Friday, March 9, 2012

The Lion's Roar - Friday, March 9, 2012




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This is a copy of IHMS's weekly news article "Lion's Roar" that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, March 9, 2012.



By: Nathan Anderson, MacKenzie Brothers and Alex Williams


Brian MacKenzie (left) and Aaron Hancock (right) winners of the Most Aesthetically Pleasing Bridge at the National Geoscience and Engineering Month Bridge Building Competition held at the Corner Brook Plaza on Saturday.

On Friday the school celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday with a special theme day. There were lots of “Thing 1” and “Thing 2” and a whole lot of other characters here. We also hosted the Grade 7 Western Provincial Girls’ Basketball Tournament.
Our school Book Fair officially closed on Friday. We surpassed our goal by selling 430 books! Mrs. King dyed her hair blue for one day as promised!
On Saturday the Junior High Students participated in the National Geoscience and Engineering Month Bridge Building Competition at the Corner Brook Plaza. Thank you to Mr. Gillard, Mr. Hancock, Mrs. King and Mrs. McCarthy who came out to watch the bridges being tested. All the bridges did very well.
On Tuesday we celebrated World Math Day, Wednesday was World Spelling Day and Thursday was World Science Day.
On Wednesday report cards were given out and the teachers had meetings with parents.
This week was Milk Spirit Week and Education Week. The theme of Education Week is TechKNOWLEDGEy. On Wednesday we had a JH vs teachers basketball game. Player of the game awards were given to Kennedi Boland and Chris Barnes for the students’ team. Mr. Hancock and Ms. Rozee won for the teachers’ team.
During the month of March we are participating in the MMSB Top Your Total Campaign. The goal is to recycle more than your monthly average. We have to recycle more than 9,001 beverage containers. Anyone wishing to donate can drop them off at Scotia Recycling for IHMS or drop them off at our school. We have a chance to win $10,000!
March is nutrition month. To celebrate we are focusing on a different fruit each week. This week is organges! We have had trivia, jokes and special activities, and have enjoyed eating oranges in the breakfast program.
Stars of the Week

Congratulations to Brian MacKenzie and Aaron Hancock who won the Most Aesthetically Pleasing award for their bridge at the competition on Saturday.

Congratulations to basketball players Nicole Keeping, Abigail Companion, Bethany Whelan and Maria Reynolds who won player of the game awards last weekend in the grade 7 tournament.  Thank you to Mr. Taaffe and Mr. Whelan for coaching the team and hosting the tournament.

Congratulations to figure skaters Caylie Blake, Kennedi Boland, Olivia Park and Bethany Whelan who competed in the Provincial Figure Skating Competition in Grand Falls last weekend. Caylie won a gold medal in the pre-juvenile category and Bethany won a bronze in the Juvenile Category. Congratulations to all the skaters on a great job.
From The Classrooms

The junior kindergarten classes are celebrating Education week with guest speakers of various occupations such as Staff Sergeant Mark Hancock of the RCMP, Ms. Jennifer Lambswood nursing instructor at the school of nursing, and Deputy Fire Chief Bill Griffin.

Mlle. Wight’s Kindergarten French Immersion class is learning the letter “o”, and learning a lot of new words. They did an art activity for March month which came in like a lion.

Ms. Morrall’s Kindergarten English class had a great week. The parents came in on Wednesday for parent teacher interviews to hear all about the wonderful things the kids did this term. They are also learning about the letter “d” and learning the sight words: best, car, ride, please, and give.

Ms. Dwyer’s Kindergarten English class is learning the letter “b”. They are participating in a lot of fun activities including math and spelling games. Also Kelsey lost her first tooth this week.

Mme. Perez-Diaz’s grade one French Immersion class is now skip counting by 2, 5, and 10. In science they are learning about living and non-living things. They are also talking about textured art collages.

Mrs. George’s grade one English class had a very busy week! They invited Mrs. King in to talk about school life when she was in grade one. It sure was different back then! They really enjoyed the competitions with other students from around the world on world math day. They are reading chapter books now and loving it!

Ms. Park’s grade two class is very excited to be doing a project for the SPCA. They are collecting items and donations to give to the animals who need our help. They are also choosing a job and finding pictures of what he jobs look like today and what they looked like in the past. They had a great time doing activities for world math day!

Ms. Bennett’s grade three and four class celebrated world math day by answering hundreds of math questions in an online competition with children all over the globe. The grade 3’s are starting fractions in math and the grade 4’s are still learning about multiplication and division. The grade 4’s are very excited to be starting speeches for the elementary speak off in April.

