Beach Day

Another great week! The kids have worked so hard this year! We have been studying the miracles of Jesus and it's been so great to talk about how Jesus was teaching his disciples who he was through the miracles he performed. He was showing them that he was God. He calmed the storm by speaking to the wind and waves, and healed the centurion's servant by speaking, and through the faith the centurion had! How amazing!

We spent some time with the Kindergarteners sharing our published stories and they shared their informational books. Lots of fun! Check out the pictures at the bottom of the blog!

Homework: 

*Current reading and math pages are due Monday, January 23. 

*On Monday, a new reading slip and math page will come home, and they will be due Monday, January 30. We be starting our subtraction pages.

*Keep Practicing Psalm 1 together at home.  

WORDS OF THE WEEK:

Thanks for helping your child practice these words at home: does, friend, enough, should, you're, through, ready, might, suddenly, couldn't, beautiful, special.

Please make sure to go back and practice words that your child has had trouble with in the past. Our words for this week: either, thought, they're.

Next week will wrap up our 3rd set of 15 words. We will have a test on these words on Feb. 10.

Jungle Explorer of the Week: 

Addison was our special Jungle Explorer of the Week! Thanks for sharing your poster and pictures with the class. We enjoyed getting to know more about you and that you love to be a big sister and you like to color. Your favorite foods are watermelon and pizza. Your favorite place is Gun Lake and you want to be a kids dentist and an artist when you grow up! You are so special to God and to us, Addison, and we loved getting to know more about you this week!

100TH DAY OF SCHOOL:

Monday, February 6 (if we have no more snow days) will be our 100th day of school! Where has the time gone? We are looking forward to celebrating 100 days of God's faithfulness together! We have lots of fun activities planned, and one of them is dressing like we are 100 years old! (No wheelchairs or walkers though, our classroom just isn't big enough!) Don't feel like you need to go buy things...just get creative with this! We wanted to give you a heads up so you can start raiding your Grandma's closets for some fun ideas!

CEREAL: 

Another thing we need you to have your child do is count out 100 pieces of their favorite cereal and bring it in a baggie with your child's name on it by Friday, February 3. We'll provide the bowls, milk and spoons and we'll be having a hundred's day breakfast together on our special day! Your child might need to eat a little at home too--100 pieces is not as much as you'd think! :)

WACKY WEDNESDAYS: 

We'll have some fun themed Wednesdays coming up in January/February to spice up these wintery days. 

Our last fun Wednesday will be:

February 1-Hat day

VALENTINE'S DAY PARTY:

We are going to celebrate Valentine's Day with a small party on Tuesday, Feb. 14. If your child would like to bring cards to pass out, there was a class list in last week's Friday folder on pink paper. If you choose to fill out cards be sure to do it for the whole class OR all of the students with the same gender as your child so we don't have any hurt feelings. Thanks!

Swimming Lessons:

South Side and other HC schools will be participating in swimming lessons this year at the Aquatic Center. Our lessons will be during the dates of February 13-24.

Grandparents Day: Save the Date

Grandparents Day for Preschool-2nd Grade will be coming this spring! We are so excited to welcome our grandparents and grand friends to South Side the morning of Thursday, April 20. The only exception is Mrs. Grassmid's 3's Monday/Wednesday class - they will celebrate their special day the morning of Wednesday, April 19. More details will be coming as we get closer. Pine Ridge will also be having their Grandparents Day the same day in the afternoon.

Tulip Time

In 2018, Tulip Time reframed their mission statement, which now reads “Mission Statement: Welcoming the world into our community by celebrating tulips, Dutch heritage, and Holland today." To better align ourselves with their mission statement as well as with the goals here at Holland Christian, our HC elementary students will be given two options for dressing up and walking in the the 2023 Kinderparade. More details will be forthcoming as we get closer to Tulip Time, but we want you to be aware of the options well in advance of the Tulip Time season. All 1st-4th graders will be given the option of walking in either our “tulip” section of the parade or our “Dutch heritage” section.

• If your 1st-4th grade student chooses to opt into the “tulip” section of our parade, your child will design and construct his or her own tulip to carry and then dress as a gardener based around our “Streams of Living Water” t-shirt. This gardener costume might include gardening boots and gloves, overalls, a wide-brimmed hat, etc. Anything you have handy at home that helps your child look like a busy gardener tilling the tulips will fit the part perfectly!
• Students who opt into the “Dutch heritage” portion of our student body will wear their own Dutch costume and carry the parade props our students have carried in the past.

More details about logistics, costumes and timing will be coming soon. Don’t hesitate to email Erin with questions or wonderings at ewyma@hollandchristian.org.

IMORTANT DATES:

Jan. 30: Math homework due, Reading slips due, Library books due

Feb. 1: Hat Day

Feb. 6: 100's Day-if no more snow days

Feb. 10: Sight word test

Feb. 14: Valentine's Day Party

Feb. 17: 1/2 day of school dismiss at 11:30

Feb. 20: No school teacher PD

Feb. 13-24:  Swimming Lessons