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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-12-23, Page 13COrninuni Sas aitch a hit at Robertson Harry the Sasquatch seemed to be a hit when Grades K through 8 at Robertson Memorial P.S. enjoyed their Christmas present from the teachers, Harry and the Hendersons! We would like to thank the park theatre ifor providing pop and pop- corn as the children watched the movie It was an excellent movie. Thank you 'vary much teachers! Students of Grade 2 were surprised to find delivered to their door letters from the north pole! Santa Claus wrote long letters to all the good little girls and boys and pro- mised to do his best to bring them the toys they wanted, Grade 2 had lots of fun sing- ing dinosaur songs and helping their Grade ones with their Christmas musical for the Christmas assembly. Miss Braid and all her Grade two pupils wish everyone. A very Merry Christmas! The Grade three class was very happy to present a musical play called "Have a Heart It's Christmas!" The play had many appealing and entertaining songs, climax- ing the spirit of Christmas. All the pupils put forth an excellent effort in learning their many individual lines and songs. ROBERTSON ROUND—UP were royally received and wish to thank Mrs. Cathy Wiebe and residents for having us and thank you for the cookies and juice! Grade five and six students were busy getting ready for Christmas this past week. The students did a wonderful job making the door of the Resource Room look like the Night Before Christmas. Everyon who helped deserved 'a special thanks f r their hard work. Grade two's are jus 'finishing their funny "Night Before Christmas" books. They are great! Happy Holidays Everyong ! The circulating rumor of last week that 8A would win the door decorating contest turned out, to be true! But, we had a lot of good competition. The quality of door decorations was just great. 7C won second Thanks must go to all the parents who prize. Merry Christmas to everyone from were most diligent in seeing their child 8. was dressed appropriately for the play and Parents, as well as students and for many of our props. teachers enjoyed the Christmas concert at On Thursday, Gr. 3 journeyed to Robertson on Dec. 16. The number of Maitland Manor to present their play. We parents who attended, was enormous and many of them couldn't find seats. Overall, the concert was a huge success. Thanks to all who attended. Keri Dobie and Marsha Macaulay, your Robertson Round -up reporters and their 8B class would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Mrs. Crocker's Grade eight class spent an enjoyable two periods at Goderich District Collegiate on Monday, Dec. 14. Mr. Philip MacMillan kindly agreed to teach them some aspects of mime. The students and teacher enjoyed the theatre arts lesson in the drama room. Our school spirit was on display on several occasions when all students and staff gathered in the gym throughout December for Christmas carolling. As well as mass singing, these assemblies included songs from in- dividuals and small groups. Each day also featured recognition for Robertson achievements in sports and school ac- tivities. What a delightful way to share and spread the wonderful holiday spirit. There were several highlights but we will never forget the resounding rendition of The Twelve Days of Christmas, the sur- prise visit from Santa on the last day, Mr. Stecca's favourite carol (Good King Wencelas) and Mr. Yeats' solid bass voice. Thanks to Lindsay Hurd and Kathy Rodger from 8C for organizing this activity. creative contest winners announced Thank you to all of the classroom reporters for their Lard work writing their news. We were pleased with the amount of entries for our Creative Christmas Con- test. It was hard to decide on a winner in each category. Brookside editors wish everybody a Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Creative Christmas Contest The winners of our contest were Melanie Nicholson grade 2, Joshua Foster grade 5, Joan Ferguson grade 6 and Tracy Chambers grade 8. Honorable mention goes to Karen Hodges, Sandra Meader, Doug Barger, Jordon Andrew and Laura Gilbert. The contest was a success and there were a lot of entries. Thank you to all who entered. The newspaper will be prin- ting some of the entries. K 1 Mrs. Cameron's This week we finished making Christmas decorations for our tree. We also made a Rudolph bag puppets. Grade 2-3 The Dinosaur Den Frog has changed into a beautiful princess with a castle! We put 10 spaghetti worms into the potion on Wednesday and the wizard drank it! We've had fun with. our Christmas centres .this week, and Santa Clarke came to our room to help us make a top secret „project. We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! See you in 1988! Grade 4 On Tues. Dec. 15 room 9 made ginger- bread houses,. It was a lot of fun! The Brookside Christmas Concert was good. Brookside School gets out on Friday 18th (We're looking 'forward to it!). Yesterday and today we're doing Christmas activities with Mr. Farnell. Lee Drennen's birthday was Tues. Dec. 15th. This week was fun! Grade 5 Mrs Webster's Grade 5 class had a pizza party on Wed. Dec. 16 for a going away party to Mrs. Webster. Brooksides Tues- day night concert was a blast. The grade 5 and 5 & 6 class did a play called Com - 1111111111111111111111111 BROOKSIDE BROADCAST puterized Christmas. Hello again Mrs. Worsen! On the 16th Mrs. Worsen came to the school with her baby girl, Charlotte. The class is busy making surprise Christmas gifts. Grade 6' On the sixteenth of Dec. Mrs. Tebbutt's grade six class had Brigitte Wolf come in and show us how to make wreaths out of cornhusks. We appreciated her coming in because our wreaths are great Christmas presents. Thanks again! Room 6 Readers The Room 6 Readers have been very busy doing many different Christmas ac- tivities over the past two weeks. We wrote stories, did puzzles, read lots of Christmas booksand decorated a Nichola tree. - a tree on which only Santa Claus aments were hung. On Thursday we made popcorn chains and hung sweet pretzels we had made on our Christmas tree. Sports News We have now completed our junior volleyball houseleague. Congratulations to Mrs. Blanchettes and Mrs. Websters team 6, the Hawks who were in first place. Mr. Culps team 1, the Eagles were second and Mrs. Blake/Miss Jewitts team 7 the Falcons were 3rd. We are presently having try outs for the junior volleyball teams. The tournament is on Jan. 15/88. Concert News The Brookside PS held the Christmas Concert on Dec. 15th. Grade K-2 did a Jingle Bell Drill and a choral reading to welcome everyone. Joel Wright, the master of ceremonies for the evening kept The Goderich Kinsmen Club recently donated $100 to the Alexandra Marine and General Hospital. The money, used to purchase a Christmas tree and decorations for the hospital's third floor patients, was presented by Tom Stark, Kinsmen lst vice, to Mrii• Pat Morrison, head nurse of the 3rd floor. (photo by Lou -Ann Defruyn) ,s. everyone moving from Bethlehem to the North Pole, as Grades 1J, 1M, 2B, 3-0, 4C, 5W, 5-6 S and the Junior Choir presented "Christmas Is..." In spite of terrible weather, our auditorium was packed and we really appreciate the community sup- port. Thanks to everyone who helped in any way. Grades 7 and 8, as well as the Primary Choir and the Senior Choir per- formed a Christmas assembly on Thurs- day, Dec. 17, at 9:05 a.m. They also put on their show for the Dungannon Senior Citizens on Monday, Dec. 14. 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