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THE COMMERCE (GA) NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2007 -- PAGE 9B
Visit Pumpkin Farm
Students in Tonya Hill’s pre-k class at Commerce Primary School
visited the Goldbrook Pumpkin Farm Thursday, Oct. 25, where they
learned how pumpkins are grown.
Hold A Fall Carnival
Students in the pre-k classes at Commerce Primary School vis
ited the Family and Consumer Science class of Christy Epps. The
students in that class held a fall carnival for the children as part of
their unit on parties. Left to right are (front) Kaitlin Looney, Landon
Bunn, (back) Colin Welch, Bianca Lord, Mason Holland, Hunter
Morris and Chase Keller (dressed as a scarecrow).
Cereal Collectors
These Commerce Elementary School students are clipping and
counting box tops for the Box Tops for Education program. The
program is sponsored by General Mills and the box top logo can
be found on most of their products. Commerce Elementary School
earns 10 cents for each box top. Each six weeks the students
compete to see which homeroom can bring in the most box tops.
Community participation is encouraged. To help, contact Pam
Minish at 706-335-1801. Left to right are (front) Caleb Brooks, Ricky
Tatum, (back) Madison Spencer, Madison Knowles, Alexia Rucker,
Kelsea Williams, Elena House and Abby Cleveland.
Jessica Ingram is pictured in Stacey Miller’s classroom at
Commerce Primary School.
Leann Hutchinson works with children in Mandy McEntyre’s first
grade class at Commerce Primary School.
CHS Students Get Early Childhood Education Experience
Two Commerce High School
students in the Youth Apprentice
ship Program are learning about
careers in teaching young chil
dren. Leann Hutchinson and Jes
sica Ingram, both seniors, became
interested in early childhood edu
cation through their coursework in
the family and consumer science
classes for the past three years.
The Youth Apprenticeship Pro
gram allows juniors and seniors
like Leann and Jessica to plan for
their future careers while they are
in high school. Students accepted
into the program receive on-the-
job training as part of their educa
tion and they receive one unit of
course credit for each semester
of involvement. The program is
successful because many local
businesses have extended train
ing opportunities to students in
the school system. Kim Savage,
principal of Commerce Primary
School, granted placements for
Hutchinson and Ingram with two
of her first grade teachers, Stacey
Miller and Mandy McEntyre.
Each day, the students spend
one class period with their “men
tors,” McEntyre and Miller, ob-
serving and assisting with the
daily routines normally found in a
first grade classroom. They also
rotate among the other first grade
classrooms and have the addition
al advantage of observing Amy
Harbin, Karen Davis, Pam Adams
and Rhonda Adams. Their teach
ing and tutoring experience in
cludes working with reading and
math groups and assisting in plan
ning various activities for their
young students.
Outside the classroom, Youth
Apprenticeship students are en
gaged in projects and assignments
which allow them to explore their
career choices, make notes of
their personal reflections and re
cord first-hand information and
advice from their mentors. Port
folios created by YAP students
serve as documentation of their
experiences as they enter college
and careers in the future.
Commerce High School stu
dents who are interested in receiv
ing on-the-job training through the
Youth Apprenticeship Program
for the next school year are ad
vised to contact Johnnie Blair,
YAP coordinator.
Learn Nursery Rhymes
Kindergarten classes at Commerce
Primary School recently learned about
nursery rhymes. To end the unit, stu
dents in Marie Barnwell’s class dressed
as their favorite nursery rhyme char
acters and had a nursery rhyme party.
They had rhyming foods and drinks at
the party — goldfish in a dish, chips and
dip, Mother Goose Juice and snacks.
Left to right are Skylar Arntson as Little
Miss Muffet, Hannah Lord as one of the
Three Little Kittens, Clark Bruce as the
Cow that jumped over the Moon, Keion
Gresham as the Farmer in the Dell, Eli
Savage as Little Boy Blue, and Logan
Huff as one of the Three Little Kittens.
Jackson and Banks County’s 41st Annual
KIDS’ CHRISTMAS SECTION
Believe it or not, Christmas is less than two months away!
We at The Commerce News, The Banks County News and The
Jackson Herald are getting ready by again offering you the opportunity
to participate in our 41st Annual Kids' Christmas Edition.
Like last year, we will be running photos of area children in the
December 19 editions of these newspapers at NO COST to the parents,
which will reach over 16,000 homes.
It's an excellent opportunity for you to wish your customers a merry
holiday season or offer some last minute gift ideas with a holiday
greeting ad. You can be sure Banks and Jackson County parents (and
grandparents!) will read and keep this special edition.
Ad Deadline: Friday, November 30, 2007
Photo Deadline: (for free kids' pictures*) Monday, November 26, 2007
Contact your area representative or Christmas Kids' Section,
c/o MainStreet Newspapers, Inc., P.O. Box 908, Jefferson, GA 30549
PH: (706) 367-5233 • Fax: (706) 387-5433
Email: ads@mainstreetnews.com • Web: mainstreetnews.com
Looking For Fossils
Students in Nicole Spear’s third grade science class extract fos
sils from rocks as an exercise during their unit on fossils.
Bone From
A T-Rex
Third grade
science stu
dents at
Commerce
Elementary
School recently
studied fossils.
Pete Nesbit,
a paleontolo
gist, brought
dinosaur fos
sils, casts and
molds for stu
dents to see. He
and Anita Wood
hold a cast of a
tyrannosaurus
rex femur that
they showed to
the students.