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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, February 21, 2014.
Mme. Ryan's Grade 1 French Immersion class with their 100 day masks and collections. (L-R): Summer Gale, Craig Bishop, Abigail Tiller, and Alex King.
Students in Ms. Park's grade 2 class wearing their 100th
day t-shirts Back (L-R): Cole Boyd-Martin, Cohen Mackey, Jorja Perrett, Sadie
MacDonnell, Front (L-R): Abigail Woodford and Max Antle.
We hope that everyone enjoyed the extra-long
weekend because of the snow storms. The
provincial basketball tournaments were cancelled last week because of the
weather.
This week we welcome Ms. Jessi Martin who is a
new staff member in our Junior Kindergarten program. Also, we welcome an early childhood education
student from the College of the North Atlantic, Tara Tiller, who is doing a
work placement with our school.
Our school was a winner in the MMSB Recycle My
Cell Campaign! Way to go IHMS. Thank you to all the students and families who
brought in used cell phones.
On Tuesday we celebrated Valentine’s Day by
wearing red, white and pink. Many classes had parties and exchanged Valentines.
We celebrated the 100th of school on
Wednesday! The primary students dressed up for the 100th day theme
and the elementary and junior high students dressed to support our Olympic
athletes. All the students and staff watched Katelyn Osmond’s short program
through our media centre and Smartboards. All of our classes have been doing
Olympic theme activities in gym!
Our skating day has been moved to next Tuesday.
Our Scholastic book fair family night will be
next Wednesday night from 6 to 8 pm.
This
week our ITV News reporters are: Cheynne Bursey. Chenoah Park, and Colin Spencer.
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| Stars of The Week |
We would like to congratulate Katelyn Osmond on
her performance on Wednesday during her short program at the Sochi Winter
Olympics!
Congratulations to Keely Brothers who placed 9th
overall in the provincial Frosty Flip gymnastics competition in St. John’s last
weekend. Awesome!
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| Class News |
The junior kindergarten classes made fruit loop
100th day necklaces and headbands. For the rest of the week they
have been focusing on Olympic activities.
Mme. Brake’s Kindergarten French Immersion class
is 100 days smarter. They celebrated the 100th day with games,
cupcakes, and made self-portraits of what they will look like in 100 years with
cotton balls for hair.
Mrs. Hodder’s Kindergarten English class took
part in 100th day activities and celebrated Valentine’s Day this
week. They are excited to watch their plants continue to grow.
Ms. Parsons’s Kindergarten English class celebrated
Valentine’s Day on Tuesday and the 100th day on Wednesday. They are
learning all about the number 100 and taking part in lots of activities. They
are wishing Jesse Racicot a very happy 6th birthday!
Mme. Ryan’s grade one French Immersion class was
very excited about the 100th day of school. They had their 100th
day masks ready. They also shared the 100th day collections they
worked on as part of a math activity. They are beginning their fifth math unit
which just happened to be about the number 100!
Mrs. George’s grade one English class had lots
of fun on the 100th day of school! They have shared their 100
collections, wrote about what they’d like to do before they turn 100, and made
self-portraits of themselves at 100 years old. They also shined pennies using
ketchup in science class. They are really excited to visit the city library
today.
Ms. Park’s grade two class were very excited to
wear their 100th day t-shirts on Wednesday. They are very excited
about their visit to the public library today! The star of the week is Jorja.
Mme. LaChance’s grade two and three French
Immersion class have been following our Olympic athletes since the beginning of
the Olympics. During the games they have been making paper medals for each
athlete who has won a medal. They also shared their medal information with
other classes in presentations. During the winter games what colours are used
the most in class? Gold, silver and bronze of course!
Mrs. Foley’s grade three and four class celebrated
Valentine’s Day on Tuesday with sundae’s and had personalized cakes. On
Wednesday they had an Olympic theme day and dressed in patriotic colours. In
math the grade 3 students have begun 3D geometry and are creating 3D figures
from nets. It is quite challenging!
Mrs. McCarthy’s grade five and six class had a
lot of fun doing Olympic theme activities in gym class. The grade 5 class did a
chocolate taste test on Wednesday to determine their favourite kind of
chocolate bar as part of their Charlie and the Chocolate Factory novel study.
It was a delicious class! The grade 6 students are learning some study and
research strategies in language arts.
Mr.
Drew Nadon’s junior high and level 1 class is working on an analysis unit in
math. They helped to build an Olympic snow sculpture outside last week with the
grade 5 and 6 class. They are busy planning their play for the regional drama
festival and building their popsicle stick bridges.
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| Coming Up |
Our school will go skating on February 25 at
9:30 am.
