Georgetown Elementary School

Be Nice • Work Hard • Learn Well

Georgetown Elementary School

Tag archives for Reading Counts

READING COUNTS WINNERS

As our year wraps up, it is time to give out our awards for Reading Counts.  All students who made their goals throughout the year were entered into a drawing for an ipod shuffle.  The winners are: Kensly Kreuger, Marissa Witte, Harrison Jones, Bryanna Bentley, Joe Huyser, Nathan Keillor, Jaron Dykstra, Max Perez, Jacob Martinez, [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

And the I-POD shuffle winners are…

Mrs. Kuieck-Greyden Overweg,  Mrs. McDonald-Hannah Applebee, Mrs. Quigley-Jackson Kok,  Mr. Bialochowski-Ellie Cook,  Mrs. Flory-Griffin Stoub,  Mrs. Greenlund-Ashley Holland,  Miss. VanArkel-Quinn Baar, Mr. Bowen-Skylar Brouwer, Mrs. Huizenga-Arianna Hoeks, Mr. Kooiker-Malerie Bell, Mrs. Bouwens-Ian Bousson, Mrs. Burdis-Jared Mills, Miss. Burmeister-Peyton Ward. And the grand prize winner of the IPOD Touch is….JILLIAN HARRIS! Many thanks to Mrs. VandenBerg [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Millionaire Club is Growing!

Peyton Ward, Cam Cook, Hunter Gulch, Brad Sellers, Quinn Baar, Corey Huyser, Ezra Roerig, Will Haverkamp, Matthew Lawrence, Ryan Mahoney, August VanDam, Chloe Patrick *Note: Picture appears blurring because these readers were “itching” to get off the stage to start working on their next million words! This past Friday, we honored our newest members of [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Check Out Our Book Blogs!

As a part of our school-wide reading program, we provide time for our students to read every day.  We also provide books that are just right in terms of level, interest and genre.  The teachers work closely with Mrs. VandenBerg, our librarian, to match books to readers and to motivate readers to READ MORE. Mrs. [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Want to be a Millionaire?

If you have ever dreamed of being a millionaire, now is your chance.  All students will have the opportunity to become a member of this club if they succeed in reading for 1,000,000 words this school year.   As a member of the MILLION WORDs club, each member will have their name on the MILLIONAIRE’s [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

‘Twas the week before vacation…

And all through the school, the children were learning and the teachers were cool. Having used up all my poetic ability in the copy change above, I will now get to the week’s events.  It will be a very busy week, with teachers finishing up units of study, children counting down the days until vacation, [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Reading Counts is BACK!

In addition to our classroom instructional reading programs, we offer a motivational reading program through our library and PTC.  This program has the goal of motivating our readers to read more and earn prizes for reaching their reading goals. During the past three years we have monitored the involvement and noticed that interest in the [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Reading Counts Celebration

The Georgetown Elementary 2008-2009 Reading Counts program was a tremendous success with 285 students (2nd thru 5th graders) achieving their reading goals! It has been exciting seeing all the extra reading being done and watching as students reached their goals throughout the school year.  Special congratulation to the following classes for having the whole class [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Volunteer Help Is Needed

The Georgetown Elementary’s Reading Counts program helps to encourage students to read and awards students who achieved their reading goals with a celebration party. The Reading Counts Party is Friday, May 15th and volunteers are still needed for many open times. May is a very busy time of year for everyone, but if you could [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Reading Counts…Spring

From Angie Roon, Reading Counts Chair: The end of this marking period is May 6.  And, as you know our Georgetown students are working hard to make their reading counts goal to be eligible to attend the last Reading Counts celebration for this school year.  Over 80 students have already made their goal and that [...]

Read the rest of this entry »