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| The evil minion from the movie
Despicable Me 2 – our 2015 Winter Carnival snow sculpture! |
This is a copy of IHMS's weekly new article Lion's Roar that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, March 6, 2015.
By: Paige Walsh and Aaron White
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Grade 4 student, Isaac Buckingham, winner of the Winter Carnival Spelling Bee for grade four.
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| Lauryn Collins mixes the coloured water and salt she will use to melt an ice block as part of a ice caverns science experiment in junior kindergarten. |
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| Jordan Park with Ms. Katie Broadhurst making a re-usable bag out of jean material. Ms. Broadhurst is from the Learning for a Sustainable Future Organization. She visited the class to discuss sustainability and ways they can use less in their everyday lives. |
The month of March is Nutrition Month,
Mathletics March Madness and National Geosciences and Engineering Month. To celebrate all classes will be doing live
broadcasts from the media center for Nutrition Month, participating in
Mathletics Madness and our grade 7 -Level 1 students will be participating in
the Building the Bridge Competition this Saturday morning at the Corner Brook
Plaza.
Last week on Thursday our school hosted the
annual Winter Carnival Spelling Bee. Congratulations to our grade four representatives
Isaac Buckingham and Clare Coleman; our grade five representatives Ryan Bennett
and Aaron White; and our grade six representatives William Bennett and Samuel
Michael. Congratulations to Isaac Buckingham who was the grade four overall
winner. Thank you to Ms. Park and Mrs. McCarthy for organizing the event and to
our judges Mrs. Janet Joyce of Colemans and Mr. Jonathan Turner of Steel
Communications.
Mrs. George hosted another wonderful
Scholastic Book Fair last week. Our
total sales were $3,111.25!! The guess
the candy contest was won by Joel Lyver, the guess the pages in the book
contest was won by Mark Janes, and Paige and Ryder Walsh won the family door
prize. Thank you to everyone who made our book fair a success!
Earlier this year we collected used cell phones for the MMSB Recycle my Cell
Campaign. This week we had some great news about that campaign. Our school was
the provincial winner. We recycled a total of 901 cell phones! Thank you to
everyone who helped by donating their used and broken cell phones for this
campaign.
Report cards went home on Thursday afternoon
and our teachers had parent teacher interviews that evening from 7 to 8:30 pm.
Today we are hosting our term 1 awards assembly
at 11:30 am. We will be giving certificates for academic achievements for term
1.
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.
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| STARS OF THE WEEK |
Congratulations are extended to Rotém
Phillips-Grobbelaar who won the Primary Category and to Paige
Walsh who won the Elementary Category for the Say Yes To Friendship Poster
Contest sponsored by the Community Mental Health for Violence Prevention
Month. Rotém won for English and French. The girls received a copy of
their poster and a prize package.
Congratulations to Carter Bromley whose
hockey team won a gold medal at a hockey tournament in Port -aux-Basques.
They were also recipients of a player of the game
awards. Congratulations to Jakson Ganz and Caleb Rashleigh whose hockey team won a silver medal at the same tournament.
awards. Congratulations to Jakson Ganz and Caleb Rashleigh whose hockey team won a silver medal at the same tournament.
Congratulations to Noah Colbourne, Noah
Evans, Kate Lombard, Saleem Obeid and Ella Rashleigh who won a medal at a
hockey tournament in Deer Lake last weekend.
Congratulations to Ella Rashleigh who won the
award for “most spirited” at the Winter Carnival Lip Sync competition last
week.
Congratulations to Kaitlyn Coade, Ivor Cook and
Jake Morey who broke boards and received their yellow belts in Tae Kwon Do this
past week.
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| CLASS NEWS |
The junior kindergarten classes are
talking about the letter k and number 10. They really enjoyed playing different
games in the game for winter carnival.
Mrs. Hodder’s kindergarten English class is Learning about animal homes in science addition story mats in math.
Mrs. Hodder’s kindergarten English class is Learning about animal homes in science addition story mats in math.
Mme. Brett’s kindergarten French class is earning the new sight word
"est", which means "is. We are also learning the letter
"y", and vocab for St. Patrick's day. "Pot d'or" means
"pot of gold".
Mrs. George's grade one English class is
learning about healthy eating as part of Nutrition Month. They plan to take a
walk to the nearby Coleman's for a nutrition tour when some of the snow melts!
They are comparing mass in math class this week. They would like to wish Lily
Smallwood a very Happy 7th Birthday!
Mme. Ryan’s grade one French Immersion class started the first of
their St. Patrick's day crafts. They are getting ready to begin a new Science
unit. They are learning how to count large numbers in multiple ways. They are
learning about healthy foods and how they fuel their bodies in Health.
Ms. Park’s grade two English
class is learning about Lent in religion. They
are busy making totem poles in social studies.
Mme. O’Dell’s grade two French Immersion class is making a personal poster full of adjectives that describe each other. The students are comparing different versions of the story of “Goldilocks and the Three little Pigs”. They are working on representations of two digit numbers. Happy Winter Everyone!
Mme. O’Dell’s grade two French Immersion class is making a personal poster full of adjectives that describe each other. The students are comparing different versions of the story of “Goldilocks and the Three little Pigs”. They are working on representations of two digit numbers. Happy Winter Everyone!
Ms. Horner’s grade three and
four English class planted
their classroom garden this week with Little Green Thumbs. In math the grade
3's are learning all about perimeter and in grade 4 we are practicing our 6 and
7 times tables. In social studies the grade 3's are learning about positive
interactions. They put on little skits to demonstrate different types of
positive interactions and what they look like.
Mrs. McCarthy’s grade five and
six class had a lot of fun learning about sustainability with guest presenter
Ms. Katie Broadhurst on Monday. Ms. Broadhurst visited the class to talk about
the importance of sustainability and show the students how they can make
re-usable tote bags out of recycled jean material. Last week the
Public Health Nurse facilitated a session to the Grade 5 and 6 students on Anti
Bullying. They really enjoyed the session. Paige Walsh and Telicia
Young won a $10.00 gift card each from draws after the presentation.
Mme. Lachance’s grade three and four French
Immersion class is finishing off their math units. In French, they created an
advertisement for a product or business from their imagination. In art class
they created shamrocks with little dots to decorate their classroom.
Mr. Drew Nadon’s junior class had a lot of
fun organizing the winter carnival activities last week. They would like to
thank the grade five and six students for helping them run some of the
stations. The Grade 9 students wrote national math exams last week. This
week the students were busy this week finalizing their bridged for the Geoscience
and Engineering Bridge Building competition this weekend. Good luck to all the
teams!
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