The ICS Journal
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016
Mission: Immanuel Christian School assists parents in raising children to follow Christ with an excellent elementary program and a focus on Christian character growth.
Upcoming Events
Mar 23 Parent/Teacher Conferences
25-28 Good Friday and Easter Monday - school closed
29 Jr. Basketball league games- Boys & Girls games at ICS 4-5pm
30 Chapel Grade 2/3
Grade by Grade Chess Tournament
Apr 1 Theme Day - Wear your favorite sports team shirt/hat
2 District Public Speaking @ Royal C. Legion, Forest, ON
6 Chapel Grade 3/4
LDCSS drama Much Ado About Nothing - Gr 5-8 10:30-12:30
8 PA Day Spring Study day Planning (LDCSS has classes)
13 Subway sandwich lunch (order form at end of Journal)
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75 Caverly Rd, Aylmer, N5H 2P6
Principal: principal@immanuelchristianschool.net
Telephone: 519-773-8476
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From the Principal’s Desk:
¡Hola! Welcome back from March Break! I trust that, whatever your plans, you were able to enjoy some extra time as a family. My sister-in-law, Tracy, and her husband own a holiday apartment along the Spanish Costa Blanca. We have been saving for 6 airfares for a while, and my family was privileged to be able to spend the break with them. Our first meal in Spain was in a rural village where we’d “accidentally” arrived during siesta time at the one restaurant still open. Tracy was able to ask for a table for 8 and the owner / chef indicated that he’d send us out a selection of tapas. The various dishes included toast, fried garlic potatoes, fried mushrooms, fried cheese, squid(!), swordfish and chicken… We were brave, and soon full. Thinking we’d agreed to the bill, we instead found we’d ordered desserts! It was a fun introduction to Spain. It also got me thinking on the diversity of God’s creation: scenery, food, language, culture and people! As a Christian school, in partnership with parents, we hope to develop an appreciation of all of creation, the familiar and the exotic, a marvelling at math, geography, history, art, science, languages, music, and sport. Our education is not just about how we can use knowledge, but should help us see more of who God is, and who we are becoming like! By doing that, our children may be salt and light in a world that needs it. The recent terrorist attacks in Brussels (in an airport and city very familiar to me), show how desperate that need is.
This is a short, busy week with Easter so close. We look forward to connecting at conferences tonight, and through the “Let’s Connect to Grow” forms that were included with report cards. All forms are due back today - if you forgot, please get it in tomorrow before the Easter weekend!
blessings as we mark Christ’s death and resurrection, Keith Cameron, Principal and Chief Operating Officer
Praying for our parents: Please join us as we pray for Steve & Bettina Vandersleen and Dave & Charlene VanGurp
Praying for our staff: Please pray for our Kindergarten teacher Mrs. Sarah Penner
REMINDERS:
Tuition Reduction Incentive Plan (T.R.I.P): Pickup tomorrow March 24th.
Cheese orders: Order form attached, due on the 30th with delivery April 6th.
*Unfortunately, since the cost of gouda had a sharp increase, we needed to adjust our prices. Please note that the current price list reflects the cost increase from our supplier.
Meat & Baked Goods: Pick-up will be tomorrow March 24th. Coolers with names on them can be dropped off ahead of time and are greatly appreciated.
*Registration by March 30, 2016: We are asking all families to confirm their places at ICS by completing the enrolment confirmation form at: https://goo.gl/lqRlq0 (also emailed to you, and on our Facebook site). A postdated nonrefundable cheque of $1000 will be required to confirm enrolment. Cheques should be dated 1 Sep 2016. Please don’t miss out: failure to register for 2016/17 by March 30th will result in a $200 late registration fee.
It was necessary, but bittersweet, to remove the two ash trees in our playground. A big thank-you to Dan Dykxhoorn, Jeff and Nathan Zylstra, Rick Dykxhoorn, and Andy Kroondyk for felling them without incident on Saturday March 12! Thanks, too, to Andre Kroondyk for purchasing the wood! The sale will cover the cost of equipment rental and go towards replacement trees. If you know any good sources of Carolinian trees (such as locust, perhaps), please speak to Mr Cameron.
