The ICS Journal
Wednesday, April 8th, 2015
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
April 9- OACS Science fair
13-17 - Book week
14- Grade 5-8 LDCSS presentation of “Annie”
16- Battle of the Books at ICS
22- Hot lunch - Pizza day
24- District PA Day - teachers in Strathroy
25- Area Public Speaking Contest at Legion #116 in Strathroy 10:30 am registration, 11:00 am speaking begins (Megan Friesen)
27 - May 1 - Turn off the screens week
28 - Dogeball Mania at ICS, Up to Gr 3: 6-7pm, Gr 4-8 :7-8pm
29- Spring Membership meeting 7:30 -9:30
30- K-4 attend the “The Sound of Music” at Faith Christian Academy in St. Thomas
May 1 - Badminton tournament
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75 Caverly Rd, Aylmer, N5H 2P6
Principal: principal@immanuelchristianschool.net
Telephone: 519-773-8476
Facebook: facebook.com/ICSAylmer
Twitter: twitter.com/ICSAylmer
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From the Principal’s Desk:
We opened yesterday’s staff PA day with Jesus’ words after his resurrection, “Go and make disciples...” (Matthew 28:19). We also read that, “we hear much in schools about disciplines, but only in Christian schools do we hear about disciples… A strength of the Christian school is that it is not neutral with respect to values, that it has a stake in the formation of character, in the forming of its students more and more daily in the image of their Redeemer” (Doug Blomberg, Wisdom and Curriculum). So, it was with our overall Christian school goals in mind that we reviewed our standardized test results and mathematics curriculum. We aim for program excellence and Christian character, and we want our curriculum to help us foster that!
Regarding math, we have decided to embark on a second trial year of the highly-regarded Singapore Math curriculum. This introduces concepts earlier, but aims at a deeper understanding of basics and the “whys” of math. There will be implementation challenges for both teachers and students, but the opinion of our teachers is that the results are worth it! With good teaching (and classroom assistants), our primary children have worked hard at math, and are now seeing some of the fruits of their labour! Following introduction in K-2 this year, we’ll extend the 2015-2016 curriculum to grades 3/4. Being prudent with costs, we may wait until 2016-2017 to add in grades 5/6.
We never want to take the time of parents for granted - as staff, we acknowledge that keeping your children at home on a PA day changes your routine. Thank-you for giving us yesterday!
in Christian education, Keith Cameron, Principal
New families needed for the 2015/2016 budget: 4 of 8! Welcome back to Mike and Wendy Abell, with Christopher (gr 8), Daniel (gr 6), Markus (gr 4) and Faith (gr 2)!
in Christian education, Keith Cameron, Principal
Praying for our families: Please join our staff as we pray for Dustin & Jacklyn Versnick and Jason & Carrie Vis
Praying for our staff: Please pray for Ms Pieters.
REMINDERS:
Hot Lunch: Pizza day will be Wednesday April 22nd. Order form is at the end of Journal, due by the 17th.
T.R.I.P: Because of Theressa's work commitments and Grace gone away this week, we are postponing the due date for having the monthly TRIP orders in to Monday, April 13 with pickup date Tuesday, April 21. Thank you!
Cheese orders: Next order will be sent out April 22nd.
2015 New Registration - With plans for an additional teacher, all grades continue to be open! Parents of JK and SK children step into school at ICS with tuition at 40% and 60% of full tuition respectively. Our board continues to support our New to Christian Education Incentive which allows parents of older children to step into Christian schooling at the same rates - 40% the first year, 60% the second, family tuition thereafter. This allows all to “taste and see” how good Immanuel can be! Please spread the word!
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Drum roll please...
$14867.47 profit was made at the ICS 60th Anniversary Fundraiser Gala on Mar 28! All this money goes towards the annual Fundraising goal of $80,000 which in turn maintains family tuition rates - so on behalf of all the families at ICS: THANK YOU!! Thank you to all those who attended, to all those who donated, to all those who volunteered, and to all those who made the night happen! More pictures are up at facebook.com/ImmanuelChristianSchoolAlumni - including the photo booth pictures from volunteer Stacey VandeKemp, photos of the elaborate decorations done by Christine Janssens and Tammie Vannoord, and 60 years of memorabilia - all organized and compiled by the Anniversary Display Committee (Harry Broer, Leinie Hartemink, Alaine Helder, Christy Hiemstra, Dean Mantel, Ena VandenBrink, Bettina Vandersleen, Carrie Vis). Also, please consider Paul + Anna Sfakianos - Belmont Town Restaurant Catering (519.644.1726) for your catering needs - they are always gracious to ICS when catering is required! The complete Gala dinner (including staff, glasses, plates, utensils etc), dessert, coffee + tea was done by BTR for $10/person!
