October 17, 2012 Journal
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Upcoming Events
Oct. 17
8:55 Chapel; Parent Teacher Conf.
Board meets @
7:30
19 Friday Family Fun Night’s Spaghetti
and
Meat Ball
Dinner
22 Parent Teacher Conferences
24 8:55 Chapel
25 & 26 Teacher’s Convention – school closed
29 Auxiliary meets 7:30 p.m.
31 8:55 Chapel; Picture re-take day
Nov. 7 8:55 Chapel; LDCSS gr. 8 day; Membership Meeting
9 Term
1 ends, AR goals are due
10
LDCSS Dedication & Open House for new Tech Wing
From the
Principal's Desk:
CTBS
tests are taking place in the grade 3 through 8 classes in the mornings after
recess. These tests can be challenging - please encourage your children
or grandchildren to persevere! Our main aim is a standardized comparison
against OACS students, and across the nation. However, the discipline
required by test-taking is a useful by-product too. Students do not
really suffer while completing their tests, but I recall Paul's writing in
Romans 5:4-5 that, "we know that suffering
produces perseverance; perseverance,
character; and character, hope." Challenges are a necessary
part of schooling, and indeed of life in general. Rising to a challenge
does develop character, which is also what we are about at ICS. Keep on
working, students!
RIDE for Refuge: Praise God for generous hearts and motivated individuals seeking RIDE sponsorships! Even downplaying the event this year, as a RIDE partner ICS has raised over $4400 in donations. Donations all go to worthy, mainly Christian causes seeking to provide relief, food, shelter, medical aid, education, settlement or legal aid to those in need. As an approved partner, ICS expects to receive 70% of our sponsorship as a grant towards our Compassion Child and to our Tuition Assistance fund! We look forward to supporting RIDE for Refuge 2013 with enthusiastic students, cyclists and sponsors!
in
Christ,
//Keith
Cameron//
Praying
For Our Families: Last week Thursday we prayed Ryan &
Annette Dykxhoorn, Frank & Rose Fehr
Praying
For Our Staff: This week
we will pray for Mrs. VanderHoek and for continued healing for Mr.
TenBruggencate
Reminder
Items: T.R.I.P. pick up will be
Thursday, October 18.
Friday Family Fun Night
spaghetti and meatball dinner this Friday from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. in the school
gym.
Our
School T-shirts are available again, selling for $15
each. They will be mandatory for Physed
classes for Grades 1-8 starting on Thursday, Nov. 1. If your child does not have a shirt yet
please have them stop by the office to make a purchase anytime before Oct.
31st. It would be a good idea to put
your child’s name inside their shirt.
Transportation: Important changes to Case Vannoord and Anita
de Dreu’s Bus Routes
Please
be advised that effective October 29,
2012 the bus routes for Case and Anita will have some changes. Please take
note in the difference in pickup times and drop off times. For various reasons we have had to make some
changes in the bus routes.
The
revised bus routes will be attached to the e-mailed Journal. Please review the new schedule; these times
are approximate so please ensure that you are at the bus stop a few minutes
prior to time listed.
Please
take off the Zylstra and Bakker families from Anita de Dreu’s route and add to
Case Vannoord’s route. These families
will be added to Murray Rodenburg’s bus call list.
Thanks
for you cooperation, The Transportation Committee
If
you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Pete DeKraker or Jeff
Vannoord.
Picture
Retake Date: Wednesday, October 31: for students who were absent that day, or for
a retake. If your child’s individual
picture that did not turn out well, please send it back to the office for a
retake. We need the individual picture
package back, but you keep the class picture.
Mennonite
Savings and Credit Union investors advance Mutual Aid for
Immanuel Christian School Aylmer. Thanks
to the investments of our members in Mennonite Savings and Credit Union’s
Church Builder term deposits last year, our organization has received a
donation of $150.00. Since Church Building
term deposits were introduced in 1998, MSCU has donated over $280,000 in bonus
interest to 157 churches and church-based organizations in Ontario
ICS members may partner with MSCU by investing in a
guaranteed term deposit that earns a competitive rate, and MSCU donates an
additional 0.5% in bonus interest to ICS.
Come
out and join us on Saturday November 17 for our 18th annual Sweets, Treats
and Treasures Sale
The
Auxiliary is asking for your help to make this year's sale a successful event.
We are in need of food donations and willing workers for the kitchen.
Please fill out the form at the end of the Journal if you can help out
and return it to the office. Thanks.
Chocolate Letters: It’s time again to order your chocolate
letters! $2.00 each. If you wish to place an order, please return
the order
form
with payment to the school by Thursday, Nov.1st. Pick up day is Thursday, Nov. 17th
1:30 – 3:30. An order form
is
found at the end of the Journal.
Cross
Country: our junior boys team races
in the 35th Annual Ontario Christian Elementary School Cross Country
Invitational at the Dundas Conservation Area on Friday. Cross country
runners please meet at ICS at 8 a.m. We
will stop at Abells at 8:10 and Mantels at 8:20. Run fast, boys!
Volleyball: both boys and girls
teams are training: Boys - Mon at lunch,
Wed after school
Girls - Mon after school (for the next few
weeks only), Wed at lunch, Thu after school
LDCSS invites you to attend
the Dedication and Open House of their new Technological
Education Classroom, Physics Lab, and
Computer Lab renovations as well as the other changes that were made to
the facility. Saturday, November 10 from
2 p.m. until 5 p.m. with a formal dedication ceremony at 2:30. There will be refreshments, desserts and an
opportunity to tour the newly constructed facilities following the ceremony.