The Meat & Baked Good Fundraiser wants YOU!!!
Approx 6 hrs of volunteer hours are earned with every sale...times that by 4 sales a year and it would be about 24 hrs per school year! As a committee we gather info from varies companies about their products and any price changes, assemble the order form for the journal, tally orders and fax the companies then when day of pick up comes we sort the products into separate orders for customers to pick up. We would love to see your new face helping on the committee! Come and join us! Please contact the office if you are interested.
BATTERY COLLECTION: Have you ever wondered where to “dispose” of your Single Use Batteries (AA, AAA, D and C)? Well, we have the answer! For the Month of April, we will be collecting old single use batteries at ICS to send to a recycling company. We could win $2500 if we collect the most batteries (by weight). So talk to your family and friends and start collecting batteries. We hope to have the collection boxes at a few locations in town as well. Starting April 1st, bring ALL your old batteries to ICS!!! Let’s try for the BIG prize!!
MARK YOUR CALENDARS for the upcoming 16th Annual ICS Golf Tournament being held on Saturday, May 21st, 2016 at Pine Knot Golf and Country Club. Last year, our tournament was full with 144 Golfers so you will want to register early if you would like to participate in this fantastic event! 
Chess: If you have not handed in your permission form as of yet, please do so as soon as possible. The tournament will be held on March 30th at the Hellenic Community Center. 133 Southdale Rd. W London. Our Chess team will depart ICS by bus at 8:30am and return around 2pm.
Jr. Basketball: There will be after school games on Tuesdays: next week we host the boys and girls teams from Sparta Public School. Just a reminder that practises are during school lunch hours now, and no longer after school unless specified.
Hockey: A note of thanks to all the family and friends who drove the players to the practises and to the tournament this year. Your support and words of encouragement were greatly appreciated. A special BIG thank you goes out to our coaches, Mr. S. Vandersleen and Mr. J. Vannoord, and our trainer, Mr. D. VanGurp.
Redeemer Christian High School in Ottawa: is celebrating forty years of God’s faithfulness. The anniversary celebration will take place at our annual dinner auction on Saturday, April 2, 2016. For more information and to RSVP visit our website at rchs.on.ca.
LDCSS ‘Welcome Wednesdays’ Grades 9-12 Admissions Open Houses are back! 2016 Dates: April 6 and May 4, 9:30-2:30pm. Come and experience LDCSS in action! Tour the School, meet faculty and staff. Receive admissions information. LDCSS school tours are also available by appointment. For more information contact Margaret at admissions@ldcss.ca
Mark the Date - Saturday, April 16th, 2016. We invite you to join us as we celebrate 50 years of faith, learning and life at London District Christian Secondary School!
‘Homecoming’ & Community Open House at LDCSS 1:00-3:00pm.
50th Anniversary Gala Dinner at Best Western Lamplighter Inn, London. Tickets are now on sale! $50 each ($60 After March 1). Order your tickets at 50thGala@ldcss.ca or online at ldcss.ca
Announcing a Transition. Mr Evert TenBruggencate has decided that he will take the “early retirement” option in our teachers’ pension plan effective at the end of this school year. We are pleased to announce that he will continue on at ICS as our part-time health and phys ed specialist, teaching grades 3/4, 5/6 and 7/8. We will celebrate Mr T’s teaching career when he decides to fully retire, but he is clear that is not yet! He is looking forward to more time to keep fit, and a pace of life that doesn’t pain his knee quite as much. We wish you God’s blessings in this new phase of life! A job opening for a 7/8 and French teacher has now been posted (http://lightbringers.oacs.org/) with an early application deadline of 1 April. Who is God preparing to add to our staff?
FROM THE CLASSROOMS:
Library: Earlier this week, many students were given green slips listing all books they have checked out under their name. Some books are just due this week; others are quite overdue. Please check for the list, and then check at home for the books. IF you cannot find the books, please send Mrs. Robinson an email or a note to school. We are looking for lots of returns on Thursday! (n.robinson@immanuelchristianschool.net)
Bring to school:
-Library books on Mondays
- SK Sight Word book on Thursday for this week, a new list will be added.
