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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 16, 2014.
By: Sam Antle, William Bruce-Robertson, Emma Doman, Jayden Lempriere, Gina Spencer
Rebecca Janes, Jenna Cammie and
Reyd Ward display the bags they made in sewing club for Mother's Day.
Mira Ismail, Douglas MacKenzie,
Maria Reynolds, and Nicolas Moreno gold medalists in the Let's Talk Science
Challenge" held at Grenfell Campus last week.
Iker Aguirre, Sara Ismail and
Alejandra Hernandez bronze medalists in the "Let's Talk Science
Challenge" at Grenfell Campus last week.
The
girls’ indoor soccer tournament was last weekend at Sacred Heart School. They
did well. Good job, girls! Thank you to the coaches Mr. Drew Nadon and Mr.
Ryley Nadon. The boys’ indoor soccer team has begun practicing for their
upcoming tournament.
This
week the Student Leadership Council was collecting items to make themed baskets
for a Janeway fundraiser. Thank you to everyone who donated. The baskets will
be put together and tickets will go on sale on May 20.
Our
school was nominated for the Environmental Stewardship Award at the City of
Corner Brook Annual Awards Ceremony. Mrs. King and Madison Noel attended for
our school.
On
Wednesday the junior high class had a presentation with Maddison Canning,
Regional Director of Youth Ventures. We hope they learned a lot about starting
up their own business.
Our
ITV news reporters for this week are: Ryan
Bennett , Makenzy Bishop, Clare Coleman, and Sara Ismail.
We
would like to congratulate Chantal Davis who works with our afterschool program
and Edmund Walsh who volunteers with the prayer group for their convocation
from Grenfell Campus last week!
This
weekend is a long weekend. We are excited to celebrate the Queen’s birthday on
Victoria Day. Have a wonderful Victoria Day weekend, everyone!
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| Stars Of The Week |
We
would like to congratulate our junior high students who attended the “Lets Talk
Science Challenge” at Grenfell Campus last Thursday. Mira Ismail, Douglas Mackenzie, Nico Moreno,
and Maria Reynolds won the gold medal and Iker Aguirre, Aléjandra Hernandez,
Sara Ismail won bronze.
Congratulations
to Abigail Tiller’s bowling team the “Chocolate Rolos” on winning a bronze
medal. Also to Abigail and her uncle Troy who won the Twosome Bowling
Competition.
Congratulations
to hockey medalists Isaac Buckingham, Carter Bromley, Natalie Caines, Caleb
Rashleigh, Saleem Obeid, Mark Janes, Alister MacDonnell, Kate Lombard, Yazan
Ismail, Coen Mackey, and Jesse Racicot.
Congratulations
to Ivor Cook on his recent skiing medal.
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| Class News |
The
junior kindergarten classes are learning about subtraction and letter sounds.
They would like to thank Jessi Marten who donated a clothes rack to their
classrooms.
Mme.
Brake’s Kindergarten French Immersion class is sending out a big thank you to
Sherry Dean for teaching them about hand washing. They are learning about germs
and will be doing some research and experiments on germs for the upcoming
science fair.
Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class is learning about transportation in social
studies. In math they are learning about time and money. They are all looking
forward to the long weekend.
Ms.
Parsons’s Kindergarten English class is learning about time and measurement
this week in math. They are creating timelines in social studies about their lives.
They have been spending some extra time outdoors and taking advantage of the
spring weather. In science they have just finished learning about the water
cycle.
Mme.
Ryan’s grade one French Immersion class is very excited that their caterpillars
will be here in the next few days. They are starting their final science unit
about living things. Lots of the seeds that they planted are starting to sprout
seeds. Their little pumpkin plants are ready for the greenhouse. They planted
the seeds from the pumpkin they had for Halloween.
Mrs.
George’s grade one English class read the centuries old folktale “Stone Soup”
this week. Today they are making their very own stone soup today. They will be
adding some beans from their classroom! In science we are learning about the
things that people do.
Ms.
Park’s grade two class is learning about simple machines in science. In math
they are learning about subtraction with re-grouping using base ten blocks. The
student of the week is Kira!
Mme.
LaChance’s grade two and three French Immersion class wrote calligrammes for
their poetry unit. It is a special type of poem where the words are drawn into
a shape. For example if they wrote about rain and umbrellas they may make the words
shaped into an umbrella. To decorate their classroom they created birds to fly
around the classroom.
Mrs.
Foley’s grade three and four class participated in the ACAP Humber Arms spring
poster contest. They learned about invasive species and their impact on the
environment. The grade 3’s finished their unit on Charlotte’s Web and got to
watch the movie version to make comparisons to the book. Their classroom garden
continues to grow. They have plenty of salad greens and are patiently waiting
tomatoes as their plants are finally flowering.
Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class are enjoying the nice spring weather. The
grade 5 students are working on division and multiplication in math class. They
are reading Ticket to Curlew about early settlers in Alberta. The grade six
students had a nutrition tour at Colemans on Humber Road with dietician Renee
Martin.
Mr.
Drew Nadon’s junior high and level 1 class had a lot of fun at the science
challenge last week. In language arts this week they learned about handwriting
analysis and analyzed each other’s writing. Did you know your handwriting can
tell people about your lifestyle, personality and health?
There
will be no school on Monday for the Victoria Day holiday.
Our
annual science fair is May 30th in our school gym. The parent
viewing is at 1:30.
Immaculate Heart of Mary School, home of The Lions!
