Wednesday, March 20, 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
March
21 Science Fair Projects due – viewing in p.m.
22 Friday Family Fun Night Dinner 5-7:30 p.m.
23
Chapel 8:55 – Lent 6;
Grade by Grade Chess
Tournament
28
Grandparents’ & Senior Friends’ Day
Meat and Baked Good pickup
29
Good Friday – school closes
April 1 Easter Monday – school closed
3 Chapel 8:55;
Battle
of the Books (Strathroy)
From the
Principal's Desk::
Welcome
back from March Break! While the students began March Break early, we
took one more day as staff to review our phys ed curriculum. Our
conversation focused on how to better link our primary and senior skills, and
on best practices for safe instruction in gym class and in sports. We
have some good guidance for both staff and parent coaches.
As
we resume classes, we're in the third term already! We're completing our Lent chapel series,
highlighting the school theme of "Called to love one another." Pastor John Twinem of Springfield Baptist
spoke to us this morning, and Pastor Brian Morris from AEMC will speak to us
next week. Our Grandparents’ and Senior
Friends’ Day next Thursday will also help to highlight the celebration of
Easter. More than just "doing
school," it is our hope as staff that we can create routines which in and
of themselves, point to Christ and create peaceful, joyful relations with each
other. My own experience as a student told me that what was
important was Christmas and summer! Our
Advent and Lent chapel series, and our Christmas and Grandparents'/Senior
Friends’ Day programs serve, we hope, to highlight a routine of Christmas and
Easter.
Lastly,
I continue to urge you to talk up ICS! Positive
word of mouth is our most effective advertising. We have room for new
enrolments (in all grades), and we're after new families to replace those
who "graduate" along with their children this coming June. Think
about how you would clearly express why Immanuel is your school of choice...
Yours in Christ,
Keith Cameron, Principal
Praying
for our Families:
Last week we prayed for Stu & Janine Shelton , Keith & Ellyn Sinke.
Praying
for our Staff: This
week we will pray for Mr. Cameron and continued healing for Mr. TenBruggencate.
Please
pray for new families to consider enrolling their children in ICS and guidance
and wisdom with those considering Christian Education for their children.
Reminder: Job Posting - ICS Janitor
Interested applicants should
submit a resume, 2 references and an example of similar work performed to a
high standard, to Mr Cameron by 28 March. A full job description may be
obtained at the ICS office.
Kid's Night! This Friday's Family Fun Night is all about the kids: pizza
for dinner and ice cream sundaes for dessert! And an evening of family
friendly games and fun! Treat your family this Friday, March 22 from
5pm-7:30pm in the school gym. Cost is Adults $8 and Children (12 + under)
$5 and all proceeds go directly back into the school! Delivery to Heritage Place and
Takeout will also be available.
If
you haven't been to a Friday Family Fun Night yet, this is one you won't want
to miss (or won't want to hear your kids complaining that they missed)!
Meat
and Baked Goods pick up next week Thursday, March 28 between 2:30
and 4. Coolers with names on them would
be great.
Meat & baked goods is looking for a
volunteer. If you may be interested call Irene Versteegen-Buis 519-765-4766
or come out at 12.30 on March 28th and see if its something your
interested in.
Cheese Orders for April are attached. Orders are due on Wednesday, March 27th. Delivery on Wednesday, April 3rd.
Grandparents’ and Senior Friends’ - you are
invited to attend our ICS Grandparents’ and Senior Friends’ day to be held next
week Thursday, March 28th. The day will start at 11:00 with refreshments
and fellowship, and visiting the classrooms, lunch and an assembly. Each class as well as our band and “winter praises”
choral group will have an arts-themed presentation. End time is approximately 2:30. We look forward to sharing a time of
fellowship and a time to celebrate both the special people in our lives, and to
celebrate the Easter season.
Tina Vyn will have her books and cards set
up on that day. “Purchase an adult fiction book for
$5.00 and donate it back to your church library. I will keep the books
and pass them on to your church libraries at the end of the book sale.
