Category: Miscellaneous

Blog Bits 11/13/2020

News From the Office…

We will be holding conferences virtually on Monday and Wednesday. You should be all signed up with your child’s teacher. If not please reach out to them.

This is just the beginning of the cold/flu season and we realize this is not easy or fun.  We just have to follow this chart to be able to stay open. Please do your best to let us know your child’s symptoms, follow the chart, and keep them home when they are not feeling well. 

Please note that we do have a full day next week Friday, Nov 20. It says on the hot lunch menu that it is a half day, but that is NOT correct! We also are now off the whole week of Thanksgiving, Monday , Nov 23 – Friday Nov 27. We will be back on Monday Nov 30.

Have a great weekend!

Next Early Release…

Our next early release is on January 13. We will be dismissing at 12:15 on Jan 15. If your child is a car rider, please be at school between 12:10 and 12:15 for pick up.  Food Service will be offering a sack lunch on early release days. Children can order a lunch with their teacher in the morning and will have them to take to their destination.  The cost will be $2.25.  Free and reduced benefits will also apply.

PTC News…

Nov. 19 – PTC Meeting, location to be determined

Nov 16-20 – Book Fair  M-Th 9-3:30 and Friday 9-10 for last minute shoppers. Unfortunately we cannot open this up to parents like we usually do during conferences, but you will be able to shop online. https://www.scholastic.com/bf/georgetownelementaryschool2 Here is a link to the online shopping for the book fair. It will be open to shop from Nov. 11 – 24!!

Now until Nov 27 – Holiday Shop We know that so much about this school year looks different, but we’re so excited that our school will be participating in an online Penguin Patch® Holiday Shop to spread holiday cheer!

Penguin Patch® Holiday Shop is a fun way for students to shop for family members and experience the spirit of giving while learning to earn, budget, and save! Our online shop will be open November 9th and end November 27th.

To log in to our school’s secure shopping platform, please use this link:
shop.penguinpatch.com.

Your student will have over 100 delightful gifts to choose from, all ranging in price from $0.50 to $12. This is an amazing opportunity to empower your student to choose, purchase, and give gifts to their loved ones! Remember, a portion of every dollar spent goes back to our school, so when your child shops the school also receives funds!

All gifts will be shipped straight to your home for a small flat-fee. They’ll arrive in festive “Special Delivery” packaging, with wrapping supplies included! We’re excited to create this new holiday tradition and spread good cheer with you!

Happy Shopping!

Erin Fredricks krebille@hotmail.com

Penguin Patch Holiday Shop Chairperson

PE News…

The annual P.E. C.A.R.E.S food drive will be starting on November 4.
We are asking for your help by bringing in non-perishable food items for
Love Inc. in Hudsonville.
Food items to consider are canned vegetables and fruits, pasta, rice,
baked beans, black beans, kidney beans, peanut butter, tuna fish, etc.
(please no ramen noodles and please do not break apart packaged
food)

The food drive will continue until Nov. 18.  We will be
keeping track of how many items each class brings in. The
class with the most items brought in by
NOON on Nov. 18 will win a P.E. C.A.R.E.S
t-shirt and a bowling trip to Hudsonville
Lanes (If Allowed this year)

This is a great opportunity for our students to
care for their community, to teach our kids
compassion and love for others. Thanks for
sharing in this service project with us at Georgetown.

Community News…

•Holiday Support

•Are you seeking support for your family this Holiday Season? If so, you and reach out to Love INC at 616-662-3300 ext.128

•Would you like to donate gifts to help Love INC support families in our community? They are taking new gifts for ages 0 – 60. You can also go to loveinthenameofchrist.org and click on a wishlist link to make it even easier!

•The deadline to register or to donate is FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20!!

•For more information you can contact cindyj@loveinthenameofchrist.org

Community Ed…

• You can click here to go to the community education page on the Hudsonville Public School website.

Upcoming Dates

It is early release Friday tomorrow! We will be dismissing at 12:15 on Nov 13. If your child is a car rider, please be at school by 12:10 for pick up.  Food Service will be offering a sack lunch on early release days. Children can order a lunch with their teacher in the morning and will have them to take to their destination. 

Tonight is a Jet‘s Pizza Night! If you place an order with Jet‘s, they will generously donate a portion back to our school! Let them know who your child’s teacher is when you order and the class with the most orders wins a pizza party as well! Make it an easy dinner night and help out Georgetown too! Have a good night!

