HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1989-01-31, Page 10r age 10A - The Wingham Advance-Tirnee. January 3j
Editor: Kara Neil
The Kindergarten classes have
been learning about how the
Eskimos lived in Northern Canada
long ago, as well as in the present.
They have made kayaks, Eskimo
people, igloos and dog teams. Now
Eskimo people use snowmobiles to
go to school and they have stores,
just like we do.
— Kelly Watson
Mrs. Martin's class has started to
draw Valentine pictures and they
are looking forward to their Valen-
tine's Day parts.
The class is almost done its
research on pioneer projects and is
working on an oral presentation. In
literature, the class is working on
good sentence structure.
— Marc Poulin.
Mr. Sakasov's class has had a
very exciting two weeks. The class
9
p' :e
went down to the Optimist rink for a
skate last week.
To say goodbye to Nao, they gave
him the little log cabin they had
made earlier this year as a
memento.
The students are still working
hard on their speeches, trying to
memorize them.
In French, they are learning to tell
time. Now they are doing
multiplication of three -digit num-
bers by two -digit numbers.
— Matt Elsmlie
soy
Grade 3-4
We had the F. E. Madill Junior
Band come to our school recently
and we had "Armchair Travellers".
Our favorite countries were China,
Russian, Germany, Mexico,,
Netherlands, France, Scotland and
Japan.
We also are having Japan centres
where we having fun making
volcanoes, oragami and lantern art.
We have been doing drama plays
with masks and have been listening
to and viewing videotapes and
filmstrips.
Some students have performed
bilingual plays. Multiplication
tables have started for Grade 3.
— David McBurney,
Dave Schwartzentruber
Special Events
Last week our girls' volleyball
team hosted an exhibition game
against Blyth.
On Jan. 19 and 20 our school had an
enrichment unit entitled Armchair
Travellers. The students had a
chance to visit four countries out of a
possible eight.
The countries studied were
Germany, Russia, Mexico, France,
Scotland, China, Japan and The
Netherlands. Comments from
students indicated they had a great
time.
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Mrs. Overbblt's Class has had a
very enjoyable month of January.
They toured the Pine River Cheese
Factory, .along with Mr. Bowyer's
and Mrs. Train's classes, while Mr.
Hunter's class at the high school
joinedthern as well.
Last week they joined in on our
special goodbye assembly for Nao,
the Japai e.se_ el,,Pcliangc teacher.
They were sorry to see him go.
The students are doing very well
in their bowling and skating during
physical education periods and
came up . with some over -average
scores this month.
The students also enjoyed a very
interesting tour of Wingham and
District Hospital
Andrea Plumb
Grade 5 is glad to hear from its
penpals. The students had fun going
skating at the arena with their
Kindergarten readingbuddies.
They were sad to see Nao leave
and hope he likes the book they gave
him. They also hope he had a safe
trip home.
— Amy Jo Cretier
Mr. Morton's class, along with
Miss Sandiland's,. put . on an
assembly for the departure of Nao,
our Japanese friend, During the
assembly, there was a s;Wrno wrest-
ling snatch between Sushi Ranchi
(Jeremy Brown) and Ching Garo
(Ryan Leibold) .
A play performance is corning up
on March 8. It is the Grade 7-8 major
drama piCs Cit_t1Vj of "The Beverly
Hillbillies".
— Ken Hogg
Mr. Shaw's Grade 8s have been
busy with their speeches. The Grade
8s that are involved in the major
dramatic production have been
trying to memorize their lines, while
the other students are helping with
set design.
They enjoyed their trip to the Ford
motor plant anti also completed 'both
geography and math tests.
Last Tuesday, Jan. 24, Mr.
Shaw's, Mr. Morton's and Mr.
Lisle's classes visited the Ford
motor plant at Oakville. They left
the school at 9:15 a.m. and reached
the plant at 11:24
They toured the plant and saw
many of the steps in making a car.
Their tour guide said the company
is the $`
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At the
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thr-Jan. 24 and 25.E we® *elcoitn
Paul Gingrich and Peter Burls)
the Walkerton' Oft -0
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These gentle . gave cls
presentations On electrical ,saf
and brought with them a scale.*n
of typical electrical accidents and a
videotape. -called "Nap Itap" that
showed us the importance... of elite-
trical safety.
We appreciate their�}visit.
SPORTS.
In boys' floor hockey, the Pink
Panthers defeated Team Russia and
won the championship. Con-
gratulations to thePink Panthers
and all the teams. Thanks to the
teachers 'and supervisors who
organized this event.
-- Shannon Werth
The War
Amputations
of Canada...
Safety Is
No Accident PLAYSAFE
Program
CHAMP
JAPANESE RAIN was the name of the song performed by the junior choir at the recent farewell
assembly for Japanese exchange teacher Naoyuki Matsuoka. Mrs. Schedler led the choir in its rendition
of the song. (What's Ne'Ws Photo)
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FREE-THROW CHAMPIONS Students at Sacred Heart School in Wingham recently competed in a.
Knights of Columbus -sponsored basketball free throw. Individual winners will go on to the district tourna-
ment at Clinton next month
�yand include: back, Tim, Schmidt, Melissa Kieffer, Patty McGlynn, front, Colan
"WI Pati jf9 i * i(:al'.'Absent'are'Dairell-Haflahan and Ritchie Ople.