We praise God for all His blessings and are thankful for the celebration, relationships and rekindled interest in ICS that night! Hopefully you enjoyed the memories, the reflections (Nathan Saarloos, Marianne Pieters, Tine Buma, Nancy Robinson) and your honey treat (compliments of Chris + Christy Hiemstra from Clovermead). And a big thank you to Tracey Morren + Leinie Hartemink - in the school office who ran an excellent ticket booth :)
THANK YOU! From the ICS Fundraising Committee
Chris Bakker, Bobbie Jo Bennett, Janina Dykxhoorn, Grace Miedema, Janine Shelton, Keith Sinke, Jacklyn Versnick #ICSgala
LDCSS Drama: On Tuesday April 14th the grades 5-8 students will be attending a sold out school showing of “Annie.” Along with Ms. Jones and
Mr. TenBruggencate, we would like to have 1 parent volunteer from each grade. Please contact the office if you would like to join us.
Survey 2015!
 As your school board, we're looking for your thoughts on important aspects of our school. Please take the time to complete this survey. As an incentive to get it done quickly, all surveys completed by Wednesday, April 15 can count 2 hours towards your family service hours (we're counting that you'll also want to come out to our membership meeting on Wednesday April 29 to see the results)! We’ll enter you into a draw for a Clovermead family pass too! Go to: http://goo.gl/MsKH6T or see our Twitter feed for the link!
In the service of Christian education,
Chris Hiemstra, Board Chair
Keith Cameron, Principal and Chief Operating Officer
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Spring is Coming and new footwear is required!!! FACTORY SHOE FUNDRAISER. Fundraising distributed the Factory Shoe Fundraising Cards in November please consider shopping at Factory Shoe…this fundraising program is a great way for Immanuel Christian School to raise money! It is easy…simply present the card when you buy footwear from Factory Shoe and they will donate $5 for every purchase over $35. You can re-use the card as often as you like and we have more cards for you to share with family and friends. For additional cards to distribute to your family and friends please call or email Janine Shelton at 519-765-2471 or sheltj2@gmail.com or visit the School Office.
Turn Off the Screens Week: This is an excellent, fitness-oriented week with great community support. Please see the schedule and ticket order form attached! Please return to ICS by Thu Apr 16. Please remember that tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
We are pleased to announce that the date has been set for this year’s 15th Annual Golf Tournament. This will be special year with more prizes and contests for your enjoyment. Contests include Most Uniquely Dressed Golfer, Longest Drive with Opposite Driver and many more. The Golf Tournament is being held once again @ Pine Knot Golf Course in Dorchester on Saturday May 16. Entry forms are available in the office. Make sure you get your team entered for the Early Bird Draw. E-mail your team list today to jtvannoord@amtelecom.net
Spare Drivers: We are in need of Spare Bus Drivers to be available as required to fill in on routes. A valid B License is required. We will assist anyone interested in obtaining their 
License. Anyone interested in this, please contact the office.
LIBRARY NEWS: Next week Thursday we are hosting the Battle of the Books competition here at Immanuel. If you are curious and would like to see what Battle is all about, stop in and check it out. The first Games start at 10:15 and we should be finished by 3:00. Our school’s players have been doing a lot of reading and reviewing, they are looking forward to putting all their knowledge to the test!
To accommodate the Battle schedule, next week’s library day for Gr 1-8 will be on Wednesday, April 15. Bring your books to school that day!
LONDON DISTRICT CHRISTIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL:
The LDCSS Drama Department presents ‘Annie’.
April 17-18, 24- 25 @ 7:30 pm. Tickets $12 Adult matinee: Wed., April 22 @1:00 p.m.
To reserve your tickets call 519-455-4360 or email tickets@ldcss.ca
London District Christian Secondary School - Student Connections Night
If your family has a child registering for (or considering) Grade 9 at LDCSS this September, your child is invited to attend the 7th annual Student Connections Night May 8-9. New students are invited from 5 p.m. Friday - 9 a.m. Saturday morning, for food, games, and icebreaker actives with the goal of building new friendships. If your child is attending please RSVP admission@ldcss.ca. We are looking forward to getting to know the class of 2019!
Mark the date! The LDCSS 50th Anniversary Golf Tournament will be held on WEDNESDAY, September 16, 2015, at Forest City National Golf course in east London, with a 1:00 pm shotgun start. Come enjoy great sport, great food and great fellowship in support of LDCSS! We are welcoming golfers and inviting sponsors from the LDCSS community to come together to support Christian Education. For more information or to register visit www.ldcss.ca
Join us for ‘Welcome Wednesdays’ at LDCSS! Grades 9-12 Admissions Open Houses. Dates: April 1 and May 6, 9:30-11:30 AM, 12:30-2:30 PM. Come experience LDCSS in action! For more information visit www.ldcss.ca
Chess Club: A big thank you to our Chess coaches who instructed and also helped prepare us for participation in the 23rd Annual Grade by Grade Girls’ and Boys’ Chess Championship in London last Wednesday, April 1. Thank you, Mr. Murray Rodenburg, and Mr. Bram de Dreu, and also players who stopped in to challenge us or watch us play in our Monday noon hour games! We had a lot of fun!
