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THEATRE ON THE MOVE ® A touring theatre company for, young
audiences, presented "Ice Time" recently at the Wingham Public
School. "Ice Time" is the story of Justine Blainey's fight to play on a
boys' hockey team. Actors J. Brian McDonald and Briar Boak took
questions after the play from a number of the students from the area
schools attending the play.
Mrs. Kerr's Grade 1 class has
been enjoying its new unit in math.
In this unit the students have been
adding up bread tags, fish and bugs.
Also they have been using their
calculators and discovered the
"Magic 9". They also have been
counting on the calculators to 100.
The Grade is have been doing
research on dinosaurs and made
some dinosaur cookies. They have
been reading about fishing and
fingers.
In the Grade 1 class, all the
youngsters have had the chicken pox
except for one person.
— Tina Kotsanis
Mrs. Szarek's class recently made
Valentines for the Valentine Tree.
Last week they also made in-
teresting reptile projects and a
mural. They wrote excellent winter
poems and made a scrapbook of
them.
Kelly Alexander von a prize for
her Frostyfest poster, Some
members of the class are preparing
solos for the music festival.
Andrea McBride went to the gym
and represented the class with her
speech about her cat, Grade 3
students Paul Vaudry, Joanne
Kingsbury, Kelly Alexander, Amber
Ruttan and Nicole Lipnicki recited
poems as well on Feb. 10.
The pupils are having fun playing
board games and challenging their
friends to games.
—Michelle MacDonald
Last week Mr. Lisle's class has
been researching the Olympics.
They have made projects and are
enjoying this unit. They also were
looking forward to the trip to the
Talisman ski resort last Wednesday.
They have enjoyed having the
gymnastic equipment in the gym.
—Beth Ward
The Grade 8 French Club
arranged a Valentine dance for. Feb:
12. It was very successful and
everyone looked like they were
having a good time. The prizes were
won by Eric Deyell and Ibukun
Omole, Grade 6; Kenneth Hogg and
Kara Neil, Grade 7 and Richard
McKeon and Leya deBruyn, Grade
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The door prizes were won by
Richard McKeon and Lisa Keay.
They both won chocolates,
TheTench Club members thank.
Mr. Poulin for letting them have
these dances.
—Jana Gaunt
STUDENT PARLIAMENT
All of us at EWPS.are having a lot
of fun at recess with all the new
snow. There 'are forts and tunnels
around the school. Everyone is
happy as can be.
During the past three weeks we
have had a book a-thon as one of our
Olympic activities. Each class has a
flame and is assigned a number of
books to read. When they reach their
total books the flame is lit. We have
a big map in the hall marking the
route to Calgary with the torch.
Every day, when someone reads a
book, it moves the small runner
three kilometers toward Calgary.
Tuesday, Feb. 16, we reached
reading 864 books. Our own Junior
Olympics started, Tuesday, Feb. 16,
running for two weeks,
—by Matthew Hussey
and Darlene Black
KINDERGARTEN
The Kindergarten class is busy
working on Valentine activities and
thinking about people we love and
appreciate. We are having a
valentine party in our room.
We would like to thank Andrew
Ward for sharing his ABC computer
program with our class.
Our Grade Three buddies helped
us make a bird feeder and now
they're helping us make an ABC
book.
—by Kindergarten
GRADE ONE
Grade One had a Valentine's Day
on Friday. They had fun making
spirals and decorating them with
valentines. Grade One has read 138
books for the Olympic Torch relay.
They lit their torch on Feb. 10.
—by Jennifer Elston
GRADE TWO
Grade Two enjoyed seeing
themselves in the videotapes of their
snow activities.
Doug picked from the birthday
box for his birthday.
Grade Two received the Weekly
Reading Award for two weeks for
reading the most books toward their
journey to Calgary for the Olympic
Torch relay. They lit their torch on
Friday, Feb, 5 and their second
torch on Feb. 17, reading a total of
200 books.
—by Laura Munro
GRADE THREE
Mr. Fisher's Grade Three class,
along with Mrs. Hessel's Grade Two
class had fun when they went
tobogganing. They had a hot dog and
marshmallow roast. When they
returned to__. the. sehoO1i_. the .hot..
chocolate hit the spot after
tobogganing.
The commercials videotaped _with
our Grade 7-8 buddies . turned out
really well. We are hoping to make
copies of the tape for people; to take
home to watch with their parents.
To summarize what went on
during snow study, the Grade Three
class, along _ with Grade Two,
videotaped some of the activities
done during the unit such as book-
making, pantommimeand radio
plays, song -making and a game of
East Wawanosh Squares to test their
knowledge of snow trivia.
The. Grade Threes lit their torch
when they were finished reading all
their 110 books on Feb. 9.
—by Brenda White
GRADE 6-7
The .Grade 6-7s are. involved in -an
Olympic reading competition. Their
goal is to read 130 books. The school
will also be competing in an Olympic
Snow Week. The students will be
broken into 14 different teams and
go against each other in Olympic -
type events. Science Fair is rising
fast for the' senior grades. We have
just recently finished reading a book
entitled "Shane". -
GRADE 7-8
The Grade 7-8s have been skating
at the Belgrave Arena and curling at
theWingham Golf and Curling Club.
On Wednesday, Feb. 10, the 7-8s
went to the East Wawanosh Con-
servation Area. The activities are
part of our science and gym
curriculum. Our class has read a
large total of 47 books for the
Olympic relay. We are progressing
well with our speeches and our
science fair,
—by Lana Thompson.
Seniors'
Day Centre News
by Joelle Reavie
Hi! I am a placement student from
Fanshawe College in London,
studying Recreation Leadership and
will be at the seniors' centre for
three more weeks. The placement at
the Day Centre , will help meet my
college requirements in the social -
recreational field.
The Day Centre programs con-
tinue this week with a Hawaiian
theme to help beat the February
blahs! Everyone is asked to wear
their brightest clothing and the
afternoons will be highlighted with
such activities as a tropical dinner
and hula dancing.
The next foot clinic sponsored by
Community Nursing Services will be
held Wednesday, Feb. 24. Please call
357-1445 for an appointment.
A reminder to all members of our
board of directors that our regular
monthly board meeting is on Feb. 29.
A thought for this week: "No man
ever injured his eyesight by looking
on the bright side of things".
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LAURIER SPOKE
All roads led to Mount Forest and
special train after special train from
every part of the _district brought
hundreds to the town to hear the
great Liberal leader, Sir Wilfrid
Laurier, address two meetings in
October of 1912. Fully 10,000 people
heard Sir Wilfrid's splendid
speeches and all gave hien a
magnificent reception. This was the
greatest celebration the town had
ever seen. Upwards of 50 people
went from Wingham to hear the
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OLYMPIC SPEAKERS — Theseseven East Wawanosh Public School students received Celebration '88
certificates of merit during a special assembly at the school. The certificates were presented by Huron -
Bruce MP Murray Cardiff in recognition of speeches the students gave on the Winter Olympic Games.
From left: Back row, Dan Ward, Rick Wattam, Rob Anderson. Front row, Mark Olson, Kyle Moran, Brad
Robinson, Krista Bird.
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