Wednesday, April 24, 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
April 22-26
School Drive Week
25
LDCSS Membership Meeting 7:30 p.m.
25
Turn Off the Screens – Dodgeball Mania here
28-May 5th Christian
Education Week
28
Participation at Grace
Community Church
29
5/6 at Belmont
Arena – Racing Against Drugs
30
1-8 Beauty & the Beast at Faith
Chr. Academy
May
1 Chapel 8:55; Open House 8:45-12
Pitch-In Litter Clean-up
1:30-3:30
4 WDCS Badminton Tournament
5
Participation at Aylmer C.R.C.
10 Gr.
8’s at LDCSS 4-9:30
17 Science Fair at Redeemer (rescheduled)
18 Annual Golf
Tournament at Pine Knot
20 Victoria Day Holiday – no school
22 Track & Field Day
24 Notes of
Joy (rescheduled)
From the
Principal's Desk:
As
Christian teachers in the Bluewater area, it was a privilege to join together
on Monday to take part in a conference featuring author and educator Damian
Cooper on "Redefining Fair: How to Plan, Assess, and Grade for Excellence
in Mixed-Ability Classrooms." Damian's work is guided by two simple
principles:
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Assessment must be good for students. That
means it must promote learning, and be fair, equitable, and sensitive to
individual needs.
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Assessment must be manageable and efficient for teachers. That means that it must not be all-consuming
in terms of teachers' time and energy. And it must involve a reasonable number of
well-designed, high-quality tools.
Damien
challenged us to consider that instruction at the elementary level is about
each student learning to his or her potential, not segregating students into
"successes" and "failures." He provided a wealth of
examples. The trick after any intense, mainly lecture-style conference,
is now for us each to choose a few strategies to apply in our classes or in
our assessment. As a staff, we will
begin to take up that challenge at our next staff meeting.
At
this morning's chapel, we highlighted our collective responsibility as stewards
of God's creation. We’d like to put that
into immediate practice and play our part in the national Pitch-In litter
clean-up campaign. Our plan is for classes
to each cover an area on our school grounds or in our town parks. Our
problem is a dire lack of parent volunteers!
We cannot engage in enriching out-of-school activities without parent
chaperones. Consequently, we have postponed our community clean up to Wed 1
May. Please volunteer with your child’s class if able. We will aim to meet in the gym at 1:30pm on
Weds 1 May.
yours
in Christ,
//Keith
Cameron//
Praying
for our Families:
Last week we prayed for Dave & Charlene VanGurp and Jeff &
Tammie Vannoord
Praying
for our Staff: This
week we will pray for Mrs. Jones and Mr. TenBruggencate.
Volunteers needed for close to home "field
trips": We
have arranged a number of short field trips, taking advantage of free events in
our local area. For a school that has
not done many curriculum-tied short trips, this is exciting. We need
parental help to give us the adult: student supervisory ratios (generally 1: 5
or 1: 8 unless we travel to another school) we need to safely travel off school
grounds. If you can support your child's education in this way, please
volunteer! Trips are:
1. Community Clean-Up: ICS is
participating in Pitch-In Canada Week -
now postponed to Wed 1 May from 1:30 - 3 pm.
Demonstrating
our stewardship of our grounds and the local parks, as well as our love for our
community, we will sweep them for
garbage
left over from the winter. Grades 5-8 will cover parks in the town centre,
Grade 3/4 will cover Lions
Park to our south,
Grade
1/2 will cover the church and Caverly
Rd sidewalks, and SK will cover our sports
fields. We are seeking 2 parent
volunteers
from each class to assist with supervision - can you help out? Please send a
note in with your child if you
can!
2. Grade 5/6 Racing Against Drugs:
an OPP-sponsored student interactive contest with an anti-drug theme held in
Belmont Arena
on
Monday, Apr. 29 from 12:15 - 2:15 pm. 2 parents requested!
3. Faith Christian
Academy production of Beauty
and the Beast in St Thomas
on Tue Apr 30 at 1pm, grades 3 through 8 will
attend. One parent volunteer for each class is
requested!
Spring Drive: A
canvasser should be contacting you. Please
have your envelope ready when your canvasser comes to pick it up. We thank you for being part of our school
community and for your continued support of Christian Education.