In London, most of us played in the Preliminary Tournament from 10:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.
Noria Atkinson, (Gr. 3) advanced to the playoffs and placed 8th overall in her grade! There were over 650 students registered for this year’s event. Congratulations, Noria!
Thank you also to our drivers, Ms. Buma, Mr. de Dreu, Mrs. DeKraker, Mr. Rodenburg, Mrs. Sinke and Mrs. Ypma.who brought us to the tournament in London and/or back to school.
We hope our Chess Club will keep growing and that more students will come out to play this great game next year!
Dodgeball Intramurals: Three teams played out a weekly series of fast and fun noon hour games, including Primary A, B and C teams, and Junior D, E and F teams.
Primary Champions were Team C players: Promise Atkinson, Xavier Bergen, Rachel Cameron,
Sarah Janssens, Rebecca Krahn, Allyson Mantel, Dylan Rempel, Owen Vis, Matthew Voth.
Junior Champions were Team F players: Cody Bergen, Victor Hiebert, Kayla Klassen, Seth Klassen, Will Mantel, Mariah Rempel, Jocelyn Shelton, Josh Vannoord.
*Thank you to our Primary and Junior referees: Dean Rollins, Kira Saarloos, Luke Schuurman,
Lindsay VandenBrink and Kira Saarloos. We had a great Dodgeball season!
FROM THE CLASSROOMS:
Some of the things we have done in Kindergarten...
Bible: Good Samaritan
Great Banquet
Sight Words: he, she, we, me
Beginning and Ending Sounds
New Unit : God's Changing Seasons: Spring Splendour
Math: JK - Number Patterns, Missing Numbers, Shapes and Sizes
SK - Printing 1-60, More/Fewer, Graphing
Show and Tell: JK - Tuesday, April 14
SK - Monday, April 13
Memory Work: for Wed. April 15 Children of the Lord
We are all children of the Lord, young and old, big and little.
We are all children of the Lord, let us live in harmony!
Many names, many faces, many lands, many places,
but through time and through spaces we are one humanity.
We are all children of the Lord, one by one, all together.
We are all children of the Lord, just like one big family.
Spelling:the dictation test will be moved to Monday April 13 - words from unit 25
Words for Gr. 1: all, wall, call, will, tell, well, small, smell
Words for Gr. 2: trip, tree, say, said, hop, train, number, stop, stopped, one
Congratulations: We would like to wish Selena Kroondyk and Jefferson Loewen a very Happy Birthday! Selena turned 10 years old today, April 8, and Jefferson turns 9 years old, tomorrow, April 9. Happy Birthday, Selena and Jefferson! May God richly bless each of you in your new year of life!
Accelerated Reader: AR Reports were sent home with your child today. Next Wednesday, April 15, is the halfway mark towards achieving student goals! (Third Term goal due date is Friday, June 12.) Focus on pacing your reading and completing follow-up quizzes soon after you have finished reading your books, everyone.
Library Class: Thurs. Apr. 9 - Remember to bring due books back to school tomorrow so new books can be signed out during Library Class.
French Quiz: Les Animaux - Thurs. Apr. 9 - Refer to your in-class duotang work, to prepare for this quiz, girls and boys.
Memory Work: Fri. Apr. 10 - Song - I Sing a Song by David Ritsema, Age: 9
I sing a song to Jesus Christ, my risen Lord, my Saviour.
He is the King of everything, both great and small, my Saviour.
I love Him so, He is my God, He lives inside of me.
I sing a song, salvation song, to Jesus Christ, my Saviour.
Spelling Dictation - Fri. Apr.10 - *Review List - Grade 3 - cereal, could, danger, guard, gospel, world, first, jury, nurse, aren’t, before, warning, forward, thoughtless, fault, taught, wonderful
Grade 4 - voice, choice, avoid moisture, amount, enough, alphabet, trophy, paragraph, refrigerator, flight, flashlight, nightly, brought, daughter, calf, walked, listen, wrench, judge
Fri. Apr. 10 - Grade 3 Multiplication Checkup Test 6b Multiplying with 6 as a factor,
(eg. 4 x 6 = 24, 6 x 9 = 54, 3 x 6 = 18)
Science Field Trip update: Why are birds so amazing?
...The weather was a mix of overcast skies and drizzle, but we all enjoyed our excursion to the Aylmer Wildlife Management Area Habitat last week to view the tundra swans! Mr. Keith Malcolm said that officials would soon stop the daily 9:00 A.M.feedings of 23 to 25 bushels of shelled corn per day to keep the migrating birds moving north.”We’re the Eastern Fly-way,” he said. “These swans are heading up to their arctic coastline breeding grounds!”
