Mission:  The mission of Immanuel Christian School is to prepare students to meet the challenge of the world and culture they live in as young and growing Christians.  Thus, students are taught the skill of discernment in the light of God’s Word, the practice of stewardship for creation, the required commitment to a life of Christian service, and the beauty of witness through modeling God’s love in a broken world.

	Upcoming Events Oct.       8    Thanksgiving Holiday            10     8:55 Chapel; Bus Safety SK-8 in the a.m.            10     Sr. Appreciation Day at LDCSS            11     Bus Safety for JK at 3:00 p.m.            15-19 CTBS Testing week            17     8:55 Chapel; Parent Teacher Conf.                                 22     Parent Teacher Conferences            19     Fundraising Spaghetti Dinner            24     8:55 Chapel            25 & 26  Teacher’s Convention – school closed            31     Picture re-take day		School’s email address:  immanuel@amtelecom.net Principal’s email address:  icsprincipal@amtelecom.net ICS Website:  www.immanuelchristianschool.net    519-773-8476 LDCSS Website:  www.ldcss.on.ca   519-455-4360 Christian Education Foundation (endowment fund): www.ldcef.org

 

     Keep Friday, October 19 open                                                                         

                                                     for our Fundraiser Spaghetti dinner 5:30 – 7:30

 

From the Principal's Desk:

The recent Christian Schools Canada conference in Cambridge last Thu and Fri was an excellent time to connect with other Christian leaders and to share our thoughts on Christian education.  It was affirming to hear talk on nurturing student 'flourishing', on assessing character, on use of technology - in all these areas, we at ICS are moving in similar directions as our colleagues nationally.  We also heard about the recent Cardus release of the Canadian data set regarding the effect of Christian education.  Similar to the US data, Canadian graduates of Christian schooling (elementary and high school), are statistically much more likely than their public school counterparts to be grounded in their faith and living it out as an adult.  We also identified areas of challenge in moving beyond a middling academic result (particularly in sciences), and ensuring that our good words matched our actual deeds.  Good news - Christian schools are seen to make a positive difference, to individual lives and to their communities!

You may or may not be aware that 2012 is a "CTBS Year."  The Canadian Test of Basic Skills is a standardized test used by our school, and others in the OACS to give us performance benchmarks: how do our students fare compared to the average student in OACS schools and across Canada in any school?  We have chosen CTBS over the Ontario Ministry of Education EQAO tests.  This is what is called a "norm-referenced" test, so a score of 50 means that one would fall exactly on the average.  Students are tested in the areas of Language Arts, Math and Science.  All students in grades 3 through 8 will write these tests, during the mornings over 15-19 Oct.  Parents, we would appreciate you making all efforts to schedule routine appointments in the afternoons only this week, otherwise catch-up becomes quite a task!  No standardized test truly reflects fully what your child has been taught, but we believe that we gain valuable insight in terms of both individual student performance, and school performance through the CTBS tests.  You will receive notice of your child's performance, as well as a brief on the school performance when results are available.  Questions: please feel free to ask!

in Christ,

//Mr Keith Cameron//

Praying For Our Families:   Last week Thursday we prayed Keith & Amanda Cameron, Kelly & Theresa DeJong   

Praying For Our Staff:  This week we will pray for Mrs. Drop and for continued healing for Mr. TenBruggencate 

Reminder Items:

The Meat and Baked Goods pick up tomorrow, Oct 4 between 2 and 4.  If you have ordered VanStraten products please note that they won't be ready with your order till 2:30.  If you wish you bring your coolers (marked with your name on it) to the school before Thursday at lunch....Much appreciated!

Chocolate Bar Sales:  If you still owe for a box of chocolates please hand in the money as soon as possible to we can close out this fundraiser for the student fund.  Thanks

Thanksgiving Dinner:  The $2.00 per student for the turkey meat is due.   

