Monday, March 30, 2015
Friday, March 27, 2015
Lion's Roar - Friday, March 27, 2015
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| Immaculate Heart of Mary School Home of The Lions Celebrating 15 Years! _________________________________________________ |
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This is a copy of IHMS's weekly new article Lion's Roar that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, March 20, 2015.
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| This week IHMS is celebrating World Water Day! |
By: Ryan Bennett, Emma Doman, Emily Murley, Kori-Lee Noel, and Aaron White
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| Junior Kindergarten students (L-R): Aaron Keough, Addison MacArthur, Lysea Ngania colouring in the Apple A Day Goal chart. We are nearly at our ticket sales goal! |
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| Jakson Ganz (left) and Kira McCarthy (right) touch a star fish at the World Water Day celebrations at City Hall last Friday. The touch tank was part of the Bonne Bay Marine Station presentation. |
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| Mme. O'Dell's grade two French Immersion students display the puppets they made for their re-telling of "Goldilocks and The Three Bears". Back (left-right): Katherine Noel, Summer Gale, Noah Evans, and Craig Bishop. Front (left to right): Charlotte Mercier and Mariam Ahmad. |
This
week IHMS is celebrating World Water Day with a week-long “Bring Your Re-Usable
Water Container to School”. Our school community is encouraging everyone to
re-think disposable water bottles and think about the impact recycling all
those bottles has on our environment. The IHMS Green team collected all the
plastic bottles recycled in our school for a whole month and built a plastic
sculpture for the main lobby. The sculpture is called “The Tree of Waste” and
it reminds everyone to bring their own container to school for drinking water.
In addition, the school cafeteria is not selling bottled water – instead,
students can get a cold glass of refreshing tap water. There are also student
made posters around the school encouraging everyone to “Take Back the Tap” or
“Use the Fountain”. We encourage you to re-think your water habits too!
This
week was also very exciting because we have our first three draws for the Apple
A Day Fundraiser!! Check with the office to see if there are any tickets left
to get in on the draws for next week! Prizes
include Ipod touches, an Apple TV, an Ipad mini, Ipads and an 11 inch Macbook
Air computer. Tickets are $20 each.
Ms.
Katie Broadhurst from Learning for A Sustainable Future visited our school on
Friday to do a presentation with the grades six to Level 1 students called
“Food For Thought”. The presentation was about where the foods we eat come from
and the impact on our environment.
Also
on Friday, the grades four to six students attended activities at City Hall to
celebrate World Water Day.
The
public health nurse came to visit all the grade two and three students last
week to do a presentation for nutrition month. It was a tasty presentation!
Boys’
indoor soccer practices began this week.
The
grade 6 girls’ basketball team participated in the Humber Invitational
Basketball tournament on Wednesday. They played against Humber Elementary and
J.J. Curling School.
Tomorrow
we are hosting the Knights of Columbus Free Throw Competition at 11 am in our
school gym. This is open to boys and
girls aged nine to fourteen.
Our
junior high to level 1 students travelled to Pasadena on Thursday to take part
in the Regional Drama Festival. The students had a lot of fun and got a lot of
laughs with the play “Bling Midas”.
This week we had some really great news! The
grade three and four class was received runner up in the Hot Shots Energy
provincial contest they participated in during the fall. The class wins two
Ipads for their classroom!
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| STARS OF THE WEEK |
Congratulations
to our students who performed in the Rotary Music Festival this week. Congratulations
to Colin Spencer who placed first in Class 509 Piano Concert Group, 10 and
under and first in Class 210- Vocal Concert Group, 10 and under; and to
Alessandra Leblanc who placed first and Arabella Leblanc who tied for second in
Class 653 – Album 2, Not over 12, baroque and Classical last Tuesday.
Congratulations
to Colin Spencer who was invited to perform in the Junior Rose Bowl last Friday
evening for the Rotary Music Festival.
Congratulations
to Simon Boitsefski, Sarah Buckingham, Clare Coleman and Colin Spencer who all
performed and received scholarships for the Rotary Music Festival at the Stars
of The Festival. Sarah Bucking received a 425 scholarship for voice and piano,
Clare Coleman received $50 for piano, Simon Boitsefski received $50 for voice
and musical theatre, and Colin Spencer received $50 for junior piano, $100 for
piano duet and $100 for the Junior Rose Bowl Nomination.
