Wednesday, February 6, 2013
School’s email address: immanuel@amtelecom.net
Principal’s email address: icsprincipal@amtelecom.net
ICS Website:
www.immanuelchristianschool.net 519-773-8476
Check us out on
Facebook: facebook.com/ICSAylmer
Twitter: twitter.com/ICSAylmer
LDCSS Website:
www.ldcss.on.ca 519-455-4360
Christian Education Foundation (endowment fund): www.ldcef.org
Upcoming Events
Feb 8
Electives
12 Hockey Practice
13
Chapel – Lent 1; Pancake Lunch; Skating
15 Electives; 2nd term ends; AR
goals due:
LDCSS PD day
18 Family Day Holiday
– school closed
19 P.A. Day – report card writing – no school
20 Chapel-Lent 2; Board meets
21 Hockey Practice; Registration evening
JK/SK,
all grade (daytime
8-4)
22 Friday Family Fun Night Dinner -date changed
From the
Principal's Desk::
As
a school community, we have recently encountered difficulty with
an aggressive Canada Revenue Agency audit of the Christian Education
Assistance Fund (CEAF). We have sent letters home explaining the
situation as we understand it, and our Board met in an emergency session to
discuss how we wished to process our 2012 books and charitable receipts in
light of this review. CEAF was established about 30 years ago with the
intent to operate within our tax laws, while seeking to provide increased
support to Christian schools and parents faced with a high, private, cost of
education. They have passed audits in the past. However, until this
matter is resolved, we are prudently calculating our 2012 ICS charitable
receipts without considering the CEAF grants. The matter looks like it
will head to the courts. Please pray that a just
legal interpretation of the law will be obtained.
We
have received notice from the Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools that they intend
to support parents who have already received a CRA notice of intent to
re-assess tax years 2009 and 2010. The
OACS is working out its plan for developing sound legal advice, and promise to
have a second memo for us by Friday, February 8 in which specific defence
strategies will be unveiled. Our first
request is that you remain calm and hold off with any response to CRA regarding
your letter. Our second request is that
you consider OACS’ offer to work on your behalf and, when we ask for a formal
endorsement, that you will respond quickly. Please also have patience during this
uncomfortable period where we wait for full details to unfold. We have already sent the latest OACS letter
home via email, and we will send out additional information as soon as it is
available.
Yours
in Christ,
Keith
Cameron, Principal
Parent Survey:
Last Wednesday afternoon this survey was sent out to our Journal
families. If you have not done it yet please take a few
moments to complete the survey by Friday,
February 8th.
Each year the Board seeks
your input on different aspects of our school. The purpose of this
survey is to gain perspective from our parents and society members on our progress
towards achieving the Board Vision with specific focus on Christian,
innovative and exceptional educational program:
Immanuel Christian School Board proclaims the
necessity of a Christian, innovative and exceptional educational program for
our children. We endeavor to effectively utilize all of our resources to
provide a model, which establishes a balance between a committed investment and
an affordable tuition for as many families/children as possible.
Your feedback is important
to us! Just click on the link below (or copy and paste it into your
web browser).
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F7XXZHR. Link is also on our Twitter feed on our
webpage.
Please Note: This survey is completely anonymous,
but you may include your name with your comments if desired.
Thanking you in advance.
Janine Shelton, Board
Secretary
Praying for our Families: Last week we prayed for Murray and Georgie
Rodenburg & Glenn & Jenepher Rollins.
Praying for our Staff: This week we will pray for Ms. Buma and continued
healing for Mr. TenBruggencate.
Update on Mr. T:
Evert
continues to recover well, with continuing extensive physio. He is
feeling upbeat and hopeful about regaining full mobility! His ACL
ligament remains unattached, and he is also seeking a medical opinion about
reattaching that before returning to work. In that eventuality, he may
still be off work for a number of weeks / months to come. Ms Jones
continues to do a great job with the gr 7/8s - please pray for her sustained
efforts, as well as Mr T's full healing.
