Wednesday, October 15, 2014
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.
Upcoming Events
Oct. 17 Integrated Studies begins “Journey with Jesus”
20 Parent/Teacher conferences 4-9 pm
21 Dental Screening Day (JK, SK & Grade 2)
22 Chapel
“The Big Crunch”
Parent/Teacher conferences 4-9 pm
23 & 24 No classes: Edifide teachers convention
29 Walking Wednesday Event at East Elgin
31 Picture retake day
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75 Caverly Rd, Aylmer, N5H 2P6
School: immanuel@amtelecom.net
Principal: k.cameron@immanuelchristianschool.net
519-773-8476
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From the Principal’s Desk:
As staff, we spent yesterday planning for our upcoming integrated study, “Journey with Jesus.” Integrated studies are one example of the uniqueness of an ICS education - we try to create authentic Christian learning experiences, crossing subject lines, working on a common school project, and sometimes mixing up the grade levels. This project will culminate in a school-wide presentation for the Christmas program to take the community on a “Journey with Jesus” inside our school.
Mrs Ina Groeneweg has led the development of this unit, and we are excited to start this coming Friday afternoon! In this grade-level-wide project students examine different topics to have an understanding about the life of Jesus. Each class will focus on a particular aspect of Jesus’ life and conduct research as directed by each teacher. The journey will begin with the manger (Christmas) and end with the cross (Easter) with each class presenting an aspect of Jesus’ life in between. Each classroom will be transformed into a biblical setting according to their topic as students present their work. We look forward to hosting you as our audience on December 17th!
yours in Christian education, Keith Cameron, Principal
Praying for our families: This past week, we prayed for Dan & Janina Dykxhoorn and Ryan & Annette Dykxhoorn.
Please also keep the family of John & Suzie Guenther in your prayers. John’s mother Anna Guenther has suffered a couple seizures over the weekend. They hope to admit her for surgery sometime this week, once the swelling has decreased.
Praying for our staff: Please pray for Ms. Jones
Reminders: Is Your Photo Missing? New family photos are still being added to the Gallery. Please bring an updated Family photo for our school families wall, so we can put names to faces. Stop by and take a look!
Cheese Order: Next order form will be sent out on the 22nd
Chocolate Bars/Student Activity Fee: For those not selling a box, please bring the $25 activity fee (full time K-8) or $15 (JK/SK part-time). All outstanding monies are now due!
Last Call - Parent Survey 2014: If you have not yet done this, we would cherish a few minutes of your time this week to complete this survey! Go to: http://goo.gl/SFm4R2, or click on the link in our website Twitter feed.
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Parent/Teacher/Student Interviews- Will be held Monday Oct 20th and Wednesday Oct 22nd. The staff would like to meet with every family for the first set of interviews. Students are welcome to sit in on the interview if you wish. Please check the confirmation schedule carefully. If you have not handed in your conference form as of yet, we will be calling you to schedule an appointment where there is an opening. The confirmation schedule is attached.
*The Living Books display will still be available during Parent/Teacher/Student Interviews. Make sure to check it out before it is gone. Lots of variety for all ages!
Dental Screening: Is scheduled for Tuesday October 21st. Students is JK, SK & Grade 2 will be checked as well as any parental requests. Please let the office know if you are interested, so we can book your child(ren) in. There is a no-cost dental program for children 17 and under that includes check-ups, fillings, x-rays and more. Please call the ServiceOntario INFOline for more details 1-866-532-3161
LDCSS: Join us for Grand Parents’ & Seniors’ Appreciation Day at London District Christian Secondary School. All seniors (friends, supporters, and grandparents) are invited to visit us on Wednesday, October 22 (9:30 a.m. – 1p.m.), to celebrate God’s faithfulness in Christian Education. We look forward to showing you around, and treating you to lunch and a special assembly just for you.
An invitation to Grade 8 day at London District Christian Secondary School- Current Grade 8 students are invited to be a student at LDCSS for the day on Wednesday November 5th. For more information visit www.ldcss.ca
*Scholastic Books Orders: When placing an order for Scholastic we are no longer able to accept cash payments. Please make your cheque payable to Scholastic Canada Ltd.
