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sfykqp a5 the economist sunsuntribune kid talk we asked whats your favourite bedtime snack jordan lgwis 9 fd say halloween candies jessica neely 9 milk and chocolate chip cookies joshbhulai9 vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup stephanie burdon 9 i like warm milk teacher well prepared for career in canada by patrick mangion staff writer r ho better to offer lessons about the world than a well- travelled teacher april morris has been teach ing character and geography handinhand to her students at vaughan secondary school for more than three years now and shes using funny money to do it sumo bucks have been a big hit among her grade 9 and 11 students at the thornhill high school students can earn the pseu- do currency created by ms morris by combining the canadian dollar and japanese yen through acts of kindness and success in classroom it buys them things like one days grace on a homework assignment or improving their mark on a test i think the stu dents like it ms morris said the idea to create the moti vational currency for her stu dents was partly a result of her time spent teaching in japan from 1996 to 1998 while the plan was to land a job with a school board closer to home following graduation the chatham native said the experience was invaluable it turned out there were no teaching jobs said ms morris a 1995 graduate of queens universitys concurrent educa tion program she credits teaching in a town far from tokyo for devel oping proficiency in japanese although she admits her japanese writing skills are far inferior to her command of the language but japan was actually ms morris second international teaching job soon after graduation she accepted a job in mexico with the american school of puerto vallarta you would teach in the morning and be on the beach by 230 yeah that was a bum- mer she joked of the popular vacation destination but looking back fondly on me beginning of her teaching career overseas ms morris said she returned to canada well prepared for the career she dreamed of since grade 1 it was a big difference when i came back the kids are brought up different they have an energy right away here but her students might say its actually ms morris whose energy motivates them ms morris makes all our lessons come alive grade 9 student shirelle goodman said in a letter to the york region newspaper group each lesson is similar to a see hard page 16 hailey mclnnis my grade 9 diary its the most wonderful time of the year christmas is definitely my favourite holiday it is a happy occasion when we can forget about school and homework and spend time with family and friends well we can almost forget about homework i personally have four proj- ects due the week we get back but christmas is not the day to worry about that ill admit my family was a little late this year putting up the christmas tree and other decorations around the house but that doesnt mean we are hot in the holiday spirit it seems as though everyone is a little late this year the malls are becoming packed with last minute shopping and almost every- one i know just putup their christmas tree last week i actually find it more fun to go shop ping during the busy time of year because it brings out a great variety of people i find amusement in just watching everyone walking around and hopeful- ly having fun at me mall i remember when we would put the decorations and the christmas tree up at the beginning of the month because in my younger years i was much more of a christmas fanatic than i am today i think it would be easier to get in the holiday spirit if there was enough snow on the ground to well enjoy when i think christmas vacation i think about going tobogganing with my friends having snowball fights making see merry page 16 inserts for saturday december 27 2003 royalton furniture david khurana dell computers mattree haven the bay brides 2004 anthony medjand regal premier fitness sunfnbune 905 2944244 no one delivers results like we do to find out more about how to reach your target market and get the same great response from your flyer distribu tions as these customers call us today selected areas only mark ii am sx economist sun