FROM THE
CLASSROOMS:
Memory
Work:
We are focussing on the power that two bystanders have when they
encourage each other to come alongside a target. Full-school memory work:
Ecclesiastes 4:12
Though one may be overpowered, two can defend
themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. (NIV)
JUNIOR / SENIOR
KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Groeneweg
Some
of the things we have done in Kindergarten:
Bible: Abraham
Letter and sound this
week: c and k
Math: numbers 1-7
( JK), 1-15 (SK), shapes and sizes, patterning
Rhyming
Opposites
Nursery Rhyme: Itsy
Bitsy Spider
GRADES
1 and 2 - Ms. Pieters
Happy Birthday
to
Saturday, October 20, 2012
“May you be blessed by the
Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.” Psalm 115:15
Happy Birthday
to
Naomi Poortinga
Monday, October 22, 2012
“May you be blessed by the
Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.” Psalm 115:15
Memory Work: for Wed. Oct. 24. See the school-wide memory work above.
Spelling: Spelling Dictation words
for Friday, October 19.
Grade
1: his, dig, pat, sun, put
Grade
2: no, go, going, most, kind, find, gave, so, do, doing
Creation Studies: Thank you for helping your
child(ren) measure in steps and then draw their bedroom map. The students had
fun comparing their bed sizes and room sizes with each other. The next homework
assignment is to make a map of the street you live on, including your house and
some other houses and landmarks close by. The neighbourhood map will need a
title, legend, compass rose, and symbols. You may use Map Quest on the internet
as a starting point. http://www.mapquest.com/
GRADES 3 and
4 – Ms. Buma
Fri. Oct. 19 – Spelling Dictation: Grade
3 words are: save, give, have, live,
move, above, alive, alike, to, two, too, know, do, blew, blue, dove, clue
Grade 4 words are; strong, wrong,
copy, cloth, problem, October, whole, explode, control, shown, bowl, bottom,
smoky, coach, throat, toast, doughnut, foe, motor, forward
Wed. Oct. 24 – Memory Work: (See above)
Student of the Week: This week’s Student of the Week is Megan Friesen. Next week:
Assigned students.
Accelerated Reader: Some students are already closing in on their First
Term AR goal! Reports will be given out
at Parent -Teacher Conferences. Please
remember to bring Library books to school for Thursday’s Library class, and to
sign out new books, keeping the Oct. 25 – Oct. 26 long weekend in mind.
Recorders:
We are ordering Yamaha recorders this week, ($8.00)
for students in Grades 3 and 4 who do not own a recorder. For students who are bringing recorders from
home, please ensure that they are cleaned, and that they have a protective
covering. Thank you
GRADE 5 and 6 – Mrs Drop
Science: we have completed testing
our solar water heaters, and the observation and response sheet is due on Thu.
Tech: we will be completing our
keyboarding unit next week. Gr 5 goal is 20 wpm, gr 6 goal is 25 wpm.
Memory Work: See the
school-wide memory work.
Spelling: Practise
the words for Friday's dictation. Have the exercises completed for that
date too!
GRADE
7 and 8 – Mr. TenBruggencate / Ms. Jones
Science: lab reports are due Fri on
distinguishing salt from sugar by physical properties
Tech: we will be completing our
keyboarding unit next week. Gr 7 goal is 30 wpm, gr 8 goal is 35 wpm.
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Sweets & Treats &
Treasures Sale-
The
Auxiliary is asking for your help to make this year's sale a successful event.
We are in need of the following donations for the kitchen.
If
you are able to donate any off the following items to the auxiliary to be sold
out of the kitchen please indicate beside
the items the amount.
Pots
of soup (8 needed)________
Cheesecakes
(3 needed) _____________
Muffins
(6 doz. needed) ________ Pies (6 needed) type ________________
If
you are able to donate to the auxiliary some of your time with the work in the
kitchen, please indicate the shift you would prefer.
8:00
- 10:00 a.m. (4 needed) _________
11:00
a.m. - 1 p.m. (4 needed) __________
9:30
- 11:30 a.m. (4 needed) __________ 1:00 p.m. - end (4
needed) ____________
Name__________________________________________________
Phone______________________
If
you have any questions or concerns, please contact Bettina Poortinga @ (519)
269 - 9662 or rbpoortinga@start.ca
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Chocolate Letters Order Form
$2.00
each (incl. taxes)
Name:
_______________________________ Phone
#: ____________________
Please specify whether LIGHT or DARK
chocolate __________________
Place your order early because our supplier tells
us that the dark chocolate is going fast and will be substituted
with light if
they run out. If you do not want to have light please note that
on your order form.
A _____ B _____ C
_____ D
_____ E
_____ F _____
G _____ H _____ I _____ J _____ K
_____ L _____
M _____ N _____ O
_____ P
_____ Q _____ R _____
S _____ T _____ U _____ V
_____ W _____ X _____
Y _____ Z
_____
Orders
are due by Thursday, Nov. 1st.
Pick up day is November 17th from 1:30 – 3:30.
Total $ enclosed: ___________________
Orders can be placed by sending
it in with your child, phone (519-773-8476) or fax (519-773-8315).
Thank
you for supporting Immanuel
Christian School