The Board of London District Christian Secondary
School Society invites all
members to our Spring Membership Meeting tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at the
school. We urge everyone to attend in
order that the business of the society may be conducted.
Christian
Education Week April 28 – May 5th.
ICS students will be joining worship with participating churches. On Sunday, April 28
Grace Community Church @ 10 a.m. service, May 5 at Aylmer CRC @ 10 a.m. service
and June 2 at Tillsonburg CRC @ 9: 30 a.m.
Open House: Everyone is also invited to our Open House on
Wed May 1st. Join us for
chapel at 8:55, tour the school and visit the classrooms. Our Open house is from 8:45 - 11:00 a.m.
Pause for Play: Turn-off-the-Screens Week
April 21-27: Hope you are attending some of the events that have
been offered during this week. Aylmer Library tonight 6:30 – 8, Thursday
Dodgeball Mania at ICS, gr. 1-3 from 6 – 6:45 and gr. 4 from 6:45-7:45. Tickets are still available in the
office. Friday, Bowling, 5 - 8.
Your log sheet is your ticket.
Log
sheets are to be returned to your teacher by April 30th.
Sandwich Bag Recycling
AGAIN: Thanks to the support of GLAD, TerraCycle Canada
will resume collecting all types of plastic food bags and food storage containers
to be recycled into useful new products. This program will run to Dec. 31st,
2013. Please send all your plastic bags
and containers to school again. We have
done well with the previous collection and raised $88.00. Easy money for the Student Fund and it
benefits the environment!
Junior Basketball: Our boys and girls junior basketball teams
played in the Bluewater Tournament held at LDCSS on Tue Apr 23rd.
Girls
placed 5th and our boys placed 2nd. We are especially happy with the skill
development of the boys and girls in what can be really tough sport to play and
coach. Many thanks to our coaches, Ms
Katrina Jones for the boys, Mrs Helen Friesen for the girls! Well done all!
Senior Badminton: All players have now received their team
positions. We will practice on Mon, Wed
and Thu at lunch recess in preparation for the tournament coming up soon on Sat
May 4th. Players are responsible for
arranging their own rides to and from the tournament to be held at LDCSS. By arrangement, players may ride with Mr
Cameron as well. More details on start
times will be forthcoming next week.
Yearbook:
- Business
Card $40, ¼ page $60, ½ page $100, Full page $160, Inside Cover $300
- if you have
photos of school events and kids, please send to school
-
if you would like to help please contact
Amanda Cameron 519-550-7312 or e-mail keith.amanda.cameron@gmail.com
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trees available for Spring planting. Please contact Christine Janssens @
519-269-3305 or cjansssens@rogers.com.
DUTCH
DELITE NITE was
a great success! $948.64 was made last FRIDAY FAMILY FUN NIGHT which was
full of Snert, Boerenkool Stamppot, Worst, Appelmoes and Rijstebrij met
rozijen! And every last scoop of food was devoured!
Thank
you to all the volunteers on the preparation, kitchen and clean-up crews; thank
you again to the Heritage Place
residents and to the take-out 'customers'; and thank you to all the families
and individuals who continue to make the Friday Family Fun Nights such fun and
profitable evenings! The ICS Fundraising Committee couldn’t do any of
this without you.
Congratulations
to Mr. John Hordyk who won the beautiful Boston Fern basket, and to Mrs. Tina
Tensen, Mrs. Chantelle Bakker and Ms Tine Buma who won the spring potted
plants! All your prizes will be ready for pick up in the school office
tomorrow morning.
Next
Month’s CHALLENGE:
If you haven’t attended a FRIDAY FAMILY FUN NIGHT – join us, try it – the whole
family will be happy + well fed for much less than it costs to dine out or get
fast food. For the regular attendees – try bring someone new with you
(think neighbours, cousins, friends, church members...). Thank you and
see you next month!
- Your ICS Fundraising Committee
2013 ICS GOLF
TOURNAMENT: mark your calendars for the upcoming ICS Golf
Tournament being held on Saturday, May 18th, 2013 at Pine
Knot Golf and Country Club. There will
be a Shotgun Start at 1:00 p.m. The
price per golfer will be $110.00 – which includes lunch, green fees, cart and
steak dinner. Enter your team
today! Questions – call Lisa Vankemenade
at 519-775-2622 or Tammie Vannoord at 519-773-5593.
