I took some fabulous and very impressive pictures of Georgetown on a beautiful snowy Monday in January. Compare this most recent photo of our school to the school photo on our header!
In addition to the icicles and sparkling, crystalized tree branches, I snapped photos of the mounds of snow…and children playing in it (with the help of Mr. Bowen). Enjoy the video slideshow!
GEORGETOWN PARENTS:
Please see the attached flyer for the latest Georgetown Newsletter. Have a great day!
It is official! We have had our first internet visitor from the continent of Africa. This mysterious visitor logged in from Ethiopia, located on the eastern edge of Africa, situated in the Horn of Africa. I suspect that Mrs. Fabbro, one of our fabulous Georgetown parents, had something to do this with this visit. Many thanks to you, Mrs. Fabbro and the mystery visitor from Ethiopia. You made this techie principal very happy.
To view some fun maps of Ethiopia and learn about this fascinating country, click on 3D Earth
This tool enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, display inline videos, RSS, MP3s, photos, and more.
Sometimes Snap Shots bring you the information you need, without your having to leave the site, while other times it lets you “look ahead,” before deciding if you want to follow a link or not.
Should you decide this is not for you, just click the Options icon in the upper right corner of the Snap Shot and opt-out.
Mrs. Reagan
With the many winter weather advisories issued this past month, we have been faced with the issue of checking the wind chill temperatures daily. This is a task that Mrs. Ripley and Mrs. Nurenberg take on as our incredible school secretaries. If you take a peak at their computer desktops, you will see that they have the school WeatherBug data posted to enable them to check the wind chill live for our playground.
When the wind chill temperature drops below zero, we keep the children inside for recess. Wind chill temperature is “how cold people and animals feel when outside. Windchill is based on the rate of heat loss from exposed skin caused by wind and cold. As the wind increases, it draws heat from the body, driving down skin temperature and eventually the internal body temperature. Therefore, the wind makes it FEEL much colder. If the temperature is 0 degrees Fahrenheit and the wind is blowing at 15 mph, the wind chill is -19 degrees Fahrenheit. At this wind chill temperature, exposed skin can freeze in 30 minutes.” (Information for the NOAA)
We anticipate that the weather will be much better this week. However, it will be brisk on the playground. PLEASE dress your child warmly. And, 5th graders: Wear the warm stuff! It is more important to be warm that lookin’ cool!
I imagine some of you humming the Disney tune in your head as you read this post! Our school blog has had well over 8,000 visitors since it’s launch in early November. This is truly amazing, especially when you consider that these visitors have come from six of our seven continents! The only continent to not yet light up on our board: Africa.
We have had many repeat visitors from schools around the world. I have honored them by creating links to their classroom and school blogs on our main page. This link is titled: Blogs From Around the World.
Enjoy visiting the blogs. I encourage you to leave comments on their blogs. I assure you, they will share these with their students and respond.
Mrs. Reagan
To check our visitors, click on the clustrmap to the right. So far, we have been visited by these countries (# of visits for each country listed as well):
| United States (US) | 4,738 |
| Taiwan (TW) | 3,189 |
| Australia (AU) | 62 |
| Canada (CA) | 53 |
| United Kingdom (GB) | 46 |
| New Zealand (NZ) | 24 |
| Japan (JP) | 24 |
| Germany (DE) | 11 |
| Singapore (SG) | 11 |
| Hong Kong (HK) | 8 |
| France (FR) | 5 |
| Korea, Republic of (KR) | 5 |
| Europe (EU) | 4 |
| Poland (PL) | 4 |
| Spain (ES) | 4 |
| Asia/Pacific Region (AP) | 4 |
| Argentina (AR) | 4 |
| Indonesia (ID) | 3 |
| Philippines (PH) | 3 |
| Sweden (SE) | 3 |
| Brazil (BR) | 2 |
| Belgium (BE) | 2 |
| Bulgaria (BG) | 2 |
| Chile (CL) | 2 |
| Russian Federation (RU) | 2 |
| Vietnam (VN) | 2 |
| Slovakia (SK) | 2 |
| Norway (NO) | 2 |
| Thailand (TH) | 2 |
| Lebanon (LB) | 2 |
| Malaysia (MY) | 2 |
| Denmark (DK) | 1 |
| Finland (FI) | 1 |
| Czech Republic (CZ) | 1 |
| Netherlands (NL) | 1 |
| Ecuador (EC) | 1 |
| Italy (IT) | 1 |
| Cambodia (KH) | 1 |
| United Arab Emirates (AE) | 1 |
| Puerto Rico (PR) | 1 |
| Turkey (TR) | 1 |
| Portugal (PT) | 1 |
| Switzerland (CH) | 1 |
| Macau (MO) | 1 |
| Macedonia (MK) | 1 |
| Paraguay (PY) | 1 |
Mrs. Boersma’s class of fourth grade students said the pledge for a local radio station, Thunder 94.5. The station recorded their rendition of the pledge. It will be aired on the station on January 29 at 7:30 am. We will also be loading the podcast on our site once it is posted to the radio webpage.
Coaches are being organized for this year’s spring Girls on the Run Program. If you are interested, please get in touch with me! Information can be found at this location: GOTR
Many parents have asked if I could post contact information for our legislators.
Senator Wayne Kuipers
Phone 877-KUIPERS
email – senwkuipers@senate.michigan.gov
Joe Haveman
N1194 House Office Building
P.O. Box 30014
Lansing, MI 48909-7514
Phone: (517) 373-0830
Fax: (517) 373-7806
E-mail: joehaveman@house.mi.gov
Representative Dave Agema
Phone 800-968-2320
email – daveagema@house.mi.gov
Mon, 1/19 Day 2: Play to Learn, MPR @ 9:30 am; Martin Luther King Day
Tues 1/20 Day 3: Inauguration Day!;Music Therapy: ECSE, CI in MPR 1:30-3:00 pm
Wed 1/21 Day 1
Thurs 1/22 Day 2: Student Blog Training @ 4 pm; PTC Meeting @ 7 pm (Media Center) ECSE Conferences with Mrs. Murphy; Bowling Mrs. Kok’s Class;
Fri 1/23 Day 3: MW PreK/K; ECSE Conferences with Mrs. Murphy
