Wednesday, March 27, 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
27 Chapel 8:55 – Lent 6;
Grade by Grade Chess
Tournament
28
Grandparents’ & Senior Friends’ Day
Meat and Baked Good pickup
2:30-4
29
Good Friday – school closed
April 1 Easter Monday – school closed
3 Chapel 8:55;
Battle
9 Gr. 5-8 to LDCSS Drama (leaving
10ish)
10
Spring Membership Meeting
12, 13, 19, 20 LDCSS Drama
From the
Principal's Desk:
We
are privileged to host our Grandparents and Senior Friends tomorrow - what a
blessing to celebrate the gift of faith passed down through the generations! We look forward to connecting with our
grandparents, and reflecting on what has changed and what is still the same in
elementary education. As I've stated before, the core of who we are as a
Christian elementary school will not change. The context in which we operate will change:
we use group work more extensively, "tech" is an area of study, we
use blackboards, whiteboards and interactive white boards. We are using
Grandparents Day to focus on Easter as well, creating a presentation
opportunity before a major holiday. Our
class presentations for the grandparents will focus on music or visual arts. Many thanks to the Promotions Committee, the
Ladies Auxiliary and our dedicated volunteers who are needed to make
this day a success.
You
will notice a "Protectors" brochure attached to this Journal. This
serves to reinforce the core lessons we learned as a school when we taught the
program school-wide. We do not want this to be a one-time effort! We strive for a healthy school environment, and
we are well aware of our sinful human natures.
As a Christian school, we realize that we are "called to love one
another" on the playground, in the hall, in the classrooms, everywhere. We intend to continue to reinforce the lesson
that we are all called to be Protectors of those treated unjustly, and that we
need to have the courage to be an Alongside Stander. Ideally, you could talk about being a
Protector with your child, and use a magnet to stick this brochure on your
fridge!
May
you have a blessed Easter as we commemorate Jesus' death on Friday and
celebrate his resurrection on Sunday!
Yours in Christ,
Keith Cameron, Principal
Praying
for our Families:
Last week we prayed for Keith & Ellyn Sinke and Dave & Leslie
Vandenbrink.
Praying
for our Staff: This
week we will pray for Mrs. Groeneweg 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.
Prayer
Request: Please uphold Suzie
Guenther’s brother, Jake Neufeld from Windsor ,
who underwent a major heart surgery yesterday in London
Grandparents’ and Senior Friends’ Day –
tomorrow, Thursday, March 28th. The day will start at 11:00 with refreshments
and fellowship, and visiting the classrooms, lunch and an assembly. End time is approximately 2:30. Looking forward to having you join us for a
time of fellowship, a time to celebrate both the special people in our lives,
and to celebrate the Easter season.
Meat
and Baked Goods pick up tomorrow Thursday, March 28 between 2:30
and 4. If interested in joining this
work group and would like to see what is involved call Irene Versteegen-Buis
519-765-4766 or come out at 12.30 tomorrow and join us.
FRIDAY
FAMILY FUN NIGHT hopes you had a great time at last week's KIDS NIGHT! There were
over 140 dinner guests and a lot of games were played - a fun and relaxing time
for young and old! $970 came in Friday night - which makes KIDS NIGHT the
second most popular Friday Family Fun Night so far! It was nice to see
lots of familiar faces and some new faces too!
Thank
you to all the volunteers on the preparation, kitchen and clean up crew; thank
you to the Heritage Place residents for the 13 delivery orders and to
the take-out 'customers'; and thank you to the ICS Fundraising Committee
for another successful evening.
Congratulations
to Kaylynn Mantel, Dylan Bergen and Jordyn Vandendool who won the Game
Contestant Grand Prize draws!
See
you at next month's FRIDAY FAMILY FUN NIGHT on April 19th! Mark your
calendar, and think about a new friend or family that you could bring along for
the fun...
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
Junior Basketball:
Girls’ practices will be
held on Mondays, beginning on March 25, from 3:30 - 5, and Wednesdays and
Fridays at noon. Please arrange transportation home after the Monday
practices. Thank you!
Boys’ practices are
Mondays at lunch and Wednesdays after school.
The tournament is scheduled for Tuesday, April 23. Practices will on go till Monday, April 22nd.
Intramural Dodge ball
Wrap-Up: We had a fun season with both Primary and
Junior Teams participating in exhibition games, Mondays during morning recess,
(Junior) and Thursdays, at lunch recess. (Primary)
Thank
you to our Primary Refs, Matthew Cameron and Austin VandenBrink, and to our
Junior Refs, Tyler Kaastra and Ben VanderDeen for overseeing the season! Thank you also to all of the players for
coming out to our fast-paced, fun-filled games!
Our
champion Primary team was Team D, with winning players, Gracie B., Selina K.,
Josh V., Hayden G., and Ben W. Congratulations, Team D!
