Wednesday, November 14, 2012

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.                                                                                               

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

Upcoming Events

Nov.   15    ICS P.A. Day, – no school

           16    LDCSS P.D. Day

           17    Sweets, Treats, & Treasures Sale 9-2 p.m.

           21    8:55 Chapel, Report Cards sent home,         

                   Board meets

           22    Drama field trip for JK – Gr. 4 – extra SK day

           23    Friday Family Fun Night’s Dress your Potato

                   Bar and Chili Dinner

           24    Aylmer Christmas Parade

           26    Parent Info. Evening at PRC 8:00

           28    8:55 Chapel

           29    LDCSS Membership Meeting

           30    WDCS Volleyball

Saturday Nov. 17th our 18th annual Sweets, Treats and Treasures Sales 

Mark, Nov. 23rd on your calendar for Friday Family Fun Night's Dress your Potato Bar and Chili Dinner 

From the Principal's Desk::

I want to write a bit about community this week.  Building on our annual theme of "Called to Love One Another," community-building will be our school theme for term 2.  Our community is (1) within the school's walls (my prime responsibility), (2) between our parents and within our school society, (3) within our wider Christian schooling organizations (the Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools and Christian Schools International), (4) with other neighbouring Christian schools, and (5) outwards in our society, where our students are called to meet the challenges of our world and culture.  Lots of links to think about!

In our society, we would see last week's membership meeting as an expression of confidence in the direction of Immanuel.  But, with only about 40 members (including the board and the staff) we did feel that there is definite room for growth in terms of attendance! Even if there is nothing controversial on the agenda, be an active participant in our school.  As Jane noted, we need to keep focussed on who we are as a Christian school, on our responsibilities as parents in the education of our children.  And, we need to do that together!

In our wider Christian schooling organizations, we are sending board representatives to the OACS annual general meeting this Saturday.  Much of our best policy guidance, curriculum and teacher development comes from the OACS, and we need to actively support that work.

Last Saturday's informal volleyball tournament with Faith Christian Academy and St Thomas Christian School was an excellent way of building community between similar-minded schools.  It was a great atmosphere, and the team play in a competitive environment helped hone all our players!

Finally, we are hosting the Sweets, Treats and Treasures Sale (formerly Ladies' Auxiliary Christmas Craft Sale) this Saturday.  We seek to bring in profits to the Ladies' Auxiliary, but it is also an opportunity for our wider community to be in our school, and they should be able to notice that we're a Christian school!  Come on out!

in Christ,

//Keith Cameron//

Praying for our Families: Last week Thursday we prayed for Al & Randee Hooghiem, Red & Sylvia Hooghiem.

Praying for our Staff:  This week we will pray for Mrs. Groeneweg and continued healing for Mr. TenBruggencate.

PA Day and Report cards: following tomorrow's PA day for report card writing, you may expect your child's report card to be sent home on Wed Nov 21.  Yes, we know this is a Thursday PA day, and the high school is off on Friday!  Our aim at the beginning of the year was to ensure a fair distribution of PA days for JK (40%) and for SK (60%), and this explains this Thursday’s PA day.

Reminders:   T.R.I.P. orders for November are due by 9:00 a.m. tomorrow, Thursday, Nov. 15 with pick up on Thursday, Nov. 22. 

                     

         Chocolate Letters:  The pick up day is this Friday, Nov. 16th from 1:30 – 3:30.  If you would     

         like your order sent home with your child you can call or e-mail the school on Friday. 

                       Transportation for High School Students Thursday, Nov. 15^th.  Please see the last two 

                       Journals.  

Transportation:  Friday, Nov. 16^th LDCSS has no school, Mrs. Tesselaaar’s bus will leave 20 minutes later in the morning.

This Saturday Nov.17 our 18th annual Sweets, Treats and Treasures Sale from 9-2 in the school gym!  Shop, visit, enjoy lunch!

Baked Goods Table for our sale:  Please send in your baked goods donation with your oldest child on Friday.  Items should be packaged in sellable sizes.  Reminder:  we are a peanut free school so no peanut items.

The school has a set of FRS 2 way radios (without rechargeable batteries).  They will take 4AAA each.  If you would like them for a small donation please contact the school office. 

