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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, December 4, 2015.
By: Ryan Bennett, Clare Coleman, Arabella LeBlanc, and Aria Kazerouni
Alyssa Power and Jemma Butler display their poetry and art work at
the grade three English and French Immersion students' presentation at the
Corner Brook Public Library.
Front: Logan McCarthy (Joseph), Katie McGinn (Mary), and Back:
Danyael Jacobs (Shepherd), and Mrs. Jackie George.
Aaron Keough and Cameron Bishop, kindergarten French Immersion
students, working on a puzzle centre.
Our
students from kindergarten to level two were off school on Monday for a teacher
professional development day. The teachers took part in sessions on Mindfulness
with Dr. Kate Laferty, Dr. Erin Smallwood, Family Physicians with Western
Health; and Dr. Michael Newton, Professor with Memorial University, Grenfell
Campus. In the afternoon teachers
explored educational applications for Ipad with Mme. Foley and took part in
departmental meetings.
On
Tuesday, Mrs. George’s grade one class lit the first candle on the Advent
Wreath to begin our season of Advent. Also, on Tuesday, in observance of a day
of remembrance for veterans, Simon Boitsefski sang “O’Canada” in our two
official languages.
Congratulations
to our Intermediate Skills Challenge Team on a great performance last weekend! We
would like to thank all the community and businesses that supported our team
and made donations of their money, time and talents. We would like to thank Mr.
Jason King, Chief Administrative Officer of Western Regional Waste Management, who
met with our robotics team to discuss their project and to Mr. Scott Reynolds
who worked with our graphic design team.
Congratulations
to our LEGO Robotics team consisting of Makenzy Bishop, Myles Calbert, Rebekah
Calbert, Jose Garcia, Max Chrappa, Ryan Bennett, Cole Dumaresque, Emily Murley,
Kori Noel, and Ryan Miller who won third place in the Trash Trek Project
category.
Congratulations
to our LEGO Robotics Demonstration team consisting of Maria Luisa Dias, Maria
Reynolds, Genesio DeLima, Lucas Lisboa, Emily O’Bryan, Nico Hermillio, Maria
Jessica DeAlmeida, Maria Roseli DeLima, Thiago Pereira who received the award “Against All Odds” which was for the
team who had the greatest challenge in attending the competition.
Congratulations
to Anna MacKenzie and Madison Noel who won gold medals in the Wind Turbine Challenge.
Last
Sunday was our second week of Chase the Ace. This fundraiser is in conjunction
with the SPCA. Mrs. Marjorie Deckert won $250. Thank you to Angela Brown, Lisa
and Alma Clarke for providing the entertainment for this event. We will
continue to “Chase the Ace” this Sunday night from 6:30-8:30 pm. Tickets are 3
for $5. This event will feature a “Dog Show and More Show”. Pet registration
begins at 6 pm with a cost of $5 per pet.
Congratulations
to Colin Spencer who received a gold medal in the Royal Conservatory Level 2
for 2014-2015. Colin travelled to Nova Scotia last week to receive his award.
Congratulations to Caleb Rashleigh’s team who
won medals in the Ambrose O’Reilly Memorial Atom House League Hockey Tournament
in Corner Brook over the weekend. |
| CLASS NEWS |
The
junior kindergarten classes are doing some Christmas crafts and decorating the
classroom. All the children are excited and looking forward to the Christmas
concert. One of the students had a birthday party over the weekend where the
parents donated money to the Ronald MacDonald house in lieu of presents. The
total raised was $500.00.
Mme.
Foley’s Kindergarten French Immersion class is learning new sight words for
December. They are learning the letter “t” in language and about the numbers
that come before and after in math. They have an elf visiting their classroom.
They named their elf “Neige”.
Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class is learning about more, fewer and same in
math. In language arts they are working on the letter “x”.
Mme.
Ryan’s grade one French Immersion class is practicing the song “O Come Divine
Messiah” in French to prepare for the lighting of the third Advent candle. The
class is looking forward to the skating party on December 15th.
Mrs.
George’s grade one English class was very excited to light the first candle on
the Advent wreath on Monday. This week they are writing friendly letters to
Santa. They read the story stone soup, a beautiful story about cooperation and
trust. They made their own stone soup yesterday. It was delicious!
Ms. Park’s
grade two class is conducting mini research on a Canadian animal in language
arts. They are starting Christmas crafts this week. They are looking forward to
visiting and giving their Christmas cards to seniors at the Long Term Care
Centre today!
Mme.
O’Dell’s grade two French Immersion class has been busy practicing for the Christmas concert and making props.
They are doing a lot of drills to learn addition and subtraction facts. They
are learning about place value and the relationship between addition and
subtraction. They
are getting very excited for Christmas!
Mme.
Moss’ grade three, four and five French Immersion class are doing some
Christmas writing activities in French. They will be choosing their own elf
names to base their writing on! Congratulations to grade four students, Caleb
Rashleigh and Isabelle Mercier, and grade five students, Simon Boitsefksi and
Carly Johannesen, who were chosen for the school Scripps Spelling Bee next
week.
Ms.
Horner’s grade three and four class is going to the Long Term Care Centre today
to deliver Christmas cards with Ms. Park’s grade two class. They are very
excited to deliver their handmade cards. The grade three and four students have
started subtraction in Math. The class would like to congratulate Reyd Ward and
Natalie Parsons who were chosen for the school Scipps Spelling Bee next Monday
afternoon.
Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class would like to congratulate Isaac
Buckingham, Clare Coleman, Aria Kazerouni , Arabella LeBlanc, Colin Spencer,
and Aaron White and who were chosen for the school Scipps Spelling Bee on
Monday. The grade six students are
continuing their reading of the novel “Raven Quest”. It is very suspenseful!
The students are working on making and checking predictions.
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| COMING UP... |
The
IHMS Scripps Spelling Bee is being held on Monday at 1:00 pm for selected
students in grades four to eight. Parents and family members are welcome to
attend.
The IHMS annual Christmas concert “The Bells of
Christmas” is on December 10th at 7 pm.. |
