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Tomorrow our school is hosting the Western Region Invitational Robotics Competition. We are hosting schools in the Western Region to learn about First Lego League Robotics and compete in team work and robot challenges.
This is a copy of IHMS's weekly new article Lion's Roar that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, October 23, 2015.
By: Jacob Bursey, Kori Noel, Alessandra LeBlanc, and Aaron White
Jeanette Higgins and daughter,
Grace Brake-Higgins checking out some books outside the school Scholastic Book
Fair this week.
Israela Ngania, with
her younger sister ,Sara Ngania, Kaitlyn Coade and Ella
Rashleigh during a classroom family visit where the students discussed schools
of the past.
Aaron White (back) and Isaac Buckingham work with the school's new
robot in preparation for the upcoming Western Region Invitational Robotics
Competition we are hosting this weekend.
Last
Friday evening we had Clare Coleman, Carly Johannesen, Aria Kazerouni, Arabella
LeBlanc, Alessandra LeBlanc, and Colin Spencer represent our school at the
fourth annual AgriFoods and Garden Spelling Bee. Congratulations to all of our spellers!
Aria placed second overall and Arabella placed third.
Our
school hosted a “Make the Cut” fundraiser on Sunday for the Canadian Cancer
Society. Grade one student, Meteghan Kane, and level one student, Maria Jessica
De Almeida, collected donations and cut off their hair to donate to the
Canadian Cancer Society. Mallory Chambers was unable to attend on Sunday, but
donated her hair to Ms. Tarragh Shannahan in chapel on Monday morning.
This
week we celebrated Waste Reduction Week. The week started with a blue theme day
for water conservation and the launch of the Recycle My Cell Campaign. On
Tuesday we went paper free, Wednesday we brought litterless lunches, on
Thursday we upcycled unwanted items, and today we are conserving water.
Our
cross country running team participated in the Regional Cross Country Running
race in Stephenville on Wednesday afternoon.
Immaculate
Heart of Mary School will be collecting used and broken cell phones until
November 19. Please help us by bringing in your used or broken cell phones or
calling the school to make your donation.
The
Student Leadership Council is busy preparing a spooky haunted house for
Halloween next week. Don’t forget to wear your costumes to school. We will be
hosting our annual Halloween costume parade.
Congratulations
to Jemma Butler, Keira Clarke, Ethan Lahey and Emily Hindy who won the candy
guessing game at the book fair. Congratulations to Lauren Green who was the
closest guess for the number of pages contest at the book fair. Congratulations
to Claire Patey who won the $25 family door prize and to her class who also won
$25!
Congratulations
to Carter Bromley who won third place in the grade four boys race hosted by St.
Gerard’s Elementary School last week. Our team was represented at the race by
26 runners. Good work everyone!
Congratulations
to Rebeakah Calbert who won a silver medal in a provincial orienteering, map
and compass competition with the Royal Canadian Army Cadets last weekend in St.
John’s.
Congratulations
to grade eight students, Madison Noel and Anna MacKenzie who won first prize
for their pumpkin in the junior high category at the AgriFoods and Garden Show
on Sunday.
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| CLASS NEWS |
The
junior kindergarten classes are talking about Halloween. The children are
getting very excited to celebrate with their friends. They are enjoying talking
about ghosts, bats, pumpkins, and jack o’lanterns. They cannot wait until next
week!
Mme.
Foley’s Kindergarten French Immersion class celebrated les fêtes de bleu et
vert this week. They made haunted houses out of milk and juice cartons for the
upcycling day on Thursday. They were very pleased and proud to lead in chapel
this week for the very first time.
Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class is starting a new unit in science on
plants. The students are working on the letter “e” and making Halloween crafts
this week.
Mme.
Ryan’s grade one French Immersion class is learning to represent numbers that
are larger than ten. They are working on a new Halloween song and doing a lot
of activities based on the song. They are going to make monsters using recycled
cereal boxes.
Mrs.
George’s grade one English class is writing Halloween alliteration and
illustrating their pieces. They really enjoyed their guided imagery in religion
where they imaged they were back in Israel during Jesus’ time. The star of the
week is Heidi.
Ms. Park’s
grade two class is making spooky silhouettes in art for Halloween. They are
learning how to count money in math. They are also learning what happens to
water in the air. For a fun activity they are making clouds.
Mme.
O’Dell’s grade two French Immersion class continued their unit in social studies talking about the past and how it
has affected our future. They realize that there are many people in our past
that have influenced our lives in a positive way.
Mme.
Moss’ grade three, four and five French Immersion class is working on spooky
Halloween themes in art. They are revising stories in French and writing
acrostic poems with adjectives. The grade four students teamed up with the
grade four English class for a fun science experiment.
Ms.
Horner’s grade three and four class had a great time at the AgriFoods and
Garden Show last. The students are working on Halloween themed writing. The
class welcomed Ms. Susanna Appelin who
is working with the class through an Access partnership with Grenfell College.
Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class have been working on homonyms in language
arts class. The grade five students are finishing off biographies on Canadian
and international heroes. The grade six students are busy writing descriptive
paragraphs for Halloween. In health, the grade five students are writing comics
about the respiratory system. The grade six students are excited to start work
on their First Lego League Robotics missions for the Intermediate Skills
Challenge.
Mr.
Drew Nadon’s junior high to level two class had an excellent field trip to the
Chrappa’s property on Friday. The students picked apples from the orchard and
enjoyed a marshmallow and wiener roast. The students have been busy this week
preparing for the Western Region Invitational Robotics Competition we are
hosting tomorrow.
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| COMING UP... |
The
grade six to level 2 students will be having a leaf raking fundraiser on
Saturday, November 7 (weather permitting). Please call the office to book your
lawn today.
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