Friday, March 18, 2016
Lion's Roar - Friday, March 18, 2016
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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, March 18, 2016.
By: Isaac Buckingham, Marcus Gallant, Colin Spencer, and Carly Johannesen
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| Jaabili Kollipara and Charlie Hynes made a log cabin and wood pile out of foam shapes in Kindergarten French Immersion class this week as part of a lesson on patterning and building in math. |
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| Kindergarten students Lauren Green and Noor Aitaee try out a wheelchair during the Kindergarten orientation at Western Regional Memorial Hospital. |
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| Students, Logan (back) and Jacob Butt, help water the classroom plants in Mrs. Hodder's kindergarten English classroom. The garden is part of the Little Green Thumbs Program. |
On
Monday we celebrated Pi Day in our classes. Some of our students are memorizing
the digits of Pi for our upcoming Pi Day contest.
Mme.
Ryan’s grade one and two French Immersion class hosted a bake sale on Monday to
raise money for their humanitarian project to buy livestock for a village in
need.
On
Thursday we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with a green theme day. Many of our
classes were busy trying to catch the leprechaun. The Student Leadership
Council sold gold coins and hosted a guessing contest for classes to win a pot
of leprechaun treasure. Mr. Drew’s homeroom is organizing our annual St.
Patrick’s Day Family Potluck and social this Sunday from 4:30 to 6:00 pm.
Families and extended family members are welcome!
Today
we are hosting our Term 1 Awards assembly. We are honouring perfect attendance,
perfect spelling, improved reading awards, academic excellence and provincial
contest winners. Congratulations to everyone on their achievements in Term 1.
Congratulations
to our school choir, chamber choir, primary choir, junior kindergarten and
kindergarten choir grade five and six
band and junior and senior high bands who performed in the Corner Brook Rotary
Festival last week. Everyone performed exceptionally well.
We
would like to wish a happy birthday to Ms. Cora Ochoa!
Stars of the Week
Congratulations
to all our students who performed in the Corner Brook Rotary Music Festival,
including: Simon Boitsefski, Isaac Buckingham, Sarah Buckingham, Clare Coleman,
Luke Coleman, Noah Evans, Ava Hodder, Aria Kazerouni, Ani Kennedy, Alessandra
LeBlanc, Arabella LeBlanc, Alister MacDonnell, Charlotte Mercier, Isabelle
Mercier, Israela Ngania, Ella Rashleigh, Gabriel Rowsell, Lily Smallwood, and
Colin Spencer.
Congratulations
to Stars of the Festival winners. Simon Boitsefski received $50 for Theatre
Newfoundland Labrador musical theatre scholarship and a $50 scholarship in
memory of Rob Michael for junior piano. Clare Coleman received a $50 scholarship
from Academy Canada for musical mheatre, a $50 scholarship from Carlson Wagonlit
& Harvey’s Travel for junior piano and junior voice. Luke Coleman received a $25 Ida Lundrigan
Scholarship for musical theatre, and $25 Ida Lundrigan Scholarship for piano. Aria
Kazerouni received $50 scholarship in memory of Rob Michael for junior piano.
Alister MacDonnell received a $50 Beta Sigma Phi scholarship for percussion.
Lily Smallwood received a $25 Ida Lundrigan scholarship for piano and a $25
scholarship for musical theatre. Colin Spencer received a $50 Academy Canada
scholarship for musical theatre, a $50 scholarship in memory of Rob Michael for
junior voice, and a $50 Beta Sigma Phi Scholarship for piano.
Congratulations
to Emma Cook who received her level one swimming badge and Ivor Cook who
received his level four badge this week.
Congratulations
to carter Bromley, Noah Colbourne, and Noah Evans who participated in a novice
tournament in St. John’s this past weekend. Carter received a trophy for being
the Player of the Game.
Congratulations
to Jenna Cammie and Rebecca Janes who participated in the synchronized Figure
Skating Competition this past weekend. Jenna’s team won gold!
Congratulations
to Kara Blanchard, Wes Cleveland, Emma Cook, Ivor Cook Gabriel Rowsell, Carter
Hickey, Logan George, Rotém Phillips Grobelaar, Shane Matthews, Fabian Ryan, Liam Stride,
Brooke Watton, and Jack Watton who received medals from the Marble Mountain Ski
Program.
Congratulations
to Charlotte Mercier, Isabelle Mercier, and Trinity Rouse who cut off their
hair to donate for cancer patients!
Congratulations
to Jacob Bursey, Max Chrappa, Uriah Cull, James Lao and Alister MacDonnell who
participated in the Provincial Chess Tournament in St. John’s this past
weekend. Alister MacDonnell received a Most Sportsmanship Award, an award that
was presented for the first time in thirteen years. Uriah cull placed second in
the grade one category. Congratulations to all participants.