Parent/Teacher Interviews: any more request forms?  If I don’t get a request form you I  will pick a time and date                for you and

hopefully that will fit in your schedule.  A confirmation schedule will be sent home next week. 

New Bus Call List:  Attached you will find a new bus call list.  A lot of corrections and changes have been made.  Please destroy the copy dated for August.  The new one is dated for Sept 26. 

T.R.I.P.: The October order form is attached to this week’s Journal.  All orders must be in by 9 a.m. on Thursday, October 11.  Pick up will be Thursday, October 18.  Note:  TSC gift cards are now available and at 10% profit.

   

Thanksgiving Dinner:  What a great meal!  Many thanks to all who contributed to this much anticipated, much appreciated annual event.  Thanks in particular to all those who cooked the turkeys, contributed food items and worked in the kitchen. Special thanks to the Elgin Milk Producers for the donation of cartons of chocolate and white milk and to Mrs. Suzie Guenther for the yummy, homemade cookies.  It was also a treat to see our senior students helping to clean up afterwards!  Mrs. Smit, we appreciate all the work you put into organizing this!

Boys and Girls Soccer: Our senior boys' and girls' teams competed in Clinton yesterday, with fine weather and good spirits.  I continue to be impressed by our students mature and sportsmanlike conduct at all the meets I have attended - they encourage each other, and act responsibly on and off the field.  Our boys finished at the quarterfinals.  Our girls team progressed and placed second overall.  After a loss of only 1-0 to Strathroy, the girls received the Finalist Banner to hang in the school gym.  Way to go, girls! 

Well done all!  As a team we would like to express our sincere gratitude to the parents who provided transportation and to all those who came out to offer their support and encouragement.  Many thanks to our staff reps, Ms Pieters and Mrs VanderHoek, and our coaches, Mr Eric Schuurman, and Mrs Helen Friesen!  We truly appreciate all the time and enthusiastic effort you spent sharing your skills and knowledge with the team.  God has blessed us through you.

Fundraising Committee aims to host a fun dinner fundraiser at the school held one Friday each month, with a different theme each time.  The first fundraising Spaghetti Dinner will be held at ICS in the gym on Friday, October 19, 2012 from 5:30-7:30pm.  More details to follow!

Volunteer sought for…

·         Reading buddies 8:35-8:55 a.m. - still looking for 2, once per week

·         Thursday morning playground supervision from 8 – 8:30 – looking for 2, (3^rd Thursday and 4^th Thursday)

We have filled the position for a Boys Volleyball Coach.  Thanks to all those who have volunteered.

A Note from LDCSS - Senior’s Appreciation Day at LDCSS:  All seniors (friends, supporters, grandparents) are invited to visit us Wednesday, Oct. 10 to celebrate God’s faithfulness in Christian education.  The day begins at 9:30 a.m. with coffee and registration lunch (12:00– 1:00).  Please join us as we ‘give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, His love endures forever’ (Psalm 136:1)

FROM THE CLASSROOMS:

School-wide Protectors Memory Work:  This morning we considered specific ways to appear strong and courageous, even when we don't feel strong and courageous.  Classes are practising these suggested habits:

Walk confidently

Chin level

Chest out

Sit up tall

Eye contact

Practice

Deep breaths from your stomach

Make one good friend

You can follow along at: https://immanuelchristianschool.wikispaces.com/.  Ask your son / daughter about chapel and the skit!  

Memory work for Wed 3 Oct is from 1 Corinthians 16:13:

"Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong."

JUNIOR / SENIOR KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Groeneweg

Some of the things we have done in Kindergarten:

Bible: Noah's Ark

Letter and sound this week: p

Math: numbers 1-5 ( JK), 1-15 (SK)

New Unit: God's Changing Seasons: Awesome Autumn

Show and Tell: Tuesday October 9th for JK students and October 10th for SK students.

Thursday, November 22nd will be an extra SK day (Theatre Trip).  Details will follow later.