Our
champion Junior Team was Team F, with winning players, Cody B., Grace V.,
Jessica F., Dean R., Caleb K. and Dylan V.
Congratulations, Team F! With
Tournaments played, our intramural dodge ball season has come to a close. See you next year!
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.
LDCSS
Drama club presents “Flowers of Algernon” on
Friday April 12, Saturday 13, Friday April 19 and Saturday, April 20th. Show time starts at 7:30, tickets are $12
each and are now available. There is a
Seniors matinee on Wednesday, April 17 at 1 p.m. Tickets can be purchased through Mr. Clarence
Wassink (cwassink@ldcss.ca), or LDCSS
students may purchase them during their lunch break.
Come
celebrate 50 years of 'God's Faithfulness Through the Generations' to Immanuel Christian School, Oshawa at
our Open House April 27, 2013 from 11 AM to 4 PM at the school and a
10 AM service of celebration April 28, with alumnus guest speaker, at
Hebron Church in Whitby. Our theme is
based on Psalm 78:4, 6 & 7, ‘…will
tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the LORD. …so the next
generation might know them…-that they in turn might teach their children. So
each generation can set its hope anew on God, remembering his glorious miracles
and obeying his commands.’ (NLT)
FROM THE CLASSROOMS:
JUNIOR / SENIOR KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Groeneweg
Some of the things we have done in Kindergarten:
Bible: Easter Story
Letter and sound: X
JK: Tracing numbers and
letters
SK: Printing 1-20 and colour
words
Nursery Rhymes: One, Two,
Buckle My Shoe; There Was an Old Women Who Lived in a Shoe
GRADES 1 and
2 - Ms. Pieters
Memory Work: for Wednesday, April 3 All Glory, Laud, and Honour verse 2 ccli#1443206
The company of angels is
praising you on high; and we with all creation in chorus make reply.
The people of the Hebrews
with palms before you went; our praise and prayer and anthems before you we
present.
Spelling: Spelling Dictation for
Thursday, March 28
Grade
1: day, may, stay, play, away, boat, coat, toad
Grade
2: why, try, trying, eat, mean, read, sunny, fly, treat, each
Field Trip: Thank you to Mrs. Bettina
Poortinga who helped us on our visit to Chateau Gardens
Scholastic Book Club: The April book order
flyers went home today. If you would like to place an order for April please
have your child bring the order form with the payment (cash or cheque) to
school by Thursday, April 4, 2013. Thank-you.
Thank-you: to Mrs. Jennifer VanBerkel
for helping out from 12:35 to 1:25 on Grandparent's Day.
GRADES 3 and 4 – Ms. Buma
Happy Birthday: We would like to wish Holly Cameron a very Happy
Birthday. Holly will be turning ten
years old on Thursday, March 28, Grandparents’ and Senior Friends’ Day! Happy Birthday, Holly! May God richly bless you in your new year of
life!
Thurs. March 28 – Spelling Dictation: Grade
3 words are: aren’t, partner, hard,
chart, farm, start, large, more, before, horse, north, morning, care, stare,
warning, report, score
Grade 4 words are: frighten, flight, brighter, flashlight,
mighty, delight, tighten, nightly, brought, ought, thought, fought, sight,
caught, daughter, taught, naughty, fault, right, sought
Memory Work: Wed. April 3 – Song: Lord, I
Want to Be a Christian
1. Lord, I want to be a Christian in my heart, in
my heart.
Lord, I want to be a
Christian in my heart.
In my heart, in my heart,
Lord, I want to be a
Christian in my heart.
2. Lord, I want to be more loving in my heart,
in my heart…
3. Lord, I want to be more holy, in my heart, in
my heart…
4. Lord, I want to be like Jesus in my heart, in
my heart…
From Songs
for Life, #40
Words and
Music: African – American
spiritual ccli#1443206
Student of the Week: This week’s Student of the Week is Jocelyn
Shelton. Next week: Ben Weesjes
GRADE 5 and 6 – Mrs Drop
Happy
Birthday to Michael Drop who turns 11 years old tomorrow.
Memory
Work:
Matthew 28:7
The
next spelling dictation will be on Fri., April 5.
Art: Finish the two art
projects: Optical Illusions and Facial Expressions for tomorrow.
Science:
your child will bring home details for their kite project on Thursday.
The weekend is ideal for making plans and gathering supplies. We
will have some class time for building next Tue and Wed, and students will need
to source their own building materials suitable for their designs. The
kite presentation will be due in class Mon Apr 8. We will go on a field trip
from 8:30 - 11 to St Thomas airport on Thu Apr 4, and I'm after 2 parent
volunteers to accompany - can you help?
GRADE 7 and 8 – Mr. TenBruggencate / Ms. Jones
History - Read Chapter 23 (Willy Jay Roams...)
Spelling Test on Thursday
Bible - Proverbs assignment
Bible - Proverbs assignment
Le Français: Test – jeudi le 4
avril
