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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, December 20, 2013.
Students in Mrs. Deckert's afterschool sewing group
proudly presenting their finished products (Back L-R): Gavin Staples, Reyd
Ward, Gordon Staples and (front) Rebecca Janes.
It has been a really busy week at IHMS. We would
like to congratulate the winners in the Remembrance Day contest who received
their certificates on Monday night. They also presented their work in chapel on
Wednesday morning.
We would like to thank St. Gerard’s school for
lending us the risers for our annual Christmas concert last week. The concert
was a great success. Thank you to Mr. Graham and Mrs. Michael for all your hard
work and thank you to our volunteers and those who donated baked goods or items
for sale and to our families for supporting our big show! Also thank you to Mr.
Spencer for taking wonderful photos for us during the show.
We received a $500 wellness grant for our health
program, and a $1,000 Coleman’s Kids Get Active Grant. Thank you to Mr. Nadon
for working on the grants. Our school also received $3,500 from the TD Friends
of the Environment Foundation for a project with our greenhouse. Thank you to
Mrs. McCarthy and Mrs. King who worked on that proposal.
On Tuesday Keely Brothers along with other grade
6 students in the city visited locations around the city collecting food items
for the food bank.
Thank you to all our families for their
donations to the food bank, stockings for seniors and toys for the firefighter’s
toy drive.
On Wednesday we celebrated the Feast of the
Immaculate Conception in our chapel with Mrs. Coleman and the prayer group.
We also celebrated some Christmas activities
this week. On Wednesday we had a school pancake breakfast, skating on Thursday
sponsored by the Knights of Columbus and a school variety show in the afternoon
organized by the student council.
Ms. Park’s class lit the third candle on the
advent wreath on Tuesday and Mme. LaChance’s class lit the fourth candle on
Wednesday. Thank you for your beautiful
prayers and celebration.
This week our ITV News reporters are: Hajra
Ahmad, Simon Boitsefski, Isaac Buckingham, and Emily Murley.
We
would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and happy New Year!
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| Stars of The Week |
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| Class News |
The junior kindergarten classes would like to
congratulate Mark and Rebecca Janes’s family who moved into their new home for
Christmas. They would like to wish best wishes to Deborah McCarthy and Felicia
Ginn who finish their ECE placement with us on Friday. The students enjoyed
making reindeer food this week and creating presents for mom and dad. The
students are having their Christmas party on Friday.
Mme. Brake’s Kindergarten French Immersion class
had a very exciting week. It was full of Christmas fun including: cookie
decorating, Christmas carols, gift wrapping and more snow fun. We are wishing
everyone a very Merry Christmas.
Mrs. Hodder’s Kindergarten English class made
Christmas tree crafts for their classroom. The most important thing that
happened this week was that they received a letter right from Santa!
Ms. Parsons’s Kindergarten English class made
homemade cinnamon Christmas decorations in the cafeteria. They also made melted
snowmen in a baggie. They are super excited for the Christmas break and had a
great time skating on Thursday.
Mme. Ryan’s grade one French Immersion class is very
busy this week cluing up activities before the Christmas break. They had so
much fun with all the activities this week.
Mrs. George’s grade one English class is making
a special surprise for parents for Christmas. They are sad to announce that two
of their classmates are moving in the New Year. Erica is moving out of the province
and Nikola is moving out of the country. They will miss them a lot, but will
stay in touch. They would like to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas
and a happy New Year too!
Ms. Park’s grade two class enjoyed lighting the
third advent candle in the chapel and making Christmas ornaments in class. They
would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas.
Mme. LaChance’s grade two and three French
Immersion class were busy being Santa’s elves and doing lots of things for
their parents this week. They are enjoying making cards for each other and were
excited to light the fourth advent candle in chapel and sing their French song
for the school.
Mrs. Foley’s grade three and four class celebrated
Mr. Nadon’s birthday with a Maple Leafs themed party on Friday. In art class
they created beautiful stained glass nativity scenes for the windows. On
Wednesday they got creative with some Christmas –themed science experiments and
activities. They are enjoying all the snow and looking forward to Christmas.
Mrs. McCarthy’s grade five and six class is
really looking forward to Christmas break. The grade five students are learning
about point of view by reading a play about the birth of Jesus. The grade six
students are learning about data in math. Both grades had a lot of fun doing
their surprise “Mummer Song” performance at the variety show on Thursday.
Ms.
Jones’s junior high and level 1 class was busy this week creating a video for
the variety show about Christmas memories. Last week the grade 8 technology
class made a radio ad about why smoking is a bad idea. The students are excited
to have a two week vacation!
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| Coming Up |
School will be dismissed for Christmas break on
Friday at noon and will re-open on Monday, January 6, 2014.
