By: Sarah Campbell, William Goodridge, Katerina Hamann, and Nicole Keeping
Kindergarten English and French Immersion orientation session at the hospital last week.
This week was very exciting at IHMS.
A member of the community anonymously donated $5,000 to our community playground project. We now have $12,500. Everyday we get closer to playing on swings and sliding down slides! The same donor also donated the money needed to purchase a SMARTboard for the grade 3 and 4 class. Everyone is very excited. Thank you for your generosity.
This week we also found out we were the Western Region winners in the MMSB cell phone recycling campaign. We won $1,000 for our outdoor classroom. Also we found out we were the national winners for recycling 450 cell phones. We won an extra $500 and several prizes, including a cell phone. Thank you to all the families and community groups who helped us collect so many phones!
On Monday the public health nurse did a session with the grade 3 and 4 class on hygiene.
Our Family Fun Day event planning is going well. We have lots of fun activities and games planned.
On Wednesday Mrs. Coleman and the prayer group did a praise and worship with all students and staff for Saint Valentine’s Day.
The girl’s basketball team had a game at St. Gerard’s on Wednesday. They did great.
The grade 3 and 4 class collected recyclables all week for their class fundraiser.
Class News
The Junior Kindergarten classes made nice ground hog headbands and pop-ups for Ground Hog Day. They are also getting ready for Valentine’s Day.
The Kindergarten English class is working on the letter “y”. They are learning to subtract in math.
The Kindergarten French Immersion class made beautiful snowman crafts. They are working on addition in math.
The grade one class is learning how objects are made out of different materials. In religion class they are learning about different names for God. They welcome to their class a new pet. He is a marbled salamander named Stripes.
The grade two class is making winter art. They enjoyed Ground Hog Day and are looking forward to Valentine’s Day.
The grade three and four class is playing tennis in gym class. In math they are making graphs from the surveys they made. In science they are studying sound and making slide shows in computers. In language class they are learning how movies are made.
The grade five and six class is doing recyclable art and starting a new unit in math. They are learning about their grandparent’s childhood in social studies.
The junior high class is all finished their midterm exams. They are finished filming their school video and are now starting to edit the film. They are beginning to work on their popsicle stick bridges.
Coming Up
Chocolate heart pre-orders are starting next week for Valentine’s Day. They will cost $0.25.
The Junior High Report Cards go home on February 9.
The girl’s basketball team is having a tournament beginning next Thursday.
The grade 3 and 4 cookie sale is February 11.
February 26th is IHMS Family Fun Day. Many parents and staff are working very hard to make this day lots of fun.
The mini-reporters are counting down to the 100th day of school!