Chocolate Bars Sales:  We would like to thank the students and parents for all their efforts in making our chocolate bar sales a profitable one.  We realized a profit $2525 which is $1000 more that last year.  The challenge of selling bigger boxes has been beneficial for the student fund. 

Upcoming Christmas parades:  Aylmer on Saturday, November 24 @ 2 p.m. and Springfield on Saturday, December 1 @ 1 p.m.  The choir will be participating on the float this year.  Permission forms were sent home on Monday.  If you did not return it yet please do so as soon as possible

The Parade Float Committee sent out an e-mail yesterday, looking for the following items:

-Christmas lawn characters, eg. snowmen, polar bears angels

-white paint(doesn't have to be a new pail)

-white Christmas trees(or green)

-angel costumes(2)

-large snow flakes

-silver tree garland

If you can help out with any of these items please e-mail Helen at jimnhelen2000@yahoo.ca

Christmas Piano Giveaway:  Pianohouse is giving away yet another digital piano! Just in time for Christmas.  This contest is open to all elementary schools, high schools, retirement homes and choirs in Canada.  Our school is registered.  Anyone can vote but only 1 vote per person is allowed.  Be sure to spread the word!  Just go the website www.piano.ca, find our school listed and click on vote.  It’s that simple.  Let’s see how many votes we can get.  Contest closes Dec 15, 2012.

Samko Toy Sale Fundraiser:  The sale runs from Nov. 16^th – 21^st at the Western Fairgrounds!  Get your Christmas list ready and head to London for some great deals on thousands of brand name toys and books.  All sales are final.  Our school is registered!  Tell the cashier the checkout you are from Immanuel Christian School and she will then stamp your receipt with a fundraising stamp. Please bring in your receipts to the school office by Thurs., Dec. 20^th.  We will then send these receipts in to their head office to receive 10% of all sales back to our school.  See the attached flyer.  Our school has participated in this project for the past 3 years. 

2013-2014 is just around the Corner!!

Promotions is already preparing our 2013-2014 JK/SK Information Evening as well as an information session for all others interested in seeing and hearing about our school.  We need your help in getting our name out there.  If you feel you know of someone or those that could be interested in our school please feel free to invite them out to our January event.  More information is coming soon.  We have a great community and wonderful school family.  We can’t wait to make it grow. Any further questions, please contact Sheri Weesjes or Helen Friesen.

Remember our Welcome Wednesdays!!!  All are welcome to drop in and see the kids in action.

Friday Family Fun Night:  This month’s Friday Family Fun Night is a Baked Potato Bar and Chili dinner!  Take a night off from cooking and bring your family and friends to enjoy a warm homemade dinner on Friday, November 23 from 5:00-7:30 p.m. in the school gym.  Cost is Adults $8 and Children (12 and under) $5 and all proceeds go directly back into the school.

FROM THE CLASSROOMS:
Whole-school memory work for this week.  We're continuing to focus on our Christmas production, Greetings from the Heart.   Students will learn Silent Night by heart as our mass choir piece, which will be our memory work for the next few weeks.  This week it is verse 3, in German:

Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht! 

Gottes Sohn, o wie lacht 

Liebe aus deinem göttlichen Mund, 

Da uns schlägt die rettende Stund. 

Jesus in deiner Geburt!

Jesus in deiner Geburt!

JUNIOR / SENIOR KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Groeneweg

Some of the things we have done in Kindergarten:

Bible: Jacob 

Letter and sound this week: m

Math: printing numbers, counting to 100 (SK), big-bigger-biggest, small-smaller-smallest, more/less (JK)

Christmas Program Needs:
      JK - please send a photo of your child as a baby with his/her mother (no others in the photo).  The photos will be copied and 

              returned promptly.  A colour copy of the photo will also be accepted.
      SK - please provide an adult, size small, white t-shirt for our angel costumes
Thanks so much for your help and co-operation!!

Reminder:  November 22nd will be an extra SK day (Theatre Trip)

Drama Field Trip JK-4:  Thank you to our bus driver, Mrs. Ann Walters, and to our parent volunteers who are able to accompany us to the Wolf Auditorium in London on Thursday, November 22, 2012.

