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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-03-18, Page 73( L -R) Katie McNeil, Jason Dignan, Amanda Bentley, .Jamie pretzels they made during the schools 'Glad to be Me' day. The Whytock and Katie Durst of Colborne School are proud of the pretzels tasted great, if a little underdone.( photo by Ted Spooner) "Glad To Be Me" day held at Colborne Once again Colborne has been busy. • A special day' for students and staff was held. It was called "Glad to be Me" day. Each teacher had a special activity for each group of students. Grades Kindergarten to ,three tnjoy.ed making giant pretzels, doing all about me booklets and playing survival. 'Grades 4-8 " -liked • Mr:-RubinsonT's. drama 'class makita'g'-_.. their own adventure playgrounds and'doing the Bird Dance and playing music games. Mr. Ross' grade 7-8 e'lass is enjoying art activities. We are graphing a comic book cover ona big sheet. - Spring must have sprung. With • light jackets, skipping ropes and basketball prac- tice, we realize that report cards are a big part of spring. • The grade 7-8's are going to be helping the Cancer.Soci'ety by selling daffodils on April 2 3. The money will help. Cahcer;'research. In April, grade's .4-8 will .be putting on a spring musical Called ."Wheels." We hope you will be there. Science projects are due on March 23. the Monday that school • starts.. Since the Canada wide s.cienee fair is, being held in Toronto, everyone that makes it to country wide, gets to visit it. Dn Thursday. tifar 5h T3;-th'e`pupilsof t'ol— borne. Central . School participated in a Bro ran Theme Day entitled "Glad To Be Me." Ac- group got the opportunity to play "Oh Deer tivities emphasizing positive self concept with the primary groups under the leader were chosen by the staff .and a few special ship of Mr. Harman. Mr Bond chose ac - guests. • tivities that, taught his groups how impor- At 9 ',.m.everyone from Kindergarten to tant each person is to the whole group. Did C: ade 8 gathered on the gym for a "Kick'cil'f you know that you can pick a person off the Assembly." T.hey were divided into 14 ground to a height level and the per°ssn be - groups and spent the rest of the day par- ing lifted trusts the group'' Mrs. Graham 'tfe1'p•zrt;rnr;°.irr s'e'ven elective- att"i• it4e:s:... ,. •,. ------ cJ,.11t ' -141:095-, mrake_•d 1DOive - c 41-4ges_.. The primary pupils were involved in • that now decorate the ,s -calor hall. Mr•. games, stories, songs, cooking and outdoor "Robinson was on hand to lead' his groups education. Mrs. Grant had a magic box that through several drama exercises. Mrs. contained 'the image of the most imp'h'i'tant Baker's groups created booklets • that revealed'thi'ngs we like to do, our personal goals and our strengths and weaknesses. When the groups got to -the gym, Mr. Medd put'then through their paces with music and folk dance. Boy can he sing ( and dance ). The final, senior activity was run by Mr. Ross. Since we, as a community, are hoping to . build an Adventure Playground in the near future, he had his groups build models • of what they would like their playground to be like. . '1"he', day was a very busy one for 'everybody but a!great deal of learning. took place and everyone left -home feeling just a little better about themselves. , xi We would like to thank Mrs. Moffatt, Mrs.. is controlled by Mother Nature. Graham, Ms, Fanjoy and, Mr. Robinson fol - The senior groups•were also involved with -tak-i-ng the -time --to come out to-Galbor-n -to- seven different electives. ' Each senior help us with the day. We would also like to- . thank ' Mrs. Hord, :Mrs, F'eagan, Mrs. Winters and • ;Mrs. Stoll for helping the GODERICFI SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, MA,RCII 18, 19$7 --PAGE 3A MARCH IS I1NEY FO N Ti MONT please give generously when a canvaser comes to your door. Phone 524-2651 524-6571 N person in the .world. Miss Steinbach's groups traced a life sized portrait of .each important person from each group. Mr. Brereton then had the groups paint their life sized portraits to show how they felt about themselves. Mrs. Moffat was on hand to.. • lead a number of self-concept builders. When the group got to Mrs. Allen, she had them make booklets about themselves and their feelings .towards each other. Mrs. Fisher and Ms. •Fanjoy taught their groups how to make shortbread initials, The kids really "ate up" this activity. When, the groups got overheated, Mr. Sanders took them outside to play "Oh Deer", a game that taught how the wild animal population ®deteachers. studentsDid you know that the grade 7=8 class have • been busy making posters to adti'ertise the ® Daffodil Tea that will be taking place at the ^� reSalvation Army Citadel on April 3 sponsored ° by the Goderich Branch of the Canadian Cancer Society. es and By JASON ('AMERON,,.ADRiAN RAU TRISHA MacDOP ALD and JANINE HELM • Last Thursday, Mrs. Sygrove, the ART teacher, came to Mrs. Young's "grade 1-2 •class and did many exciting activities about pancakes.' The children read stories, wrote 'stories, measured pancakes ad cooked pan- cakes. Best of all, they got to eat them: The class says thank-ydu to Mrs. Sygrove. This week their "All about rne" person is Gerry .Johnson. Grade 6, Room 7 Mrs. Tehbutt's class made dough action figures on Friday, March 6. This project was'ir-ltbegrated with body proportions. Marie Webster initiated and guided •us through this lesson.. We have as a result, .dough figures who resemble rock stars, hillbillies and sports personalities. We have varnished them and are