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FRIDAY FACTS FTO (FROM THE OFFICE)

Good Friday Afternoon Georgetown Parents!

Just our little weekly update here from the office.  Not too many things to report this week.

FATHER/DAUGHTER SOCK HOP

Just a reminder that the registration form and the money is due in the office by MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2! The event will take place on Thursday, February 12, from 6:30pm to 9:00pm.

KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION

Kindergarten Registration packets are available in the office for pick up.  Please be sure to bring a copy of your child’s birth certificate and up to date immunization records when you turn in the registration.  If your child has their 5 year old check up coming up, please bring in the updated immunization record after the appointment.  Round-up will be held on March 17th at 10:00am and 7:00pm.  You may choose which ever time works best for you.

NEWS FROM THE PTC

Parent/Teacher conferences will be held March 2-4.  At this time they will having the Classroom Basket Raffles again this year.  These will be displayed in the hall by the library.

Please plan on attending the next PTC meeting that will be held on Thursday, February 19 at 7:00pm.

Mark your calendars…….The Mother/Son Night will be Friday, March 13 at Lost City! We will be sending home more infomation soon!

“LOVE AND LOGIC PARENTING WORKSHOP”

This seven-week long workshop is designed to introduce participants to the basic philosophies and techniques of “Love and Logic”.  It will be held on Thursday nights from 6:30-8:00 in the Park Elementary Community room (Feb. 26-April 23). Childcare will be provided free of charge.  There is a one-time $10 fee to cover the cost of the workbook.  To register, please call Kristi Sherrington at 616-560-7041.  Space is limited.

COMMUNITY ED NEWS

Please read the attached flyer in regards to an art class being offered through Community Ed.  If interested please fill out the enrollment form and return to the Community Ed office.  If you have any questions, please contact Community Ed at 669-7747, ext 3.

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UPCOMING EVENTS:

FEBRUARY 2  Jet’s Pizza Night
3 Ciao Bella’s Night
5  Wendy’s Night
10 Marco’s Night
11 M/W K Valentine Parties
12 Father/Daughter 50’s Sock Hop
12 Valentine Parties
13 NO SCHOOL
16 Play to Learn
16 Marimbamania Assembly
17 Ciao Bella’s Night
17 Tarry Hall Skating Party
19 PTC Meeting 7p
20 Popcorn Day and ALL School PJ Day!
24 Ciao Bella’s Night
25 Marco’s Night

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Nurenberg

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Snap Shots: A New Blog Tool

While snowed in today (AGAIN), I visited some beautiful blogs around the world.  A new favorite of mine is the Green Park School Blog in the UK.  Their main school page links to the many classroom blogs, just like ours.  On their brilliant site (to borrow a word from Mr. Rafferty), I found nice little tool called Snap Shots.  Thank you Green Park School!

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

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It’s a small world!

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
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Do You Have a New Kindergartener?

If you do, it is important to know that our Kindergarten Round Up will be held on March 17, 2009.  We will run the program at 10 am and 7 pm –with the presentations being identical.  Simply pick the time slot that works best in your schedule.  The goal of the meeting is informational in nature:  registration, screening, and curriculum information.  Children can be enrolled at anytime this spring.  Posted below are all of the registration forms.  You can complete these and drop them off at the Georgetown office.

Children with birthdays between June 1 – December 1, 2009 will be screened on kindergarten readiness skills. If you have a child who will be turning five before June 1, 2009 and would like him/her to be screened, please check the box on the enrollment form. You will be contacted to set up a screening appointment after the Kindergarten Round-Up meetings in March. 

Screening dates:  March 18, 19, 20.  These can be scheduled when you drop off your registration information.

*Due to lack of funding, we will not be offering PreKindergarten in 2009-10.  To find out more about this, scroll down to check the posting of 1/14/09.

Mrs. Reagan

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Kindergarten 2009-10

A memo from the Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum, Mrs. Suzanne Curro:

It is time to enroll your child for kindergarten if he/she turns five years of age before December 1, 2009. Open enrollment opportunities begin January 26, 2009.  Our Kindergarten Round-Up meetings will be held in each of our elementary buildings on Tuesday, March 17.  There will be a choice of a morning meeting at 10:00 a.m. or an evening meeting at 7:00 p.m.  The Kindergarten Round-Up meetings are designed for parents only in order to provide the necessary forms and information to prepare for the beginning of the new school year.