Please help the PTC  provide a dinner for the teachers while they start off our conference week. Due to food delivery rules, please drop off to Audrey Straub’s house by Sunday, Nov. 15. 3406 Stephanie Dr

Dear Parents,

We know that so much about this school year looks different, but we’re so excited that our school will be participating in an online Penguin Patch® Holiday Shop to spread holiday cheer!

Penguin Patch® Holiday Shop is a fun way for students to shop for family members and experience the spirit of giving while learning to earn, budget, and save! Our online shop will be open November 9th and end November 27th. 

To log in to our school’s secure shopping platform, please use this link:
shop.penguinpatch.com.

Your student will have over 100 delightful gifts to choose from, all ranging in price from $0.50 to $12. This is an amazing opportunity to empower your student to choose, purchase, and give gifts to their loved ones! Remember, a portion of every dollar spent goes back to our school, so when your child shops the school also receives funds!

All gifts will be shipped straight to your home for a small flat-fee. They’ll arrive in festive “Special Delivery” packaging, with wrapping supplies included! We’re excited to create this new holiday tradition and spread good cheer with you!

Happy Shopping!

Erin Fredricks krebille@hotmail.com

Penguin Patch Holiday Shop Chairperson

Who: K-4th graders
What: Students will have the opportunity to rotate through 3 Hands-on STEM activities using materials found in their homes (no materials will be supplied by MSU).  The activities will be 25 minutes each with 10 minutes in-between.
When: Saturday, November 21, 2020, 1-3pm
Where: Virtual Zoom meetings
Cost: FREE

Students must be chaperoned during the entire duration of the event. Adults may bring up to 3 students with all students attending the same activities. Activities are arranged in prearranged tracks. Please choose your top 3 tracks. You will be assigned one of your choices.  Activity Tracks are listed below within each choice menu. You can also view all available tracks here as a PDF.

Note: As activities become full, they are unable to be chosen.

Activity Descriptions – Detailed descriptions and a list of materials needed for each activity:
Activity Descriptions (Adobe Portable Document Format .pdf)

Registration is required. Registration includes (1) the webform and (2) Parent Consent form. Registration deadline is Nov. 11, 2020 or until maximum capacity is reached.

You will receive your assigned track the week before the event.  Please watch your email.

You will receive your ZOOM links closer to the event date.

Download: PDF of one form: Parent Consent Form

Please upload the completed form to this webform, where it states “Attendee PDF Upload”.

Questions can be directed to wie-outreach@egr.msu.edu SUBJ: Girls’ STEM Day.

If you would like to be placed on a Cancellation List, please email wie-outreach@egr.msu.edu with “cancellation list” in the subject line.

For more information and registration visit this link

Blog Bits 11/6/2020

News From the Office…

This year conferences will take place on the evenings of Monday, November 16, and Wednesday, November 18 virtually. Normally, when in person, we have ways to remind (as a building) when that 15 minutes is approaching, so bear with us as we work through how to do this in a virtual world as our teachers strive to ensure that they are timely in meeting with each of our families. Thank you for doing all that you are doing to partner with the school both for your child’s success academically and for keeping all of our students and staff and the greater community safe, allowing us to continue in-person instruction each day!

This is just the beginning of the cold/flu season so this will be hard! We just have to follow this chart to be able to stay open. Please do your best to let us know your child’s symptoms, follow the chart, and keep them home when they are not feeling well. 

Thanksgiving break will be here before we know it. We will be off Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday Nov. 25-27 and we will be back at school on Monday, Nov 30.

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Next Early Release…

Our next early release is on November 13. We will be dismissing at 12:15 on Nov 13. If your child is a car rider, please be at school between 12:10 and 12:15 for pick up.  Food Service will be offering a sack lunch on early release days. Children can order a lunch with their teacher in the morning and will have them to take to their destination.  The cost will be $2.25.  Free and reduced benefits will also apply.

PTC News…

Nov. 12 – Jet’s Pizza Night

Nov. 19 – PTC Meeting, location to be determined

Book Fair – Nov 16-20, M-Th 9-3:30 and Friday 9-10 for last minute shoppers. Unfortunately we cannot open this up to parents like we usually do during conferences, but you will be able to shop online.  Schedule and details will come soon along with a flyer.