Mrs. McCarthy’s grade five and six class celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday on Friday by reading The Lorax, holding an environmental discussion and doing other activities about looking after our Earth. They had a math test this week and are starting to write speeches next week.

Mr. Hancock’s junior high and level 1 class had a great time playing against the teachers to celebrate Education Week. Everyone’s bridge did extremely well at the competition on the weekend. Pictured below, Anri Vermooten, Abigail Companion and Claire Reynolds’s bridge held 88 kilograms before it broke!


Coming Up

The Knights of Columbus is hosting a free throw basketball tournament this Sunday beginning at noon.

There is no school on Monday because the teachers are having a professional development day.

Tuesday night is the IHMS pre-festival Showcase for the Rotary Music Festival. It starts at 7 pm and is $5 in aid of the playground project.

The Student Leadership Council is taking orders for chocolate coins for St. Patrick’s Day. Coins can be ordered from Tuesday to Thursday for $0.25 and will be delivered on Friday. Friday is also a green theme day.

Our annual St. Patrick’s Day potluck dinner is March 17 from 5-7 pm.

 
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Thursday, March 1, 2012

The Lion's Roar - Friday, March 2, 2012




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This is a copy of IHMS's weekly news article "Lion's Roar" that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, March 2, 2012.



By: Brooklynn Companion, Vanessa Ford and Douglas MacKenzie




Brooke Watton with her father and brother wearing pink for Bully Awareness Day on Wednesday

This week we had our spring Book Fair. The theme was Book Luau. Thank you to Ms. Bennett and Mrs. McCarthy for organizing the fair and all the teachers who helped with set-up and family night on Tuesday. Keira Clarke won the family door prize. She received $25 for her family and Ms. Morrall got $25 for the class. Sam Antle correctly guessed the number of fruit candies and won a book fair coupon. Jackson Ganz, Brooke Ruth, Clara Ryan, Gina Spencer, Sadie MacDonnell and Hailey Colbourne also won book prizes in the trivia contest. Our goal was to sell 420 books. Mrs. King promised to come to school with blue spiked hair if we met our goal. Stay tuned for next week’s news to see if we reached our goal!
On Wednesday we had Leap Day activities in the gym at lunch organized by Mr. Gillard and the grade 5/6 class. We also wore pink for anti-bullying day and raised money for Labauch Literacy.
Today is Dr. Seuss’ birthday. We are having a theme day to celebrate and classes are doing Dr. Seuss activities and reading his books.  We are also having a pep rally today for the Grade 7 girls who will play in the Western Provincial Basketball Tournament held at our school this weekend.
The Canadian Parents for French donated some great educational games to our French Immersion program!
This week we welcomed second year nursing students to our school who are doing a work placement with our junior kindergarten and kindergarten classes. The nurses are: Erika Allen, Karla Ayre, Dawn Buckle, Byron Bussey, Tiffany Gillingham, Krystal Hackett, Erin O’Connor, Crystal Spontaneo, Ashley Sutton, Laura Terry and Edmund Walsh.
During the month of March we are participating in the MMSB Top Your Total Campaign. The goal is to recycle more than your monthly average. We have to recycle more than 9,001 beverage containers. Anyone wishing to donate can drop them off at Scotia Recycling for IHMS or drop them off at our school. We have a chance to win $10,000!
Our school was sad to hear about Father Kelly’s death this week. We are thinking about his family and saying special prayers in chapel.
Stars of the Week
Mickey Mouse from Fantasia!
Congratulations to our school on winning first prize in the Elementary School Snow Sculpture Contest for the Corner Brook Winter Carnival for our sculpture of Mickey Mouse from Fantasia, pictured above.

Congratulations to our spellers Clara Ryan, Gina Spencer, Alex Williams, Olivia Park, Maria Reynolds and Hannah Sparkes who participated in the Winter Carnival Spelling Bee last week. They all did great!

Congratulations to the grade 6 girls’ basketball team who played in the Grade 6 Western Provincial Girls’ Basketball Tournament last weekend. The girls won two games and lost two games. Congratulations to Maria Reynolds, MacKenzie Brothers, Hannah Sparkes and Katerina Hamann who won player of the game awards. Thank you to Mr. Whelan for coaching the team and all the parents who supported the girls.

Congratulations to Matti Azizan, Summer Ingram, Emily Jackson, Liam MacArthur, Colin Spencer and Gavin Staples who received honourable mentions in the Heritage Fair poster contest.