Electives: Do you have a special talent you can share with our student body? Electives are a 5 week unit for grades 4-8 in late January - early February. In the past we have included activities such as Woodworking, Cooking and Baking, Badminton, Computers, Small Engines, Cake Decorating, Curling and the like. Can you help? Please contact the Ed Ctte chair, Ray Kaastra (kaastra@amtelcom.net), or the office by November 15th
Library News: Last year I (Mrs. Robinson) joined the newly-formed OACS Library Advisory Council. Our task was (and is) to review the status of school libraries in our organization and provide support for school libraries and librarians. As a result of our work, we have a few exciting online resources to share with you.
1. The OACS Virtual Library Commons is now an active website (go to library.oacs.org). There you will find links to reference materials, books, homework helps and more.
2. We are very excited to offer a free 5 week trial of the online Britannica Encyclopedia (go thorough the OACS Virtual Learning Commons site or http://school.eb.com). This is an excellent alternative to quick, but less reliable, information from google or wikipedia. For the trial, access info is as follows:
user name: ontarioacs
password: ontarioacs
We will be using both of these resources as part of our Library skills classes and research. Go ahead and explore with your child!
Volleyball: Gr 7-8 are encouraged to try out!
Boys’ volleyball tryouts and practices will be Tuesdays & Thursdays at lunch, starting Thursday Oct 9th, with Mr TenBruggencate coaching.
Girls volleyball will start on Monday after school Oct 6th until 5pm as well as Wednesday lunch with Mrs Bosma and Mr Cameron coaching.
Canadian Test of Basic Skills 2014: CTBS is a standardized test completed across OACS schools as a means of establishing performance benchmarks for individual students, classes and between schools (both within and outside of OACS). While the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (test which CTBS is based upon) has been updated, CTBS still follows old norms for this year. This lack of updating is of concern, but there are few readily available or affordable alternatives. To give us continuous tracking, gr 3-8 students at ICS will complete the Language and Math tests from Oct 20-27 (one or two tests per day). As far as possible, please ensure that your student is present at school over this time (avoid discretionary absences).
FROM THE CLASSROOMS:
Some of the things we have done in Kindergarten.....
Bible: Isaac and Rebekah Letter and sound: c
Unit - God's Changing Seasons: Awesome Autumn
Math - All About Number: 7
Show and Tell: JK - Tuesday, October 21
SK - Monday, October 20
GRADES 1 and 2 - Ms. Pieters (m.pieters@immanuelchristianschool.net)
Happy 7th Birthday
Allyson Mantel
Thursday, October 16, 2014
“May you be blessed by the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.” Psalm 115:15
Memory Work: for Oct. 22
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night.
An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them,
and they were terrified. Luke 2:8-9
Spelling: Here are the words for the spelling dictation test on Friday, Oct. 17:
The students took this list home on Friday.
Grade 1 words are:his, dig, pat, sun, put
Grade 2 words are:no, go, going, most, kind, find, gave, so, do, doing
Accelerated Reader Program:The students in Grades 1 and 2 have enjoyed reading with their reading buddies on Thursday morning and have been doing some A.R. quizzes on the books they have read. Today the students took home their A.R. report showing how they did on the quizzes they have done so far. Please let me know if there are books you have read at home that your child could do an A.R. quiz on at school. Any ICS library books with a pink, green or yellow happy face sticker on the spine of the book means that a student could do an A.R. quiz on that book at school.
Intergenerational Project: Chartwell Aylmer Retirement Residences is starting a new HOPE (Helping Others for Purposeful Engagement) Project. This year they are filling boxes for Operation Christmas Child and they have invited us to join them in this project. As a class we would like to gather supplies for 13 boxes that can be given to boys or girls 5-9 years old. Donations may be brought in anytime before Nov. 7. Chartwell will be doing the same for boys and girls 2-4 years old and 10-14 years old. On Nov. 7 at 1:45 p.m. we hope to join the residence at Chartwell for a packing party. We will bring all our gifts to Chartwell and help pack the gifts into shoeboxes. If each one brings in $4.00 we could also cover the $7.00 shipping cost per box.
Gift suggestions:
School Supplies:such as pens, pencils, pencil crayons, note pads, picture books that could be a Bible story
Hygiene Items:such as facecloth, toothbrush, comb, soap (please place soap in a sealable bag)
Toys & Other Gifts:such as stuffed animals, small musical instruments, hair clips, toy jewelry, t-shirts, socks, candy (loose, individually wrapped, hard candy in a sealable bag)
Do not include:
- decks of standard playing cards
- food or any chewy, crumbly, or soft candy: including gum (due to custom regulations)
- used items (due to custom regulations)
- toothpaste (due to custom regulations)
- liquids or items that could leak, melt, freeze, or break: shampoo, creams, lip balm, bath gels, mirrors, or glass, etc. (these can damage other items in the shoeboxes)
- items that can scare or harm a child: war-related toys, knives, toy guns, etc.