Here is a link to the online shopping for the book fair. It will be open to shop from Nov. 11 – 24!!  https://www.scholastic.com/bf/georgetownelementaryschool2

PE News…

The annual P.E. C.A.R.E.S food drive will be starting on November 4.
We are asking for your help by bringing in non-perishable food items for
Love Inc. in Hudsonville.
Food items to consider are canned vegetables and fruits, pasta, rice,
baked beans, black beans, kidney beans, peanut butter, tuna fish, etc.
(please no ramen noodles and please do not break apart packaged
food)

The food drive will continue until Nov. 18.  We will be
keeping track of how many items each class brings in. The
class with the most items brought in by
NOON on Nov. 18 will win a P.E. C.A.R.E.S
t-shirt and a bowling trip to Hudsonville
Lanes (If Allowed this year)

This is a great opportunity for our students to
care for their community, to teach our kids
compassion and love for others. Thanks for
sharing in this service project with us at Georgetown.

Lost and Found…

We are accumulating some coats, sweatshirts, and a few other items in the lost and found. Just want to put a couple pics on the blog for you. If you see something that belongs to your child, let us know and we can send it home!

Community News…

•Are you seeking support for your family this Holiday Season? If so, you and reach out to Love INC at 616-662-3300 ext.128

•Would you like to donate gifts to help Love INC support families in our community? They are taking new gifts for ages 0 – 60. You can also go to loveinthenameofchrist.org and click on a wishlist link to make it even easier!

•The deadline to register or to donate is FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20!!

•For more information you can contact cindyj@loveinthenameofchrist.org

Community Ed…

• You can click here to go to the community education page on the Hudsonville Public School website.

Upcoming Dates

The annual P.E. C.A.R.E.S food drive will be starting on November 4.
We are asking for your help by bringing in non-perishable food items for
Love Inc. in Hudsonville.
Food items to consider are canned vegetables and fruits, pasta, rice,
baked beans, black beans, kidney beans, peanut butter, tuna fish, etc.
(please no ramen noodles and please do not break apart packaged
food)

The food drive will continue until Nov. 18.  We will be
keeping track of how many items each class brings in. The
class with the most items brought in by
NOON on Nov. 18 will win a P.E. C.A.R.E.S
t-shirt and a bowling trip to Hudsonville
Lanes (If Allowed this year)

This is a great opportunity for our students to
care for their community, to teach our kids
compassion and love for others. Thanks for
sharing in this service project with us at Georgetown.

If your child was not here for picture day, retake day is set for Tuesday, Nov 3.  We have extra picture forms in the office if you need one for retakes. If you didn’t like your child’s picture when they came home and you would like them to have retakes, simply send in the picture packet with your child on the day of retakes.  Your child will bring it to the ladies taking the pictures and they will be all set. Thank you!!

Happy Friday Georgetown Families!

I wanted to let you know that teachers will be sending out invitations to sign-up for parent-teacher conferences shortly.  Some may have gotten them out already in fact.  Please look for these.  Due to the ongoing pandemic and guidelines and restrictions that are in place for schools, we will be holding these meetings virtually, via Zoom.  We lament the fact that we cannot have parents into the building and yearn for the days when we can return to more face-to-face interactions.  Thank you for doing all that you are doing to partner with the school both for your child’s success academically and for keeping all of our students and staff and the greater community safe, allowing us to continue in-person instruction each day!

This year conferences will take place on the evenings of Monday, November 16, and Wednesday, November 18.  We are using a program called “Calendly” to have you sign up for a meeting time with your child’s teacher.  Once you choose a time, Calendly will generate a Zoom invitation unique to your meeting with the teacher and create a calendar event for you and the teacher with the Zoom information, time, date, etc.  Please keep in mind that we need to schedule only one period per student and that conference times are limited to 15 minutes.  Normally, when in person, we have ways to remind (as a building) when that 15 minutes is approaching, so bear with us as we work through how to do this in a virtual world as our teachers strive to ensure that they are timely in meeting with each of our families.

Thank you again for all you’re doing to help get the year off to such a great start at Georgetown!  It’s difficult to believe that we are more than a 1/4 way through the year already.  Enjoy your weekend, stay safe, and savor the extra hour of sleep!

~Randy