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Week a-a-a-a-choooo 35!

Do you feel like you’re looking through green colored glasses?  Are your eyes itchy and your nose sneezy?  If so, you are suffering from spring allergies…and it is a miserable season.  Many of our students (your kids) have watery eyes, headaches, and all the other symptoms that go along with intense allergen exposure.  ACHOO is [...]

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Week 34: May 13-17, 2013

It’s the middle of May which means teachers are racing against the clock to get through necessary learning material before the school year ends.    Your children may be talking about online math tests, MEAP prep work and year end assessments for reading, writing, science and social studies.  All of these assessments need to be [...]

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Week 31: April 22-26, 2013

The final week in April brings our DISTRIC T ART SHOW — a celebration of our amazing art program for our K-12 students.   We will be displaying unbelievable pieces of student work at the Hudsonville City Hall, 3275 Central Ave.   Georgetown Artist’s special artist reception night is Tuesday from 5:30-7:30 pm.  You can [...]

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Conference Week Ahead: March 4-8, 2013

We are looking forward to these things this week: Meeting with parents and sharing all the growth made by their children so far this year. Warmer weather. All School PJ day on FRIDAY! PJ day is in honor of daylight savings time that will be occur on Sunday, March 1o.  This is the day we [...]

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Week 23: FEBRUARY 18-22, 2013

I want to extend thanks to all the parents who helped to make our Valentine’s Day parties such a tremendous success.    The parents support for all of our activities help to make our school such an incredible place to be. In addition to Valentine’s Day, we celebrated the 100th day of school.  The kindergarten [...]

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The Week Ahead: February 12-15, 2013

I hope you had a great Winter Break!  Scroll through the blog posts below to see how some of our students celebrated in the snow. We have a four day week  that includes Valentine’s Day Parties and a POPCORN DAY — which is brought to your by our PTC volunteers.  Check your child’s class blog [...]

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Our 16th Week of School

As a school community, we have had sixteen weeks together to develop relationships as learners and people who care about one another.  It is precisely these relationships that will carry us through the coming week. Our focus for the week will be as follows:  consistent, predictable routines and activities; continued focus on curriculum learning and [...]

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December Has Arrived

While walking along the Lake Michigan shoreline today, I had to remind myself that it was December 2.  The air was heavy with a spring like mist, the water calm and the temperatures in the mid 50′s.   Milo and Cooper spent most of their time chasing sea gulls and digging in the sand. The [...]

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Holiday Program Makes for A Busy Week

We kick off the four week countdown to the holidays with our annual holiday music performance.   If you haven’t read the post with the date and times of the TWO PERFORMANCES, click here. There is ample seating for all—and the performance will also be video taped (DVD’s available for purchase) and shown on WCET. [...]

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Thanksgiving Week 2012

During the week ahead, many of us will be spending time with family and friends expressing thanks for food, health, relationships and much more.  This is a holiday rich with individual family traditions as well as many community traditions that have their roots in history of the first harvest celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621. [...]

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