Congratulations
to Samuel Michael and Jemma Butler who participated in the Provincial Chess
Tournament in Gander on the weekend.
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| CLASS NEWS |
Mme.
Brett’s Kindergarten French Immersion class is busy this week getting ready for
Easter by learning some Easter vocabulary and making decorations. They will
also be making bird feeders out of milk cartons to welcome the spring and learn
how we can turn waste into something useful. Joyeux printemps!
Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class is learning about how plastic water bottles
affect our environment. The students had a lot of fun playing math addition
games. The boys team won!
Mrs.
George’s grade one English class is learning about maps in social studies. They
are learning about things people have invented in science. They would like to
wish Brady Green a very happy 7th birthday!
Mme.
Ryan’s grade one French Immersion is learning about the Emperor Penguin. These
penguins are about the same size as some grade one students! The students are
also beginning some Easter activities this week!
Ms.
Park’s grade two English class is doing some Easter activities and writing.
They are also learning about the Stations of the Cross in Religion class. This
week, the star of the week is Ty.
Mme.
O’Dell’s grade two French Immersion class is learning about the conservation of
water and how we use our water. They hope everyone realizes how fragile our
water is and that we cannot afford to waste it!
Ms. Horner’s
grade three and four class is celebrating water day by doing lots of water
activities. In social studies the grade threes are learning about positive
interactions in their community. The grade fours are getting ready for the
heritage fair. The grade three students enjoyed the presentation from the
public health nurse about nutrition.
Mme.
Lachance’s grade three and four French Immersion class celebrated World Water
Day this week. On Friday, the class, along with the other grades four to six
students went to a presentation at City Hall. They learned lots of interesting
facts and had fun interacting with the variety of activities. They learned
about water security, the water cycle, invasive species and marine animals. In
class, they watched a video about bottled water. In science, the grade threes
have begun a unit on invisible forces and the grade fours have begun a new unit
on sound.
Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class really enjoyed the water day presentation
on Friday at City Hall. A lot of the topics they learned about during the
presentation are things they are also learning about through the National
Geographic Classroom Energy Diet. The class made posters to post around the school
to remind students to bring a re-usable water container to school instead of
plastic water bottles. One of the main things they have learned is that plastic
water bottles are made from oil, and even though they are recyclable, they are
not good for our environment. The students posted signs that said, “Bring Back
the Tap – Ban Plastic Bottles” and “Don’t Forget Your Re-Usable water Bottle”.
Mr. Drew Nadon’s junior high and level 1 class performed their play “Bling Midas” last night in Pasadena for the Regional Drama Festival. The students had a lot of fun preparing and performing this show! They would like to thank Mrs. Deckert for her help with the costume fixes, Mr. Hancock and Mrs. King for driving the group to Pasadena and Mrs. McCarthy for directing the play. The class is also very excited about starting underwater robotics!
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Friday, March 20, 2015
Lion's Roar - Friday, March 20, 2015
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| Immaculate Heart of Mary School Home of The Lions Celebrating 15 Years! _________________________________________________ |
Find us for information, updates, pictures, and other cool stuff. We won't sting. Promise.
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This is a copy of IHMS's weekly new article Lion's Roar that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, March 20, 2015.
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Our school bands and choirs performed in the Rotary Music Festival yesterday and many of our students are taking part in the festival!
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This is a copy of IHMS's weekly new article Lion's Roar that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, March 20, 2015.
By: Makenzy Bishop and Cole Dumaresque
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Junior Kindergarten students (L-R): Aaron Keough, Addison MacArthur, Lysea Ngania colouring in the Apple A Day Goal chart. We are nearly at our ticket sales goal!
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Mme. O'Dell's grade two French Immersion students display the puppets they made for their re-telling of "Goldilocks and The Three Bears". Back (left-right): Katherine Noel, Summer Gale, Noah Evans, and Craig Bishop. Front (left to right): Charlotte Mercier and Mariam Ahmad.
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Rotém Phillips-Grobbelaar and Kara Blanchard, kindergarten French Immersion class winners at the school Moo Off.
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This
has been a very musical week at Immaculate Heart of Mary School. Our school
bands and choirs performed in the Rotary Music Festival yesterday. In addition,
many of our students are taking part in the festival. Good luck to all
participants.