GRADES 1 and 2 - Ms. Pieters

Memory Work: for Wed. Oct. 10.  See the school-wide memory work.

Spelling: Spelling Dictation words for Friday, October 5.

Grade 1: up, us, fun, run, to

Grade 2: add, ask, came, name, ride, bone, save, kite, cute, mine

Field Trip: We are looking forward to visiting Chateau Gardens on Friday, October 5 from 1:45 to 2:45. Thank you to Mrs. Abell for offering to help us. We plan to walk, leaving I.C.S. at 1:35 and returning at 2:55.

Scholastic Book Club: The October book order flyers went home today. If you would like to place an order for October, please have you child bring the order form with the payment (cash or cheque) to school by Thursday, October 11, 2012. Thank you.

Creation Studies: Please help your child complete the home activity page titled “Where in God's World Am I?”

                                 

GRADES 3 and 4 – Ms. Buma

                                               

Fri. Oct. 5 – Spelling Dictation:  Grade 3 words are:  catch, afraid, great, prey, next, believe, between, easy, while, buy, which, why, recite, pocket, throne, almost, below

Grade 4 words are:  bridge, gravity, switch, edge, attach, thread, athlete, whisper, rapid, able, neighbour, vein, then, tenth, receive, people, applaud, awhile, explain, steeple

Fri. Oct. 5 – Math Quiz – Grade 3 – Column addition (Adding 3 Numbers) Examples:  (52 + 31+15 = 98) and (48+ 23+ 14 = 85) 

Grade 4 – Subtracting 5 – digit numbers with and without regrouping.  Examples: (87,416 – 999 = 86,417) and (98,765 – 4,321 = 94,444)

Wed. Oct. 10 – Memory Work: (See above)

Scholastic Book Orders:  October Book Orders were sent home today with your child.  Please return any completed forms by Friday, October 12.  Thank you.

.Items to Bring to School: 

√ Chocolate Bar Money or Student Fee

√ Parent Teacher Conference Forms

Students of the Week:  This week’s Student of the Week is Holly Cameron.  Next week: Randall Drop

*For thy gracious blessings, for thy wondrous word, for thy loving kindness, we give thanks, O Lord.

May you all have a blessed Thanksgiving with family and friends, Grades 3 and 4!   Ms. Buma

GRADE 5 and 6 – Mrs Drop

Happy Birthday to Dyllon Bergen who celebrated on Sept. 27^th.

The students will have their spelling dictation, agendas and AR reading record in their backpacks.  Please sign the dictation page and agendas and return to school tomorrow.  Thank you!

Memory Work:  see the school-wide memory work

Spelling Dictation will be on Friday, Oct. 5.  Remember to have Unit 4 exercises completed for Friday as well.

Music:  Please bring your recorder tomorrow

Social Science:   We have heard (and tasted!) some excellent presentations on our various countries of study.  Portfolios were due today.  We start a science unit on the conservation of energy next week.  

Tech: Google Docs tasks 1, 2, 3 are due for Thu Oct 4 at 8:30 am.  We will move on to keyboarding practice for the next month. Target word per minute goals are 20 wpm (gr 5) and 25 wpm (gr 6).

                                                               

GRADE 7 and 8 – Mr. TenBruggencate

Memory Work:  See the school-wide memory work in the Journal.

Le Français:  Classe 7: Quiz on the Possessive Adjectives:  mon, ma, mes (my);  ton, ta, tes (your);  son, sa, ses (his, her, its)

                        - mercredi le 10 octobre

Le Français:  Classe 8: Quiz on the Verb: Vouloir (to want).  Use your notes or the back of your textbook to practice its forms – mercredi le 10 octobre

Tech: Google Docs task 4 is due Thu Oct 4 at 8:30 am.  We will move on to keyboarding practice for the next month.  Target word per minute goals are 30 wpm (gr 7) and 35 wpm (gr 8)