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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, May 25, 2012.
By: Douglas MacKenzie, Vanessa Ford, Brooklynn Companion
By: Douglas MacKenzie, Vanessa Ford, Brooklynn Companion
Students from
Immaculate Heart of Mary receive plaques and a monetary prize for placing
second and third in the Western Geoscience and Engineering Building the Bridge
Competition. In this first picture: (L-R): Anri Vermooten, Claire Reynolds, and
Abby Companion won second place, and in the second picture (L-R): Jenna
Yetman, Zubia Mahmood, Melissa Castillo, and Nicole Keeping won third place.
This
week at Immaculate Heart of Mary, we are very excited to see our new playground
being built, and students are eager to play on it when it is finished on Friday.
We are
also excited to say that our school is the recipient of a $5,000 grant from
W.W.F. Green Community School for our Model Greenhouse Project. We want to
thank Mme. Perez-Diaz for the work that she did with the submission.
This
past weekend, Brian MacKenzie participated in a Spring Forth Youth Group Camp
in Musgrave Town. Brian really enjoyed his experience there.
We want
to give a big I.H.M.S. welcome to Ms. Juanita Sheppard who will be working in
our Junior Kindergarten Program. Ms. Sheppard joined our staff on Tuesday, and
we are very pleased to have her with us.
On
Tuesday afternoon, Ms. Bennett’s grade three and four class went skating. Her
class had won this skating trip through a draw for the Top Your Total Campaign.
We want to thank Mr. Gillard who accompanied the class.
We would
like to thank Ms. Sheri Bombick from Youth Ventures who spoke to our Enrichment
students (Grade 7 to Level I) on Wednesday about entrepreneurship and summer
business plans. Congratulations to Bethany Whelan who won a t-shirt at the
Youth Ventures session.
We also
would like to thank Ms. Julia Canning who facilitated environmental sessions
for students on Thursday. These sessions promoted environmental stewardship
with a focus on waste reduction.
On Thursday
and Friday, the Primary and Elementary Provincial assessment for Language Arts
was written. This will continue next week with the Informational Reading
Component on Monday morning and the Demand Writing 2 on Tuesday morning.
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| Stars of the Week |
Congratulations
also to our third place winners in this competition, Jenna Yetman, Zubia
Mahmood, Melissa Castillo, and Nicole Keeping. The students received beautiful
plaques and a monetary prize.
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From The Classrooms
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Mlle.
Wight’s kindergarten French Immersion class had a wonderful long weekend, and
they hope everyone else did too. This week, they are learning French names for
all different kinds of animals, like farm animals, forest animals, and exotic
animals.
Ms.
Dwyer’s kindergarten class is learning about graphs and subtraction. They are
discussing how you can make your own home green by doing things like using
solar panels and recycling. Ms. Dwyer’s class is really enjoying buddy reading
with the grade five and six class.
Ms.
Morrall’s kindergarten class had a very busy week! They planted flowers and
vegetables on Wednesday. They are still learning how to add and are loving it!
They can’t wait to play on our new playground this week!
Mme.
Perez-Diaz’s grade one French Immersion class is finishing Math with shapes.
They are starting structures in Science, and are researching about their
favorite animal.
Mrs.
George’s grade one English class is writing summer stories. In Science, they
are learning about the similarities and differences in the needs of living
things. They are having a Teddy Bear’s Picnic at lunchtime today!
Ms.
Park’s grade two class is writing about ladybugs and they are completing a
ladybug craft to go along with the writing. They are finishing learning their
lower case letters in handwriting and are starting the upper case letters.
Congratulations
to Anna Brake in Ms. Bennett’s grade three and four class, who won the draw for
the skating party during the Top Your Total Campaign. The whole grade three and
four class went skating this week. They had so much fun! They also had fun
doing research in Social Studies this week. They’ve learned so much about
Earth’s physical features.
Ms.
Williams’ grade five and six class is excited about the new playground. The
grade sixes started writing their E.L.A. Provincial Assessment on Thursday,
while the grade fives have been practicing reading comprehension and writing
activities.
Mr.
Hancock’s junior high and level one class has their exams in just two weeks. In
Enrichment, they are doing Youth Ventures.
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| Coming Up |
This
Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at All Hallow’s Church, Beth Arseneault, Ryan Bennett,
Darcy Brake, Ryan Murphy, Charlotte Sweetapple, Haley Vanderheide, and Megan
Williams will be taking their first Holy Communion.
Next Wednesday,
the grade 7 Math League exam will be written. The grade 7’s and 8’s wrote the
Gauss exam this past week.
This
week is Clean Up Week for the city of Corner Brook and our students will be
participating in the Clean Up on Friday.
