Southdale Public School - Prima Yearbook (Strathroy, Ontario Canada)

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WHAT IS A POLYGON? When Miss Smyth was teaching the term Polygon to her class, Michael Baker looked up the vrord in his dictionary. The teacher had said that a triangle was a polygon, but the book said that a polygene had seven or more sides and points. Somebody was wrong. After discussion with the class, it was decided to write to Holt, Rinehart and Winston to settle the argument. Terry Cooper wrote the company and explained the problem. Here, Terry and Michael show the letter they received, apologizing for the mistake and thanking them for pointing it out .

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FRONT ROW: Tracy Alderson, Ginger Rupert, Carol Benedict, Kim Schneider, Kim Giffen, Dorothy Visser, Rosanne Van Break, Judy Hesk, Mary Anne Ford. SECOND ROW: Alma Calcutt, Tommy Ford, Michael Baker, Joanne Garbutt, Susan Clothier, Debbie Sawchuk, Lisa Fitzgerald, Penny Luel, Billy Smith, Blair Zinn, Danny Eagleden. BACK ROW: Tommy Crouch, Mark Rolls, Terry Cooper, David Kerr, Mark Schultz, David Scott, Herman Kolstein, Stephen Taylor, Herbie Colledge, David Earhart, Miss Smyth. ABSENT - Debbie Flynn, Reinhold Lettkemann. GRADE THREE AND FOUR NEWS - MISS SMYTH The pupils in this room have taken several trips to go along with their work in Science and Social Studies. The children have been divided into several groups and each group reports back to the rest of the class, explaining what they saw. The groups have gone to the Weather Station at London Airport, the sugar bush, the Department of Geology at the University of Western Ontario and the Observatory at Western. The whole class went on a trip to Kelloggs to see how our cereals were made. These trips made our studies of the subjects more interesting. We also saw a film from the Bell Telephone Go. , called About Time , and a man from the London Free Press came out and showed us how a newspaper was m.ade. We have done m.any projects in the class, also, such as this yearbook, and we made and ran a post office for the school, while we studied communications. I ' flien Michael and Terry corrected the Dictionary Company, we received a letter from Ireland about it, and we wrote to the children in the Irish school. With all this work, our year in this room has gone by very fast. Kerbie Colledge... ...

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FRONT ROW: Nancy Calcuit, Sigrid Beer, Lorna Peden, Anna Galcutt, Karen Welch, Karen Svendsen, Elizabeth Reynders, Janie Lalacz, Cindy James. SECOND ROW: John Martin, Judy Brothers, Kathy Bryant Susan Coole, Walter Lenting, Brian Picott, Donald Gough, Diane McNaughton, Cindy Power, Debra Tanton. BACK ROW: Brian Gare, Ronny Van Brenk, Majc, Kol stein, Murray Watt, Ron Keay, Billy Ferguson, Raymond Elliott, Daryl McLeod, Jeff Pearse, Randy McLean, Mrs. J. Schmidt. ABSENT: Terry Hesk. GRADE FOUR Al ' ID FI E NEWS - MRS. J. SCHMIDT The pupils in Mrs. Schmidt ' s class have had many different teachers this year. They are on rotary with Mr. Mackey ' s class, so they have Mrs. Schmidt, Mr. Mackey and Mrs. Charlton. They also had student teachers at different times through the year. The grade fives from this room went to Toronto with the other grade fives and had a very nice time. They saw the City Hall and went to the Museum, also. They went on the subway which was a new experience for most of them. The class has done many projects in Science and Social Studies through the year. There were many interesting displays on such topics as Communications, Transportation and Maple Syrup. They are also reading a novel in their reading lessons. Treasure Island. Only the ones interested in the novel are doing it, and the others are reading stories that they are interested in. The boys in this class take Arts and Crafts with Mr. Mackey ' s class and the girls take it with Mrs. Schmidt. They have done many interesting things in these periods, such as woodburning for the boys and the girls have made stuffed aniraals and embroidered towels. Mark Rolls.