Community Ed is offering swimming lessons for children starting at the age of 6 months and going through the age of 3rd grade. Attached is the enrollment form and explanation sheet of the different levels being offered. If you have any further questions, please visit the Hudsonville Public Schools website under “Community Ed” or call 669-1740, ext 3.
Have a great day!
Mrs. Nurenberg : )
Community Ed is posting a couple of upcoming activities for students. The first one is a Jr. Dance Clinic. This is being offered for students in grade K-8. I will attach the enrollment form or you may visit the Hudsonville Public schools website to register online. The second one is for Bowling. This is for anyone between the ages of 2 and adult. I will also attach the enrollment form for this. Please contact Community Ed with any questions that you may have. You may do so by calling 669-7747, ext #3.
Have a great day!
Mrs. Nurenberg : )
Just a quick note in regards to the Holilday program DVD’s. The order form deadline has been extended to this Thursday, December 17. Please make sure the order forms get to the office by Thursday! The DVD’s will be coming home after the holiday break as WCET will not be able to get them finsihed in time to get them sent home with the students on Friday. DVD FORM 2
Thanks!
We had a three way classroom tie for our SILLY SCAVENGER HUNT WINNERS! These classes had the most scavenger hunt participants and have won an hour of choice activity time: Mrs. Boersma, Mrs. Bouwens and Mrs. Burdis. It is important to note that Mrs. Burdis’ class had the highest average of participants in all three scavenger hunts!
The individual winner for the hunt was Maggie in Mrs. Kuieck’s second grade classroom. Maggie won a $10 Barnes and Noble gift card along with some yummy holiday candy.
Over 80 students participated in the hunt. This earns them an extra ticket in the Reading Counts drawing that will take place later this week.
We have had three scavenger hunts so far this year–all designed to help you get to know the teaching staff. We kicked off the year with a hunt about vacations, followed by one about hobbies, and ended with “silly things teachers do.” In all, we had 331 people participate in our hunts! I think this is incredible.
It is my hope to kick off a student scavenger hunt this winter! More news to come in 2010. Mrs. Reagan
Last week, the children in our building snuck down to Santa’s Secret Shop to purchase gifts for special people in their families. Jamie Ham recruited volunteers to help with gift selection and purchasing. I am sure the gifts are hidden in a special place at home. I hope you are delighted and surprised on Christmas morning. Many, many, many thanks to the Parent Club for making this event possible each year.
It has been one year since I launched our new reader friendly school blog. During that time period, every teacher in our building 
has developed a blog for their classrooms. As a staff, our goal has been to make all information accessible immediately and to share news more frequently throughout the week. This goal has helped us to connect with grandparents, family members and friends of students all over the world. The blogs have also helped us to stay in touch with our penpals in Taiwan and connect with educators across the world.
As of last week, we had 33,767 visitors to our school blog! These visitors have come from all over the world–and some of them have left comments regarding our posts.
A map showing hits from 69 countries is posted above. For those of you who like specific data on visitors, a list of the countries and number of visitors from each is below. Thank you to everyone who visits our blog!
GEORGETOWN PARENTS:
Please read the following information in regards to the upcoming Basketball opportunities offered for boys and girls in grades k-2 and for Boys only in grades 3-6. These classes fill up very quickly so do not wait too long to fill out these forms or contact Community Ed itself. I will attach the forms to fill out, you may grab one from the files outside the office or you may register online through Community ed on the Hudsonville Public Schools websiste.
K-2 form:
Grades 3-6
Have a great day!
Mrs. Nurenberg
Our Box Top competition ends this week. The winners will be announced on Friday, December 18. If you have a bag of box tops sitting at home, send them to school with your child as soon as possible. For a reminder on how the competition works, check this link: BOX TOPS
Last week Friday, key members of our school districts spent the day with Richard Allington, a national researcher on the best practices for teaching reading instruction. It was a day packed with information and the Georgetown team left with a full list of ideas to consider for implementation this year. For me, in particular, I was excited to meet this expert who has been so influential in shaping my learning about teaching practices. 
Our team will be meeting in early January to identify how we can make improvements to our practices in the teaching of reading–especially with our struggling readers. Allington’s book, What Really Matters in Response to Intervention-Research Based Practices, will be the focus of our work.
Posing with Richard Allington: Diana Bast, Julie Iwema, Kristina Speidel, Sarah Woodring, Richard Allington, Kym Burdis, Julie Reifschneider, Ann McDonald, Theresa Reagan, Lynn Quigley, Amy Jurewicz
Our sister school, Raey Guang Elementary has forty children that would like to become email pen pals with children from our school. If you are interested in this, please complete this pen pal survey form. I will work with a teacher and the principal from Raey Guang to match children. This is open to children in grades 3, 4 and 5. I would like to send the names to Taiwan over the holiday break so the correspondence can begin in the new year!
Mrs. Reagan