     JK and SK: Ms. Robyn Allison, Mrs. Rose Fehr, Mrs. Carrie Vis

     Grades 1 and 2: Mrs. Ellyn Sinke, Mrs. Sheri Weesjes

     Grades 3 and 4: Mrs. Helen Klassen, Mrs. Janine Shelton

We are looking forward to seeing this familiar story of the Elves and the Shoemaker acted out on stage. We will be leaving I.C.S. at 8:40 A.M. and hope to return around lunchtime.

Mrs. Groeneweg, Ms. Pieters, Ms. Buma

GRADES 1 and 2 - Ms. Pieters

Memory Work: for Wed. Nov. 21 we will learn verse two of Silent Night in German

Spelling: Spelling Dictation words for Friday, November 16

     Grade 1: top, stop, men, fix, fox

     Grade 2: place, make, making, help, here, want, nice, to, two, into

Drama Field Trip: see notice above

Remembrance Poster Contest: The Royal Canadian Legion (www.Legion.ca) is sponsoring a poster contest. There are two divisions – Colour or Black and White. The students took home a consent form that will need to be attached to their poster before it may be sent to the Aylmer Legion. Please return the completed consent form this Friday, Nov. 16. Thank you.

GRADES 3 and 4 – Ms. Buma

Fri. Nov. 16 – Spelling Dictation:  Grade 3 words are:  way, these, niece, might, show, float, brain, mean, close, tried, cube, uniform, stayed, price, usually, know, helped

Grade 4 words are: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, January, February, July, August, September, November, month, year, holiday, autumn, season, calendar, second, minute, yesterday, midnight

Wed. Nov. 21 – Memory Work (Please see above)

Recorder Karate: Grade 4:  Prepare for your White Belt on Fri. Nov. 23, by successfully playing Hot Cross Buns, with pitches G, A and B.  Grade 3:  Fri. Nov. 30. (The same)

Drama Field Trip:  (Please see above)

Student of the Week:  This week’s Student of the Week is Kaylynn Mantel.  Next week:  Micah Schuurman.

GRADE 5 and 6 – Mrs Drop

 Social Science: we've completed our science unit on conservation of energy, considering facts about energy, and looking at changing our habits to conserve creation.  The Rubi Goldberg projects were all very well done!  Similarly, there were many creative ideas for "building green."  We'll next look at a health unit, considering what it means to be made in God's image (ask your child what Imago Dei means!), and what that means for how we care for our lungs and our physical fitness.

French Quiz: Le Vocabulaire – vendredi le 16 novembre

Spelling Dictation and Exercise:  Nov. 16.

Math:  Students have the results of the whole numbers quiz.  Please ask your child about his/her results.  We have begun a unit on geometry.

Literature:  The students worked on Remembrance webquests, which are now due.  Please send them from your e-mail accounts to Mrs. Drop and Mr. Cameron.

All Remembrance Day poetry and additional poetry for two poetry writing contests (Aylmer Legion Remembrance Day Contest & Canadian Institute of Poetry Contest) for the class are now due.

GRADE 7 and 8 – Mr. TenBruggencate / Ms. Jones

Science: we're completing our science unit on the properties of matter, looking at the orderliness of God's creation at a small level. We'll be moving on to a study of the function and properties of cells.

Bible: cross curricular connection with L.A.

Character development based on Esther, Narnia Characters, Remembrance Day webquest, and in class novel.
not just what characterizes a faithful person but how to act on it in the local and global community.

L.A.: keep up with your next term end reading goals!

Character Study: 1 illustration of each group members character development (2 total - 3 if you illustrated your own)
Show character traits through illustration.

History:  Congratulations to all students on finishing their History presentations!

Remembrance Day contest work is due Nov. 20^th.

Remembrance Webquests presentations this Friday,16^th.  Please have your files sent to Ms. Jones and Mr. Cameron by Wednesday p.m.

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Sweets & Treats & Treasures Sale - November 17, 2012

Each families baked goods contribution for the sale

The __________________________family will be brining __________________________________ to school on Friday, Nov. 16^th.

I/We am/are available to “man” the table on Saturday, the 17^th   

 _______ all day       _______ part day (any preference ____________)

 

Signed:  _____________________________________

REMINDER – We are a peanut-free school – no peanut items please!