How do birds find their way? This is a big mystery. Experiments have shown that birds can find their way by the stars. Birds can also sense the earth’s magnetic field and find their route that way. They may also be able to recognize landmarks like mountains or rivers. But no one is sure how birds do these things. The only certain thing is that God gave birds the instinct to migrate. It is this instinct that somehow tells them when to leave, where to go, and how to get there.
For the tundra swans, that can be as much as a 6 000 km flight! Wow!
Student of the Week: Our Student of the Week this week is Victor Hiebert.
Next Week: Sarah Janssens.
Scholastic Book Orders - April order forms are due this Friday, April 10. Thank you.
Music: Students are working on playing pieces with boom whackers. We are currently working on a piece called “Stand Your Ground” and “Living Water.”
Junior Basketball (gr 4-6): Celebration pizza lunch in Ms. Jones class tomorrow.
GRADE 5 and 6 – Ms. Jones (k.jones@immanuelchristianschool.net)
Memory Work For next week Wed, April 15 is John 13: 13- 17
L.A.: Starting Literature circles for Novel Study: Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker.
Bible: Finish Worksheet by Friday.
Health: As part of the health curriculum students viewed the film, “Sex and the New You”. Ms Jones/ Mr. T led the girls/boys in discussion afterwards.
Science: Unit Test on Thursday. It will be multiple choice (not open book).
Please send in any empty plastic water/pop/juice bottles for class on Friday.
Social Studies: Final presentations due Friday, April 17th for display
Spelling: no Quiz this Friday
Music: Students are working on the Ninth Symphony, 4th movement by Beethoven. Students are now able to play the entire piece. Soprano 3 m.49-end will be tested on Tues. April 7.
Art: Weather permitting, this Friday 8:45 - 10:45 we will be taking a walk to discuss photography and take pictures of local architecture. If you are available to join us please contact the office asap. Students would benefit from having their own camera (any quality) but it is not mandatory.
Junior Basketball (gr 4-6): Celebration pizza lunch in Ms. Jones class tomorrow.
GRADE 7 and 8 – Mr. TenBruggencate (e.tenbruggencate@immanuelchristianschool.net)
Please see our class wiki page (linked from the ICS website, https://immanuelchristianschool.wikispaces.com)
Memory Work: Job 23:9,10
Math: Unit Test Chapter 8 Thursday, March 26th.
Integrated Study Student / Staff PA Day! Sound unusual? It is, but this is in line with our emphasis on multi-age learning and integrated studies. Our gr 7/8 class is starting on a Math Days integrated study (“Who discovered math?”). Our gr 7/8 students will present to the class, and then will teach the whole school in our student family format. We will do this in a rotary format on Friday afternoons on 22 and 29 May, 5 and 12 June. Staff will act as school family mentors for the gr 7/8 leaders. To allow for instructional planning, we seek to involve all gr 7/8s in the May 19 PA day from 8:30 to 12:30 including a BBQ lunch (this is also a class day at LDCSS). Gr 7/8s participating would then get a special gr 7/8 “PA day” off on Mon May 25. For this innovative idea, we need parental agreement - please see the response form in last week’s Journal!
Math: Last week’s unit test was graded and returned to the students.
Science: Fluids unit test on Fri Apr 10. Students may bring in a handwritten, one-page review sheet.
Music: Continue to practice “Sawmill Creek” on page 20 and “Montego Bay” on page 21.
Art: Beginning Photography next week. Some students are getting behind and may be asked to stay after school this Wednesday or next to get caught up.
Pizza Order Form - Wednesday, April 22nd
__________________would like to order the following:
(child’s name)
______ 1.00/slice
______ juice .50 cents
______ ice cream .50 cents
______ Total enclosed
Parent Signature___________________________
Orders and money must be in by Friday,
April 17th. No late orders please!
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Pizza Order Form - Wednesday, April 22nd
__________________would like to order the following:
(child’s name)
______ 1.00/slice
______ juice .50 cents
______ ice cream .50 cents
______ Total enclosed
Parent Signature___________________________
Orders and money must be in by Friday,
April 17th. No late orders please!
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Pizza Order Form - Wednesday, April 22nd
__________________would like to order the following:
(child’s name)
______ 1.00/slice
______ juice .50 cents
______ ice cream .50 cents
______ Total enclosed
Parent Signature___________________________
Orders and money must be in by Friday,
April 17th. No late orders please!
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Pizza Order Form - Wednesday, April 22nd
__________________would like to order the following:
(child’s name)
______ 1.00/slice
______ juice .50 cents
______ ice cream .50 cents
______ Total enclosed
Parent Signature___________________________
Orders and money must be in by Friday,
April 17th. No late orders please!
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