All Alone…
As I write this, I sit in a lonely computer lab, my blog partner away on a camping trip. This morning the Grade 10-12 classes left on the camping trip to Bird’s Hill Park. When asked to describe the process of planning the trip, Ellen Cavers simply said, “Exhausting.” When asked what is was like without the higher grade students and teachers, Izaäk Verhelst exclaimed, “Awesome!”
The BLT show is only a week away. We invite everyone to our show this coming Friday at 7:30 pm. One of the members, Sabrina Nagtegaal, said that she is very excited: “Most of our pieces are pretty new, and I think everyone will enjoy them a lot.”
Yesterday was the Christian schools track meet. Despite nearly being killed by a javelin 3 times, I had a lot of fun. Most of the people got ribbons, and one of our students nearly killed someone with a discus. The students who stayed behind also had an exciting day. One of our students was taken to the hospital because he had an extremely bad nose-bleed, and the grade 9 students made pottery all day. One of our students made “Jeffery the Mushroom,” and another made “Beatrice the Elephant.”
On Tuesday evening, the ICS and DCS bands will be having a concert in the school gym to thank everyone for their support. We also thank the three members who were willing to make a presentation about the band trip at the School Meeting last night, and also to Alina and Kylie for making a presentation about their trip to Paris.
Have a good week!
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom… ~Aristotle
An Eventful Week…
On Monday the high school track team went to the University of Manitoba for the Zone Track Meet. “We did very well,” said Alina VanGoor. “The other schools looked scared because we were throwing the javelins so well,” said Shaylene Teitsma.
This Wednesday, the grade 9-12 students were able to visit a career fair at the Red River Exhibition Park. There were many interesting displays, and students were able to have fun trying their hand at lots of different skills in the trades.
Next week Friday to Saturday, the grade 10-12 classes will be going to Bird’s Hill Park for the triannual camping trip. Please hand in your permission slips by May 24th. We hope you have lots of fun!
The University of Waterloo Math Contest Results were received this week. Juanita Verhelst, Jamie Kanis, and Adam Werkman received certificates and medals. The Grade 9 team, Adam Werkman, Heidi Raap, and Colin Van den Akker, were able to place 5th in the Zone and 16th in the Province. Way to go!
We’ll end with a quote from Queen Victoria: “Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others; don’t (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in your face and seen in your manner . . .”
Enjoy your long weekend!
Happy Grandparents and Special Guests Day!
Today is Grandparents and Special Guests Day! If any of you haven’t already done so, come down to the school this afternoon to watch the students sing, and walk around the school and sit in on classes in both elementary and high school!
Yesterday, our former principal, Mr. Gunnink, was given a tour of the school by our vice-principal, Mr. den Hollander.
The graduating students are busy getting ready with organizing their trip and ceremony!
Finally, we’ll end with a quotation about Mothers in the spirit of Mothers’ Day on Sunday: A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan
Brave Sun
Why did we call our post “Brave Sun”? Throughout the whole week the sun has been shining for the younger kids, so they are able to play. Also the track and field team started up this week.
Today the high school got a course selection sheet to pick their courses for the next year! Here are some tips for picking courses:
- Be adventurous. Pick some courses that you don’t need, but you’ve always wanted to learn about.
- Build on what you already have accomplished. If you’ve finished the 30S Biology course, for example, take the 40S course.
Here is a quotation for “May”!
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. “
Abraham Lincoln
Happy Friday!
This week Monday, the High School Band returned from their endeavors in Edmonton. Attached to this post is a variety of pictures the students drew about their favourite memories, as well as a quite amusing photo of Mr. VanVeen, Mr. Bonefaas, and Jamie in a roller coaster at Galaxy Land. (The “Blair” mentioned in one of the photos was our bus driver from Regina to Edmonton and back.)
Today is the Grade 10 hot lunch. They are serving hamburgers. It is also shirt-and-tie day.
BLT is once again up and running. If everything goes as planned, we will be having a show on June 1st.
Today, tomorrow, and Monday the girls have soccer games.
P.S. Aynsley feels accomplished because she fixed the stapler 
202 years ago today, Ludwig van Beethoven composed Für Elise! (I am a bit of a music nerd )
Bye bye band….
As you can see the from title of this post, the Band group has left on Thursday. They will coming home on Monday. Have a safe trip. They performed for us on Wednesday; what a beautiful thing to hear: you can tell they worked hard.
Also on Thursday two students had their birthdays. Congratulations, Savannah Monstert and Jenna DeWit !!!!!
Today is Mrs. Kottelenberg’s birthday. We pray that the Lord bless her with many more days!!!
