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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 30, 2014.
By: Chloe Colbourne, Cameron Peddle, Clara Ryan, and Paige Walsh
The first photo is Mme.
Ryan's French Immersion grade one students and Mme. LaChance's grade
two French Immersion students planting pumpkin seeds in the greenhouse. They
planted seeds from their Halloween pumpkins. (L-R): Katerine Noel, Natalie
Parsons, Craig Bisop, Abigail Tiller, Summer Gale, Mariam Ahmad,Emily Hindy,
Hailey Park, Jakson Ganz, Charlotte Mercier, Isabelle Mercier, Alex King, and
Ava Ignor.
The second photo is Mr. Simon Tibbo
of the Corner Brook Tennis Club instructing grade one English student Alyssa
Power during a tennis lesson. Mr. Tibbo visited the school on Monday and gave
tennis lessons to the gym classes.
This
week on Wednesday we had another orientation session for the new junior
kindergarten and kindergarten English and French Immersion students for
September.
This
week is Early Echildhood Education week. We would like to say a big thank you
to our awesome Early Childhood Educators in Junior Kindergarten!
Our
Janeway theme baskets were on display again this week. The draw will be today.
Good luck to everyone who bought tickets. Thank you everyone for supporting
this fundraiser and our casual day on Wednesday for the Janeway.
Yesterday
was World Catholic Education Day. Classes celebrated with special activities
and books about sharing our faith.
Today
is the annual Science Fair. The parent viewing begins at 1:30 pm. We encourage
everyone to come and view the student’s awesome projects.
Our
school is very proud to announce that we received a grant of $2,400 to support
our MindUp Curriculum from the Community Addictions Prevention Mental Health
Promotion Fund Committee.
We were
also the regional and national winners in the FedEx Environmental Awards.
Also,
next week our school is being presented the Provincial Environmental Award for
Youth Group / School in St. John’s as part of Environment week.
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| Stars Of The Week |
We
would like to congratulate Ben Griffin who placed third in the Mudslide Series
on Sunday at Prince Edward Park.
Also
congratulations to Colin Spencer who won two medals at a Karate tournament last
weekend. He won a gold medal for Kata and a silver medal in sparring. He also
received his blue belt last week.
Congratulations
to Gordon and Gavin Staples who earned their yellow belts this week and chopped
a piece of wood in half in Tae Kwon Do. Chase Rumbolt-Colbourne also received
his yellow belt in Karate. Way to go, Gordon, Gavin, and Chase!
Congratulations
to all our students who participated in the Dance Studio West’s production
“Applause” last weekend. Our students who performed were: Jordyn Andrews, Sarah
Buckingham, William Bruce-Robertson, Keira Clarke, Clare Coleman, Brooklynn
Colbourne, Chloe Colbourne, Ava Ignor, Molly George, Kyah Goold, Sadie
MacDonnell, Rotem Phillips-Grobelaar, Maria Reynolds, Lily Smallwood, Colin
Spencer, Gina Spencer, Sarah Skinner, Abigail Tiller, and Lilah Walsh.
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| Class News |
The
junior kindergarten classes are asking everyone to vote for their project
proposal. You can vote once each day at www.learningproject.sct.org/ideas/276.
This week is Early Childhood education Week.
The children are busy getting ready for the art show and their science fair project on the life
cycle of frogs. The junior kindergarten one class would like to thank Sylvia
Philip for the donation to the classroom. They would also like to thank Kim
Gunson, Nadia Cook and Lorena Power who donated items to the classroom.
Mme. Brake’s
Kindergarten French Immersion class did a live broadcast for World Catholic
Education Day. They had a blast singing one of the church songs. This week they
rubbed potato slices all over the bathroom and discovered that the sink taps
carry the most germs. We learned that is why proper hand-washing is so
important.
Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class was busy this week getting ready for the
science fair today. They are looking forward to their graduation and the spring
musical! They would like to congratulate Lily Smallwood and her family on their
new baby boy, Drew Eric.
Ms. Parsons’s
Kindergarten English class is very busy getting ready for the kindergarten
graduation next Thursday. They went upstairs to visit Mrs. George’s grade one
class for their orientation while the junior kindergarten students visited the
kindergarten classroom.
Mme. Ryan’s
grade one French Immersion class is so excited to report that they now have 33 cocoons!
In about a week or so they should have 33 beautiful butterflies in their
classroom! They have also been busy working very hard on some really fun
science experiments. They are looking forward to the science fair today!!
Mrs.
George’s grade one English class is very excited to have a new student, Jemma
Butler, in their class this week! They
are working on addition and subtraction stories in math. They are very excited
about the science fair today and getting to see all the student’s projects.
Ms.
Park’s grade two class is incubating chick eggs for the next three weeks. They
are presenting four science fair projects this afternoon. The student of the
week for this week is Reyd.
Mme.
LaChance’s grade two and three French Immersion class had a lot of fun doing science
experiments this week. They are still working on their French comics. They are
thinking about Mme LaChance and her family in Quebec this week. Nous voulons
que vous recouvriez de votre maladie, Monsieur LaChance.
Mrs.
Foley’s grade three and four class had fun playing golf in gym class on
Tuesday. They worked very hard on the science fair projects they will be
presenting today. The grade three’s are finishing up their math curriculum and
are almost done their study of landforms in social studies.
Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class are happy to report they have finished
their last spelling tests for the year! They are busy preparing for the year
end spelling bee. The grade 5 students made talking sticks for social studies
class. Both classes had a lot of fun painting games on the front walkway for
the students to use at recess and lunch. They painted four square, hopscotch, a
number line and a calculator outside.
Mr.
Drew Nadon’s junior high and level 1 class went on a hike at marble mountain
for Enrichment class. They sat by the falls and wrote poetry. On Tuesday
evening they had a Café Murder cast party at Mrs. King’s house. They enjoyed
some desserts and watched a video of their performance. They are starting to
prepare for their final exams.
Our art
show is this Monday evening at 6:30 pm. During our art show we will have ‘Birds
of Newfoundland’ framed prints by Roger Tory Peterson for sale. In addition, we
will be hosting a silent auction of a print called “Ash Wednesday – Portrait of
Al Pittman” by Gerald Squires. The bidding on the silent auction will continue
until the close of school on June 25th.
The
kindergarten graduation is Thursday, June 5th.
First
Holy Communion will be on Sunday, June 8th at All Hallows Church.
Immaculate Heart of Mary School, home of The Lions!