Congratulations to R.B. Matthews, Brandon Brake, Adam Lambswood, Coen MacKey, Will Brothers, Wesley Torraville, Liam MacArthur and Caleb Rashleigh who participated in a Timbit Hockey Tournament this past weekend.

Congratulations to Anna Brake who won a gold medal in the Pre-Preliminary category at the Figure Skating Competition in Stephenville last weekend. Also congratulations to Claire Brake and Abigail Woodford on their Canskate Merit Award. 

Congratulations to Syndee Hynes who won a bronze medal at a cross-country ski competition in Gander last weekend.

  
From The Classrooms
  
The junior kindergarten classes are making” I am special” self portraits and doing predictions about March month lions and lambs.

Mlle. Wight’s Kindergarten French Immersion class is working on March activities and learning new French vocabulary. The students really enjoyed the Leap Day activities.

Ms. Morrall’s Kindergarten English class is having another busy week! They would like to welcome their nursing students Crystal Spontaneo and Byron Bussey who will be visiting their class on Monday mornings until April 4th. Andrew lost another tooth this week. On Sunday Claire and Abigail participated in the Stephenville Skating Club 2012 Leap Challenge. Great job! Their weekly letter is “o”.

Ms. Dwyer’s Kindergarten English class is working on the letter “o”. In science they are examining the world around them.

Mme. Perez-Diaz’s grade one French Immersion class is showing a lot of improvement in their French vocabulary and reading skills. Mme Perez-Diaz is very impressed with the students. They are very excited about Dr. Seuss’s Birthday today.

Mrs. George’s grade one English class is learning about ways to change materials in science. They also had lots of fun popping popcorn and making jello. They are excited about Dr. Seuss day today.


Ms. Park’s grade two class is making lions and lambs for the month of March. They are researching arctic animals and learning about the importance of volunteers in our community.

Ms. Bennett’s grade three and four class enjoyed attending the book fair this week, it was a lot of fun. They completed four more energy challenges for the energy diet challenge. The grade 4’s have completed their novel study on Charlotte’s Web.

Mrs. McCarthy’s grade five and six class did the Pascal Math Test this week. Next week they are starting a new unit in math. They had a great time leading the Leap Day activities on Wednesday in the gym.

Mr. Hancock’s junior high and level 1 class has their bridge competition this Saturday at the Corner Brook Plaza starting at 10 am.  The grade 7’s started the Market Your Thoughts Business essays this week. Bethany and Kennedi are travelling to Grand Falls this weekend for a skating competition. Good luck, girls!

Coming Up
Report Cards and Parent Teacher Night is Wednesday from 7-8:30 pm.

March is nutrition month.

Next week is Milk Spirit Week and Education Week. The theme of Education Week is TechKNOWLEDGEy.




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Friday, February 24, 2012

Lion's Roar - Friday, February 25, 2012




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This is a copy of IHMS's weekly news article "Lion's Roar" that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, February 25, 2012.



By: Kiya Morrissey, Maria Reynolds and Hannah Sparkes


Grade 5 girls' basketball team who won silver medals last weekend in the Western Provincial Tournament. Back (L-R): Cheyenne Bursey, Anna Brake, Alex Williams, Hailey Colbourne, Brooklynn Companion and Clara Ryan. Front (L-R) Megan Williams, Jayden Lempriere, Caylie Blake, Bridgett Sparkes, Olivia Park and coach Andy Whelan.


Last Friday we had a pep rally for our grade 5 girls’ basketball team for the Western Provincials. The tournament was hosted by hour school. Thank you to Mr. Gillard who set up the sound system, and the Claire Reynolds and Jenna Yetman for emceeing. Also on Friday, the school choir sang at the opening of the Winter Carnival. This was led by Mr. Graham.
Also last week on Thursday we had our annual Winter Carnival fun day. Thank you to Mr. Gillard and the grade 7 to level 1 students for organizing the activities. We also worked on a snow sculpture of Mickey Mouse for the snow sculpture contest.
On Monday we had a holiday for Winter Carnival.
On Tuesday we had a pancake breakfast for Shrove Tuesday. Thank you to the teachers for making and serving the pancakes. They were yummy!
On Wednesday we went to a special mass for Ash Wednesday and in the afternoon we had our mid-year awards assembly for perfect attendance, perfect green team attendance and honours and distinction for grade 7 to level 1.
Some of our students took part in the Winter Carnival spelling bee on Thursday night at St. Gerard’s School. Congratulations to Front: Clara Ryan, Gina Spence, Alex Williams, Olivia Park, Back: Hannah Sparkes and Maria Reynolds with Mrs. McCarthy.

