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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, January 31, 2014.
Members of Mrs. McCarthy's grade 6 class striking a pose with
their "Holes" Novels at the literacy night photo booth station. (front
L-R): Keely Brothers and Anna Mackenzie, (Second Row L-R): Gina Spencer and
Keely Brothers, (third row L-R): Bridgett Sparkes, Cameron Peddle, and William
Bruce-Robertson, (Back L-R):Madison Noel, Jayden Lempriere, Cheyenne Bursey
(missing: from photo Anna Brake).
Photo 2: Junior Kindergarten students
Matthew Buckle and Ethan Hicks enter the gym with flashlights during the
Spotlight On Savings celebration.
On
Monday our school hosted our first ever family literacy night. It was a huge
success! Thank you to Mrs. Foley who organized the event and all the teachers
who created fun activities for our families. We had many fun stations including
making graphic novels, book mark making, a book sale, library book exchange,
literacy games online, mini-book making and a favourite book photo booth. We also had some prize winners for the door
prize, book sale, and book donations. Jayden Lempriere, James Lao, and Lukas Gilbert
all won a free book from scholastic. James Lao also won the giant pizza cookie
donated by Mrs. George at the used book sale. Yum!
Students
in Mrs. George, Mrs. Hodder and Mrs. Foley’s classes are very excited to start
the Little Green Thumbs project. Thank you to Mr. George and Mr. King for
installing the gardens this week. The Department of Agriculture donated the
gardens for this project. Also, Ms. Karen Kennedy from the Department of Natural
Resources visited with the teachers this week to help get the project started.
This
week we welcomed a new volunteer to our breakfast program. Welcome, Ms.
Jennifer McGinn.
On
Tuesday our school said goodbye to Wesley Calvalcante, an amazing person, who
travelled home to Brazil. We are sad to see him go. His class hosted a special
goodbye party and all the students gave him cards and visited to say goodbye.
The
Junior High students are doing exams this week. Today they finish with their
math exam.
Our
school is selling Winter Carnival buttons. The cost is $3 per button.
This week
our ITV News reporters are: William Bennett, Cole Dumaresque and Madison Noel.
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| Stars of The Week |
We
would like to congratulate our grade 6 girls’ basketball team who hosted
Templeton Collegiate last Friday. It was a very close and exciting game. The
girls lost by only three points. The girls would like to thank their wonderful
cheerleaders and their fans that came out to support them. They would also like
to thank their awesome coach Mrs. Bishop.
Congratulations
to Abigail Woodford who participated in her first hockey tournament in Port Aux
Basque last weekend.  |
| Class News |
The
junior kindergarten classes are learning about polar bears. They would like to
thank Ms. Nancy Janes who donated computer monitors to their classrooms.
Mme. Brake’s
Kindergarten French Immersion class would like to wish Noah Conté a happy
birthday. They celebrated his birthday this week. They read Jillian Jiggs and
made pigs out of recycled water bottles. They are starting their French shapes
in math.
Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class is starting addition and ordinal numbers.
They began planting their Little Green Thumbs Garden this week.
Ms. Parsons’s
Kindergarten English class has just started their Valentine’s Day math and
language activities. They did a melting experiment in science and are learning
about groups in social studies. They hope Grace Brake-Higgins is having fun in
Jamaica! They would like to tell her they miss her!
Mme. Ryan’s
grade one French Immersion class is learning about comparing and measuring
objects. This topic has prompted many interesting conversations. They are still
exploring how things change this week. They are having several very fun science
classes doing tasty experiments.
Mrs.
George’s grade one English class is so excited about the seedlings they planted
this week as part of the Little Green Thumbs program! They look forward to
sampling their produce.
Ms.
Park’s grade two class are learning about making wise decisions. They are
continuing their study of solids and liquids in science class.
Mme.
LaChance’s grade two and three French Immersion class are very busy this week.
The grade 2 students are writing a comic book about a dog named Médor who is
really annoying! The grade 3 students are reading a story about a stranger in
the woods. In this book, all the animals are searching for the strangers. They
soon find out the stranger is a snowman made by the children to observe the
animals!
Mrs.
Foley’s grade three and four class is really excited that their garden is
finally here. They will be planting a variety of seeds next week, including:
beans, tomatoes and salad mix. They can’t wait to watch their seeds turn into
seedlings and later full grown plants that they get to eat!
Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class were very busy this week. The grade six
students created a logo for a local business they would like to have in their
community. The grade 5 students are very excited to be reading Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory. They took pictures pretending they had won their very own
golden ticket!
Ms.
Jones’s junior high and level 1 class was busy completing midterm exams this
week. They will get their report cards next week. On Tuesday they said goodbye
to Wesley Calvalcante who has gone back home to Brazil. They hope you enjoyed
his time at our school. They will miss him very much! Also, they would like to
say goodbye to a special teacher, Ms. Jones who had her last day today.
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| Coming Up |
On
Monday we are having a celebration of Saint Valentine’s with the prayer group
at 1 pm.
The
Olympics begin on February 7th. We are very excited!!
We will
be celebrating teacher appreciation week February 10 to 14.
