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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, January 17, 2014.
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Students in Mrs. Foley's grade 3
and 4 class preparing to go skiing at Blow Me Down Trails as part of their
cross-country skiing program. L-R: Lucas Neville, Jack Matthews, Ryan Bennett,
Isaac Buckingham, Jericho San Jose, Colin Spencer and Ryan Murphy.
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Members of Ms. Laura Simms Junior Kindergarten class reciting their
energy saving tip of the day in the media centre. (L-R): Jeremy Glashan, Katy
Hancock, Cameron Bishop and Megan Mercer.
We
would like to welcome everyone back from Christmas holidays. Happy New Year!
Before
the break the Student Leadership Council and Mrs. Foley hosted a wonderful
variety show. It was a fun last day of school!
We
would like to thank our students and their families for their support of our
Christmas food drive, stockings for seniors and the Firefighter’s toy drive.
This
week our students were very excited to participate in a school project called
Spotlight on Savings (SOS). The project
was funded from an environmental grant our school received. On Monday we had
warm sweater day and turned down the heat, on Tuesday we had a computer free
day, Wednesday was non-microwavable lunch day, on Thursday we focused on water
conservation and today we are having a big assembly and presenting rants, raps,
poems and videos our students have made about energy conservation.
We
would like to thank Ms. Jones and the Junior High students for judging the
sweater day contest. There were many great sweaters.
Basketball
practices began this week.
Our
school is selling Winter Carnival buttons. The cost is $3 per button.
We are
collecting used books of all kinds (children, adult, recipe books, etc.) for a
used book sale to take place during our Family Literacy Night on January 27. For
each book a student donates they will receive a ballot to win a free new book
at our February Scholastic Book Fair!
This week
our ITV News reporters are: Amna Ahmad, Keely
Brothers, Emma Doman, and Juan Carlos Ramirez.
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| Stars of The Week |
We
would like to congratulate winners in our warm sweater day contest. For the
category of most creative the winners were: Abigail Woodford, Daniel Osmond,
and Alister MacDonnell. For the category of most unique the winners were: Isaac
Buckingham, Gabriel Rowsell, and Lucas Kennedy.
For the category of warmest the winners were Max Chrappa and Mark Janes.
Congratulations
to Andrew Boutcher who received his yellow stripe in Tae Kwon Do and broke a
board with his foot. Amazing!
Congratulations
to Mr. Nadon on his engagement over the Christmas break! |
| Class News |
The
junior kindergarten classes did snowman activities and gym activities using
flashlights. They would like to welcome Oliver Carey MacDonald to Mrs. Vincent
and Mrs. Dick’s class.
Mme. Brake’s
Kindergarten French Immersion class was busy this week learning about different
ways we can conserve energy. They focused on recycling and are practicing a
song for the assembly.
Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class is learning about needs and wants in social
studies. In language they are working on the letter “k”. On Monday the class
did an energy saving tip of the day during a live broadcast from the media
centre.
Ms. Parsons’s
Kindergarten English class kid a video re-creation of “The Mitten” by Jan Brett
this week. They loved making a play! They were very excited to participate in
the SOS week . Congratulations to Daniel Osmond who won a Menchie’s card for
this creative sweater!
Mme. Ryan’s
grade one French Immersion class are learning about our bones and muscles. They
are learning how to keep their bodies healthy. They are also learning a lot
about conserving energy and how to ensure we are not being wasteful.
Mrs.
George’s grade one English class is very excited about their new SmartBoard.
They are busy writing their New Year’s resolutions in language arts and number
stories in math. They are very happy to be back in school with all their
friends. Happy New Year, everyone!
Ms.
Park’s grade two class are learning and singing about energy conservation. They
enjoyed making the biggest snowman craft in art class this week. In social
studies they are learning interesting facts about the confederation bridge.
Mme.
LaChance’s grade two and three French Immersion class came back from the break
with lots of stories to share with their classmates. They were presenting one
of their presents in French to the class. It was very interesting. In class
they also spoke about energy conservation. They created some inventions to save
energy in the future like a car which uses snow for power and a TV that turns
itself off when no one is in the room.
Mrs.
Foley’s grade three and four class went to Blow Me Down Trails for their first
week of the grade 4 cross country ski program. It was the first time for many
students. The students had lots of fun. They had excellent weather to be
outside, and are looking forward to next week. They also enjoyed the week of
conservation activities. They especially enjoyed preparing their acrostic poem
for the assembly.
Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class had a busy week. The grade 6 class has
finished their novel study on Holes. The grade 5’s completed an informational
text this week on the environment. The grade 5’s had a great time creating a
video for the SOS project called “Captain Energy and the Energy Villains”.
Ms.
Jones’s junior high and level 1 class is busy preparing for midterm exams. They
enjoyed helping to judge the sweater day contest for the SOS project.
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| Coming Up |
There
will be a non-smoking presentation for the grades 4-6 students on Monday. JH
exams will begin on January 24 and our family literacy night is on Jan. 27.
