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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 23, 2014.
By: Anna Brake, Samuel Michael, Bridgett Sparkes, and Telicia Young
Mme. Brake's grade one French
Immersion class practicing their meditating as part of the MindUp curriculum.
Back (L-R): Noah Walsh, Ewan Jenkins, Chase Rumbolt Colbourne, James Hurley and
Brady Greene. Middle (l-R): Kaitlyn Coade, Ella Rashleigh, William Parsons, and
Ava Baker. Front (L-R): Samuel Blackwood, Natalie Caines, Israela Ngania, Kyah
Goold, Sarah Connolly.
Students in Mrs. George's grade one
English class display the plants they are growing as part of the Little Green
Thumbs project (L-R): Meredith Dawe, Leah Lainey, and Kate Murphy.
Students Jack Ryan and Emma Doman
present a thank you card to Walmart Manager Morely Ford for their contribution
to the Kids Eat Smart "Let Them Shine Campaign".
We
started the week off with our Janeway fundraiser. Tickets were on sale all week for the raffle
theme baskets. There are baskets of BBQ supplies, kitchen items, candy, a movie
basket and much more. Tickets are $0.50 each of 3 for $1. They are on sale until
May 30!
Last
weekend some of our students also had a lemonade stand to raise money for the
janeway telethon. Hala Parsons, Lydia Parsons, Natalie Parsons, Kate Lombard,
Rebecca Janes and Mark Janes donated all their earnings for the Janeway
fundraiser. Thank you so much!
This
week our school hosted orientation sessions for new junior kindergarten
students, kindergarten English and French Immersion and grade 1 English and
French Immersion on Wednesday afternoon. Our grade 1 students even got to go to
grade 2 for the afternoon!
There
is a boys’ soccer tournament this weekend at JJ Curling School. Our boys will
play their first game today at 5 pm. They will also play on Saturday at 9 am
and at noon.
Our
ITV news reporters this week are: William Bruce-Robertson, Alejandra Hernandez,
Aria Kazerouni and Samuel Michael.
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| Stars Of The Week |
We
would like to congratulate Juan Ramirez the grade 7 school winner and Maria
Reynolds the grade 8 school winner in the Gauss Math Competition.
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| Class News |
The
junior kindergarten classes are doing nature activities and starting to work on
their Father’s Day presents. The junior kindergarten three class would like to
thank Ms. Sonya Perrett for the donation of toys to their classroom. Miss Jessi
Martin applied for a grant for their playground. They are asking for everyone
to vote for their project. Their idea is called “The Great Outdoors”, you can
vote at http://learningproject.cst.org/ideas/276.
Mme. Brake’s
Kindergarten French Immersion class is busy preparing their science fair
project on germs. They have started a new numbers unit in Math. They can count
to 100 in French, wow!
Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class was excited to spend the afternoon with
Mrs. George on Wednesday in grade one. They are busy practicing songs and poems
for the kindergarten graduation.
Ms. Parsons’s
Kindergarten English class would like to wish Ty Power a very happy 6th
birthday. They hope he’s having so much fun in Florida! They are learning about
time in math. They now know how to tell when it’s recess and lunch by looking
at the clock!
Mme. Ryan’s
grade one French Immersion class is getting ready to plant in the school
greenhouse. They can’t wait to see their caterpillars start to grow and turn
into beautiful butterflies.
Mrs.
George’s grade one English class has started their “feel good” books today.
They are also practicing their experiments for the science fair next week. They
really enjoyed the outdoor classroom this week.
Ms.
Park’s grade two class is enjoying practicing for their First Holy Communion
coming up in June. They are enjoying
watching their vegetables and flowers they plated begin to grow. The student of
the week is Gavin.
Mme.
LaChance’s grade two and three French Immersion class was learning about comics
this week. In French, the students read and wrote comics. They also created
comic characters in art class. They learned about the comic writer Prouche and
they use the Prouche method to draw their comic characters.
Mrs.
Foley’s grade three and four class has completed their unit on Charlotte’s Web
and got to watch the 1972 animate version. They also wrote comparisons about
the novel and the video in their writing journals. It was interesting to make
connections to the novel and see the characters come to life. The students are
very excited about the Janeway raffle and have been buying tickets to try their
luck at winning one of the baskets. In social studies they have been making
their own river systems in the school yard.
Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class were very busy this week. The grade five
students had a quiz yesterday and are learning about UNICEF and the UN Rights
of the Child. They also made talking
sticks in social studies. The grade 6 students are beginning to prepare for
their math CRT exam. In language arts they have finished their last spelling
test and are writing stories.
Mr.
Drew Nadon’s junior high and level 1 class are working on completing their
final units leading up to final exams.
Last week the grade seven and eight students wrote the Gauss math
competition.
Our
annual Art Show will be Monday, June 2 at 7 pm.
The
kindergarten English and French Immersion graduation is June 5th.
Immaculate Heart of Mary School, home of The Lions!
