of these gigantic trees. After reading a story about the beautiful dance of the whooping crane, the pupils found out that the Whoopers hit a low of only 21 birds in 1941. If people had not intervened Christmas spirit at Brookside PRIMARY NEWS Mrs. Cameron's Kindergarten 1 class has been busy making Christmas tree cards, Santa finger puppets and doves for our Christmas tree. They are busy celebrating our six December birthdays. The Kindergarten 2 class has been mak- ing Christmas ornaments to decorate their room. They are making Christmas booklets and have talked about the sounds, smells, tastes and sights of the season. Mrs. Graham visited Mrs. Ottewell's grade 3 class on Wednesday to make bells, balls and trees to hang as ornaments. On Thursday they made Macaroon Cookies with Mrs. Bieman and gave them to their grade 7 reading buddies who are also busy with Christmas activities. The Room 4 Dinosaur Den now knows all the secret frog potion ingredients. Their last clue was August. They found the clue in Mrs. Scott's calender. Monday they will try to bring the last"ingredient. It's 10 cooked spaghetti worms. Yuck! ! Will the frog at last turn into a princess? They've started Christmas Centres now. Crystal Hickey is "Special Me" this week. JUNIOR NEWS On Thursday, Dec. 10, Grade 4 room nine and portable 2 has a potlatch lunch which was video-taped by Mrs. Scott. Jack Chisholm and Sarah Cameron were chiefs of room 9 and portable 2., The students also made Indian masks to wear and put hair on them. Portable 2 made a totem pole for the potlatch. Jack Chisholm is going to n'lorida for three weeks. Best wishes to Janny Wyld's who just had his tonsils out. SENIOR NEWS On Dec. 9, Mrs. Tebbutt's grade 6 class started King Pinta. They had to make them by taking a balloon and 'stripping pieces of paper and dipping it into some glue and then wrapping it around the balloon. .It takes four coats of paper before it's time to add decorations. Some people made cats, dogs, pigs, rabbits, birds, giraffes and other animals. At Christmas, they will break the pintas to get the candy and gifts from inside. Grade 7, room 8, started Christmas cen- tres. They cover shopping (math), evalua- tion, valuation, literature and art. A short play is be- ing prepared for a Christmas assembly called "Twas the Night Before Christmas" in Moose Mines. Some students are in the senior choir as well. On Tuesday, Grade 7, room 12, went to the Royal Ontario Museum and the McGlaughin Planetarium. They left the school at 7 a.m. and returned at 8 p.m. Dif- ferent groups saw exhibits on music, art, history, animals and dinosaurs in the ROM. In the planetarium, they learned Women learn variations of table decorating at meeting BROOKSIDE BROADCAST about black holes, novas and planets and their moons. They also got to view a movie in a dome theatre about space. They left Toronto at 4:30 and stopped in at McDonalds in Kitchener for supper. • "Entertaining with flair" was the special feature at the Dec. 8 dessert and coffee of the Godeich and district After 5 Club held at the Satlford Valley Hall. Cathy Reberg, manager of Bradshaws China of Stratford, displayed a beautifully set table with crystal centrepiece accented with blue and gold to complement the pattern of the dishes. Cathy's presentation included several ways of folding table napkins and also the use of place mats and napkins of various colors to complement and draw out the colors in the dish pattern. Three young lads, Justin Sully, D.J. Sull and Wes Drennan from the Bluewater Str- ing School were a true delight as they played a number of Christmas songs and carols on their violins accompanied by Mark Sully with his guitar. Linda Page of London, wife and mother, has recently been teaching in the RN pro- gram at Fanshawe College. She spoke of living a life of joy in spite of the hurts, pain and disappointment which she may en- counter in life. Those "bent out of shape" attitudes can be changed to anticipation of the future and the ability to face life with confidence. The January 26 meeting will feature crafts and folk .art items by Creative Begin- nings of Kincardine. this species would have have become extinct. By starting a flock of foster birds rased by san- dhill cranes the population has now grown to more than 150 birds in two different flocks. This one example shows how humans can help to correct some of the environmental problems that they help to create. GRADE 7A The school looks just like Santa's workshop. All doorways in both the wings are decorated for Christmas. We look for- ward to our Christmas Concert on Wednes- day, Dec. 16 at 7:30. The grade 7's are presenting a joint play called "The Small One", the story about Joseph's donkey. We also look forward to going to the Park Theatre for "Harry and the Hendersons" on Thursday, Dec. 17. Soon holidays will be here and we will be enjoying two weeks with our families. Merry Christmas to everyone in the community. May Christmas bring you all you wish as well as peace and love. See you in 1988. GRADE 7C Every six weeks or so 7C puts together a classroom newsletter to take home to parents. It includes many things such as in- terviews with teachers, a Dear Abby col- umn, horoscopes, recipe section, comics, mazes, articles on events such as dances or productions they have seen. Each issue has a different headline illustration depicting the general theme. This issue is, of course, on a Christmas theme. We hope the parents and our own students enjoy our newsletters. MR. MA'PFIIIES There's a lot of excitement in the school regarding the door decorating contest. Rumor has it that 8A's.decoration is the win- ning decoration. We'll find out how true the rumor if at the end of the week. The Grade 7 classes are working on a Geography project dealing with the east coast fishing industry. The Grade 8 classes are also working on a Geography project based on questions designed by the students themselves. This project deals with the deserts of the con- tinents of Africa, Australia and South America. FOR ALL YOUR PARTY SUPPLIES *PAPER, PLASTIC & FOOD PRODUCTS* *balloons *glasses *hats *plates *noise makers *serviettes *streamers *table covers WHOLESALE and RETAIL H.D. JERRY (1983) LTD. 185 Park Street, Goderich 524-2855 524-4266 1-800-265-5177 Season's Greetings ! Meilleurs Veoux! 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