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The Citizen, 1998-02-11, Page 221pr Valentine Pancake Breakfast Sunday, February 15, 1998 at Blyth Memorial Hall 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Adults (13 & up) • $4.50 Children (6-12) -$2.50 Under 6 - FREE Menu - Pancakes, sausage, bacon, eggs, toast & jam, homefries, coffee, tea & juice Proceeds to the Blyth Midget Hockey Montreal Tournament Thank You For Your Support Something this good only comes around once a year! February is the only time of the year that you can get these tasty Polish pastries! Paczki (pronounced "Poonch- Key", "Pooch-Key" or "Punch- Key") are delicious sugar- coated, fruit-filled pastries. They are similar to jelly donuts, but larger and more rich-tasting and come stuffed with a variety of delicious fillings. Paczki are traditionally served on Shrove Tuesday (Fat Tuesday), the day before Lent. Originally, PACZKI were made for practical reasons, to use up the shortening and eggs which were prohibited during Lent. Now, they're more of a last- minute binge of sweets before the sacrifice. Whatever the reason, all enjoy the tasty treat of PACZKI. Today, people across the country order dozens of Paczki to share with family and friends. Don't miss your one chance this year to enjoy Paczki! Order yours at SCRIMGEOUR'S FOOD MARKET Blyth 519-523-4551 for candies r chocolates V Valentine balloons V boxed children's cards V lotto tickets V cards The Blyth General Store Queen St, 519-523-978S Blyth Add years to your life and life to your years! 30 minutes of daily physical activity not only add up to living longer, they add up to living better. Sharing a Healthier Future- 01 Pam-inaction PAGE 22. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1998. Blyth PS news Students go for gold studying Olympics GO FOR THE GOLD! By Scott McLellan Those Grade 3/4s are up to it again! This time they're going for the gold by studying the Winter Olympics in Japan. They will be busy fulfilling many Olympic activities during the first few weeks of February. They've also been very busy finishing mammal projects, learning how to take point form notes and writing them in paragraphs. To add to their busy schedule, they have been preparing speeches and story telling presentations. Some students will be presenting their speeches and stories at our school competition. WHAT'S UP IN GRADE 6/7? By Alicia Marshall The Grade 6/7 class has just finished a math unit in geometry. They learned how to measure and Editors Joel Hemingway and Matt Adams Reporters Rod Dammier and Cheryl Armstrong FREE THROW On Feb. 3, a free throw competition was held at East Wawanosh Public School. Grey was proudly represented by 14 students. Luke Steinmen, Cassie Fisher, and Crystal Daugherty placed first in their categories. Other competitors were Samme Beimes, Heather Armstrong, Stacey Bowles, Steven Zahnd, Mark Hunter, Robert Kerr, Jason Young, Tyler Campbell, Amanda Stevenson, Johnathen Engel, Scott Zehr, Robbie Semple, and Julia Schlumpf. GRADES 7 AND 8 In the senior end of the school, classrooms have been very busy. In January, Mr. Colquohoun's students worked with fractions, mixed numbers, lowest terms and proper fractions. They also worked on geometry and angles. They have been learning about the early settlers. They also learned about the Europeans in the 1800s who left their native lands and came to British North America. The class had novel studies and one oral book report. They read as many as six novels in the month of January. Mrs. Whitmore's Grade 7 and 8 class has just finished a novel and activities on Snow Treasure, an interesting true story about how the Norwegian people saved their gold from the Germans during World War II. Their thoughts now turn to the Olympics as they delve into this unit with the aid of newspapers. liKADE 6 Mr. Mason's Grade 6s have been working on a machine unit in science. A highlight of the unit is a machine that each will build with the purpose of breaking a balloon. Students are challenged to use as many machine principles as possible and to be creative with their invention. GRADE 3 AND 4 Some of the Grade 3 & 4 students in Mr. Park's class have bisect angles and how to use the compass to construct triangles. They are starting a unit in measurement and have learned how to find perimeter and how to convert one unit to another. In Canadian studies, they are doing a unit called "Opening of the West". In this unit they are learning about the fur traders and how they bargained with the First Nations people. In Science they are learning about space and are in the midst of finding out more about the stars. They have been doing some star- gazing and will be surfing the net to locate information for presentations about the constellations. The students have also been working very hard to prepare and present their speeches. Michelle Cook, Heather Elliott, Dane Corneil