By: Grace Brake-Higgins, Israela Ngania,Ava Hodder, Maitham Al-Zubaidy
This week we hosted another successful Scholastic Book Fair. Thank you to our families for your support. Erica Kennedy was the winner of the page estimation contest, Kira McCarthy was the winner in the family draw and Grace Brake-Higgins was the winner in the chocolate guessing. We would like to send special thanks to Mrs. George, teacher volunteers and Mr. Bryan McCarthy for their help with organizing the book fair.
On Wednesday we honoured Pink t-shirt day for anti-bullying campaigns. Classes focused on activities throughout the week and Wednesday on the importance of being kind to others.
On Thursday morning we held our Midterm Assembly to honour students with perfect attendance, perfect spelling, excellence in spelling, improvements in reading, improvements in writing, and honours and distinctions for junior and senior high students.
Stars of the Week
Congratulations to our IHMS Chess players on an outstanding performance at the Regional Chess Tournament over the weekend! All of our students qualified for the Provincial Chess Tournament on March 16.
Congratulations to Isaiah Coleman and Charlotte Mercier who attended the Provincial Scripps Spelling Bee hosted by the Telegram. Charlotte placed in the top 29 and Isaiah placed in the top 22 out of 81 participants.
Class News
The junior kindergarten classes are learning about kindness and what friendship means. They were happy to wear pink on Pink T-shirt day to support kindness to everyone.
Ms. Cornick’s Kindergarten class is learning the word “take” this week and all about the number “9”. They would like to say congratulations to Andrew Ryan and Spencer Kean on winning medals in the chess tournament last weekend.
Mrs. George’s grade one English class is learning about our natural resources in social studies. They are enjoying counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s in math class. The star of the week is Zoe. The class would like to wish a happy birthday to Nate!
Mme. Ryan’s grade two and three French Immersion class has been discussing visible and non-visible differences. They are reading and discussing books about how we are all different. The children have been working on Venn diagrams with a partner to investigate the topic further. They are also working on a writing piece about a snow storm.
Ms. Bursey’s grade two English class is learning about measurement using blocks and other materials. They are busy counting and estimating the plastic bags the school is recycling as part of the Plastic Bag Challenge.
Mme. King’s grade four, five and six French Immersion class would like to congratulate Charlotte on her fine showing in the Scripps Spelling Bee last weekend and to Israela and Candace on their strong performance at the West Coast Grade Six Basketball Tournament. The grade four and five students have been working hard on multiplication and division. The grade six students are constructing and interpreting line graphs.
Ms. Williams’ grade three class had a lot of fun celebrating the 100th day of school with different activities including a math game called “Race to 100” and timing themselves to see how many times they could do a variety of activities in 100 seconds. In math, students started their measurement unit and used a pendulum to measure time. In language arts class, the grade threes started a novel study on Pippi Longstocking.
Mrs. Hink’s grade four class is writing pourqoi tales about unicorns. In math they have started a new unit on division.
Mr. Ryley’s grade five class made medieval villages with Legos this week as part of their STEM project. The grade five students are enjoying working on daily five activities in language arts.
Mrs. McCarthy’s grade six class is learning about different countries and writing about their culture. In math they are working on division.
Mr. Drew Nadon’s grade seven and eight class is working on model bridges. In math they are working on an assignment about sales tax. In language arts they are presenting songs and identifying literary devices they contain.
Mr. Hancock’s grade nine to level three class is continuing to work on model bridges. Math 3201 students have begun exponential functions. Earth Systems 3209 students are learning about sedimentary rocks.
Coming Up
Elementary Speak Off will take place Wednesday, March 13, 2019.
Model bridge competition will be held on March 9 at the Corner Brook Plaza.
Lysea Njinang was the school winner in the Say Yes to Friendship Poster Contest. Lysea's poster was featured as part of Pink T-shirt Day for anti-bullying awareness.
Rosemary Owolabi and Rebecca Janes work on identifying native trees in Newfoundland during a presentation on the trade of Forestry Technician as part of the Skills Canada: Skills Work for Women Conference at the College of the North Atlantic last week.