What a great way to get more reading material into our church libraries.
Libraries can exchange books if there are duplicates. 20% of total sales
will go for Nancy Robinson, our school librarian, to choose books for Immanuel Christian School
library. This way churches benefit and Immanuel benefits.”
Each
family was given two invitations. Did
you send them out to your Grandparents and/or Senior Friends? Help yourself to more from the office counter
if you need them.
And so, it is time again to update our school data base with our Grandparents’
and Senior Friends’ list. Please let me
know if there was an address change in the last year or two. All our new families from September, please
take a minute to fill out the form at the end of the Journal and return it with
your child to their teacher. I would
like to add the Grandparents’ and Senior Friends’ to our data base. Thank you.
Mrs. Smit
Graduation
is fast approaching, it will be here before you know it. Irene Versteegen-Buis has volunteered to
do the slide presentation for the graduates.
Graduates or parents could you please e-mail 4-5 pictures:
example, baby, kindergarten then a few fun life pictures to hank44@eastlink.ca or drop them off
at the school where she will scan them and return them to you. She would love
to get an early start on this project.
Yearbook
Time Again: Time
to think about creating our ICS yearbook.
- If you would like to put a business ad in the yearbook or
make a donation – please contact Amanda.
Ad
costs: Business Card $40, ¼ page
$60, ½ page $100, Full page $160, Inside Cover $300
- We are looking for photos of school events and kids – if you
have some to share, please e-mail them to the school
- If you would like to be part of the Yearbook team, please
contact Amanda Cameron 519-550-7312 or e-mail keith.amanda.cameron@gmail.com
Hockey – The 2013 ICS hockey team
was blessed with the opportunity to participate in the 42nd Annual
District Christian Hockey Tournament in Strathroy on Wed. March 6th. After playing five exciting games, in the
small schools’ division of the tournament, we are happy to report that the ICS
team was able to take home the finalist banner.
Well done, team!
Thank
you to all the parents who drove to the early morning practices, to the
exhibition game, and/or to the tournament.
Thank you, also, to all the other fans.
Your support and words of encouragement were greatly appreciated. A special thank you goes out to the three
coaches: Mr. Steve Vandersleen, Mr. Jeff Vannoord, and Mrs. Sheri Weesjes.
God bless!
Help
Wanted! 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
Dean Mantel, 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)
It’s not too early to think SPRING!!! We still have 16 trees left from our annual Sweets, Treats, and Treasurers sale
ready to be planted in someone’s backyard!
We have 5 4”-5” large soft needle blue spruce and 11 3”-4” small soft
needle blue spruce. Please contact
Christine Janssens @ 519-269-3305 or cjansssens@execulink.com
for more info.
Library News:
1. After a break we always have a large
number of books needing to be returned. ALL LIBRARY MATERIALS
TAKEN OUT BEFORE THE BREAK ARE NOW DUE. Please check slips and send
everything back (
renewals are allowed if there is not a waiting list).
2. You may have noticed that the
overdue slips sent out had very tiny print up until now. A recent update
to the management program means the overdue lists are much easier to produce and read.
Our policy is that if
students have overdue books, they will not be allowed to take more materials out. RED SLIPS placed over
their barcodes will start next week, limiting their ability to checkout materials if they have overdues. There
should be a date
due slip in the book pocket indicating when an item needs to be returned. If you and your
child have searched and not found the
book listed on his/her slip please send a note or email to Mrs.
Robinson n.robinson@immanuelchristianschool.net.
3. BATTLE OF THE BOOKS is coming up
soon! This year we will meet in Strathroy on Apr.3. Our Junior
and
senior teams have been busy reading and studying and we are looking forward to a good day.
Team
members, remember to study your questions and return them on practice days.
