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Parent Wishes for Next Year’s Placement

We are busy preparing our fifth graders for sixth grade with tours, instrument fittings and informational meetings.  In addition, the teachers are already thinking through placements for their students in the next grade.

In late April, the Georgetown staff begin the work of creating class lists for the next school year.  We thoughtfully and carefully place students using current teacher and parent input.   In order to do this, we will use teacher and parent input.  Your feedback is provide by completing the  Parent Classlist  Survey.   All wishes/requests from parents cannot be honored…because there is much to consider to build classlists.

In addition to the parent feedback from these surveys, we also examine the following criteria:

  • Learning style of student compared to teaching style of teachers.
  • Academic achievement:  We strive to balance classrooms with a range of learning levels.
  • Relationships with other students:  If there are students who do not work well together due to personality conflicts and/or behavioral issues we will look at the benefit of separating these students.
  • Special needs:  Speech, reading, resource support, health related issues.
  • Behavioral/emotional characteristics and management style of each classroom teacher.
  • The personality characteristics of the student compared to that of the teacher.
  • Boy/girl ratio.

*If your child is going into grade 6 at BMS, DO NOT complete this survey.  

This survey is only for children going into grades K-5.

 

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Parent Math Night

Math Expressions Parent Night:  Thursday, March 20, 2012 @ 7:00 PM at the Hudsonville High School Auditorium


A Math Expressions Parent Night will be held at the high school auditorium for parents of K-5 students in the district.  Parents will hear an overview of the program in the auditorium, followed by 3 break-out sessions: K-1st, 2nd-3rd, and 4th-5th. Break-out sessions are designed to give specific grade level support to parents.  Each break-out session will run for 20 minutes and will run two times in a row, allowing parents to attend more than one session.

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Parent Lending Library

 

Shelly Telfor, one of our Georgetown parents, has offered to build a collection of books, videos and DVD’s helpful to parents.  To build the library, we are asking for your donation of gently used materials on an assortment of topics.  Once received, the materials will be catalogued and shelved in our school media center.  These topics include, but are not limited to:

 

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Asthma
  • Downs Syndrome
  • Anxiety in children
  • Cystic Fibrosis 
  • Development delays
  • ADHD and ADD
  • Preparing siblings for a new baby
  • Coping with disease, grief, mental illness, death
  • Reading Strategies   

Place your donated materials in the collection box in the front entry, outside the school office.  A list of the titles available will be published on the school blog as they come in.  A checkout system, based on the honor system, will be developed.  No overdue fines here!  Together we can encourage each other in finding good information, without all the expense.  If you have questions, contact Shelly Telfor at 662-2002 or smtelfor@yahoo.com.  Thank you!