Today our grade 6 girls’ basketball team will be playing in the Grade 6 Western Provincial Tournament at St. Gerard’s.  The tournament officially started on Wednesday.

Stars of the Week
Congratulations to the grade 5 girls’ basketball team who won silver medals in the western provincial tournament last weekend. They lost 22-19 against Sacred Heart School in the championship game.  Also, Olivia Park, Alex Williams and Brooklynn Companion all received player of the game awards. Olivia Park and Brooklynn Companion won the Skills Competition and Alex Williams received the award for Most Sportsmanlike. Thank you to Mr. Whelan who coached the team and to all the parents and students who helped with the tournament.

Congratulations to Jenna Yetman who took part in a speak off last week at the Lion’s club.

Congratulations to Abigail Woodford and her family who won the trip with Marine Atlantic at the Winter Carnival opening at the park.

Congratulations to Olivia Park, Caylie Blake, Brooklynn Companion and Anna Brake who received silver medals in the elementary category at the Provincial Synchro Skating Championship last weekend.  Kennedi Boland, Abigail Companion, and Bethany Whelan performed an exhibition skate as members of the Silver Blades Silver Shadows Novice Team.
Over the weekend Patrick Davis and Syndee Hynes took part in the Provincial Cross Country Skiing Championships.  Sydnee placed third in Atom girls 1 km race and Patrick placed second in the Juvenile Boys 7.5 km and third place in the Juvenile Boys 8 km sprint.
 

From The Classrooms
  

The junior kindergarten classes are learning all about me, doing finger painting and self portraits.

Mlle. Wight’s Kindergarten French Immersion class enjoyed the long weekend. They are working on addition in math.

Ms. Morrall’s Kindergarten English class is learning about the letter “q”. They are also talking about families. They are making Lenten promises.

Ms. Dwyer’s Kindergarten English class is working on the letter “q”. They are also learning about lent and discussing their families.

Mme. Perez-Diaz’s grade one French Immersion class is learning about different shapes in art. They are learning how to skip count by 2, 5, and 10 up to 100. They are doing lots of story re-telling in simple sentences.

Mrs. George’s grade one English class are learning about Lent. They are learning about grouping sets in math. They are very excited about Arabella and Alessandra’s mom who is coming in to read to them today.


Ms. Park’s grade two class is starting measuring in math. In science they are learning about changing direction.

Ms. Bennett’s grade three and four class is very busy working on challenges for the classroom energy diet challenge. They are doing things like making green tips, eco-friendly posters and so much more!

Mrs. McCarthy’s grade five and six class is learning how to convert fractions and decimals in math and made a birthday card for the Kids Eat Smart Breakfast Club. The grade 5 and 6 class is skiing at Marble Mountain today with Mr. Gillard and Mr. Hiscock.

Mr. Hancock’s junior high and level 1 class is working hard on their bridges. Mr. Carl King visited them on Wednesday afternoon to office some advice and guidance on their designs. This week they began rehearsals for the drama festival. They welcome Sarah Keeping to their class this week.  The grade 7 class prepared rants and performed them for the class.
 
Coming Up

Tuesday night is our Book Fair Family event from 6:30-8:30 pm.  Students will visit the fair with their classes on Wednesday.

Wednesday is “Leap Day” with a healthy living commotion at lunch. It is also a casual day in aid of the Laubach Literacy.
   
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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Lion's Roar - Friday, February 18, 2012




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This is a copy of IHMS's weekly news article "Lion's Roar" that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, February 18, 2012.



By: Hailey Colbourne, Olivia Park and Katerina Hamann



Picture from Ms. Crocker and Mrs. Dick's JK class on Valentine's Day. (L-R): Elinor Hamilton, Lea Lainey, Megan Locke, Georgia Rogers, Avah Fitzgerald, Abigial Tiller and (front): Sarah Humbley.



