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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, April 3, 2015.
By: Makenzy Bishop, Max Chrappa, Jordan Park, and Paige Walsh
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| Ella Rashleigh, Kaitlyn Coade (back) and (front) Sarah Connolly, James Lao, and Isralea Ngania display their Apple poster for the Kids Eat Smart Breakfast program Apple Day. |
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| Mel Carberry and Maureen Simon with Cole Boyd-Martyn (centre). Cole was the third place provincial winner in the Remembrance Day primary colour poster contest. |
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| Isabelle Mercier and Caleb Rashleigh with Mr. Warren Neville (centre) help to measure the wood that will be used to build our new recylcing box. The box will be used for cell phones, markers, pens, and ink cartridges. |
Today is the final draw in the Apple a Day
Contest. The prize today is an 11inch Macbook Air. Thank you to everyone who
supported our technology project by purchasing tickets. Congratulations to Our
Apple a Day Draw Winners from days one to four. The winner on the first day was
John Perrett, day two winner was Lucas Neville, day three winner was Brian
McCormack and day four winner was Ida Doucette.
Our junior high to level 1 class participated
in the Western Central Region Drama Festival last Thursday night. The students had a wonderful performance.
Thank you to Mr. Drew Nadon, Mrs. McCarthy and Mrs. King for accompanying the
group. Also, special thanks to grade six student, Samuel Michael, who also
performed with the group. A great time was had by everyone.
Last Friday, our Kids Eat Smart breakfast
program celebrated Apple Day. We would like to send out a special thank you to
all the students who came out to enjoy breakfast with us, to the teachers who
helped prepare and to Mrs. George for making the Apple Tree for everyone to
display their own apples.
On Saturday the Knights of Columbus sponsored
their annual Free Throw competition in our school gym. We have several students
advancing to the provincials, these include: Emily Murley, Makenzy Bishop and
Maria Reynolds. Congratulations to all the participants.
We would like to thank Mr. Warren Neville who
is building a recycling box for us for cell phones, markers, pens, and ink
cartridges.
Today we are having a special assembly at
10:30 to celebrate all of our green initiatives. All the classes have prepared
a special presentation in honour of this assembly.
Today is also the last day before Easter
holidays begin.
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| STARS OF THE WEEK |
Congratulations to the Kids Eat Smart
Breakfast program Apple Day winners: James Lao, Liam Gaulton, Ryder Walsh, Emily
Hindy, Reegan Curtis, Isabelle Mercier, Lily Smallwood, Kate Lombard, Brooklynn
Pittman, and Keira Clarke.
The junior kindergarten classes are talking about Easter. The children have an
Easter egg hunt today. Everyone is excited about the Easter Bunny.
Congratulations to Caleb Rashleigh who
received a medal in the Avalon Celtics Hockey Tournament in St. Johns.
Congratulations to downhill skiers Lila
Burden, Carter Hubley, Jakson Ganz, Rotém Phillips-Grobbelaar, Jeremy Glashan,
Saleem Obeid, Isabelle Mercier and Simon Boitsefski who received medals.
Congratulations to Jack Watton and Brooke
Watton who received Cangym badges, Liam Gaulton who received the Sunfish
Swimming Badge, Ryan Jackson who received a Level 1 swimming badge, and
Charlise Simmonds who received a Level 2 swimming badge.
Congratulations to Mark Janes and Carter Bromley
who received a medal in Timbits Hockey last week. |
| CLASS NEWS |
Mme. Brett’s Kindergarten French Immersion
class is very excited to be getting ready for Easter. They are reading lots of
Easter books. They were also busy this week learning a special poem to perform
at the assembly today called “Étre gentil à la Terre”.
Mrs. Hodder’s Kindergarten English class was
busy this week practicing their poem “If You Care About the Earth” for the
assembly today. They also made special Easter crafts and enjoyed playing
outside in the spring weather.
Mrs. George’s grade one English class had an awesome week! They went snowshoeing,
enjoyed a session with our school nurse on dental health and made yummy, edible
birds’ nests. (They did manage to get some work done too.) They would like to
wish Rachael and Ben Griffin a very Happy 7th Birthday! Happy Easter to all!
Mme. Ryan’s grade one French Immersion class
is doing a lot of work on Easter vocabulary and Easter activities this week.
They made Easter eggs using pastels and an overlay technique. They are
finishing their math unit this week so they can start fresh after Easter. They
are also doing a silhouette of each other and filling it in with healthy food
choices.
Ms. Park’s grade two English class was very
busy this week working on their recycling song for the assembly today. In
language arts they are working on Easter symbols and Easter writing. They were
so excited to go on a snowshoeing field trip at the cross country ski club. The
student of the week is Jaidyn.
Mme. O’Dell’s grade two French Immersion
class has been busy writing Easter stories. They also planted more lettuce, cilantro
and onions in our green house. Happy Spring!!
Ms. Horner’s grade three and four class wrote
a poem on composting to perform at the assembly on Thursday. The grade three
students have finished their novel study on Charlotte’s Web and finally got to
watch the movie! The grade four students have also finished their novel study
on “Dear Mr. Henshaw” and are writing their very own short stories.
Mme. Lachance’s grade three and four French
Immersion class visited Coleman’s on Wednesday for a nutrition tour for
Nutrition Month. On April 1, they worked on a fish topic because in French,
April Fools Day is “Poisson d’Avril” or April Fish! They are also preparing for
the upcoming Heritage Fair in April.
Mrs. McCarthy’s grade five and six class is
finishing their novel study on “Bridge to Terabitia”. The students were excited
to watch the movie and see how it is different from the book. In math the grade
5 students are studying fractions and the grade 6 students are studying 2-D
geometry.
Mr. Drew Nadon’s junior high and level 1
class are working hard on their heritage fair presentations. The class went to
the Corner Brook Public Library on Wednesday to research and learn how to find
library resources. The students had an excellent performance on “Bling Mida$”
last week in the drama festival.
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