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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 29, 2013.
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Photo of Alexandra Chrappa
with students from Mme. Ryan's French Immersion class. Ms. Chrappa visited to
work on an art project with the students. (L-R): Alexandra Chrappa, Noah
Evans, Miriam Ahmad, and Katherine Noel.
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Photo of Father Mark Cherry
who recently visited our school. The grade 6 to level 1 students met with
Father Mark to speak to him during his visit. (L-R): Anna Brake and Clara Ryan
listen to Father Mark Cherry during his presentation.
Last
week at IHMS on Wednesday we had a parent-teacher night. Loads of parents came
and received a lot of good news about their kids.
At our
bake sale for the Shepherd’s Fund we raised $320. Special thanks to Mrs. Foley
and our student leadership council.
IHMS’s
grade 1 classes were successful in Operation Christmas Child. They filled 60
boxes! IHMS thanks Mrs. George’s and Mme. Ryan’s classes for a great job.
The
recycle my cell challenge finished on Friday. Thank you everyone for the cell
phone donations.
The
grade 6 to level 1 students had a great trip to St. John’s. They did not leave
until Friday because of the bad weather on Thursday. They would like to thank
the drivers and chaperons, they were: Mr. and Mrs. Brake, Mrs. Reynolds, Mr.
Sparkes, Mr. and Mrs. Brothers, Mr. Spencer, Mr. Hancock, Mrs. McCarthy and Mr.
and Mrs. King.
Mr.
Drew Nadon visited our school this week. He taught some classes with his
brother Mr. Ryley Nadon. Mr. Drew Nadon will begin teaching in our school in
January.
On
Thursday IHMS had a Movember fundraiser where everyone wore a mustache and
donated $1 for cancer research.
IHMS is
going to have fun with “The Little Green Thumbs” program. Our teachers Mrs.
Foley, Ms. Park, and Mrs. Hodder are going to a special conference in St. John’s
this weekend. Good luck to them!
This week
our ITV News reporters are: Maria Reynolds, Chenoah Park, Max Chrappa, and
Jacob Bursey.
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| Stars of The Week |
This
week the grade six to nine students attended the Intermediate Skills Challenge
in Mount Pearl, NL> We participated in Lego Robotics where for the first
time, we had two teams. Hajra Ahmad and Maria Reynolds participated in TV Video
Production and did an amazing job. Mira Ismail and Caroline Bruce-Robertson
participated in 2-D Computer Animation creating a 11 second video with a sound
clip, Alejandra Hernandez and Sara Ismail participated in Wind Turbine and won
bronze medals.
Our Lego
Robotics team 1 consisting Iker Aguirre, Keely Brothers, Anna MacKenzie,
Nicolas Morreno, William Brice-Robertson, Gina Spencer and Clara Ryan all did
an amazing job. They received awards for project innovation solution and second
place for robot design.
Our
second team consisting of Anna Brake, Jayden Lempriere, Douglas MacKenzie,
Madison Noel, Cameron Peddle, Juan Carlos Ramirez, Jarius San Jose, and
Bridgett Sparkes received an award for strategy and innovation, third place for
mission points, and also received bronze medals for placing third overall
provincially in all four categories. And
one of the most important awards are for the coaches. Mrs. McCarthy and Mr.
Hancock are the two best coaches you could ask for. They helped us through
everything and did all the running around all day. We all would like to give a
huge thank you to our coaches for everything!
Congratulations
to Craig Bishop, Chase Colbourne, and Colin Spencer and who won bronze medals
in Karate.
Congratulations
to, Isaac Buckingham, Cohen Mackey, Jesse Racicot and Caleb Rashleigh who won
bronze medals in a novice hockey tournament this weekend.
Congratulations
also to Cohen on receiving karate certificates for Awesome Flying Side Kick and
Awesome Respect.
Congratulations
to Ava Igno who passed her gymnastics level.  |
| Class News |
The junior kindergarten classes are getting ready for Christmas and doing all kinds of Christmas crafts. They can’t wait for the Christmas concert.
Mme. Brake’s
Kindergarten French Immersion class is busy getting ready for Christmas and
decorating and singing. They’ve been having lots of winter fun. On Monday they
built a new student named “Frosty” . They enjoyed wearing moustaches for
Movember on Thursday. They hope we raised lots of money for cancer.
Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class is working with five frames in math and also
working on the concepts of more, less and same as. They are studying the letter
“n” and making Christmas art.
Ms. Parson’s
Kindergarten English class is very excited that the elf on the shelf decided to
visit them until Christmas. They are very busy making Christmas crafts.
Mme. Ryan’s
grade one French Immersion class has been having fun using their addition
skills to solve problems and are very excited to start subtraction. They are
learning about weather and the instruments to predict the weather. They are
also tracking the weather this month.
Mrs.
George’s grade one English class is learning about adding and doubles in math.
They are starting a new unit in social studies about needs and wants.
Ms.
Park’s grade two class is making fun winter crafts in art class. They are also
enjoying learning about measurement and measuring their partner’s arm, hand and
foot to see who is the biggest.
Mme.
LaChance’s grade two and three French Immersion class is reading French books
about Christmas. They are also learning new words on this topic. With these
words they created riddles and they also wrote a Christmas story of their own.
They have lots of imagination and creativity.
Mrs.
Foley’s grade three and four class are writing letters in the great Canadian
Mail Race and are very excited to hear back. They received two letters this
week from St. Rita’s Catholic Elementary School in Brampton, Ontario.
Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class really enjoyed the moustache day! The grade
five students are learning about maps in social studies. Both classes are going
on a trip to the YMCA for health class. The grade six students had a great time
at the skills challenge and can’t wait to do it again next year. They were also
super excited that Anna MacKenzie was interviewed for Rogers Cable last week!
Ms.
Jones’ junior high and level 1 class had a great time in St. John’s last
weekend. The grade seven students had a math quiz on decimals, fractions, and
percents. The grade eight students are learning how to calculate the volume of
prisms.
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| Coming Up |
IHMS’s Christmas concert is coming up fast. It is on December 12. All classes are very excited!
They
are also very excited for Santa Claus parade and Santa’s visit to our school.