Scholastic Book Club Order: New flyers for April came home this week. If you wish to place an order for April please fill out the form and return it to school with your payment by Friday, April 1st.
Some of the things we have done in Kindergarten…..
Bible: The Easter story.
SK- Sight words for this week: to, you, it, was
We have started our ‘bubble’ wall, let’s continue to blow towards our goal of 100!
Math: Addition
At Home: Please review sight words of the week. I will review on Thursday to see who knows them.
JK- Matching uppercase letters with lowercase letters.
Math: Continue a pattern and creating our own patterns.
At Home: Continue to review all of the letters. What is the name of the letter? What sound does that letter make?
Memory Work: for Wednesday March 31
The angel said to the women,
“Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.
He is not here; he has risen, just as he said.
Come and see the place where he lay.”
Matthew 28: 5 and 6
Spelling Dictation: words for Thursday, March 24.
Unit 23: fast, last, nest, must, most, step, stamp, still
Scholastic Book Order: New flyers for April came home today. If you wish to place an order for April please fill out the form and return it to school with your payment (cash, cheque, or pay online) by Friday, April 1st.
A reminder list of things to bring to school:
- library books to return and an A.R. book you have read so you can do a quiz on any school day
- enjoy participating in the ClassroomsCare program where Reading IS Giving.
- Scholastic Book Club order due April 1st
Memory Work: for Wed, Mar 30
He's still working on me
To make me what I ought to be
It took him just a week to make the moon and stars
The sun and the earth and Jupiter and Mars
How loving and patient He must be
'Cause He's still workin' on me
There really ought to be a sign upon my heart
Don't judge me yet, there's an unfinished part
But I'll be better just according to His plan
Fashioned by the Master's loving hands.
He’s Still Working on Me by Mark Schultz
Dictation Quiz on Thursday, March 24: List 21
Grade 2 words: you, your, yes, yell, drop, line, side, dress, saw, draw, drink, year
Grade 3 words: word, work, first, were, world, girl, turned, learn, bird, fire, here, nurse, jury, wear, stirred, verse, third
Math: Both grades will be working to get our multiplication ice creams caught up! We will be reviewing the 2-11 times tables.
We will have library class this Thursday, so please bring in your books.
Scholastic Book Order: New book orders were sent home today. Please return any orders with payment (cash, cheque, or online pay) by April 1, 2016.
Our class will be sharing some thoughts in chapel next week. We invite you to worship with us.
A Reminder List of Things to Bring to School
- Library books that are due, and any completed AR books
- Gym clothes for Tuesdays and Thursdays
- Scholastic Book Orders, if purchasing
Thurs. March 24 - Spelling Dictation, Grade 3 words are: word, work, world, were, first, girl, turned, learn, bird, fire, here, nurse, jury, stirred, wear, third, search
Grade 4 words are: voice, oyster, voyage, annoy, choice, avoid, appoint, enjoy, moisture, noise, drown, amount, fountain, crowded, southwest, thousand, flour, pronounce, rejoice, around
Thurs. March 24 - (Grade 3), Math Facts Checkup, Multiplying with 12 as a factor.
(Grade 4) Fractions Checkup.
Wed. March 30 - Memory Work: Song - Lord, I Want to Be a Christian
- 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.
4) Lord, I want to be like Jesus in my heart, in my heart.
Lord, I want to be like Jesus in my heart.
In my heart, in my heart, Lord, I want to be like Jesus in my heart.
Words and Music: African-American spiritual
Student of the Week: This week’s Student of the Week is Xavier Bergen. Next week: Kiera Giesbrecht.
Scholastic Book Order: New book orders were sent home today. Please return any completed orders by Friday, April 1. Thank you.
A Reminder List of Things to Bring to School:
- Library books that are due, and any completed AR books
- Let’s Connect to Grow forms
- April Scholastic Book Orders, if purchasing
GRADE 5 and 6 – Ms. Jones (k.jones@immanuelchristianschool.net)
Memory Work: Philippians 2:5-8 “In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death - even death on a cross!”