On
Tuesday we had a theme day for St. Patrick’s Day. Our school was a sea of
green! There were even green faces! Our St. Patrick’s Day Family Social and Pot
Luck Dinner is this Sunday from 4 to 6 pm.
Our
milk spirit week was a huge success! There were class broadcasts each day. We
had a lot of fun at the moo off on Thursday. All the classes participated by
performing their best “moo” sounds. Afterwards, we enjoyed some milk and
cookies. Thanks to our tweeting about
milk spirit week, our school won a prize from the School Milk Foundation. We
will receive free milk for the whole school.
Our Apple A Day Tickets are due this week! The
draws start on Wednesday, March 25! Make sure to get your tickets to get your
name in for the seven days of awesome prizes! Prizes include Ipod touches, an
Apple TV, an Ipad mini, Ipads and an 11 inch Macbook Air computer. Tickets are
on sale now for $20 each. Each ticket sold will be in the draw for all seven
prizes. There will be prizes for the students who sell the most tickets. If our
school sells all 2,032 tickets we will have a skating party to celebrate. Get your tickets today!
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| STARS OF THE WEEK |
Congratulations
to our students who performed in the Rotary Music Festival this week. Congratulations
to Sarah Buckingham who tied for first place for Class 306-Girls’ Solo, 6 and
under; Clare Coleman who received second place for Class 351-Girls’ Solo, 9 and
under; Arabella LeBlanc who received third place for Class 654B – Album 2,
Romantic, Modern & Inventions; Colin Spencer who received first place,
Simon Boitsefski who tied for second place, and Isaac Buckingham who tied for
third place in Class 363- Boys’ Solo, 9 and under on Friday.
Congratulations
to Colin and Gina Spencer who tied for first place in Class 613 – Piano Duet,
12 and under on Sunday.
Congratulations to our Moo Off winners last week
for milk spirit week! Everyone did a wonderful job with their mooing!
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| CLASS NEWS |
Mme.
Brett’s Kindergarten French Immersion class had lots of fun making traps for
the “Lutin de St. Patrick’s”. They are finished all of their sounds and are
learning to read the word “maman”. Congratulations to Kara Blanchard and Rotém
Phillips-Grobbelaar who were the class winners in the Moo -Off.
Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class is beginning subtraction in math. They were
very excited to take part in the Rotary Music Festival this week. They almost
caught the leprechaun on Tuesday, but he got out through the window. They would
like to thank Ms. Tiffany Spencer who finished her Grenfell ACCESS Program with
the class this week. Congratulations to Liam Gaulton who was the class winner
in the Moo Off.
Mrs.
George’s grade one English class had fun trying to catch the leprechaun. He
escaped again, but not before leaving them some chocolate coins. In math, they
are skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s. They would like to wish Jake Morey a
happy 7th birthday! Congratulations to everyone for winning the
English class award for the Moo- Off.
Mme.
Ryan’s grade one French Immersion had a lot of fun this week learning about St.
Patrick’s Day. They made a beautiful fruit and vegetable rainbow in health.
They now understand what it means to eat the rainbow! All of the children are
excited about their music workshop on Friday morning. Congratulations to students
in grade one and two French Immersion class who tied with the grade three and
four French Immersion class for the French class winners in the Moo Off.
Ms.
Park’s grade two English class had lots of fun celebrating St. Patrick’s Day.
They did not catch the leprechaun, but he did leave them some gold coins. They
practiced graphing in math this week with lucky charms. Jemma is the student of
the week! Congratulations to Molly
George for the Best Decorated Cow Award, Alyssa Power and Brooke Watton for the
Moo Couple Award, Leah Lainey and Kate Murphy for the Moo Couple Award, Regan
Curtis, Meredith Dawe, Gabriel Rowsell for Moo Awards, and Carter Bromley and
Matthew Kemp for the Moo Twosome Award at the Moo -Off.
Mme.
O’Dell’s grade two French Immersion class has started their author study on
Barbara Reid. They are enjoying reading lots of different books and learning about
the author. They are excited about making illustrations out of plasticine.