Class News
The
junior kindergarten classes learned about St. Patrick’s Day this week. The
students were happy to see the sunshine and go outside to play in the snow this
week. Everyone is looking forward to Easter vacation.
Mme.
Foley’s Kindergarten French Immersion class is studying the letter “v” this
week. They had a lot of fun on their hospital field trip on Wednesday. A
leprechaun left footprints and coins all over their classroom on St. Patrick’s
Day.
Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class enjoyed their visit to the Western Regional
Memorial Hospital to attend the kindergarten orientation. The class set a trap for the leprechaun on
Thursday, but did not catch him!
Mrs.
George’s grade one English class learned about St. Patrick this week. They had
a lot of fun making leprechaun traps. They didn’t manage to catch one, but did
receive a note and some treats. In science they learned about living things.
They enjoyed Pi Day on Monday too!
Mme.
Ryan’s grade one and two French Immersion class held a bake sale on Monday in
aid of their humanitarian project. They raised 115.00! The class is also
planning a used kid’s book sale. They had a lot of fun this week celebrating
St. Patrick’s Day!
Ms. Park’s
grade two class was excited to try catching a leprechaun. On Monday they wrote
instructions on how to catch one and on Wednesday they built traps. In science
they are learning about friction.
Mme.
Moss’ grade three, four and five French Immersion class have been very busy this
week. The grade three students are learning about soil health and global
importance of preserving soil. The grade four students are using what they
learned in their sound unit to orchestrate songs for their ears. The grade five
students presented their speeches in language arts class.
Ms.
Crockers’ grade three and four class were really excited to celebrate St.
Patrick’s Day on Thursday. The grade three students have started a new unit on
fractions in math, while the grade four students are learning about reducing
and comparing fractions. The grade four students celebrated Pi Day by writing
Pi-kus. A Pi-ku is a poem similar to a Haiku except it has three lines of 3-1-4
syllables and is written about math.
Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class presented their speeches in class this
week. The grade five students had a chocolate tasting on Monday. The class
favourite was Lindt chocolate closely followed by Cadbury Dairy Milk and
Hersey. The grade six students wrote creative Pi-Kus for Pi Day on Monday. In
health class the students are creating a recipe book.
Mr.
Drew Nadon’s junior high to level two class had a great time at the National
Geoscience and Engineering Month Bridge Building competition on Saturday.
Jordan Park and Myles Calbert’s bridge held 160 kg! The class visited the
public library on Tuesday for an orientation to begin their Heritage Fair and
Enterprise Olympics projects.
Coming Up
The
annual Elementary Speak Off will be held in our school cafeteria this Monday
evening at 7 pm.
Friday, March 11, 2016
Lion's Roar - Friday, March 11, 2016
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| Immaculate Heart of Mary School Home of The Lions Celebrating 16 Years! _________________________________________________ |
Find us for information, updates, pictures, and other cool stuff. We won't sting. Promise.
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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, March 11, 2016.
By: Ryan Bennett and Aria Kazerouni
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| Rachael Griffin and Ava Hodder playing floor hockey during the school Olympic activities day last Friday. |
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| Students (L-R): Ryan Bennett, Isaac Buckingham, Jack Richardson, Aria Kazerouni, and Marcus Gallant visit with our Special Olympians Nikki King, Philip Beales and Brandon Park on Tuesday during their visit to our school. |
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| Jacob Cull, Matthew Kemp and Noah Colbourne practice their Japanese character writing during a presentation by some Japanese students from Grenfell Campus. The students visited the school as part of the Culture to Community Program. |
Last Friday afternoon we had an afternoon of
Special Olympic games in the gym. Students played floor hockey, speed skating,
snow shoe races, ice skating and more. Thank you to Mr. Ryley and the junior
high and senior high students who organized the events.
This week our choirs and bands performed at
the Rotary Music Festival. On Monday the primary choir took part in a workshop,
on Tuesday the school choir and chamber choir performed, on Thursday morning the
junior kindergarten and kindergarten choirs performed, and today the grade five
and six band will perform, as well as the junior and senior high band.
On Tuesday we welcomed Special Olympic
athletes Philip Beales, Nikki King, and Brandon Park to our school to talk
about their experience in the winter games, how they prepared, and their
special equipment.
Report cards went home on Wednesday for
students in kindergarten to grade six. Parent teacher interviews took place on
Thursday evening.
On Wednesday we welcomed four Japanese
students to our school as part of the Culture to Community Program through Grenfell
Campus. The students gave a presentation on Japanese culture, season, and
language. Afterwards, the students did individual sessions with small groups on
origami and Japanese character writing. Thank you to Mr. Thomas Young who
organized the Culture to Community Program for our school.
Lily Smallwood collected donations for our
school greenhouse at her birthday party instead of receiving gifts. Lily
donated over $350 to our school greenhouse.