and Candi Bearss will represent the class at the school begun special, independent work projects. The topic of one project is worms. Another project is on the Titanic. This group is making a large wooden model of the ship. GRADES 1 AND 2 The Grade 2 class has started an animal project. Grade 1 is going to do a pet project. Both grades started snow sculptures using solids. They each made a paper skater and they will put them in the hall on murals. They also finished their study unit on penguins. Each child created a booklet in the shape of a penguin, with facts written inside. They are on display in the hallway outside their classrooms. EARLY YEARS Because it was Groundhog Day, the Early Years class made groundhog puppets to play with. Using a projector they made shadows with their groundhog puppets. They also made books about groundhogs to read. CHESS CLUB The Chess Club is well underway with students from all divisions participating. On Wednesday, Feb. 4, many of the participants signed up for a school wide, round robin tournament which will begin next week. Several pairs of club members are learning to play correspondence (e-mail) games with students from other schools using the school board's computer network. competition next week. They have recently finished an assignment that involved visual imagery of a winter landscape. This activity included going for a winter's walk and trying to see how the could use examples of alliterations, similes and metaphors in a descriptive writing assignment called "A Winter Wonderland". In music they have been learning how to line dance. So far they have learned The Trucker's Dance and The Cowboy Boogie. GRADE 1 By John Battye Grade Is are turning into gardeners by planting seeds as one of the activities in their unit on plants. They've learned all the sounds in With millions needing to be cut from the budget for the 1997-1998 Avon Maitland District School board school year, can they benefit from a new funding model? The now-defunct Huron County Board of Education had hoped the changes to education funding would bring more money to the smaller boards such as Huron and Perth County, and eventually it will, said Director of Education Paul Carroll. The problem arose with the stub year (eight month) funding adjust- ment period faced by the boards. Previously, boards' financial years ran from January to Decem- ber. It is now being adjusted to run from September to August. The funding for January 1998 to August 1998, is where the problem lies, said Carroll. As with the old Perth County board, much of the spending for a the alphabet and are spelling three, four and five-letter words. It's not far from Valentine's Day and the Grade is are counting down. It's almost the 100th day of school and some special activities will be taking place. Hip, hop, hip, hop! Reading must be fun if you're taught by a rabbit. Grade is have their new Reader Rabbit computer program. They're learning to read and spell. Three plus two, 10 plus four. Those students are math masters when playing "Around the World". This is a fast-paced math game for those who can think as fast as they can talk. THANK YOU By Taylor Hesselwood Steven and Shirley Gross school year is done through the first few months, with costs balancing out by year-end. However, the boards are now not being funded at a level to maintain the spending rates of the September to Decem- ber, 1997, period. "Another difficulty is that we cannot take liabilities forward with us to the new funding model in September," said Carroll. Representatives from the AMDSB travelled to Toronto to speak with the Minster of Educa- tion for help in funding the transi- tion period and were received well, he said. Two points were presented which were causing difficulties. The min- istry has told boards that overlevies from 1996-97 should be used to reduce the mill rate and avoid tax increases and that reserves cannot be used for alternate purposes. The board will also apply for monies to extend technology into donated "The Mandie Series" and "Trailblazer" books to the Resource Centre. Students will have a great time reading them. We now have $30,574.96 in Zehrs tapes from which the Resource Centre will receive $67.95. The Resource Centre has also received $101.35 from Scrimgeour's tapes which have been collected. Keep bringing in those tapes and watch our thermometer rise to our goal of $90,000 worth of tapes! NEWCOMER We would like to welcome Ms Mary Pridhomme, an educational assistant. Ms Pridhomme comes from Exeter. We hope that she will feel welcome and enjoy her time at Blyth Public School. Perth County and provide time, equipment and software to pull together the two administration and communication systems. A response regarding funding is expected in the coming weeks. Grey Central Echo 14 enter free throw at E. Wawanosh PS Carroll says new funding model will benefit board eventually