ready now to hang them. Thanks again Mrs. Webster. • Grade 4-5, Portable 2 Mr. {;trip's class has been Preparing for a person who is coming from the Bruce' Nuclear Power Plant to talk about electrici- ty. We are preparing by studying in science about generating stations, batteries and other electronic things. We have done lots of experiments such as light a lightbulb with a battery, making a simple battery and a sim-' ple generator. We have had lots of fun and learned a lot of exciting things. Grade 3, Room 4 In Room 4, Mrs. Smyth, our helper, is back from "Texas. She brought sand dollars for us. We are glad to have her hack. We are introducing Ryan Jervis next week. This Friday is hat day 'in room 3 and 4. We're going to wear crazy hats. Some of us are working with Mr Clarke with electrici- ty. We went to the library to go to the Peru centre that Mrs Blake set up. Thanks Mrs. Blake, it was interesting. We hope everyone has a nice March break, Grade 4 On • February 20, we went skating. On February 24, we had Payday. Our thanks to Mrs. Webster for acting as teller for the day. On February 26 we enjoyed hot dog day. On March 11 we made lion and lamb pins. Dur- ing the last week of February,' we made two- way pictures of lions and larinbs. Our class predicts that since March came in like a lamb, we think it will go out like a lion. Hap- py birthday to Kate Storey. and Chris Button. Peer tutor program The Peer Tutors from Grade 6 and their reading partners from Grade 1. 2 and 3 en- BRDDK SIDE BROADCAST joyed juice and -cookies on Friday. This was Mrs. Bere'S treat. Mrs. Sygrove and Mrs. Alice McDowell, who initiated the program last fall, assisted with the serving. This Peer Tutor program has 'been very wor- thwhile, benefitting 'both the tutors and the young readers. They all seem quite en- thusiastic and we appreciate Grade 6 students taking a few minutes of their time to help younger ones. rc4 Grade 8 ' Mr. hlaz'litt's grade S° class is busy trying to get thier science fair projects done for the school competition on April 1-2. They are also busy practicing their basketball skills at noonhours with grade 7 students. After the March break, they can try out for the .school team. They are currently finishing a novel study called "Iceblink". Survey • The senior question this week is: What is your favourite music group? Shawn Woods and Kevin Hardy, both from grade 7, like Alice Cooper. From grade 8,, Duane Durnin likes Paul Young and Alison Curran likes Bon ,Jovi. Our famous music teacher, Mrs. Jewitt, likes ,the all time favourites, the Beatles. What -is your favourite day in the year? was the question for the junior •students. The following people all have something in common. Their favourite day is their bir- thday: Chris MacDonald (grade 6, April 3), Iipbyn Dawson ( grade 4, December 23), Chris Curran (grade 3, June 24), Scott Richardson 1 grade 2, January 27 1, Amanda Wylds ( grade 1, May 13) and Catherine Alton (kindergarten, August 3)." Tanya MacInhis from grade 5 chose Valentine's Day. Pretzels Mrs. Sygrove helped a group of children from Grade 1, to make pretzels on Friday and they. shared them with the rest of the Grade 1 class, Student's council The Student Council provided a film for the students on Friday. It was called "Flight of the Navigator." Enjoy Winter. Break, everybody, and come back eager to do your best in the Spr- ing Term. Club enjoys Goderich songwriter At the February 24 Dessert and Coffee of the Goderich and District After Five Club, Barb Hodgins of Clinton delighted the au- dience with her humorous lyrics about the day to day activities .and calamities of a housewife and mother. Willa Rivetts of Rivetts T.V. and Radio _._-presented-_•many--:'Mart$'-a•ndTMti,ps.':-..-.about microwave cooking as the `special feature of the evening. The speaker, Donna Srielev of Atwood was sometimes a rebellious teenager as she was raised as a 'preachers kid' in Pennsylvannia, She spoke of the source of strength which has enabled her to cope with the. sometimes very difficult pro- blems in raising three daughters and facing serious illness in recent years. _____W.ateh.._tQx 41/0.1ntng_infonilation about our March 31st Dessert" anti CoWee and special Guest Night to be held April 28 Twin City -4 School ®f Hairstyling .4,-h' Waterloo, Ont. • Hairstyling 'Barbering °i ar Piercing ®Make-up 55 Erb St. East "IMonday to Friday 830 am, to 4:30 pm* Clossiss start Iso of ovary month THE FLEXALUM VERTICAL 1 " & '/f' VENETIAN MARCH SALE PANE REMEDIES 32 Newgate St., Goderich 524-8111 (Across from McGee's) f:.!/'/I NI Vertical Blinds rrad.n,ar-6 d Howie, Dourlae • A ri,rni.r Dourine pwd,xr, OPEN: 10-5 Monday - Friday 10-3 Saturday Closed Wednesday GODERICH RECREATION DEPARTMENT Presents "THE FOOD SHOW" by A musical celebration of food. From "Junk Food Alley" to "High Society" and the "Rutabaga Rhurn, ba", this original musical is guaranteed to be a nutritious adventure. -Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for -'Outstanding Children's Theatre production in Vit$3. THURSDAY MARCH 19, 1987 Victoria '•'ubllfc School at 2:30 p.n. (use southeast entrance) ADMISSION: 52.00 per Person This performance is free to all children registered in "Holiday Happenings." Special assistance from the "Ontario Arts Council" 40 Years of Canadian Citizenship 1947-1987 April 12-18 is National Citizenship Week in Canada. it is a time to cele- brate and reflect upon the strengths and values of Canadian life — equality, ,diversity and community. Share in, the spirit of our dynamic, multicultural society. Share in the spirit of Canada.