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| On Thursday We Held Our Annual Science Fair |
This is a copy of IHMS's weekly new article Lion's Roar that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, May 29, 2015.
By: Emma Doman, Jordan Park, Paige Walsh
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Lucas Neville, places a used battery in the school's new recycling station. Lucas, along with this fellow classmates painted the station and prepared the labels in English and French. The labels explain why it is important that we recycle bread tags, used markers, old batteries and used ink cartridges.
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| Clare Coleman (left), the overall winner in the IHMS Elementary Speak Off, with her teacher Mrs. Angel McCarthy. Clare spoke about facing her fears. |
We have many budding scientists in our
school! On Thursday we held our annual Science Fair. The grade three to level 1
students all prepared individual projects, while the primary classes presented
group projects. We would like to thank our judges Dr. Trina Butler, Dr. Dwayne
Keough, Mr. Cec Lake, and Mr. Matthew Young. See a few of the pictures and video from the JK and Elementary experiments below.
The grades three and six students finished
their provincial language arts assessment with their demanding writing piece on
Tuesday.
The junior high girls’ basketball team is
travelling to St. John’s today for the last tournament of the season. We wish
them luck.
Our new technology equipment that was delivered
last week is prepared and being used in our classrooms. Students and teachers
are enjoying using the new ELMO document cameras, ipads and imacs for projects
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| STARS OF THE WEEK |
Congratulations to James Lao and Luke Coleman
who won ribbons in Beavers for Kub Kar Rally.
Congratulations to our students Sarah
Buckingham, Jenna Cammie, Keira Clarke, Clare Coleman, Hala Parsons, Alyssa
Power, Lily Smallwood, Colin Spencer and Nevaeh Vincent on their performance in
the Dance Studio West annual year end show.
Congratulations to Ben Griffen and Ivor Cook
who took part in the 2015 Mudslide Series on Sunday at Prince Edward Park. Ben
Griffen placed fourth in the Dirt Squirt Expert category and Ivor Cook placed
first in Mud Spuds category.
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| CLASS NEWS |
The junior kindergarten classes are learning about the letter “p”. The children enjoyed the science fair this week. They really liked getting messy with their experiments.
Mme. Brett’s Kindergarten French Immersion
class had a lot of fun learning about objects that sink and float. They also
really enjoyed teaching everyone about their worm compost.
Mrs. Hodder’s Kindergarten English class had
lots of fun with their walking water and solar system experiments for the
science fair. The students are learning about mass and object positions in
math.
Mrs. George’s grade one English class really
enjoyed the science fair. They did experiments on “walking water”, “magnet
fun”, “density” and “flubber”. They are working on their last math unit: adding
and subtracting to 20. The students are really looking forward to the musical
next week!
Mme. Ryan’s grade one French Immersion class
was very busy this week preparing for the science fair. The students worked
alongside the grade two French Immersion students. They have started their last
math unit of the year.
Ms. Park’s grade two English class is learning
about goods and services in social studies. They had lots of fun testing out
experiments for the science fair. The star of the week is Molly.
Mme. O’Dell’s grade two French Immersion
class has been busy learning about different kinds of poems and writing. In
math, they are learning about measurement and is getting ready to start a unit
in Geometry! Their green house lettuce is delicious. Next week, they are hoping
to have enough red tomatoes to make salsa!
Ms. Horner’s grade three and four class
worked very hard on their science fair projects. The science fair was very exciting. They are
very happy that warmer weather is here so they can spend more time outside.
Mme. Lachance’s grade three and four French
Immersion class worked very hard this week on their science fair projects. They
were able to explain their projects in both English and French! The students
would like to thank their parents for helping them with their experiments at
home!
Mrs. McCarthy’s grade five and six class are
working on their last big art project for the year. In language arts the class
is completing their last strategy unit on sequencing. The students are looking
forward to many of the end of year school events. They have been practicing for
the upcoming musical next week.
Mr. Drew Nadon’s junior high and level 1
class had a presentation on Wednesday about Youth Ventures with Shawna Pelly,
the Youth Ventures Coordinator. The students have been helping with the sound
and backgrounds for the musical next week.
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| COMING UP... |
Registration is still available for our full
day junior kindergarten and our English and French Immersion kindergarten
program for September 2015. Please call the office for more information.
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