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Friday, November 25, 2011 – Daily News 5A Education in Tehama County KEEP ON LEARNING Art contest Strides for Slides at Metteer Courtesy photo Courtesy photo Berrendos SERRF students Melissa Stroing, Emily Grissom, and Ashley Meade won honorable mention and Sasha Ellis won Best of Show at a SERRF art contest. Pictured from left: Stroing, Ellis, Grissom, and Meade. Special to the DN Round Table Pizza recently supported an art contest among SERRF students at Vista and Berrendos middle schools. Round Table donated pizza boxes, which students decorated using various art techniques. The boxes were put on display at the restaurant for voting by SERRF and Round Table staff. Sasha Ellis won Best of Show and students Tylee Lucas, Melissa Stroing, Emily Grissom, and Ashley Meade earned honorable mention for their excellent artwork. Round Table furnished prizes for all of the winners and supported a SERRF staff luncheon. It also supports SERRF student's homework completion rates by pro- viding personal pan pizza certificates. Orland fundraiser Metteer Elementary students participated in Strides for Slides, the school's annual Jog-a- Walk-a-Thon, on Oct. 28 and walked a combined total of over 1,000 miles. Proceeds from the event will go towards updating the school's playground equipment. If you would like to make a donation to Strides for Slides contact the school at 527-9015. Animals visit students Special to the DN Students at Metteer recently received a visit from the Aquarium and Pets mobile pet shop unit. The English Language Development classes have been studying animal clas- sification for the last sever- al weeks. Photo courtesy of Melinda Matteucci The Orland High School Senior Class has begun its sale of Christmas Wreaths for the Holiday Season. The wreaths can be pre- ordered by Nov.30 and will be delivered the first week of December. They are again a beautiful 28" fresh Noble Fir wreath decorated with pine cones and berries selling for $25.You can order your wreath from any Orland High School Senior student or come to the Orland Crafts Fair sponsered by the Orland Historical & Cultural Society on Nov.26-27 at the Orland Fair Grounds and purchase them from the Orland High School Wreath Booth. Orders may also be placed by calling Carolyn Pendergrass at 330-3099 or Kathleen Acosta at 520-5873. Proceeds go toward the Grand Raffle tickets for the Third Annual Grand Raffle between Orland High School, Corning High School, Hamilton City High School and Willows High School. Tickets are $10 and prizes are a trip to Hawaii, a trip to San Francisco with tickets to a Giants game, $1000, $500, $300 and $200.The drawing will be held at the Orland Round Table on Feb. 11. Orland students will be selling tickets at the Orland Crafts Fair and then as individual schools for the remainder of the time. Pictured from left:Orland High School students Rebecca Pendergrass and Dominic Matteucci; Corning High School students Nicolas Bergen and Courtney Thomson; Hamilton City High School students Steven Silveira and Cody Van Houtte and Willows High School students Maira Jaramillo, Alex Alves and Nichole Thayer. Education News? clerk@redbluffdailynews.com BOOK BARN 619 Oak St., Red Bluff (530) 528-Book 2665 HOLIDAY HOURS Closed Tues-Wed-Thurs November 22-23-24 Open Friday-Saturday November 25-26 Friday, December 2nd Red Bluff BINGO 1500 S. Jackson St. Doors open @ 5:00 pm Early Bird @ 6:00 pm Holiday Special Food Baskets Drawing ★★★★★★★★★★★ $50 minimum Buy-In $10 • Early Birds $5 FOOD AVAILABLE $100 BLACK OUT Community Center Although the focus has been on vertebrates includ- ing: fish, amphibians, rep- tiles, birds and mammals, the pet shop also sent along some invertebrates (a scor- pion, tarantulas, and her- mit crabs) which are gener- ally high interest among children. The van arrived early in the morning and pet shop employees, Cody Will and Derrick Emigh, brought out some of the finest ani- mals the Aquarium has to showcase. Visitors includ- ed a rose-haired tarantula, red-tailed boa constrictor, two Kenyan sand boa con- strictors, a tree frog, rabbit, guinea pig, Citron Cocka- too, emperor scorpion, sev- eral hermit crabs, African tortoise and a Betta fish. Students gathered on the carpet quietly near the ani- mals. Cody Will has been working at the pet shop for four years. He is studying zoology at Shasta College and is also studying animal classification in his course. He carefully took out each animal and shared its char- acteristics with the chil- dren. He discussed their appearance, their diet, their behavior and habitats-both in the wild and captivity. Students were able to touch the animals in many cases. It was a very person- al encounter with the ani- mals. Many students ini- tially were afraid to touch the snake. However, Cody was able to make both the children feel safe as well as the animal and it turned out James W. Tysinger, Jr. M.D. Eye Physician & Surgeon Fellow American Academy of Ophthalmology We accept Medical, Medicare & most Insurances Office Hours: Tues-Wed-Thurs 8am-4:30pm Mon & Fri 1pm-4:30pm For Emergencies, After Hours, Week-ends, Call 530-567-5001 345 Hickory St. Red Bluff Tel: (530) 529-4733 Fax: (530) 529-1114 Reflections 50% off All Gift Items with coupon expires 12/25 COUPON Gift Certificates Scarves, Jewelry, Hair Care Product & Gift Items Bonnie Burlison • Grace LeBaudour Candy Harman • Kathy Reed Kathy Hiebert • Chaunda Jensen Susan Williams 527-5557 • 848 Johnson Street, Red Bluff Courtesy photo Cody Will invites Metteer third graders to touch the red-tail boa constrictor. to be a positive experience for all. The children thought the snake would feel slimy; however, that was not the case. It felt very smooth and cold. Seeing and touching the animals helped to make the lessons come more alive for the students. Now they continue their studies and can recall the attributes they noticed when the ani- mals were before them. Which ones were cold- blooded? Which were mammals? What are char- acteristics of reptiles? It has also helped significant- ly with the writing process. The students are currently working on sentence pat- terning charts. They are choosing adjectives, adverbs, verbs and preposi- tional phrases that pertain to the animals and their physical characteristics and behaviors. The Aquarium and Pets traveling road show has given more meaning to the animal classification process and something tan- gible to draw upon. Red Bluff High School's Student Newspaper The Bluffer Now published online at www.redbluffdailynews.com Just scroll down to "Special Sections" and click on The Bluffer icon. 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