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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, November 9, 2012.
Meredith Dawe, Kate
Murphy, Avah Perry, Brooke Watton, Noah Colbourne, Rowan O'Riley, and Leah
Lainey pose with used cell phones, collected for our My Used Cell Challenge.
For the Reading Rocks, NL Art Contest, we would like to
congratulate the following students: Honorable Mention for Primary: Benjamin
Bellows-Davis, Katie Colbourne, Colin Sheppard, Colin Spencer and Brooke
Wiseman, Honorable Mention for Elementary: Keely Brothers, Bridgett Sparkes and
Gina Spencer, Honorable Mention for Junior High/Level I: Zubia Mahmood. Emma
Hancock was the Primary winner, Clara Ryan was the Elementary winner and Claire
Reynolds was the Junior High/Level I winner. Clara Ryan was the overall school
winner. Congratulations to all participants!
This week is Veteran’s Week and on Wednesday, we sponsored a
Casual Day in aid of Operation Veterans.
We would like to that thank Mr. Gillard for organizing a
Healthy Commotion during lunch time on Wednesday.
On Thursday, we hosted our annual Remembrance Day Service at
All Hallow’s Church. We would like to thank our invited guests and families for
having attended. We would also like to thank Mr. Gillard for organizing the
special service.
We would like to welcome Ms. Santana Thorne to our school.
Ms. Thorne began working in our Junior Kindergarten program on Thursday. We
would also like to welcome a new member, Israela Ngania, to our J.K. Program.
Recycle My Cell Challenge runs until November 15th.
Please do not forgot to bring in your used cell phones!
Boys’ basketball practices for Grade 3-6 began this past
week. Justin King, a Physical Education student, will practice every Wednesday
with the boys from 3:00p.m.-4:00p.m.
Class News
The Junior Kindergartens: This week the students in J.K. are
learning about Remembrance Day. They would like to thank Charlene Edmunds who
completed her work term today in our J.K. program. We would like to wish her the
best in her future endeavours.
Ms. Dwyer’s Kindergarten class: Students are learning about
the letter X. They have prepared art work for Remembrance Day and are learning
about families in Social Studies.
Mme. Perez-Diaz’s French Immersion Kindergarten class: They
would like to congratulate Emma Hancock who won the Primary Reading Rocks
contest. This week they are learning about fruits, learning about Canada’s Food
Guide, practicing the letter F in French, and in Science are talking about the
difference between pets and wild animals.
Mme. Mondoux Grade One and Two French Immersion class: These students are learning about Remembrance
Day. They are looking forward to taking part in our Remembrance Day Assembly on
Thursday.
Mrs. George’s Grade One English class: Students in this
class are also learning about Remembrance Day. As a part of Remembrance Day these
students are making poppy banners.
Ms. Park’s Grade Two class: In this class the students are
creating movie strips about helping the environment. They are also learning how
to count money, and practicing a poem to present at the Remembrance Day
assembly.
Ms. Payne’s Grade Three and Four class: These students are taking part in Remembrance
Day by participating in the Legion Poster contest. In gym, they are doing a
fitness test in Gym. The Grade 4’s have a Math test next Friday.
Ms. Neary’s grade five and six class: The students in this
class really enjoyed casual day on Wednesday. They enjoyed writing poems and
essays for the Legion’s Remembrance Day contest.
Mr. Hancock’s Junior High and Level One class: They are
getting really excited for the skill challenge that is coming up soon. They are
also looking at operational fractions with rational numbers in Math, what
landforms in Social Studies, and the carbon oxygen cycle.