Clare Coleman has reached her goal of
collecting 500 pairs of used eye glasses for Haiti. We are continuing to collect
donations of eye glasses until the end of March.
Our school is also collecting bread tags,
used batteries, pens and markers, and ink cartridges for recycling.
Stars
of the Week
Congratulations to Jordan Park who
participated in a provincial bowling competition in St. John’s. His team won
bronze.
Congratulations to our students who took part
in the music festival this week. Lily Smallwood placed first and Ella Rashleigh
placed third in Class 661-A Piano - Preparatory (A/B) not over 9; Alessandra
LebBlanc placed third in Class 210-A Concert Group Any voice – 10 and under;
and Simon Boitsefski placed first and Colin Spencer placed second in Class
210-B Concert Group – Any voice – 10 and under. Congratulations in the Rotary
Music Festival.
Class
News
The junior kindergarten classes are talking
about St. Patrick’s Day. They enjoyed singing in the music festival. They would
like to welcome two College of the North Atlantic students to their class this
week: Ms. Jacqueline Bennett and Caitlyn Simms.
Mme. Foley’s Kindergarten French Immersion
class is learning the letter “r” this week. They researched megalodon sharks
and mapped out their 20 m length in the hallway. The students were very excited
to sing at the Arts and Culture Centre as part of the Rotary Music Festival. It
was also exciting to get to ride a school bus!
Mrs. Hodder’s Kindergarten English class enjoyed
the Special Olympian visit on Tuesday. The students had fun performing at the
Rotary Music Festival. They were very excited to ride the bus to the Arts and
Culture Centre on Thursday. The class is very excited to announce that they won
two iPads in the HotShots contest!
Mrs. George’s grade one English class really
enjoyed meeting our amazing Olympians on Tuesday! This week they also enjoyed
some Japanese culture in their classroom. They learned about life in Japan,
origami and how to write their name with Japanese characters.
Mme. Ryan’s grade one and two French
Immersion class were excited to greet the Special Olympians. They are so proud
of their hard work. They are fabulous role models. The students also took part
in a Culture to Culture presentation with Japanese students who are attending
Grenfell Campus.
Ms. Park’s grade two class have been learning
about simple machines in science. They are excited to build their own. The
students learned how to write their names in Japanese and make some cool
origami on Wednesday with some visiting Japanese students.
Mme. Moss’ grade three, four and five French
Immersion class is working on St. Patrick’s Day writing activities in French,
as well as St. Patrick’s Day data in math. They will be using plenty of games
to practice their St. Patrick’s Day vocabulary.
Ms. Crockers’s grade three and four class had
a busy week. The students loved performing in the Rotary Music Festival on
Tuesday morning at the Arts and Culture Centre.
The grade four students are almost finished writing their speeches for
the Elementary Speak Off. The grade three students are finishing up their novel
study in language arts.
Mrs. McCarthy’s grade five and six class made
St. Patrick’s Day leprechauns in art on Monday. The students are practicing
their speeches for the upcoming Elementary Speak Off.
Mr. Drew Nadon’s junior high to level two
class will compete on Saturday in the National Geosciences and Engineering
Month Bridge Building Competition at the Corner Brook Plaza. The judging for
the competition begins at 10 am and the bridge testing will begin at 11. All
bridges are tested until they break. The students are looking forward to see
how much weight their bridges will hold.
Friday, March 4, 2016
Lion's Roar - Friday, March 4, 2016
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| Immaculate Heart of Mary School Home of The Lions Celebrating 16 Years! _________________________________________________ |
Find us for information, updates, pictures, and other cool stuff. We won't sting. Promise.
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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, March 4, 2016.
By: Jacob Bursey, Kori Noel and Jack Richardson
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| Our school winners in the “Say Yes to Friendship” Poster Contest for National Non-Violence Month. This contest was in partnership with the Western Regional Coalition to End Violence. Students display their winning artwork. (L-R): Leah Lainey, Jaabili Kollipara, and Reyd Ward |
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Kindergarten French Immersion student, James Coade, with the letter "q" he made out of cubes.
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| Level two students Arista White (left) and Emily O'Bryan (right) with level one student, Maria Reynolds, work on their Popsicle stick bridge for the National Geosciences and Engineering Month Bridge Building Competition. |
Last
week we had another successful Scholastic Book Fair. Liam Gaulton was the
winner of the candy guessing game, and Nicholas Mauger won the guess for the
number of pages in the book game. The family draw was won by Cassie Hoskins. She
received $25 for her family and $25 for her classroom. Family literacy night winners were Lily
Smallwood, Ryder Borden, and Ethan Hicks.
We
would like to thank our families for their support of the Corner Brook Winter
Carnival. IHMS sold 710 buttons this year.
This
month is Mathletics March Madness. Our students will be competing in math
contests with students worldwide.
