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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-10-28, Page 34School News Primary students at St. Mary's school, as well as primary students from area Catholic schools, were treated to a performance by the Interstage Theatre Company Thursday mor- ning. The repertory company performed "Dick Whittington and His Cat." Describing themselves as a "theatre of imagination" and "a musical theatre", the troupe performed the English storytale using acting, dancing, mime and songs with feiy sets and simple costumes. It was an enjoyable morning for students and staff alike. Iphoto by Lou -Ann DeBruyn) Colborne students are. busy preparing for Halloween party FRENCH Grade 6 did an excellent job of designing individual schools of the future. Their ef- forts are displayed in the primary hall. SENIOR CHOIR Senior choir has begun preparations for our Remembrance Day assembly. Choir practices take place Tuesdays at noon hour. Members include all students frorn•grades 5,6,7, and some grade 8s. Mrs. Rea's•Grade 2-3 class have been busy working on •Halloween activities. Their root looks especially scary with spiders dangling overhead and witches lurking. Mr. Sander's Grade 3-4 have just com- pleted'pa unit on road nmaps. • Many of the students received, certificates qualifying them as road map readers. Mr. Bond's Grade 6-7 class is into gruesome ghostly. diorama construction to accompany- Stories, designed to turn hair white. Platis are to spook other students in the school with their multi -media presentations. The Grade • 8 class is currently- studying exponents- and order of operations. 'They have just started studying the War of 1812 in History. Most of the Grade 8 class will be busy Friday assisting the, students council ' with the Halloween Party. Many exciting games have been planned including Pin the Wart,. Pumpkin bowling, Ghost pond, Musical tombstones and Pumpkin toss as well as a Haunted House. Next week, the grade 8s will start construction components COLBORNE CONNECTIONS for the Santa Claus Parade float. The senior boys volleyball team was pick- ed this week. Team members are Regan Millian, Brett Harman, Chris Geddes, Jason Wray, Matthew Drennan, David Bogie, Chad Bogie, Corey Budden and Jeremy Brindley. They are diligently practising for the Nov. 28 tournament. The senior girls volleyball tournament was picked this week. Team members are Jackie Vanstone, Linda- Kerr, Rose -Marie Young, Leslie Stoll, Laura Hord, Andrea Imanse, Kim Dungale and Jennifer Sutherland. The team will be practising dai- ly for the tournament in November. • REMINDER TO PARENTS Remember- the meeting at the school Tuesday,. November 10. This meeting is scheduled to look at some Adventure Playground ideas. At 7:30 p.m., a film en- titled The Serious Business of Play which outlines the importance of play to the learn- ing process will be shown. Mr. Paul Bradley, a representative from Henderson Recreation, will discuss the features of the Playground components manufactured, by his 'company. Everyone Welcome. Grade 4 learns about elephants PRIMARY Mrs. Cameron's. Kindergarten students are making Halloween decorations for their room. This week we made bats, ghosts and black cats; • Miss Mathers''Grade 1 students are busy working on Halloween stories and centres. We' enjoyed having Mrs. Graham in our classroom on Thursday, October 15. She helped_ us make people in Halloween costumes. They are "on parade" in the primary hall. Room 4, the Dinosaur Treehouse, has been studying leaves 'and treeshouses. Believe it or not we have a treehouse in our room. We made leaf projects. If you would like to see them, they will be in the front hall. Room 3 and 4 are going on a trip to Zehrs, McDonalds for lunch and Evans farm. Bradley Hodges was "Special Me" and now it's Tiffany Foster. Grade 3 students in room 10 went to West Wawanosh Conservation Area on October 8. We -learned about six different trees. On Friday, October 16, we are to bring in our leaf projects. On October 19 April Moir had a birthday and on October 21 it was Joey ('ulbert's birthday. We also made pumpkin faces. JUNIOR NEWS Grade 4, portable 2 students are doing elephant research. We did crossword puzzles, elephant writing and elephant rhyming. We also did elephant pictures in the class. Mr. Culp is reading as a stork about an elephant named Jumbo. Grade 4, room 9 students had a mystery letter and we don't know who write it but we will find out. We went on a scavenger hunt. We tried to find the treasure. The leaders were Jenean Todd, Mellissa MacLennan and Anjana Dhaliwal. Grade 5, portable 1 students are having a food festival. The students have done a project on it. Each day we sample several recipes. We are also making stories about Halloween. The students that went to cross country did very well. Eric Andrew won ist prize from our class. We are stu- dying Ontario also. SENIOR NEWS On October 13, Mrs. Graham came into Mrs. Tebbutt's Grade 6 class. We learned about colors. We filled a 60x46 sheet of paper with blending and shading the three primary colors. We also had black and white colors for shading and tinting. In Mrs. Allen's Grade 7 class, the cross country runners had good results. Jodi Webster got fourth and Lisa Cairncross 7th for the intermediate girls. Terry Liv- ingston got 5th for senior boys and Brock BROOKSIDE BROADCAST Raynard got 14th. In History we have started working on the Native Com- munities of North America. Mrs. Zinn came anc talked about the early settlers in this area. Mrs. Graham came to help start our Native Studies by making burlap masks. The volleyball ' tryouts have started and so has volleyball houseleague. There are some good players. Mr. Liddle's class has just finished the Canadian Tests of Basic Skills which have anumber of time two tests. Brad Park has been in the hospital and we want to wish him a speedy recovery. We are beginning reading centres this week. Mr. Hazlitt's Grade 8 class will be going to the West Wawanosh Conservation Area with Mr. Liddle for sciernce. We have been working on our history projects which will be due next week. Our Guidance Assign- ment for this month is dh Study Habits. In Phys.Ed, we have just finished soccer and started volleyball. Last week was Doug Helm's and RuthAnne Durnin's 13th birthday. SPORTS NEWS On Thursday October 15, we had our an- nual crow country meet at the Wawanosh Conservation Area. We had perfect weather and a great day. Brookside won the overall pennant in the intermediate girls, junior boys and midget boys divi- sions. Eric Andrew, Dana Park and Joyce McWhinney all placed first in their divi- sion and Tracy Curran, Jeff Brindley, Scott Rintour and Warren Andrew all plac- ed second. Congratulations to all runners. MISS KNETSCH Miss Margriet Knetsch is new to our school. She teaches French for grades 4 through 8. This is her first year of teaching. She lives in Stratford. Miss Knetsch was ' born in Curacao. She lived in Aruba for many years. She is planning on getting married in July. She has three older brothers. Her hobbies are aerobics and coaching. She would like to go to Aruba. She speaks three languagek: English, French and Dutch. Miss Knetsch says that she likes teaching French because she en- joys the kids and the language. Miss Knetsch told us that she thinks that the 'Brookside staff and students are nice. We are happy to have Miss Knetsch as a teacher. GODERICH S1GNAL-STAR, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1987—PAGE 11A SAVINGS SHOWN IN THIS AO BASED ON. 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