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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 21, 2014.
By: William Bennett, Cheyenne Bursey, Max Chrappa, and Jack Ryan
Jakson Ganz enjoying the Jello rainbow he made with his
class for St. Patrick's Day.
Sarah Buckingham shows off her hairdo for Crazy Hair Day as
part of our spirit week.
Some members of Mrs. Foley's class wearing their green outfits for
St. Patrick's Day. Front: Isaac Buckingham, Clare Coleman, Alessandra LeBlanc,
Middle: Jericho San Jose, Aria Kazerouni, Jacob Bursey, Cole Dumaresque. Back:
Arabella LeBlanc, Heather Cooper, Emily Murley and Amna Ahmad.
Last
weekend the Boys’ Basketball Team had a Tournament in Pasadena. They had a good
performance. Thank you to their coaches Mr. Mark Hillier and Mr. Michael
Quigley for coaching the team.
Also
last Friday we had Pi Day celebrations in the gym and a school Moo-Off for Milk
Spirit Week. We would like to send a special thank you to Mrs. Foley who
organized the Pi activities, all the parents who donated the delicious pies and
the students for their amazing ability to memorize the numbers of pi!
Mrs.
Foley and Mme. Ryan’s classes have been chosen by the WWF to grow Milkweed
plants for the Monarch butterflies. There were only 1,000 seed packages
available. Our school will be a butterfly way station in the spring.
We had
no school on Monday. We hope you enjoyed the long weekend! This week we are
celebrating a spirit week called “March Madness!” organized by Mrs. Foley and
the Student Leadership Council. On
Tuesday we had a St. Patrick’s Day theme, Wednesday was crazy hair or hat day,
Thursday was make a change day where students dressed up as someone else and
donated their change to charity and today is Lion’s Pride. Everyone is dressed
in school colours! There was a lot of excitement this week!
This week
our ITV News reporters are: Caroline Bruce-Robertson, Heather Cooper, Cameron
Peddle and Bridgett Sparkes.
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| Stars of the Week |
We
would like to congratulate our top six Pi Day winners who recited the numbers
of Pi: Hajra Ahmad, Gina Spencer, Clara Ryan, Colin Spencer, Ryan Murphy and
Kate Murphy. Hajra recited 104 numbers of Pi!
Class
winners in our Moo Off competition were JK students Iver Cook, Lilah Walsh,
Katy Hancock; Kindergarten students Yazan Ismail, Alister MacDonnnell, Ben
Griffin, Ella Rashleigh; grade one winners Gabe Rowsell and Katherine Noel;
grade two winners Sadie MacDonnell and Brandon Brake; grade three winners Simon
Boitsefski and Jacob Bursey, grade four winner Cole Dumaresque; grade 5 winner Sam
Antle; grade six winner Keely Brothers;
and as pairs Kyah Goold and Natalie Caines, as well as Noah Walsh and Chase
Rumbolt-Colbourne.
Congratulations
to members of our boys’ basketball team on their tournament last weekend. Isaac
Buckingham, Aria Kazerouni and Colin Spencer all received player of the game
awards.
Congratulations
to Claire Brake, McKenna Batstone, Jenna Cammie and Abigail Woodford who
participated in the Provincial Junior Figure Skating Competition in Grand Falls
this past weekend. Their team, the
Silver Blades Figure Skating Club won the Agnes Thistle Shield for being the
top club. Cabigail won silver and Claire won bronze in the Star 3 category.
Mckenna won a silver medal in the Star 2 category. Congratulations to all the
members of the team.
Congratulations
to all the students who received awards at our school mid-year assembly where
we gave out awards for excellence in spelling, improved speller awards, perfect
attendance and awards for honours and distinction in junior high. William
Bruce-Robertson was awarded a green team dedication certificate; Brandon Brake,
Ryan Murphy, Israela Ngania, Hala Parsons, Juan Carlos Ramirez, Maria Reynolds
and Jarius Jan Jose were awarded perfect attendance certificates; Jacob
Blackwood, Jakson Granz, Isabelle Mercier, and Katherine Noel all received most
improved speller certificates; Noah Evans, Emily Hindy, Ava Ignor, Abigail
Tiller and Natalie Parsons all received Excellence in Spelling for French
Immersion; Jasmine Batstone, Carter
Bromley, Leal Lainey, Kate Murphy, Max Antle, Claire Brake, Jenna Cammie, Sadie
MacDonnell, Coen MacKey, Gavin Staples, Gordon Staples, Isaac Buckingham,
Alessandra LeBlanc, Heather Cooper, and Hajra Ahmad all received perfect
spelling certificates for term 1; Mira
Ismail, Hajra Ahmad, Sara Ismail, Maria Reynolds and Caroline Bruce-Robertson
all received certificates for honours; and Nicolas Moreno, Juan Carlos Ramirez,
Alejandra Hernandez, and Douglas MaKenzie all received distinction certificates.
Way to go!
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| Class News |
The
junior kindergarten classes had fun doing St. Patrick’s Day activities and
other activities for spirit week.
On Sunday our school is hosting our annual St.
Patrick’s Day pot luck and family social. All families are invited to attend!
There will be prizes for the best dressed green family.
Mme. Brake’s
Kindergarten French Immersion class had so much fun during spirit week. They
had some of the craziest hair you’ve ever seen on Wednesday. They almost caught
a leprechaun on Tuesday, but he was too smart. He did hide some gold coins –
that sneaky leprechaun!
Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class was tricked by the leprechaun who left
their classroom full of footprints and escaped through their window. He did
leave them a treat in the leprechaun trap. The students were very excited to
take part in the spirit week activities.
Ms. Parsons’s
Kindergarten English class celebrated St. Patrick’s day on Tuesday and found a
pot of chocolate gold. They are learning new sight words and learning different
symbols of danger in health class.
Mme. Ryan’s
grade one French Immersion class was very excited to arrive in school on
Tuesday. They were amazed to find that a leprechaun had been in for a visit! He
made a huge mess with snap cubes, blocks and art supplies. He made up for the big mess by leaving pretty
shells in the fish tank and a leprechaun hat full of gold coins. In math class
the students had lots of fun counting by regrouping.
Mrs.
George’s grade one English class really enjoyed spirit week! They didn’t catch
any leprechauns, but one did play tricks and left them some gold coins.
Ms.
Park’s grade two class had a lot of fun doing many St. Patrick’s Day
activities. Even the leprechaun came but they could not catch him. They had a
lot of fun observing “mystery slime” in science.
Mme.
LaChance’s grade two and three French Immersion class celebrated St. Patrick’s
Day on Tuesday by wearing green. In class, they painted rainbows with Jello and
were writing on a pot of gold about the gold that is inside them. They also enjoyed eating a special snack - a
Jello rainbow!
Mrs.
Foley’s grade three and four class really enjoyed the spirit week activities.
The grade 3 students are in the middle of their multiplication unit in math and
are practicing their facts to increase speed and precision.
Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class are busy preparing their band pieces for
the music festival. The grade 6 class won the group prize for the Great Pencil
Challenge. On Wednesday they celebrated with an ice cream sundae party and
short movie. The grade 5 students are learning about the weather including
different ways they can learn about the weather and new words related to the
weather. Did you know “chinook” is a hot dry wind that can turn a wintery day
into what feels like summer?
Mr.
Drew Nadon’s junior high and level 1 class is working on memorizing their lines
for the upcoming drama festival. They are also finishing their neon art
projects.
Immaculate Heart of Mary School, home of The Lions!