Our condolences go out to Darryl and Tracy
Mantel and the children Correy, Kaylynn and Connor is the passing
away of Tracy Florida
God comfort and
strengthen this family as they mourn the loss of a father,
father-in-law and grandfather.
Reminders: Pancake Lunch Wednesday, Feb. 13. Order forms with payment
are due tomorrow, Thursday, Feb. 7. $2
per student
includes pancakes, juice and 1 ice
cream.
Our
final School Skate is on Wednesday, February 13 from 2-3 p.m. All students grade 2 and under and all beginner
skaters are asked to wear helmets, and all students are encouraged to wear
mitts to protect their fingers. Parents
are invited to come and help.
T.R.I.P. Order for February is attached.
Orders are due 9 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 14 with pick up Thursday, Feb. 21
in the p.m.
Transportation: Friday, Feb. 15 LDCSS
has a PD day. Mrs. Tesselaar’s bus will
leave 20 minutes later in the
morning.
Help
Wanted!
Please contact the Principal if this is you...
Occasional Building Attendant. Position involves
opening and closing the gym for rentals, with janitorial
services during and after the rental, depending on the
booking. Wages paid are the janitorial fees charged
with the rental.
The ideal applicant ideally lives locally, and is able to attend
ICS on an occasional basis
depending on rentals. The
successful candidate will work with the janitor, and for the Principal.
Please
contact the Principal for more information. Applications may
be sent to the office by Feb 27.
Volunteer Handyman. This is an ideal
position for a retired gentleman who has a desire to serve with his hands
on a
weekly or bi-weekly basis in the school for a few
hours during business hours. We have many small items
needing repair,
which often wait until they become bigger before getting
done - we'd like to move to a more
proactive system, taking pride in our school
building and keeping it in a high standard of
repair.
Tech Team. Are you interested
in learning how we keep our computers running? Our tech team is seeking
one interested applicant who is willing to learn!
Junior
and Senior Kindergarten, All Grades Registration all day 8-4 and evening 6:30-8
at ICS, Thursday, February 21.
Please
bring along a copy of our child’s certificate, health card and immunization
record. We will
photocopy the necessary documents for you.
Mrs. Groeneweg will be available to talk to you in the evening
session. Mr. Cameron will be available
to talk to you after 10:45 (when he is done is classroom duty) to do an
admission interview with you.
If you cannot make the registration evening please
call or e-mail the school and we can get the paperwork to you or you may drop
in at any time to the office. We would
appreciate having your completed paperwork as soon as possible as we are
looking at numbers for class sizes.
If you are undecided about your child attending
I.C.S. in the fall please feel to come that evening anyway, browse, have a tour
of the school, talk to Mrs. Groeneweg and Mr. Cameron. We would love to have you come.
Hat
and Gum
day is being held Fri Mar 1 (a bit earlier than other years) in the
morning. This is both a fun activity for our students, as well as a
fundraiser for the Canadian Christian Education Foundation's (http://www.canadianchristianeducation.org/)
"Give a Little, get a Lot " campaign.
The Canadian Christian Education Foundation is a national foundation
working to meet the needs of our Christian School Teachers and students as they
enter the 21st century. Students will be able to purchase hat and gum
licences, as well as buy tickets for face and hair painting as well as a hoops
competition. Our grade 8s will sell tickets and help with event running.
We need some parents to come out and help with face painting, nail
painting, hair painting, basketball toss...and other things. If you
could volunteer please email Emily Schuurman (schuur7@execulink.com) or
Georgie Rodenburg (rburg@eastlink.ca).
ICS
is hosting a Touch A Truck event June 1st
on the school property. We are also combining this event with an open
house so that people in the community get to know us a little bit better.
We would like a few extra people on the committee to help out with planning
this community event. If interested please email dmantel@eastlink.ca. We are meeting
once a month for a few hours to plan the event and you would be asked to help
out the day of the event (10a.m-3p.m
Congratulations are in
order for four recent events:
Speakfest
Results: Congratulations to the following students
who were chosen to represent our school at
the Legion Public Speaking and Storytelling Contest last Saturday.
