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f J l f I The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanvilln. October 19. 1988 19 Get Your Home Ready For - -- '•I 1 a;.i;V'isv-^pyti *»■ .u ■. .. 11 r -r7 ^' 1 T" r," rr n *-r - -r --r«i - -■ - - , -- "' r y* Doors (seconds) and up fill In-stock Mason Windows fill In-Stock r i C-l-L Paints ^F7WX W F > \ ii Mb ©FF fill In-Stock Panelling V x 8' sheet clearing fill In-Stock Fertilizers |n w i im fill In-Stock Fireplace Accessories V X 8' X 1/2" Drywall Weather- Stripping - clip and save - Discount fiil| In-StOCk Items (excluding sale items) Including Lumber (valid Sat., Oct. 22 only) m h|:|| 111 improvement building centre 164 Base Line Rd. E. 623-6341 Highway No. 2 V) r 1 Durham Building Base Line Rd. W. l| IHI Highway 401 | Bowmanville Waverley Public School News We're Going MA.D. by Rebecca Vatcher Logo On Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Miss Pitcher's class works on M.A.D. which stands for Mental Arithmetic Drill. Miss Pitcher Pitcher calls out adding and subtracting subtracting questions and gives us about five seconds to put the answer on paper. In Math we've had about two math tests and we're working working on long division and multiplying. We have French every morning. In French we're working on our colours and numbers and we talk to each other and make French conversation. conversation. Every month when some poeple finish a book they give an oral or written book report. I can tell with such a good teacher we're going to have a terrificyear. Mrs. Pickenbrock's Grade Five Class by Christal Reid Mrs. Piekenbrock teaches at Waverley Public Schol. She has been teaching for 20 years now and this is her first year here. Mrs. Piekenbrock Piekenbrock went to Peterborough Teachers College. She has 28 students in her class. They are studying Mexico and are going to make tacos. They are writing stories to share with the grade one students in Mrs. Murdoch's class. They sent letters to different provinces for information for a project. In Math they- are regrouping with zeros. Mrs. Piekenbrock teaches with Mr. Gray who teaches us before recess. Junior Leaders In Training by Heather Watson Mr. Gray our Vice Principal Principal is the head of our Junior Leaders and Junior Leaders in Training program. The Junior Leaders take part in extra.activities in the school, such as houseleague sports and other school activities. They will learn organizational organizational skills, a sense of responsibility, responsibility, social skills and learning learning to get along with other students. They will referee house league games, make up schedules and talk to classes to get them involved. They make up posters for advertising and they make the morning announcements. announcements. Junior Leaders in Training monitor the halls and keep track of sports equipment. Junior Leaders consist of fourteen grade six students. Junior Leaders In- Training consist of 11 grade four and five students. They meet in the Library on Thursdays to make sure everything is running smoothly. Hats off to our future future leaders! A Mystery Because Of An Apple! by Jonathan Plazek It was Thursday the 6th of October 1988. Mrs. Hil- born's grade one class went to Mrs. Kemp's apple orchard. orchard. I was set off to investigate investigate this case. Although there were only 25 children, it still was a tough job. Five parents helped Mrs. Hilbom. On the way to and from the apple orchard studencs were looking for signs of fall. The grade one class went because because they're talking about fall, harvests, apples and nutrition. nutrition. When they got to the apple orchard a tractor pulled them on a wagon. The grade one class saw apples, apples and more apples and goats in the barn. Later, Mrs. Kemp gave them a drink of apple juice and a muffin each. When they got back from the apple orchard they had collected six different kinds of apples; they are Cortland, Russet, Empire, Spy, Macintosh and Delicious. Delicious. They had also learned an apple poem. Here it is! See an apple shiny red, Hold the apple by its head, Turn its eye towards the sky, And pick it off for apple nie. So I solved the case ana it certainly certainly sounded like a nice, red and juicy time. A & P Bound by Stephen Clancy On Wednesday, October 12th, 1988, Mrs. tenWeste- neind's kindergarten class visited the A & P supermarket supermarket in Bowmanville. They were just one of the three kindergarten classes then went. The purposes of the trip were to examine, familiarize, familiarize, sort, weigh, compare, describe and finally identify some of the fruits and vegetables, vegetables, The produce manager manager took the children around the supermarket and to the various fruits and vegetables. vegetables. He gave the children each an apple and Mrs. ton- Westeneind bought some fruits and vegetables to bring back to her class. At the snack center they sampled apple slices, applesauce and apple juice. They also mode a fruit salad and a vegetable dip back at the classroom. It sounds like they had a very delicious trip.