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Saville is also attempting toTorm two other teams, which would participate in the Delaney Athletic Conference. There is a lot of interest ip a girls soccer team with over 11 players currently signed up. The team would be coached by Saville. Several boys have expressed an interest in a boys volleyball team and plans for both teams should be finalized in late February after Saville meets with conference authorities.
After a fall season without conference games or interscholastic competition—necessitated by the school’s move to Marshall—the students have taken to the ski program with great enthusiasm and are signing up for spring sports with equal zeal.
Vocabulary comes alive
When Janet Jones prepares vocabulary lessons for her seventh grade students at Wakefield School in Marshall, she likes to add a different spin to her lesson plans in an effort to make the material more exciting and more memorable. And so it was on a recent morning as the class began their study of words such as estrange, discrepancy, friction, and slake.
Ms. Jones had instructed her class to take on the role of a particular word and to illustrate the meaning of the word through visual examples. Anne Wadlow of The Plains chose “slake.” She brought in her arctic bear and proceeded to tell the story of the bear carrying cups ol icy snow to the people in the tropics. Once in the tropics, the bear’s wife sells the drinks to quench thirst.
Van DeBergh of Washington, Va. depicted “correspond" with a friendly bear decorated with greeting cards. The bear was chosen, DeBergh said, because little children are in harmony with bears. Scott Updike of Washington, Va. illustrated “compact.” Updike dressed a bear as an Indian explaining that the Indians had a compact with the French. He went on to say that the word is from Latin.
Jed Davies of Warrenton depicted “estrange,” also from the Latin, with a drawing. His tale was of a black dog with red spots. The dog is adopted by a family who he then bites and runs away from. Davies added that this breed is most often found in rural western America and is a cousin of femme fatale!
Stewart Hopewell of Warrenton also used illustrations to depict “friction.” His clever drawing of a match
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