They were: Storytelling: Grade 1: Sarah
Janssens, Grade 2: Lily
Sinke, Grade 3: Megan Friesen
Speeches: Grade 5: Victoria Krahn, Grade 6: Luke Schuurman, Grade 7: Nicole Friesen
At the Aylmer Royal Canadian Legion Public
Speaking and Storytelling Contest held this past Saturday,
we had Megan Friesen placing 1st in the
grades 1-3 primary level storytelling and Nicole Friesen placing 2nd
in
the grade 7-9 Intermediate Public Speaking.
Megan will now have the opportunity to compete in the Zone level
at the
St. Thomas Royal Canadian Legion on Saturday, March 2nd. Well done girls!
Knights of Columbus
with 22 points, 2nd place Assumption
with 22 points and 3rd place Immanuel with 21 points. (since the points were
the same for 1st
and 2nd place they took into consideration the total baskets made)
Congratulations
to our individual winners:
Age 9: girls, 1st place - Holly Cameron boys, 2nd place Braden
Vandersleen
Age 10: girls, 2nd place – Grace Vording boys, 2nd place Dylan
Kroondyk
Age 11: girls, 4th place – Lindsay
VandenBrink boys, 1st place Dylan Vandersleen
Age 12: girls, 2nd place – Nicole Friesen boys, 3rd place Dean Rollins
Age
13: girls, 3rd place – Kristy
Korevaar boys 1st place Ryan Kroondyk
We
wish Holly, Dylan V, and Ryan well as they will compete at the next level in
Tillsonburg on Sat. Feb. 9th.
Congratulations to Jordyn Vandendool! Her poem, Remember,
has been chosen to be in the top group of
entries in the Young Writiers Poetry Institute of Canada
competition to be judged
in Spring 2013! Her poem will be published in a book which
will feature the best of
today's poetry from young Canadians. Well done,
Jordyn!
float entries. Immanuel
received the Commentators reward, Mt. Salem Christian School
award and the Aylmer
Fair Board
received the Judges award. A big Thank
you to the Parade Float Committee
for all their time and work put into this
years float!
Hockey: The next practice is Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 7:30 a.m.
Please note that the practice on
Tuesday, Feb. 19 has been changed to Thursday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 a.m.
FROM THE CLASSROOMS:
JUNIOR / SENIOR KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Groeneweg
Some of the things we have done in Kindergarten
Bible:
The Good Samaritan, Feeding of 5000
Letter
and sound: J
Math: All About Number: 9 (nine, tally, count,
number before and after 8...)
Please
review the words with your child (Word Book)
New
Unit: Transportation
Exchange Valentines Cards: Wednesday, Feb 13 for
SK. Thursday, Feb 14 for JK
Pennies for Math for the
Primary:
Since pennies will no longer be made or used in Canada
GRADES 1 and
2 - Ms. Pieters
Happy Birthday
to
Caleb Poortinga
Sunday, February 10, 2013
“May you be blessed by the
Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.” Psalm 115:15
Bible: The students have just
finished a study on the Lord's Prayer. They learned that the purpose of prayer
was to acknowledge God as Lord and to open ourselves to his mercy. Jesus'
prayer summarized several of his teachings about the kingdom of God
Memory Work: for Wednesday, February
13, The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13)
Our Father in heaven, hallowed
be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our debts, as we also
have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
For your is the kingdom and the
power and the glory forever. Amen
Storytelling: Thank you to all who
helped coach the students in learning to tell their stories for story telling
this year. Through your efforts and encouragements the students were able to
memorize their story and enjoy presenting it to their classmates.
Spelling: Spelling Dictation words
for Friday, February 8.