On Monday we had the 100th day of school. We had a theme day and lots of fun hundredth day activities.
On Tuesday the Student Leadership Council delivered their chocolate hearts and carnations for Valentine’s Day. We had a red and pink theme day and many classes had parties and special activities.
On Thursday we celebrated National Flag Day. Each class celebrated a different province or territory. In the afternoon we had Winter Carnival fun activities and made our annual snow sculpture. Thank you to Mr. Gillard for organizing the day’s activities.
Mr. Kevin Pearce has been working hard in our school this week volunteering to refurbish our religious statues. Thank you, they look awesome!
Today our school is hosting the grade 5 Western Provincial Girls’ Basketball Championships. This afternoon we are having a special pep rally to celebrate the team. The first game is at 3:30 pm.
The school choir is signing at the opening of the winter carnival at the old town hall tonight. Happy Winter Carnival everyone!
Our school Avon Fundraiser organized by Ms. Jennifer Park raised $840 for the playground project. Thank you to everyone who supported this fundraiser.

Stars of the Week
Congratulations to our students, staff and families on winning the Recycle My Cell Challenge again this year. We collected over 1,300 used cell phones. As a school we collected the most cell phones across Canada. We had a special awards ceremony in our school gym for the big announcement. Special guests included Mr. Terry French, Minister of Environment, Mr. Leigh Puddister CEO of MMSB, Mayor Neville Greely, and special messages from Mr. Bernard Lord CEO of Canadian Wireless Telecommunication Association.  Thank you to Abigail Companion for filming, Mr. Graham and the choir for singing and for Mr. Gillard for looking after setting up the sound system. See pictures below along with a link to the NTV broadcast of the ceremony.

Mrs. Elaine King, Director of Education

 School Choir
 
 Mr. Terry French, Minister of Environment

 Mr. Terry French, Minister of Environment

 Mr. Leigh Puddister CEO of MMSB

 Mr. Bernard Lord CEO of Canadian Wireless Telecommunication Association

Mr. Vaughn Granter, Mr. Leigh Puddister, Abigail Companion, Claire Reynolds, Brian Mackenzie and Mr. Terry French


Click on the following link to view the NTV news announcement regarding our Recycling Award.

http://ntv.ca/video/?p=20299#.T0PCr-6WBRg.email


Congratulations to Mr. Gillard and our students on receiving the Gold Award for quality physical education this year.

Congratulations to Keely Brothers who competed in gymnastics last weekend in Mount Pearl. She placed second on bars and third on vault.

Congratulations to Sam Antle whose team won gold last weekend in Port Aux Basques and Wesley Torraville whose team won a silver medal in Deer Lake.

From The Classrooms
    
The junior kindergarten classes are starting to learn all about me. They are also beginning their Easter crafts.

Mlle. Wight’s Kindergarten French Immersion class had a great time on the 100th day and Valentine’s Day this week.

Ms. Morrall’s Kindergarten English class is having a wonderful week. They celebrated Valentine’s Day, Flag Day and the 100th day. They are learning about the letter “u”. Ryan will be having a visit from the tooth fairy this week as he lost his first tooth on Wednesday.

Ms. Dwyer’s Kindergarten English class is doing the letter “u”. They did some Valentine’s Day crafts and they had a great time on Flag day. Their class represented Nova Scotia on Flag Day.

Mme. Perez-Diaz’s grade one French Immersion class made Valentine’s Day crafts and had a fun 100th day of school. They shared their favourite parts in their books.

Mrs. George’s grade one English class had a great week. They were very busy counting their 100th day collections and celebrating Valentine’s Day and Flag Day.


Ms. Park’s grade two class had fun celebrating the 100th day of school. They made cool Valentine’s Day valentine holders in the shape of cars. They are doing student of the week writing and learning about simple machines in science.

Ms. Bennett’s grade three and four class finished their cross country skiing program this week. They skied down “Cartoon Alley” which was very cool. They would like to thank the awesome staff at Blow Me Down for a great four weeks. They celebrated the 100th day of school and Valentine’s Day. They are looking forward to Carnival Day. They welcome a new student named Clarissa Patey to their class.

Mrs. McCarthy’s grade five and six class has a new grade 5 student this week named Bruce Patey. In Math the grade 5’s are learning about measurement and the grade 6’s are learning about improper fractions. In language they are writing paragraphs about favourite pictures.

Mr. Hancock’s junior high and level 1 class is working on a play for the Regional Drama Festival called “The Monsters Under the Bed”.  They grade 8 and 9 students are writing research papers and the grade 7’s are reading about Amelia Earhart in language class.

Coming Up
Winter Carnival day is Monday, February 20th. School will be closed.



On Tuesday we will celebrate Shrove Tuesday with pancakes. Mass this week will be on Wednesday instead of Friday for Ash Wednesday.

The Winter Carnival Spelling Bee is being hosted at St. Gerard’s on Wednesday night at 7pm. Good luck to all our s-p-e-l-l-e-r-s!
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