FROM THE CLASSROOMS:
JUNIOR / SENIOR KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Groeneweg
Some of the things we have done in Kindergarten:
Bible: Easter Story
Letter and sound: Q
JK: Tracing numbers and
letters
SK: Printing 1-20 and colour
words
Math: SK- All About
Number: 14 (fourteen, tally, count, number before and after 14..)
counting by
2's
JK- All About Number 6
Show and Tell: SK -
Friday, March 22
JK -
Monday, March 25
Grandparents' Day:
One volunteer is requested to have lunch with the JK class on Thurs.,
March 28 from 12:35 - 12:50, followed by yard supervision from 12:50 - 1:25 (if
possible). The teachers will be eating lunch with the grandparents in the
gym. Please send a note with your child(ren) if you can help out on that
day. Thank you!
Reminder
for all parents of JK students. The Eye See…Eye Learn program deadline is
June 30, 2013. JK students are
encouraged to have a comprehensive eye exam with a participating Doctor of
Optometry and if needed, will be provided with a free pair of eyeglasses. For more information see Mrs. Smit.
GRADES 1 and
2 - Ms. Pieters
Memory Work: for Wednesday, March 27 All Glory, Laud, and Honour by
Theodulph (760-821) This text is more than a thousand years old! “Laud” means
praise and “hosanna” is a Hebrew word expressing praise and prayer to God.
All glory, laud, and honour
to you, Redeemer, King, to whom the lips of children made sweet hosannas ring.
You are the King of Israel
and David's royal Son, now in the Lord's name coming, the King and Blessed One.
Spelling: Spelling Dictation words
for Friday, March 22
Grade
1: fast, last, nest, must, most, step, stamp, still
Grade
2: this, then, thing, thank, bank, with, wish, think, sing, these
Field Trip: We are looking forward to
visiting Chateau Gardens on Wednesday, March 27 from 1:30
to 2:30. We will need one volunteer to help us. We plan to walk there, leaving
I.C.S. at 1:15 and returning around 2:45.
Grandparents' Day:
One volunteer is requested to have lunch with the grade 1/2 class on
Thurs., March 28 from 12:35 - 12:50, followed by yard supervision from 12:50 -
1:25 (if possible). The teachers will be eating lunch with the
grandparents in the gym. Please send a note with your child(ren) if you
can help out on that day. Thank you!
GRADES 3 and 4 – Ms. Buma
Happy Birthday: We would like to wish Cody Bergen a very Happy
Birthday. Cody turned ten years old
today, March 20. Happy Birthday,
Cody! May God richly bless you in your
new year of life!
Fri. March 22 – Spelling Dictation: Grade
3 words are: word, work, world,
were, first, girl, turned, learn, bird, fire, here, nurse, jury, stirred, wear,
thirsty, cure
Grade 4 words are: enough, tougher, fifty, pharmacy, alphabet,
nephew, trophy, paragraph, telephone, photograph, giraffe, forest, figure,
refrigerator, draft, phrase, traffic, chief, pharaoh, furlough
Fri. March 22 – Math Quiz: Grade
3 – Division with one-digit quotients – No remainders. Example:
(24 ÷ 6 = 4) and (9 ÷ 9 = 1)
Grade 4 – Comparing and ordering
decimals, and adding and subtracting decimals to tenths without
regrouping. Example: (0.1 = 0.8 = 0.9) and (0.7 – 0.3 = 0.4)
Memory Work: Wed. March 27 – Song: Make Me
a Miracle
Refrain:
Take these few fish and
crumbs of bread. It’s all that I can do.
But most of all, Lord take
my life and make me a miracle too.
Refrain:
1. The world’s so full of hungry souls I’ve
little left to give.
Could it be I might feed a
few, by the simple life I live?
Refrain:
2. Multiply these gifts, so few and feed your
thousands, Lord.
For in Your hand I lay my
life it’s what You gave it for.
From: Close Your Eyes So You Can See
By: Michael Card © 1996 ccli # 1443206
Student of the Week: This week’s Student of the Week is Braden
Vandersleen. Next week: Jocelyn Shelton
Tech: Parents, you should
receive a letter regarding our trial of "Timez Attack" in class over
the next 8 weeks. We are assessing whether this game-style program
(students escape from the Dungeon of Ignorance by correctly reciting their
times tables up to 12) is a motivating and effective way to increase math fact
recall.