Ms. Horner’s
grade three and four class did not catch a leprechaun with their traps, but he
did leave them all some treats. The classroom garden is growing very tall. This
week is Ms. Pittman’s last week in their class. Miss Pittman is completing the
Grenfell ACCESS program. Congratulations
to Keira Clarke and Reyd Ward who won
the Couple Award, Colin Spencer who won the Longest Moo, and Arabella and
Alessandra LeBlanc who won the Twin Moo Award at the Moo Off.
Mme.
Lachance’s grade three and four French Immersion class got to talk to their pen
pals on Skype for the first time this week! It was a lot of fun to see them and
speak to them in French! They showed the
students their leprechaun traps. The students in St. Malo do not celebrate St.
Patrick’s Day as much as we do here. Congratulations to all the students on
winning the Class Award at the Moo -Off.
Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class is continuing their novel study on Bridge
to Terabithia. The fastest student in the fifth grade is Kori-Lee Noel, and the
fastest student in the sixth grade is Jordan Park. The students are beginning
to work on this year’s heritage fair projects. Congratulations to Samuel
Michael who won the Moo Award and Telicia Young who won the Injured Moo Award at the Moo -Off.
Mr. Drew Nadon’s junior high and level 1 class is
working hard on their play for the drama festival next week. They have are
having lots of fun preparing props and costumes for the performance in
Pasadena. The students welcome Ryan
Miller to their class this week. Congratulations to the class for winning the
Senior Moo Award in the Moo Off.
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| COMING UP... |
Next
week we are celebrating World Water Day on Monday with a blue theme day. We are
also encouraging students to ban plastic water bottles and bring a re-usable
water bottle to school.
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Friday, March 13, 2015
Lion's Roar - Friday, March 13, 2015
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| Immaculate Heart of Mary School Home of The Lions Celebrating 15 Years! _________________________________________________ |
Find us for information, updates, pictures, and other cool stuff. We won't sting. Promise.
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This is a copy of IHMS's weekly new article Lion's Roar that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, March 13, 2015.
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| Our grade six to Level 1 girls’ basketball team is travelling to Lewisporte today for the Western Provincial Championship. Good luck, girls! |
This is a copy of IHMS's weekly new article Lion's Roar that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, March 13, 2015.
By: Makenzy Bishop and Cole Dumaresque
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| Mme. O'Dell's grade two French Immersion students display the puppets they made for their re-telling of "Goldilocks and The Three Bears". Back (left-right): Katherine Noel, Summer Gale, Noah Evans, and Craig Bishop. Front (left to right): Charlotte Mercier and Mariam Ahmad. |
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| Paige Walsh (left) and Telicia Young (right) and public health nurse, Patti Walsh-Sheppard. The girls each won a gift card as part of an anti-bullying presentation. |
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| Students in Mrs. Hodder's kindergarten English class having fun outside on our playground. (Left to right): Nevaeh Vincent, Charlise Simmonds, Hala Parsons, Sophie Grant, Jeremy Burden, and Mark Janes. |
We are so thankful
for the family and community support for the MMS Reycle My Cell Campaign. Our
school was the provincial winner! We recycled 901 cell phones this year. We
were also the top school in Canada!
Last week to
celebrate Agriculture Literacy Week the grade three and four English and French
classes had a guest reader from the Department of Agriculture. The students
really enjoyed the book.
This week was Milk
Spirit Week. This week to celebration Mrs. Hodder, Mrs. George, Mme. Brett, Ms.
Park, Mme. Lachance, Mme. O’Dell and Mme Ryan’s classes each made live
broadcasts from the media centre about the importance of drinking milk.
Last week the junior
kindergarten classes did a live broadcast last from the media centre for
Nutrition Month.
On Tuesday our grade
six to Level 1 girls’ basketball team played a game against Stephenville. Thank
you to Mr. George for refereeing the game. The girls are travelling to
Lewisporte today for the Western Provincial Championship. Good luck, girls!
Our school is selling
tickets on an Apple a Day Fundraiser. Starting on March 25, 2015 we will begin
doing seven daily draws for apple products. Prizes include Ipod touches, an
Apple TV, an Ipad mini, Ipads and an 11 inch Macbook Air computer. Tickets are
on sale now for $20 each. Each ticket sold will be in the draw for all seven
prizes. There will be prizes for the students who sell the most tickets. If our
school sells all 2,032 tickets we will have a skating party to celebrate. Students are encouraged to return their
tickets as they sell them to get their name in for incentive draws. We are
halfway to our goal! There are less than 1,000 tickets left!