PICK UP AN ENTRY FORM AT THE ICS OFFICE OR FROM ONE
OF OUR COMMITTEE MEMBERS – Harry Knibbe, Dean Mantel, Tracy Mantel, Ken
Vandendool, Lisa Vankemenade, Jeff Vannoord, Tammie Vannoord, Jim Vording,
Harley Zylstra or Jeff Zylstra
The Golf Committee is seeking a photographer for
the day of the Tournament. This person
does not need to be a professional photographer, just someone who can operate a
decent camera and be able to download the pictures to a laptop for a slide show
presentation at the end of the day.
Supper will be provided.
GIFTS Program: How are your GIFTS hours coming along? The June 30 deadline is quickly
approaching. Please contact the
school to find out where you can help out and
fulfill your obligations. If you have completed your volunteer hours, you may
hand in
your GIFTS time sheet so that eventually your
post-dated cheque will be returned.
FROM THE CLASSROOMS:
JUNIOR / SENIOR KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Groeneweg
Some of the things we have done in Kindergarten:
Egg-citing
News!!!!
We need to wait 6 more
days.
We keep you posted. Peep! Peep!
Bible:
David and Goliath, David and Jonathan, David the King
JK:
Tracing numbers and letters.
Float or Sink?
SK:
Printing 1-30 and number words
Beginning sounds and ending sounds
Math: SK- All About Number: 18.
JK- All About Numbers 6 - 12
Nutritious
Foods
Track
and Field Skills
GRADES 1 and
2 - Ms. Pieters
Memory Work: for Wednesday, May 1, 2013
...If God is for us, who
can be against us?
He who did not spare his
own Son, but gave him up for us all –
how will he not also, along
with him, graciously give us all things? Romans 8:31 and 32
Spelling: Spelling Dictation words
for Friday, April 26
Grade
1: funny, bunny, puppy, penny, happy, kitten, mitten, little
Grade
2: put, push, pull, could, would, found, round, around, something, brown
GRADES 3 and 4 – Ms. Buma
Fri. Apr. 26 – Spelling Dictation: Grade
3 words are: phone, photograph,
orphan, alphabet, graph, nephew, enough, father, half, Friday, cough, unhappy,
happier, happily, happiness, laughter, physical
Grade 4 words are: lazy, volcano, flavour, piano, recent,
really, item, pilot, triangle, climate, gigantic, program, obey, puny, prepare,
vacant, pulley, menu, perfect, personality
Memory Work: Wed. May 1 – Song:
Beautiful Saviour (Verses 3
and 4)
3. Fair is the sunshine fair is the moonlight,
bright the sparkling stars on high;
Jesus shines brighter,
Jesus shines purer than all the angels in the sky.
4. Beautiful Saviour! Lord of the nations! Son of God and Son of Man!
Glory and honour, praise,
adoration, now and forevermore be thine!
Text: Gesangbuch, Münster, 1677;
tr. Joseph A. Seiss, 1873 Psalter Hymnal
Student of the Week: This week’s Student of the Week is Haley
Broer. Next week: Holly Cameron.
GRADE 5 and 6 – Mrs Drop
Memory Work: 1
Corinthians 1: 8 & 9.
French: There
will be a quiz on the vocabulary from the unit, "Au Travail", (At
Work) on Fri., April 26.
Spelling: Please be
ready for dictation on Fri., April 26.
Field Trips: Parent
volunteers are required. Please see the notice regarding field trips
above.
Bible: We are studying
Paul's Missionary Journeys.
Social Studies: your child is engaged in a group project on
daily life in Ancient Greece. There may be some homework involved in order to
have the presentation ready for in-class presentations Tue Apr 30th. See the wikispaces page for web resource
links.
GRADE
7 and 8 – Mr. TenBruggencate / Ms. Jones
Students
need to bring in a shoe box (or similar sized box) for Friday.
Spelling diction and lesson on
"The Sound of F" due this Friday.