Grandparents' Day:
One volunteer is requested to have lunch with the grade 3/4 class on
Thurs., March 28 from 12:35 - 12:50, followed by yard supervision from 12:50 -
1:25 (if possible). The teachers will be eating lunch with the
grandparents in the gym. Please send a note with your child(ren) if you
can help out on that day. Thank you!
GRADE 5 and 6 – Mrs Drop
Science: We are beginning a science unit on “Soaring
like Eagles: Flight.” In this unit, we will examine how God designed the
properties of air to create flight, how we are awed by God’s creativity, and
how we humans use our God-given creativity to design and build flying devices.
I invite you to enquire with your child - ask about science class at the
dinner table! During the course of the unit, we will visit the St Thomas Airport and we will build kites as the
final project. We will construct a small demonstration kite in class, and
construction of your child’s individual kite will be a homework project.
Check out the design ideas on our Wikispaces page!
Health: We have completed
"Growing and Connecting." Please
look over your child's work - class conversations were good, with the students
demonstrating maturity with sensitive, important subjects. Notebooks have
been sent home for signature
Memory Work: Matthew
28: 5 & 6
Music: Please practise
the recorder selections, "Gently Sleep" and "O When the
Saints..." in preparation for the practice tomorrow and the practices next
week. Bring your recorder to school each day.
Math: There will be a
quiz on data management on Fri., March 22.
Grandparents' Day:
One volunteer is requested to have lunch with the grade 5/6 class on
Thurs., March 28 from 12:35 - 12:50, followed by yard supervision from 12:50 -
1:25 (if possible). The teachers will be eating lunch with the
grandparents in the gym. Please send a note with your child(ren) if you
can help out on that day. Thank you!
GRADE
7 and 8 – Mr. TenBruggencate / Ms. Jones
Welcome
to Mrs Georgie Rodenburg, teaching LA and Bible from recess to lunch daily! Mr TenBruggencate is awaiting MRI results on
his knee and a surgeon's assessment on whether a final surgery will be
required. He is healing well, please keep his continued recovery in your
prayers.
Tech: We are starting an online
unit on social media communication, specifically blogging. You are
encouraged to be in discussion with your child about their use of social media;
use of texting, Facebook (including multiple profiles) and blogs are all good
topics.
Bible: We have begun a new Bible unit on
Proverbs. As part of the unit the students have begun an assignment which
requires them to read one chapter of Proverbs each day and write out one
verse from that chapter into their booklet. They also need to write down
their reasons for choosing that verse. The due date for this devotional
assignment is April 17.
Geography: There will be a test on Climate in the Tundra
on Tuesday, March 26th.
Science fair projects set-up in the
board room Thursday morning. They will
be on display from 2:45 – 3:30 with the students, 3:30-5:00 p.m. without the
students. The displays will stay up
until Friday 3:15 for additional viewing time.
Feel free to stop in check them out.
Grandparents' Day:
One volunteer is requested to have lunch with the grade 7/8 class on
Thurs., March 28 from 12:35 - 12:50, followed by yard supervision from 12:50 -
1:25 (if possible). The teachers will be eating lunch with the
grandparents in the gym. Please send a note with your child(ren) if you
can help out on that day. Thank you!
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Grandparents’
and Senior Friends’
Feb. 2013
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Student(s) last
name – all children’s first names
The address of
my Grandparents’ and/or Senior Friends’ are:
Grandparent __ Senior Friend ___(please check off)
Name:
______________________________
Address: _____________________________
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Grandparent __ Senior Friend __ (please check off)
Name:
_____________________________
Address: ____________________________
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Grandparent __ Senior Friend ___(please check off)
Name: ______________________________
Address: _____________________________
____________________________________
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Grandparent __ Senior Friend __ (please check off)
Name: _____________________________
Address: ____________________________
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