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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, October 17, 2014.
This is a copy of IHMS's weekly new article Lion's Roar that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, October 17, 2014.
By: Paige Walsh and Max Chrappa
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| Students wait for their meal during our annual thanksgiving dinner. Front to back (Left): Meteghan Kane, Jamie White-Robertson, and Saleen Obeid (Right): Caradyn Kane and Rotém Phillips-Grobbelaar. |
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| Students in grade 5 and 6 read food labels as they``shop`for healthy groceries during our school`s healthy commotion activities. (L-R): Telicia Young, Emma Doman, Emily Murley, and Paige Walsh. |
This
week was Citizenship week. Classes participated in different activities about
our Canadian Citizenship.
Last
Friday we all enjoyed a delicious Thanksgiving meal with the entire school.
Thank you to Academy Canada for preparing the meal and to Mrs. Janice Coleman
and the parent volunteers who served dinner. Thank you to Madison Noel and
Felipe Barros for emceeing our dinner. Also, thank you to Mr. Graham and the
primary choir for performing. In addition, our Brazilian exchange students who
sang a beautiful song. Our school presented our food bank donation to Mrs.
Agnes McCarthy of the Bay of Islands Food Bank. Thank you to our students and
families for your donations.
Our
vegetable fundraiser was a big success. We sold 620 bags of vegetables. Thank
you to our families for supporting this fundraiser and to Mr. Drew Nadon’s
class for helping with the vegetables when they arrived.
On
Wednesday afternoon we celebrated healthy commotion activities. Students are
participated in four different stations including an obstacle course and
smoothie making. Thank you to Mr. Ryley Nadon for organizing this event.
This
week our cross country running teams participated in a meet in Stephenville for
grades three to Level 1. All our runners ran great races!
We
would like to thank Dru Kennedy of Dru Kennedy Photography for donating a new
camera to our school.
This
Friday is the Janeway Pajama-rama. We will be celebrating next week with a
pajama day, some movie trivia “Name that Movie”, and an afternoon movie and
popcorn!
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| STARS OF THE WEEK |
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| IHMS WEEKLY CLASS NEWS |
The
junior kindergarten classes are doing the letter “C” and the number “4”. They
are growing corn and making splash monsters. They have three new CONA students
to their classroom this week. They are Heather Elliott, Trina Foss and Jessica
Leonard Rowsell. The junior kindergarten classes welcome Noah Cassell to JK
this week.
Mme.
Brake’s Kindergarten French Immersion class is celebrating Citizenship week.
The students are learning to sing O’Canada in French. On Wednesday, the
students made berry smoothies as part of healthy commotion activities. Yum! The
students have started to make haunted houses to help with thie French Halloween
vocabulary.
Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class completed healthy commotion activities on
Wednesday afternoon. It was a lot of fun! They have been busy making Halloween
crafts and talking about Halloween. Shophie Grant and her family welcomed baby
Elinor this week. Congratulations!
Mrs.
George’s grade one English class had fun making haunted houses and writing
about them. In religion they are learning about what it was like to grow up in
Jesus’ time. They are learning facts about Canada as they celebrate Citizenship
Week. Brady Green is the star of the week.
Mme.
Ryan’s grade one French Immersion class had so much fun during the healthy
commotion. They loved the smoothies and playing FITGO. They are learning what
it means to be a good citizen. They have realized that they make positive
contributions to their community and the world.
Ms.
Park’s grade two class is learning about money in math. They have started a new
spider unit in language arts. They are learning all kinds of cool and creepy
spider facts. They are also looking at schools in the past in social studies
class. They are comparing their school to schools in the past.
Mme.
O’Dell’s grade two French Immersion class is starting a new unit in language
arts on fall and leaves. Their celery has not yet sprouted. They are watching
very closely!
Ms.
Rumbolt’s grade three and four class is happy to be back after the long
weekend. The grade 3 students had a lot of fun making apple sauce with the
French Immersion grade 3 students and Mrs. McCarthy on Friday. After they made
the apple sauce they practiced a choral reading of a poem about apples. The
entire class is looking forward to some Halloween projects.
Mme.
Lachance’s grade three and four French Immersion class has learned a lot of
French verbs this week. It was a real challenge. They have begun to talk, read
and write about Halloween. They wrote about “what if everything was possible to
create the perfect Halloween costume”.
Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class enjoyed the healthy commotion activities on
Wednesday afternoon. The grade 6 students had a math test this week. In French,
the students are making haunted houses!
Mr. Drew Nadon’s junior high and level 1 class was
excited to take part in a cross country running event in Stephenville on
Tuesday. The students enjoyed the challenge! They are looking forward to the
leaf raking on November 1st.
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| COMING UP AT IHMS... |
Scholastic
book fair family night event is this Tuesday, October 21 from 6:30-8:30 pm. All
are welcome!
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Immaculate Heart of Mary School, home of The Lions!
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