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This is a copy of IHMS's weekly news article "Lion's Roar" that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, November 8, 2013.
Elwood Rolle trying on the firefighting gear during a
presentation about firefighting with the junior kindergarten students. Elwood is pictured
with Firefighter Mark Griffin.
Karen Rashleigh with
her children Ella and Caleb at our school pancake breakfast on Tuesday
morning.
Last
week our school celebrated Halloween. Each class had a class party with
Halloween treats and every class went to the gym for Halloween activities.
Thank you to Mrs. Foley and the student council members for organizing the day.
On
Friday our school had a school assembly. Our students who won the provincial
Foster Family essay contest and the provincial Good Governance essay contest
read their essays for students, parents and staff.
Last
week our basketball teams began practicing. The grade 3-5 boy’s basketball team
is being coached by Mr. Mark Hillier and Mr. Michael Quigley. Our junior high
basketball team is being coached by Mr. Nadon.
On
Tuesday our school had our first pancake breakfast for the year. Thanks to Mrs.
George, Mrs. King, Mme. LaChance, Ms. Park, Mrs. Vincent, Mrs. Foley, and Ms.
Parsons for helping with the yummy breakfast.
Mrs.
George’s class has started Operation Christmas Child. They are very excited and
hope to be able to fill 56 boxes this year!
Yesterday
we had our Remembrance Day assembly. Thank you to the junior high students and
Mr. Nadon for organizing the event. It was a nice ceremony.
School
is closed today and Monday. On Monday, our school is closed for the National
Day of Remembrance.
This
week our ITV News reporters are; Wesley Calvalcante, Cheyenne Bursey, Chenoah
Park, and Colin Spencer
Congratulations to all our students and families
on all the used cell phones they have brought to school. We are still
collecting until Nov. 22. |
| Stars of The Week |
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| Class News |
The
junior kindergarten classes enjoyed the firefighters Deputy Chief Bill Griffin
and firefighter Mark Griffin who visited them on Monday. They gave an
interactive presentation. They are finishing up their Remembrance Day
activities.
Mme. Brake’s
Kindergarten French Immersion class is continuing with their math unit on
numbers. They are learning about Remembrance Day and making poppies. In the
ceremony on Thursday they recited their French poem.
Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class really enjoyed the Remembrance Day service.
They have been busy this week reading story books and working on numbers in
math.
Ms. Parson’s
Kindergarten English class is continuing their number unit. They are focusing
on the letter “a” and learning about special people in their lives. They are
making cards to share with the most special person in their life.
Mme. Ryan’s
grade one French Immersion class is
starting a new unit in math about adding and subtracting up to 12. This week
they also learned about Remembrance Day. They would like to say congratulations
to Alex King who won a silver medal and two bronze medals in a karate
tournament last weekend.
Mrs.
George’s grade one English class is very excited to be heading up Operation
Christmas Child in our school this week. They had a great time at the pancake
breakfast and the Remembrance Day service.
Ms.
Park’s grade two class is learning about base ten blocks in math and will be
making math robots using base ten blocks.
They are learning about different habitats in science and researching
which animals live in each habitat. They are so very happy to have Fares Azouni
back in our school from Dubai.
Mme.
LaChance’s grade 2 and 3 French Immersion class was discussing Remembrance Day
this week. They talked a lot about the different wars that Canadians were
involved in. They learned how animals did a great job helping in the army. Not
just dogs, but cats, pigeons, and bears too. At the Remembrance Day service
they showed a slideshow about what they learned and challenged everyone to
change their Facebook profile to a picture of a poppy to honour Canadians who
have served their country.
Mrs.
Foley’s grade three and four class welcomed Dr. T.A. Loeffler to their
classroom on Thursday. Dr. Loeffler is from St. John’s and has climbed six of
the “Seven Summits” which are the highest peask on each of the seven
continents. She spoke on the challenges explorers and climbers face,
reinforcing their social studies unit on exploration.
Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class was very busy this week with assignments,
essays and spelling tests! They would like to congratulate McKenna Batstone,
Max Chrappa, William Bruce-Robertson and Clara Ryan who were selected to read
their Remembrance essays in our Remembrance Day ceremony. All the essays were very good! The grade 5
students had a blast making up their own sports broadcasts in language class.
Ms.
Jones’ junior high and level 1 class was very busy this week preparing the
school’s Remembracne Day service with Mr. Nadon. Also, last Saturday they were
out leaf raking to raise money for their trip to the Skills Challenge. They
would like to thank all the families who supported this fundraiser.
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| Coming Up |
Weather permitting the junior high classes will be continuing the leaf raking on Saturday.
School will be closed on Monday for Remembrance Day.