As many of you have heard or read in the newspaper, funding for pre-kindergarten programs will be cut by 50% next year.  Many educators and parents have contacted their legislative representatives to request reconsideration of this bill.  If this is not overturned, Hudsonville Public Schools, along with most other districts, will be forced to eliminate the pre-kindergarten program opportunity next school year.  All students would then be placed in kindergarten classrooms.  

We are going to continue to enroll new five year olds as we normally do, and test those who turn five between June 1, 2009 – December 1, 2009.  Should the law change and pre-kindergarten funding is fully restored, we will adjust our plans accordingly.

Please bear with us as we await the final outcome of the legislative discussion.   Mrs. Suzanne Curro

Office number:  669-1740, ext 55120

 

 

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January is ripe for…

viruses!  If your family was healthy over the holidays, CONGRATULATIONS!  If not, I am so very sorry.  I do know how horrible it can be to have sick children around the holiday season.

Please be aware that we have many different types of viruses afflicting children at school.  These range from stomach viruses (one lasting up to three weeks…ugh), to impetigo, step throat, respiratory illnesses, and nasty cases of true blue flu.  

Each time we have a sick child in the office area and health room, Mrs. Ripley and Mrs. Nurenberg sanitize the phones, chairs, and counter area.  We do this to ensure that these viruses do not spread from student to student and to the staff. 

If your child does come down with an illness, please keep him/her home for 24 hours following the end of a fever or last signs of viral symptoms.  This will help us to eliminate the spread of some of these viruses.

Thank you for your help!  Mrs. Reagan

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Community Ed Events

These activities and promotions are NOT sponsored by the Hudsonville Public Schools.    Activities and promotions are listed as a service to the Hudsonville Public School Community.

Free Gift Wrapping:  The City of Hudsonville is offering free gift wrapping to its residents.  We have the gift wrapping, bows, boxes and gift tags;  you just bring the presents.  The days for the gift wrapping this year are:  Friday, December 5, 5 8 pm; Saturday, December 6, 10 am 3 pm; Friday, December 12, 5 8 pm; Saturday, December 13, 10 am – 3 pm; Friday, December 19, 5 8 pm; Saturday, December 20, 10 am 3 pm.  The gift wrapping takes place at the Hudsonville City Hall Commission Chambers.

Hudsonville Lights Up Downtown:  Hudsonville is igniting the Holiday Season with a computerized musical light display by Lightastic Holiday Lighting.  The light display will be in the fountain area of the Plaza beginning November 21st.  The five song show is just over 14 minutes long and will run continually from 6 pm to 10 pm.  A 25 foot Christmas tree of lights will be the centerpiece of the display and be placed over the fountain.  Several of the trees/shrubs in the plaza will be decorated and various luminaries will be added to the grounds.  The show will feature 12,450 lights in multi color or white, red, green, blue and yellow.  All the lights will be choreographed to the following songs:  Wizards in Winter   Trans Siberian Orchestra;  Linus & Lucy (Peanuts Theme) – Vince Guaraldi; Jingle Bells – Kay Thompson & Michael W. Smith; Carol of the Bells – David Foster; Christ Eve (Sarajevo) – Trans Siberian Orchestra.  Spectators that come to the plaza area can tune their radio to a designated radio station and listen to the music from the comfort of  their cars and watch the spectacular light display.  The light show will run until the New Year.

Santa Comes to the Plaza:  Santa and Mrs. Claus will be in Gemmens’ on Saturday, December13, from10 am – 1 pm.  They will also be in a gazebo in the Plaza area right in front of the Christmas Light Display on December 5, 9, and 19, from 6 8 pm.  Pictures will be available through McConomy Photography for $10 a package.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

In so many ways, it is hard to believe that the Thanksgiving holiday is upon us.  The next few weeks will be filled with busy times at home and school–most of the energy center around holiday preparations.  Please make sure that you mark your calendars for our December 4 all school Holiday Program.  This will be held at Resurrection Life Church in Grandville.  Directions and details are available on this blog and Mrs. Bretz’s blog (link to the left).  I will also post details next week.

The Thanksgiving holiday is a time to be thankful.  We, the entire Georgetown staff, would like you to know how very thankful we are for you–the parents of the wonderful children we work with five days per week.  Thank you for all you do to prepare them to work hard and learn well on a daily basis.

I also want you to know how thankful I am for the staff at Georgetown.  Each and every person (from the teaching staff right up to the parapro and custodial staff) is so very committed to the work they do with a focus on creating the best climate for our students.  I mean this  very sincerely:  I have never worked with such an exceptional group in my life.  

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with your families and friends.  Mrs. Reagan