Congratulations: We would like to wish Devon Klassen a very Happy Birthday! Devon will be turning 10 years old on Monday, October 20. Happy Birthday, Devon! May God richly bless you in your new year of life!
Fri. Oct. 17 - *Spelling Review Dictation of Units 1 - 6 (for both Grade 3 and Grade 4)
Grade 3 - eight, than, prey, please, believe, easy, pitch, eye, which, rocket, almost, know, touch, fuel, human, alive, alike
Grade 4 - eclipse, applaud, describe, switch, watch, athlete, display, explain, neighbour, ankle, else, edge, receive, people, since, decide, write, problem, bottom, doughnut
Fri. Oct. 17 - Social Studies - Mapping Skills - Test 2. Students who will be completing Test 2 on Friday, Oct. 17, should refer to their Study Guide, read over their daily work in their duotangs, and review their Test 1 corrections at home. Parents, please provide a signature on any Test 1 that requires a review. Thank you.
Wed. Oct. 22 - Memory Work - A review of Psalm 8 (verses 1 - 6)
Wed. Oct. 22 - French Quiz - Les Couleurs
Accelerated Reader: A.R. Reports were sent home today. Please review the A.R. Report with your child. Some students have already passed the halfway mark in achieving their A.R. Goal for Term 1, others are quite close to doing so, and a few students need to give reading and quiz completion their best effort!
Keep working hard Grades 3 and 4! *AR Goal due date is Thurs. Nov. 13.
Thurs. Oct. 16 - Library Class. Return due books so others can read them, learn and develop some more library skills, and sign out some new books for your enjoyment and towards your 1st Term Goals!
Student of the Week: Our Student of the Week this week is Marcel Guenther.
Next week: (Oct. 20 - 22) Victor Hiebert.
Music: Students are able to draw treble and bass clefs and can read notes on lines and between spaces.
Memory Work: Psalm 8: 6-9
You have made them a little lower than the angels
and crowned them with glory and honor.
You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their feet: all the flocks and herds,
and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.
LORD, our Lord, how majestic is you name in all the earth!
Memory work: Tuesday, October 21
Bible: Final draft of Essay due Thursday, October 16.
Spelling: See your planners for the spelling List 7. Quiz on Friday. List 6 - 81% class average.
Planners: Thank you for checking planners and please continue to initial new notes left during the week.
A number of students have been behind on work. Notes are made in the planner if work is incomplete. Please sign and leave a note as to why work cannot be completed at home when needed.
Art: Please bring in an old button up top or apron to wear on paint days. They will be stored at school.
Math: Unit 1 Test complete. Gr. 5 average - 79%, Gr. 6 average 91%. Unit 1 was Addition and Subtraction. Students who received less than 80% on test need to work on these foundational skills daily. See links on the class wiki page for links to practise skills.
Music: Students had a chance to explore alto and tenor recorders and are able to play a 3-part piece. Students are encouraged to bring their own recorders on Mondays and Tuesdays.
French: We will have our first unit test on Thurs. Oct. 16. Students need to study for a page entitled "Everything you need to know for French Unit 1".
GRADE 7 and 8 – Mr. TenBruggencate (am) / Mr. Cameron (pm) e.tenbruggencate@immanuelchristianschool.net or k.cameron@immanuelchristianschool.net
Please see our class wiki page (linked from the ICS website, https://immanuelchristianschool.wikispaces.com)
Memory Work: Romans 12:17-18 (Same as last week)
PE wear includes ICS gym shirts, please bring shorts to change into.
Math: Unit 2 Test tomorrow, October 11th for both grades 7 and 8.
Language Arts (Mr C): Students will be finishing their story presentations in class, as posters, to family, friends and reading buddies over the next few days.
Language Arts - Spelling (Mr C): Exceptionally, dictation will be on Weds, due to the Teachers Convention.
Language Arts - Grammar (Mr C): Capitalization quiz well done, average of 89%!
Science (Mr C): Cells “mastery project” gallery walk on Wed Oct 29.
Health Test Monday Oct 20th on the Cardio respiratory System
Art (Ms. Jones): Colour Theory projects due Wednesday, October 15. Arrange time to use the art room to finish work before Wednesday.
French: Quiz on etre and the transportation words Tues Oct. 21
