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On Tuesday evening we held our 12th annual Elementary School Speak Off!
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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, May 22, 2015.
By: Amna Ahmad, William Bennett, Makenzy Bishop, Cole Dumareques
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| Kindergarten students Lucas Kennedy and Charlise Simmonds making an art project during their orientation session in grade one English with Mrs. George. |
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| Students (L-R) Jake Morey, Ava Hodder and Luke Coleman in Mrs. George's grade one English class with their Pope puppets they made for World Catholic Education Day last week. |
Last
week Mr. Drew’s class gave a special presentation in chapel for World Catholic
Education Day.
Last
Friday the students and teachers played an intense game of indoor soccer to
kick off the long weekend. The score was tied 2-2 when the end of day school
bell rang. Thank you to Matthew Young for refereeing the game. The students and
teachers played an excellent game and everyone had a lot of fun.
On
Tuesday evening we held our 12th annual Elementary School Speak Off.
Eight students represented the grades 4, 5, and 6 classes. In grade four: Isaac Buckingham, Clare Coleman and Colin
Spencer represented their class; in grade five:
Cole Dumaresque, Emily Murley and Aaron White represented their class;
in grade six: William Bennett and Max Chrappa represented their class. We would
like to thank our judges Mrs. Glenda Belbin, Ms. Stephanie Howell, and Ms.
Paula Grudich for volunteering their time. The overall winner was Clare Coleman
with her speech about facing her fears. Congratulations to all the speakers.
Also
on Tuesday we dressed up for a theme day to raise money for the grade 6 to
level 1 girls’ basketball team to travel to St. John’s for a tournament.
Everyone dressed up wearing clothes to show their favourite activity. The team
also hosted a hot dog sale on Wednesday.
The
grade one and two French immersion classes are happy to report that they raised
$211.10 at their bake sale last week! This means that they raised enough money
for five children in Rwanda to go to school! Thank you to all our students and
families for supporting this fundraiser.
On
Wednesday, our school hosted the annual junior kindergarten, kindergarten and
grade one orientation sessions in English and French Immersion. There were many
new little faces visiting our school and some very excited new kindergarten and
grade one students in our school!
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| Staples General Manager, Wendy Paul along with manager Rhonda Brothers and employee Jennifer Warren delivered our new technology equipment on Wednesday. We received $25,000 in new equipment for our classrooms. We have new ipads, new imac computers, a new projector, two Elmo digital cameras, a new school SLR camera and a new digital video camera. |
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| CLASS NEWS |
The junior kindergarten classes really enjoyed attending the kindergarten orientation on Wednesday. They spent a lot of time outside this week enjoying the spring weather.
Mme.
Brett’s Kindergarten French Immersion class is learning the sight word “c’est”.
This week they are learning about watersheds and drawing a poster for the ACAP
Humber Arm student art challenge. They are continuing their lessons on
subtraction and addition in math.
Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class was excited to spend the afternoon in grade
one with Mrs. George on Wednesday. This
week they are learning about the earth and the solar system in science. In math
they are learning about length.
Mrs.
George’s grade one English class is learning about living things in science
class. They are learning about the Holy Spirit in religion. They are doing lots
of practice for the upcoming musical. They would like to wish Kate Lombard a
very happy 7th birthday!
Mme.
Ryan’s grade one French Immersion class is learning about watersheds and how
humans can ensure we are doing our best to protect them. The children are
excited that their classroom butterfly kit will arrive today!
Ms.
Park’s grade two English class is learning about the attributes of objects in
math. They have learned about watersheds and created posters for the ACAP
Humber Arm art contest. Brooke is the student of the week!
Mme.
O’Dell’s grade two French Immersion class is doing some poetry reading and
writing of their own. The students are really enjoying being authors! They will
be doing some class presentations of their work.
Ms. Horner’s
grade three and four class has been practicing hard for the musical this week.
The class would like to congratulate Colin, Isaac and Clare for being chosen to
represent the class at the annual IHMS Elementary Speak Off on Tuesday
evening. The grade three students began
their provincial assessments in language arts and will continue writing them on
today and on Monday and Tuesday.
Mme.
Lachance’s grade three and four French Immersion class had a busy week with
science activities. The grade three students have finished their unit on
invisible forces and are learning about soil. The grade four students are doing
experiments about sound movement in air, water, and space.
Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class is enjoying the spring weather this week.
The students enjoyed playing a variety of sports outside during their gym
classes, intramurals and lunch break. In addition to our playground equipment,
we now have tether balls, soccer nets, soccer balls, basketball nets,
basketballs, and footballs. The class is
busy preparing their recycled art piece for the art show coming up in June.
They are still collecting plastic bottle caps!
Mr. Drew Nadon’s junior high and level 1 class has
been busy this week completing units in language arts, math and science. They
are less than one month away from final exams! The class has also been working
in art on painting the background for the school’s upcoming musical
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| COMING UP... |
Our annual science fair will be next Thursday at 1 pm in our school gymnasium. This event is open to all our families
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