School
Fifth grade is ^exciting
The filth grade hall at Perqui
mans Central School is full of ex
citement this year! The students
are changing classes for the first
time and the students as well as
the teachers seem to be enjoying
it
The theme of the first six
weeks is “The Earth’s Changing
Crust” While reading A Journey
to the Center of the Earth by
Jules Veme in language arts, the
students are completing a puzzle
in science as they study the
earth and all the miraculous
changes of its crust Problem
solving skills in math are adding
color to the puzzle and the final
pieces are being put in place in
social studies as the students
learn all about the continents,
major landforms, the equator,
longitude and latitude and much
morel
TAWL group to moot
Some of the teachers here at
Central school and some from
HGS are involved in the “TAWL"
group [Teachers Applying Whole
Language). Our first local meet
ing was Sept. 14.
Mrs. Sawyer’s class
Mrs. Sawyer's fourth graders
enjoyed writing and illustrating
commercials for the story Harry
and the Whatzit.
Leora Thompson - Ladies and
Gentlemen, I have a really good
book that I must recommend for
your children. It’s good for a few
laughs so I must not tell you
anymore. It’ll spoil the surprise.
Now come down here ana buy
your own copy. It's great!
Rusty Smith - Read Harry
and the Whatztt. It is one of the
best stories in the whole wide
world. It gives you a reading ap
petite, dude!
Mrs. Holley's class
Mrs. Brenda Holley’s fourth
grade wrote poems about the sun
after studying about it as a part
of our solar system. Here are two
samples:
The Sun by Maurice Downing
- The sun is hot, but its not cool.
If it was I would have to wear a
coat of wool.
When the sun is bright, it
will mean light, the first day of
school, it was so bright, I had jit
terbugs, in bed that night
I love school, just like today,
but tomorrow, wul be a special
day. The sun will be so hot on
the earth, it looks like it’* going
to burst.
The Sun by Stefanie Harris -
Tbe sun is hot It could probably
heat a pot When the sun goes
down at n<ght we get tucked in
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tight. When the sun conies tip.
it’s day, so we can go out and
play!
Some people watch the sun
rise. And they watch it with their
eyes. When the earth is following
its path, they jump up ana
laugh. So for my final line. I hope
the sun will shine!
Mrs. Gregory’s class
Mrs. Gregory’s class is study
ing geography.
The students read a tall tale
about Paul Bunyan. It was a hu
morous. fictional story explaining
how the Mississippi River and
the Rocky Mountains were
formed.
Afterwards, the students
were asked to write a tall tale ex
plaining a landform or a body of
water. Their tale could be about
mountains, hills, plains, deserts,
rivers or lakes.
The tales were very interest
ing. The following tale was writ
ten by Erin France.
Once upon a time Wonder
Boy and Girl were flying about.
All of a sudden, they saw a run
away baby. They were so big they
could create oceans in seconds.
They picked up the baby to
spank her and missed. Wonder
Boy's hand fell into the dirt.
He crashed his hand so hard
the Pacific Ocean swept over the
United States. Some of the water
was left behind, in the hand
print of Wonder Boy’s hand.
That’s how we got the Great
Salt Lakes. Wonder Boy and Girl
were so embarrassed they flew to
the next galaxy.
Mrs. Fields’ class
Students In Mrs. Fields’
fourth grade class were asked to
observe the sky one night with
their families. 'Die following is by
Monte Tunnell.
Snow and the Stars “Meow!
Meow! What a great night this is
on the Tunnell front porch. But
last night was better because,
Monte and I watched the stars
come out. When I was looking for
the North Star, mom stepped cm
my tall. After she did that I went
flying through the air and when I
landed 1 was looking straight up. .
When I looked 1 saw stars hiding
in the treetops. Through my
green eyes, I saw bright stars,
little stars, big stars, and twin
kling stars. It was so cool having
the ramify relaxing in the porch
swing rubbing me.
Monte was scratching my ear
when he excitingly spotted a very
strange-acting star. It kept blink
ing with the rhythm of my tail
twitching back and forth. The
three of us continued to follow
that star almost out of sight”
Soon my friend Monte laughed,
"We're star-watching an air
plane!” Mfy human friends de
cided to call it a night. After they
went inside, I went off into kitty
dreamland!”
Ms. Ferrell's class
Ms. Ferrell’s fourth graders
have already been on several
field trips -- to Japan to watch
sumu wrestlers, to Spain with
Senior Alonzo, to Australia with
a tiger, and even tracked a hurri
cane! The really neat part is that
we never even left our classroom.
We’re learning about latitude
and longitude, fact and opinion,
making wise choices, and build
ing self-confidence, our cursive
writing is improving, and we
practice everyday on multiplica
tion facts.
Skills learned include pre
dicting. estimating, and verifying.
We tasted semi-sweet chocolate
to increase our comprehension of
the prefix semi-.
To help us endure the heat,
we brain stormed ways to over
come our discomfort. We keep
cool beverages and water in the
room, and we are going to recycle
cans and plastic. When possible,
we turn off the lights and close
the blinds: also saving electricity.
We wear cool, light clothing and
bring hand towels and chair
pads. We’re learning to be re
sponsible citizens.
Students of the Week
Students of the Week for
fourth grade are Michael McHone
and Marquita Foreman.
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Aladdin comes to life when the Perquimans
County High School Marching Pirates Band
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The Marching Pirates of Perquimans High
School started their competition season off right
Saturday, trucking six top honors home from the
Trucker Classic in Portsmouth, Va.
The band took overall first place in Class AA.
outpacing second place Lee Davis High School erf
Richmond and third place Wilson High School of
Portsmouth. In addition, the Marching Pirates
earned first place horn line, color guard, mum ma
jor and dancers, and second place drum line.
The group will perform at the Indian Slimmer
Festival at noon Friday and at Friday night’s
home football game against the Weldon Chargers.
Nicole Vaughn is the 1993-94 Marching Pi
rates drum major. The band is directed by David
Ziemba. Anzie Ziemba is visual ensembles In
structor. Linda Bundy is president of the Booster
Computers move into school cafeterias
They don't do dishes dr cook
meals, but computers have
moved into the cafeterias at Per
quimans County schools.
New computerized cash reg
isters installed last month total
meal costs, track students, keep
up with prepayments and gener
ate daily reports. Schools Child
Nutrition Director LaClaire An
derson said keyboards hooked
up to the cash registers help
program the machines. Even
tually. she hopes to integrate
printers into the system to ex
pand the machines’ use. ^
Each school has at least one
unit The middle school and high
school have multiple units to al
low two-three mem lines to move
at once. A lead cashier and at
least one back-up employee have
been trained to use each unit.
The equipment was pur
chased by the child nutrition de
partment with funds being set
aside each year for six years.
Anderson said the equipment
should make mandatory state
and federal reporting easier.
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Children Nutrition staff members learn to use the new compute
rized cash registers installed in the school cafeterias late this
summer. (Photo courtesy Perquimans County Schools)
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