Mathematics: Starting a unit on decimal multiplication and division (gr 5), and Ratio and Percent (gr 6)
Health: In the next few weeks students will be learning about the changes in adolescence. A parent /student activity is part of the unit.
Social Studies: See wiki pages for Canada Map games. Quiz on the Provinces and Capitals of Canada next Thursday, March 31
Science: Have the planets in order from the sun memorized by next Friday, April 1.
Spelling: kindness, darkness, happiness, loneliness, sadness, weakness, exactly, honestly, speedily, angrily, happily, friendly, especially, teacher, actor, liar, biologist, assistant.
Language Arts: LA is easily applied as a cross curricular. LA is being applied in penmanship by learning literary devices such as personification. Ask your child to explain what this is.
Battle of the Books: Team members should be practicing questions from their envelopes and possibly re-reading a Battle book or 2. Help needed: On Battle Day (April 13), we need an adult to supervise either Junior or Senior team. Let Mrs. Robinson know if you can help out for the day. Missing: 2 copies 1 copy of Flying Geese by Haworth-Attard. Please send any copy you find to school.
Please see our class wiki page (linked from the ICS website, https://immanuelchristianschool.wikispaces.com)
Memory Work: The Apostles’ Creed
Mathematics: The unit test on 3D Geometry has been graded and returned to the students.
Science: We will be starting a new unit on our Amazing Atmosphere tomorrow. Just how much air do you breathe in a day? Ask your child tomorrow to find out from our class lab!
Battle of the Books: Team members should be practicing questions from their envelopes and possibly re-reading a Battle book or 2. Help needed: On Battle Day (April 13), we need an adult to supervise either Junior or Senior team. Let Mrs. Robinson know if you can help out for the day. Students who are not on the Battle team are encouraged to sign up to be scorekeepers and timekeepers.
*Please note the prices have increased by .25¢ due to Subway increasing their prices
Subway order Form - Wednesday, April 13th
Due Monday April 11th.
Name:______________________Gr. _______
Teacher: ____________________
White or whole wheat (circle one)
Turkey ($3.00)_________
Ham ($2.75)_______
Roast Beef ($3.00)________
toppings I would like
___ lettuce
___ tomatoes
___ green peppers
___ cucumbers
___ black olives
___ green olives
___ hot peppers
___ jalepeno peppers
___ sub sauce
___ pickles
___ mayo
___ mustard
Total enclosed ___________
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Parent Signature
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Subway order Form - Wednesday, April 13th
Due Monday April 11th.
Name:______________________Gr. _______
Teacher: ____________________
White or whole wheat (circle one)
Turkey ($3.00)_________
Ham ($2.75)_______
Roast Beef ($3.00)________
toppings I would like
___ lettuce
___ tomatoes
___ green peppers
___ cucumbers
___ black olives
___ green olives
___ hot peppers
___ jalepeno peppers
___ sub sauce
___ pickles
___ mayo
___ mustard
Total enclosed ___________
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Parent Signature
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Subway order Form - Wednesday April 13th
Due Monday April 11th
Name:______________________Gr. _______
Teacher: ____________________
White or whole wheat (circle one)
Turkey ($3.00)_________
Ham ($2.75)_______
Roast Beef ($3.00)________
toppings I would like
___ lettuce
___ tomatoes
___ green peppers
___ cucumbers
___ black olives
___ green olives
___ hot peppers
___ jalepeno peppers
___ sub sauce
___ pickles
___ mayo
___ mustard
Total enclosed ___________
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Parent Signature
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Subway order Form - Wednesday April 13th
Due Monday April 11th
Name:______________________Gr. _______
Teacher: ____________________
White or whole wheat (circle one)
Turkey ($3.00)_________
Ham ($2.75)_______
Roast Beef ($3.00)________
toppings I would like
___ lettuce
___ tomatoes
___ green peppers
___ cucumbers
___ black olives
___ green olives
___ hot peppers
___ jalepeno peppers
___ sub sauce
___ pickles
___ mayo
___ mustard
Total enclosed ___________
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Parent Signature
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