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| STARS OF THE WEEK |
Congratulations to
Luke Coleman, Kate Lombard, Noah Evans, and Saleem Obeid who each won a medal
at a hockey tournament in Corner Brook last Saturday.
Congratulations to our grade six girls’ basketball team who played in the Western Provincial Basketball Tournament last weekend. We would like to thank Ms. Bishop for coaching the girls at the tournament.
Congratulations to our students who participated in the bridge building competition last weekend. The bridge built by Anna Mackenzie, Madison Noel and Jayden Lempriere held 155 kg (300 lbs): the bridge built by Hajra Ahmad, Maria Reynolds and Arista White held 113 kg (226 lbs); and the bridge built by Nathan Anderson, Cameron Peddle and Douglas Mackenzie held 71 kg (142 lbs). Our top two bridges this year actually broke our school record for the bridge holding the most weight! Way to go everyone!
Congratulations to our grade six girls’ basketball team who played in the Western Provincial Basketball Tournament last weekend. We would like to thank Ms. Bishop for coaching the girls at the tournament.
Congratulations to our students who participated in the bridge building competition last weekend. The bridge built by Anna Mackenzie, Madison Noel and Jayden Lempriere held 155 kg (300 lbs): the bridge built by Hajra Ahmad, Maria Reynolds and Arista White held 113 kg (226 lbs); and the bridge built by Nathan Anderson, Cameron Peddle and Douglas Mackenzie held 71 kg (142 lbs). Our top two bridges this year actually broke our school record for the bridge holding the most weight! Way to go everyone!
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| CLASS NEWS |
The junior kindergarten
classes are learning about St. Patrick’s Day. To celebrate, they made St.
Patrick’s Day crafts. The children are also learning about the letter “k” and
the number “10”.
Mme. Brett’s
Kindergarten French Immersion class is learning the last letter of the alphabet
“z” and finishing up learning about their ancestors. They are also getting
ready for St. Patrick’s Day.
Mrs. Hodder’s
Kindergarten English class is learning about word families in language. Their
garden is producing LOTS of tomatoes and lettuce. They are so proud of their
green thumbs!
Mrs. George’s grade
one English class is learning about taking care of our world in social studies.
They are enjoying all of their St. Patrick’s Day writing and art activities.
They are busy building a leprechaun trap for Tuesday. They are really hoping to
catch one!
Mme. Ryan’s grade one
French Immersion class were working on a song with the grade two French
Immersion students about chocolate milk to perform for the live broadcast. The grade one’s were also working on math
centres and other activities to learn how to count numbers up to 100.
Ms. Park’s grade two English
class is making crafts for St. Patrick’s Day and writing about what you would
do if they found a pot of gold. In math they are learning how to add numbers to
100.
Mme. O’Dell’s grade
two French Immersion class finished their Quebéc Winter Carnival theme by
making puppets. Students had fun performing plays of different versions of
“Goldilocks and The Three Bears” in language arts class. They had a lot of fun!
Ms. Horner’s grade
three and four class is making leprecahuan traps in art class. They are hoping
luck will be on their side so they can catch one or get some of its gold. In
French they have been learning St. Patrick’s Day words. The grade three
students are started a new unit on plants in science. The grade four students
made their own instruments in science.
Mme. Lachance’s grade
three and four French Immersion class celebrated Milk Spirit Week by learning
all about animals who give milk and countries where people drink different
kinds of milk. With the other French Immersion classes they enjoyed making
homemade ice cream!
Mrs. McCarthy’s grade
five and six class started the Classroom Energy Diet Challenge this week. They
created a classroom logo and completed two challenges. In one challenge the
students had to go for one hour with no power, in the second activity they had
to reflect on what energy items in their homes were “needs” and which were
“wants”. The further challenge themselves the students gave up one “want” item
for 24 hours!
Mr. Drew Nadon’s junior high and level 1 class went
to the National Engineering and Geosciences Month bridge building competition
at the mall on Saturday. The student’s bridges were amazing! The class is busy
preparing their performance for the drama festival in three weeks and the
Rotary Music Festival next week.
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