Wednesday 24 April 2013


Wednesday, April 24, 2013

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
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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:
- Assessment must be good for students.  That means it must promote learning, and be fair, equitable, and sensitive to individual needs.
- 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

16 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.












      
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