Currently
we are collected old single use batteries as part of an environmental
initiative through MMSB.
We
would like to congratulate our participants in the Winter Carnival Spelling Bee
last week. Representing grade four Natalie Parsons and Caleb Rashleigh,
representing grade five Clare Coleman
and Colin Spencer, and representing grade six Isaac Buckingham and Aaron White.
Isaac Buckingham was the overall winner in grade six. Congratulations to all
our spellers!
Over
the weekend Isaac Buckingham and Isabelle Mercier travelled to St. John’s to
compete in the Fourth Annual Scripps Spelling Bee. The students studied over
1100 words in preparation for the event. We would like to congratulate them on
their performance! Mme. Moss and Mrs. McCarthy also attended the spelling bee
to support our spellers.
The
girls’ and boys’ grade six basketball teams participated in the West Coast
Provincials over the weekend. Congratulations to our teams on their
performances.
Mr.
Nadon’s grade four and five science classes were the provincial winners in the K-I-C
contest sponsored by Newfoundland Light and Power. As a result of the
provincial win our school will receive five new iPads! As well, Mrs. Hodder’s
kindergarten class was a runner up in the same contest and will receive two new
iPads.
Our
school is the provincial winner in the Recylce My Cell Campaign. We are the recipients
of a $500 environmental grant and we will receive $1 for every cell phone we
recycled.
We
would like to congratulate all the Special Olympic athletes visiting Corner
Brook and competing in a variety of sports. We are looking forward to meeting
with local athletes next week.
Colin
Spencer, along with his mom Janice Spencer, sang “O’Canada” and “The Ode to
Newfoundland” at the opening of the Special Olympics on Tuesday evening.
We
would like to congratulate our school winners in the “Say
Yes to Friendship” Poster Contest for National
Non-Violence Month. This contest was in partnership with the Western Regional
Coalition to End Violence. Our kindergarten winner is Jaabili Kollipara, our
primary winner is Leah Lainey, and our elementary winner is Reyd Ward.
Stars of the Week
Congratulations
to Carter Bromley, Noah Colbourne, and Mark Janes who participated in a novice
tournament in Twin Towns on Saturday. Their team won a gold medal.
Congratulations
to Jenna Cammie who participated in a figure skating competition in Botwood this
past weekend. Jenna earned the right to participate in the Atlantic
Championships.
Class News
The
junior kindergarten classes are learning about the special Olympic sports. They
talked about the letter “j” and did activities with the letter.
Mme.
Foley’s Kindergarten French Immersion class celebrated
Dr. Seuss' birthday by painting cat in the hat mosaic paintings. The students
were busy learning the letter “q” this week.
Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class enjoyed tasting cucumber from their Little
Green Thumbs Garden. They are thrilled to have won iPads for the school through
the Hotshots contest. This week they have been learning about Special Olympic
Sports.
Mrs.
George’s grade one English class has been learning about the Special Olympics. They are really looking
forward to meeting some of the athletes when they visit our school next week.
They would like to wish them the best of luck! In science class they have been
learning about our similarities and differences. In math, the students are
working on different ways to make groupings.
Mme.
Ryan’s grade one and two French Immersion class have been talking about ways
that we can include everyone in our activities this week. The students are very
excited about the Special Olympics and the athletes visiting our school next
week. They are also working on a humanitarian project that will purchase
animals and seeds for a village in another country.
Ms. Park’s
grade two class learned about how water can change form by doing a fun
experiment with melting a mini snowman. They discussed the Special Olympics and
completed a craft. In math, they are having lots of fun measuring things in
their classroom. Last week they were delighted to have Leif the Lucky visit
their class with our Leifling, Alister MacDonnell
Mme.
Moss’ grade three, four and five French Immersion class would like to
congratulate Isabelle Mercier for her performance in the Telegram Scripps
Spelling Bee last weekend. This week the students are being parts of speech
detectives in French and writing about their daily routines using present tense
conjugation.
Ms.
Crockers’ grade three and four class having been thinking about the special
Olympians this week and supporting our athletes by attending the opening
ceremonies. The grade three students have been learning how to interpret bar
graphs and compare them in venn diagrams. The grade four’s are creating their
own pictographs in math. Both classes are working on novel studies in language
arts. The grade fours are preparing speeches for the upcoming Elementary Speak
Off.
Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class created business ideas and logos for the
YMCA Create A Logo Contest this week.
The grade five students learned how chocolate is made from coco beans in
Gahana. The video made everyone hungry! The grade six class is continuing their
novel study on “Holes”.
Mr.
Drew Nadon’s junior high to level two class is looking forward to organizing
the school’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Potluck Dinner. The grade seven and eight
students are working on a novel study. The grade nine to level two students are
beginning their Shakespearean study by learning about Shakespeare and making
him a Facebook page.
Coming Up
Our
school is performing in the Rotary Music Festival next week.
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