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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1988-02-23, Page 11:)., 1 t sir' F J r'¢+.,•�.: u «.timed,°: • �.A 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 8. , 9." 5x.a 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". voratenwavessamegytareme 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 r'lettitlet9 tikti d1 )7'i;. 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. GIVE THE GIFT OF LIFE s r 4 taves4a4,61vittaltru!a-I,yssiv.s4244Ittn 3;ta114—iia-474ve,614rba.. S,F3 •u.Fia.CsICAO i'a* 991..Z1i'7S