As i am writing this, I do not have “my partner in crime”; he is away on the band trip.
Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery, Today is a Gift…
Wednesday evening was the ICS Heritage Fair. There were many amazing projects to see. Thank you very much to all the support of the judges and viewers!
On Thursday we were given the results for Heritage Fair. These projects will be going to the Red River Regional Heritage Fair on Thursday, May 3rd. In Grade 5, Matthew Dewitt and Nathan Poppe placed 2nd with their project on the Diefenbunker, and Kelsey Werkman placed 1st with her project on Faith Fenton/Alice Freeman. In Grade 7, Daniel Boeringa and Leanna Van den Akker placed 3rd with their project on Pantages Playhouse, Sunshine Bighetty and Rebecca Verhelst placed second with their project on Robert Bateman, and Jared Kuik and Stephen Schreimer placed 1st with their project on St. Louisbourg. In Grade 9, Colin Van den Akker placed 3rd with his project on Air Canada, Heidi Raap placed 2nd with her project on the Famous Five and the Persons Case, and Adam Werkman placed 1st with his project on General Motors of Canada. We wish you all very well!
There is currently a Grade 7/8 badminton tournament against DCS happening in our gym. We will post some pictures next week.
This evening at 7:30 we are having our biannual Easter Concert. We encourage everyone to come down and attend.
This coming Wednesday the band is performing a going-away concert for the community. It will be at 2:45 in Immanuel Hall. On Thursday they will be leaving for Edmonton. We wish you much success!
Teachers, Teachers, Teachers…and a few Grade 12 students
This week Mrs. Buist went for surgery. Mrs. Kottelenberg is standing in for her during her recovery. Yesterday was Mr. Baker’s birthday! We wish you many more years of teaching at ICS!
On Wednesday, two of our Grade 12 students and a teacher returned from their French Trip in Paris! They had a wonderful trip, but they do have a fair bit of jetlag. We hope you recover soon and share your wonderful memories with us!
Today is Good Friday, the day we remember Christ’s sacrifice for us on the cross.
A Meal of Vegetables
Anna Robinson hurried down the stairs to meet up with her friends. Today they were going shopping and tomorrow they were planning to see a movie. On Saturday Anna was planning a pool party in her backyard. Her homework sat untouched in her backpack. Anna was not doing well in school. She had a big Science project due in three days, but she had hardly worked on it. She never wanted to work hard on schoolwork. She was focused on having a good time. She often had disagreements with her parents, who were disappointed in her because they wanted a good future for her.
Before Anna got out of the door the phone rang. She ran to answer it. It was Tara Singh, who was her partner for the Science project.
“Would you like to come over tomorrow to work on it together?” Tara asked when she heard Anna hadn’t gotten anything done.
“Well, I was planning to go see a movie tomorrow,” Anna said.
“Couldn’t you see it another time?” Tara said, “This project is really important.”
“Well, I suppose so,” Anna said. The girls arranged when they would meet, and Anna hung up. She was a bit annoyed Tara had to insist they work on the project. She was also a bit uncomfortable about going to Tara’s house. Their family had emigrated from India, and lived in a small apartment. Anna had heard it wasn’t that great of a neighbourhood.
The next day, Anna drove with Tara to her house after school. The Singh’s apartment was very small. Tara had a younger brother Sanjay, who was running around in an old baseball jersey and some faded jeans. What struck Anna was the warmth that surrounded the place. The decorations and furniture were very simple, but it was clear that the Singh’ put effort into making it look nice.
The girls worked on their project until supper. They ate some kind of Indian dish for supper. Anna thought it was very good. It was a simple kind of stew with some vegetables. Anna had thought she would be very uncomfortable, but she actually felt warmly welcomed by the Singh family. They were very loving and wanted to learn more about her. She felt a bit ashamed when she noticed how hard Mr. Singh would’ve had to work in order to bring his family to Canada and provide for them here. Anna had a lot of opportunities to do good and useful things, but she had been very wasteful. She had been very disagreeable with people and had been self-centred. She decided something needed to change. Anna went home knowing she had a new friend. After Anna left, Tara thought about how she hoped she could show Anna how God wanted her to live.
“Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred.” (Proverbs 15:17)
Marjorie Buist
Image credit: http://www.healthcorps.org/sites/default/files/vegetables.jpg?1311600096
Minor Correction(s)
Note: The March 16 post “It’s a Busy Life” has a minor correction indicated by the underlined, italicized, bolded word.
Other corrections, revisions, or additions made have been called for in the comments responding to some of our earlier posts. We thank our readers for their eagle-eyed surveillance!
