As you wake up this morning, you will see that the snow has arrived! School is CLOSED TODAY due to the poor road conditions and anticipation of several inches of snow throughout the day. Holiday parties will be held on January 8 (grades K-TTH) and January 9 (grades 1-5). Have a wonderful Christmas with your family and friends. Warmly, Mrs. Reagan
We are receiving many calls with questions about when class parties will be held if school is cancelled tomorrow (December 19) due to the impending snow storm. Parties will be rescheduled for Friday, January 9 (grades 1-5). If your child is in TTH K, the parties will be Thursday, January 8. Your child’s teacher will let you know more details regarding the party start time.
If we have school on Friday, our holiday parties and our school day will go on as normal.
Mrs. Reagan
I am sure you or your children are watching the forecast for tonight through tomorrow and the potential of a winter storm (6-12 inches) hitting our area. If school is cancelled, parents will work with the teachers to reschedule holiday parties.
Should school be closed, I will post the information on the blog and send out an email. In addition, you will receive a call from our school messenger system.
Mrs. Reagan
If you want to check out a video of Mr. Gort and his class of 4th grade bowlers, check out the PE Blog or Mr. Gort’s Class Blog. Mr. Gort’s class brought in the most food donations for the PE Cares program this year.
A very cool bowling game has also been posted to our sister school blog site, BLOGPALS. If you like computer games, check this one out!
Mrs. Reagan
We have been fortunate for the past two years to host a chapter of the National Girls on the Run Program at Georgetown Elementary. Registration for this program is going on now. This program is available to girls in grades 3-5, with practices beginning in February, and a 5K race on May 16.
If you have a daughter that is interested in participating, please complete this registration:girlsontheruninfo
If you are interested in coaching, please view this document, GotRCoaches
Our school is also in need of a laison, a person that would help recruit coaches, match coaches to runners, and coordinate practices for the season. This person can also be a coach, but this is not required. It can be someone who simply loves the “organizational/administrative” side of volunteering. If you are interested in being a laison, let me know by email (treagan@hudsonville.k12.mi.us) or phone (797-9797). I will pass along the contact for this program.
Mrs. Reagan
I have embedded our school google calendar with all dates including: School Educational Events, Field Trips, PTC events. The months of December and January are completed. All events will be available through May in the next week. I am hopeful that this calendar will make it easier for you to search for upcoming events.
Mrs. Reagan
Our team of specialist teachers (Mrs. Bast, Reading; Mrs. Iwema, Reading, Mrs. Speidel, Speech/Language, Mrs. Sinke, Resource, and Mrs. Reifschneider, Resource), have set up a wonderful at-home reading program for your children to utilize. The program, call Raz-Kids is an interactive reading program that allows children to pick books by their guided reading level.
Once you login, you go to the BOOKROOM where your child can pick a book by guided reading level. Books can be read to the child (listen) or the child can read the book and get help with tricky words–when these words are clicked on the word is read to them! At the end of each book, children can take a quiz to check their comprehension. We are hopeful that this site helps to make at home reading more interesting and interactive.
If you are unsure of the reading level, please check with your child’s teacher. This site is designed for all levels of readers–on grade, struggling and advanced.
Your child’s teacher will send you the user name and password via email. You will be logging in as a teacher because we do not have individual student accounts at this time. This will be done based on your feedback of the site.
Please provide feedback on this site by submitting comments to our blog.
Mrs. Reagan
Joan Jang, a student from Taiwan who attends Purdue University, shared through email that we had made the news in Taiwan! Mrs. Yu Wen, the principal of our sister school, Raey Guang Elementary, was interviewed about our partnership. The photo in both articles shows her holding our student artwork (a gift from Georgetown to Raey Guang) that was presented during her visit to our school in October 2008.
Both articles cite our blogs–the one you are viewing right now and our blogs set up for FAMILY BLOGGERS (matching families from each school to communicate with one another) and SCHOOLS THAT BLOG TOGETHER (blog communication between the students/teachers of both schools). The articles (below), are in Chinese and English. I wanted you to be able to see both versions–and appreciate the beauty of the written Mandarin language. Please be aware that the English translation is close…but not exactly true to the elegance of the Chinese language. The message of collaboration and appreciation of both countries and cultures is strong and clear in both languages. Enjoy! Mrs. Reagan
Our holiday program will be shown on our local TV station, WCET on Wednesday December 17: 2 pm and 8:30 pm. Many thanks to Allan Dodds for taking care of this for us.
WCET can be found on Ch. 21 in Hudsonville and Ch. 25 in Grandville and Jenison.
