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This is a copy of IHMS's weekly new article Lion's Roar that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, September 26, 2014.
This is a copy of IHMS's weekly new article Lion's Roar that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, September 26, 2014.
By: Makenzy Bishop, Max Chrappa, Cole Dumaresque, and Paige Walsh
The following are pictures from our National Forestry Week activities at Margaret Bowater Park on Wednesday morning. Mrs. Angel McCarthy's grade 5 and 6 class attended information sessions and the tree planting ceremony for National Tree Day.
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| Emily Murley tries out some firefighting equipment. |
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William Bennett plants a tree.
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| Students in Ms. Rumbolt and Mr. Ryley Nadon's science class display their food project as part of their learning about rocks and minerals (L-R): Isaac Buckingham, Aria Kazerouni and Clare Coleman. |
This
week we held our student leadership council elections. Maria Reynolds was
elected Prime Minister, Anna MacKenzie was elected Deputy Prime Minister,
William Bennett was elected as secretary and Telicia Young was elected as
primary representative. Congratulations to all students who took part in the
election this year. Classes are busy choosing their classroom representatives.
Thank you to Mr. Drew Nadon and Mrs. McCarthy for organizing the election.
This
week our school celebrated National Forest Week. The grade 5 and 6 class
participated in the official opening ceremonies and a variety of activities at
Margaret Bowater Park.
On
Wednesday, for National Tree day we held a “paperless” day at school. Also,
students in our school made leaves to hang on a school tree in the main lobby
and talked about the importance of our trees.
On Thursday we had a theme day where students
wore fall colours. As part of our schoolyard naturalization project we planted
bulbs and crocuses around our school. Thank you to all of our families for
donating these plants and to Mr. Dave Smith and his team for assisting with the
planting.
This
Wednesday our cross country runners participated in their second meet. The run
was hosted by J.J. Curling School. Mr. Drew Nadon has started a grade seven to
level 1 running team. The team meets every Wednesday after school.
Our
teachers hosted a curriculum night in our school gym on Thursday evening from
7-8:30 pm.
This
year our school lunch program is being run by Mrs. Barb Anderson. We would like
to welcome back our breakfast volunteers Mrs. Barb Anderson and Mrs. Shirley
Porter. Our breakfast program is very
busy and we are grateful to have you! We also would like to welcome back Mr.
Charles Cameron who dedicates time to improving our school library. Thank you,
Mr. Cameron.
This
week we welcome Mr. Paul Butler to our afterschool program. Mr. Butler is
hosting a chess club for students every Thursday from 4 to 5 pm.
We would like to thank Murphy Brothers for
donating the bus for our junior high to level 1 students to go on their field
trip to Bonne Bay Pond last week.
The
grade six to level 1 students are hosting a car wash at the Canadian Tire Gas
Bar this Saturday from 11 am to 4 pm. All money raised will help the team with
the cost of equipment and travel to the Intermediate Skills Challenge held each
year in Mount Pearl.
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| STARS OF THE WEEK |
Congratulations
to members of our cross country runner club who participated in the meet at St.
Gerard’s last week. Our runners included: Makenzy Bishop, Brandon Brake, Isaac
Buckingham, Jacob Bursey, Cole Boyd-Martin, Jakson Ganz, Clare Coleman, Emma
Doman, Aria Kazerouni, Isabelle Mercier, Lucas Neville, Natalie Parsons, Caleb
Rashleigh, Myles Young, and Telicia Young.
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| IHMS WEEKLY CLASS NEWS |
The
junior kindergarten classes are learning the letter “b” and “z”. They are
making apple scented bubbles and tasting apples.
Mme.
Brake’s Kindergarten French Immersion class is doing tree art for National Tree
Day. They are also learning about the golden rule.
Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class had a lot of fun planting bulbs for
National Forest Week. They are learning about patterns in math and living and
non-living things in science.
Mrs.
George’s grade one English class is writing about things they like to do in the
fall. They have started their second unit in math. They are celebrating
National Forest Week by learning about trees and planting seedlings (thank you
Ms. Hamlyn!) and doing some fun leaf crafts. The star of the week is
Ben-Bellows-Davis.
Mme.
Ryan’s grade one French Immersion class is leading in chapel this week. It is
their first time leading the prayers in French. They were very excited. They
have started to do some activities about fall and apples. They are learning a
lot!
Ms.
Park’s grade two class is having fun making sunflowers using tissue paper and
sunflower seeds in art class. They are exploring the schoolyard to discover the
signs of fall and making a fall or autumn book in language arts. They are doing
science experiments to find out if there is any water in the air.
Mme.
O’Dell’s grade two French Immersion class is learning to count by 2,5, and 10.
They are also doing pattern naming attributes and extending on their patterns.
Ms.
Rumbolt’s grade three and four class has been very busy this week. The students
in running club had a great time at their second running meet. In science, the
grade three students are welcoming a guest to their classroom next week to help
them learn about composting. The grade four students are almost ready to
display their “line art”.
Mme.
LaChance’s grade three and four French Immersion class is learning about
patterns in math. Students have been very creative in writing their own
patterns. In science the grade threes are learning about different parts of
plants and the grade fours are learning about the interaction between animals
and nature. The grade three students are excited about writing postcards from
school to a special friend in English class.
Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class had a great time on their field trip this
week. They would like to thank Mrs. Dumaresque, Mr. Walsh and Ms. Chrappa for
driving them to their field trip. It was a little cold, but they had a great
time. They especially enjoyed the hot chocolate donated by Mrs. Dumaresque and
Ms. Chrappa afterwards! They really enjoyed reading “Being a Genie: A Beginners
Guide” this week and writing about “Wishes that Annoy Genies”. They agree that
genie’s would be annoyed by someone wishing for more wishes!
Mr. Drew Nadon’s junior high and level 1 class has
been busy preparing their script acting for theatre arts. The students are
looking forward to their car wash fundraiser this weekend from 11-4 at the
Canadian Tire Gas Bar to help raise money for their skills challenge trip.
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| COMING UP AT IHMS... |
Vegetable
orders are due Oct. 2.
School
will be closed for students in kindergarten to level 1 on October 2nd
for professional development. The junior kindergarten program will remain open.
We
are having a theme day on October 3 for the Western Memorial Radiothon.
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Immaculate Heart of Mary School, home of The Lions!
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