Grade
1: go, so, no, home, note, robe, do, you
Grade
2: more, store, stand, star, blew, flew, new, stone, sting, ring
Scholastic Book Club: The February book order
flyers went home today. If you would like to place an order for this month
please have you child bring the order form with the payment (cash or cheque) to
school by Thursday, February 14, 2013. Thank-you.
GRADES 3 and
4 – Ms. Buma
Fri. Feb. 8 – Spelling Dictation: Grade
3 words are: follow, below, own,
grown, town, ground, around, found, about, house, group, would, should,
country, cousin, tower, sound
Grade 4 words are: also, bought, cough, almost, false, officer,
soft, stalk, halt, faucet, saucer, caution, lawyer, awesome, stall, crawl,
awful, because, fault, caught
Fri. Feb. 8 – Math Quiz: Grade
3: Checkup: Multiplying with 9 as a factor. Example:
(9 x 6 = 54) and (9 x 12 = 108).
Grade 4: Test on Fractions:
equivalent fractions, adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers
with like denominators, writing the answers in lowest terms.
Wed. Feb. 13 – Memory Work: You and
I (Verse 3)
3) Who’s goin’ to feed the
hungry? You and I! Care for the sick and lonely? You and I!
Who’s goin’ to let the
whole world see, people can live in harmony?
Let’s try! You and I!
Words and
Music: Natalie Sleeth, adapted
from the anthem “You and I”
Copyright: 1976, Hinshaw Music, Inc.
Songs for
Life: #246
Accelerated Reader: AR Reports will be sent home this Friday, Feb.
8. Several students have already
achieved their goal. Keep reading girls
and boys! AR goal due date is Friday,
Feb. 15.
Scholastic Book
Orders: Feb. flyers were sent home
today. Please return any completed Book
Orders to school by Friday, Feb. 15.
Thank you.
Student of the Week: This week’s Student of the Week is Megan
Friesen. Next week: Hayden Guenther.
Swim to Survive: Grade 3 students will be
participating in their fourth lesson at the St. Thomas YMCA, this Friday, Feb.
8. We will be leaving ICS at 1:00 PM and
plan to return to school by 3:15 – 3:20 PM.
Please remember to pack your bathing suit and towel, girls and boys!
Tech: As a class, we continue to
learn valuable lessons in internet safety. We covered our
"photo" internet safety stamp last week. At school we run an
internet filter, and set our search engine filters to "strict".
Despite filters, we are aware that there is a risk that inappropriate images
may still be found. In that case, we teach your children to be
forthright, not to hide the issue, and to bring it to the attention of a parent
or teacher. We recommend that you discuss similar options at home, as
well as parental assistance with internet searches, particularly image
searches.
GRADE 5 and 6 – Mrs Drop
Congratulations
to Caleb Krahn, who celebrated his birthday on Jan. 31st!
Math
Quiz
on Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying and Dividing Decimals - Fri., Feb. 8
Memory
Work: 1
John 4: 11 & 12
Spelling
Dictation: Review the words for Fri., Feb. 8
French
Quiz:
Unit: Les Animaux en Danger: There will be a matching exercise with
the vocabulary and a fill in the blanks activity with the verb, etre (to
be) on Tues., Feb. 12. Review your notes!
Accelerated Reader Reading
Reports
were sent home on Monday. Please check your child's progress. Reading
Science: We will be completing our
unit on electricity with a small in-class project and a unit test next week.
Ask your child to explain their project to you!
Tech: We are moving into a 4-week
"keyboarding clinic", seeking to elevate your child's words per
minute score in a short, intense period of time. While not required, the
Typing Tutor program may also be accessed at home, through our Wikispaces page.
GRADE
7 and 8 – Mr. TenBruggencate / Ms. Jones
Tech: We are moving into a
4-week "keyboarding clinic", seeking to elevate your child's words
per minute score in a short, intense period of time. While not required,
the Typing Tutor program may also be accessed at home, through our Wikispaces
page.
Le
Français: Test
- jeudi le 7 février - Review the vocabulary, grammar and stories.
