Welcome!!!

Welcome to Mrs. Stielstra and Mrs. Wyma's 3rd grade class!

It was such a pleasure to meet so many of you last night. We appreciate you taking the time out of your busy schedules to come to school and make your child feel more comfortable for the first day.  Our classroom is ready to go....all we are missing now are our students!

Our theme this year is "Love Does".  Author Bob Goff wrote the inspiring book "Love Does".  As a class we will be exploring different ways in which we show love to others in our classroom, home, community, and beyond.  The theme is based from John 13:17 which says, "Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them."  What an awesome reminder to treat everyone in our classroom with Christlike love and find ways to demonstrate this love everyday!

We are looking forward to a great start on Monday.  Our first day back to school is a full day.  The school day runs from 8:10 (first bell) to 3:15.  Please have your child bring their school supplies with them if they did not bring them last night.  It looks like it is going to be a HOT day (finally!!!), so dress your child comfortably.  

We will be communicating with you this year through our class blog.  Here you will find curriculum highlights from the week in the "classroom newsletter tab", pictures of your child in school, and upcoming events.  Please take the time to subscribe to our blog so you are notified each time we update it with important information.

A few upcoming dates:
August 24th- Convocation at 3p.m. at the HCHS Auditorium
August 25th-  First day of School
August 27th-  Meet the teacher night
August 29-Sept. 1- No school  Labor day Recess
Sept. 2-  Meet the Superintendent, at Pine Ridge from 3:10-4:00
Sept. 19  Picture Day

Each of your children are already so precious to us and we are holding them up in prayer as we begin this new school year.  We look forward to partnering with you as we go forward.  Always feel free to contact us with any questions or comments you may have.

Blessings,

Lynae Stielstra and Erin Wyma


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Good Morning!!

I have updated the classroom newsletter.  We also have a few things coming up that I am requesting parent volunteers for.  The first one is the upcoming field trip to Outdoor Discovery Center.  I need 2 more chaperones to attend in order for our class to go.  They require a certain student/adult ratio and without that we can not attend.  Below I am attaching the sign up genius link for this trip.

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C49ACAB29A4F85-outdoor 


I am also requesting parent volunteers for the last week of school.  We will be making tetrahedron kites and I will need numerous parents to help with this activity.  The dates and tines are on the sign up which I am also attaching a link to for.

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C49ACAB29A4F85-tetrahedron?uToken=25ECC7FEFD07FA075EC3DFCA02E8

Thank you!!

Have a wonderful weekend!!   Erin

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all of you mommas out there!!  I hope you have had a wonderful day celebrating YOU and all that you do!!!


I did not create a big newsletter this weekend because last week with our half day schedule we did not do a lot of new things.  The children were very excited and just did not have their full focus on school work which was understandable.

This week though we will be back int he groove of learning.  I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!!


Erin

Good Morning All:

Psalm 95:1-2 (The Message)
Come, let's shout praises to God, raise the roof for the Rock who saved us!  Let's march into his presence singing praises, lifting the rafters with our hymns!

On Friday, 3rd and 4th "raised the roof" in our small group chapel where we just sing praise to God.  It was such a blessing.  Ask your child about it.  We were all feeling a bit tired and weary on Friday morning but then we went into the chapel and we just sang our hearts out to our Lord and WOW was it amazing.  It gave me goosebumps hearing the praise and worship.  When we went back to the classroom, many of the kids mentioned how much better they felt and that they just felt God there with us.  I could not agree with them more.

Your children are so insightful and such precious gifts (which I know you already knew that) but I am reminded of that everyday.  They have Jesus in their hearts and he has such a presence in their lives and it shows daily.  It is so exciting to be a part of that--thank you.

I have updated the classroom newsletter.  With next week being tulip time, I have decided to not send home new word work words on Monday.  I know that many of us will be very busy and tired after taking in those events.

On Monday, I will be sending a note home about the logistics of tulip time along with a parade line up so you know where to position yourself for pictures as we walk by.

On Wednesday, please note that the dismissal time will be 11:30.

Good Evening All:

What a beautiful weekend it was!!  I hope that you all were able to go out and enjoy the wonderful weather.

This update is coming a bit later than what I usually send out, but we were out of town this weekend spending time at a soccer tournament that both of my daughters played in.

I have updated the classroom newsletter.

A verse that reoccurred to me this week was:

Philippians 4:4

Rejoice in the Lord always.  I will say it again: REJOICE! 

Good Evening Friends:

This has been a wonderfully crazy weekend at the Wyma house this weekend.  We took in several St. Patrick's Day events which I culminated with making a special Irish dinner to celebrate my family's heritage.

What can I say--there was A LOT of GREEN this weekend.  The Spartans win over U of M has my family a little sad tonight but as a wise person once said----you can only get green by adding some blue and yellow!!!

Seriously...congrats to MICHIGAN STATE on becoming the Big 10 Champions!! I love it when ANY local team wins--it is exciting!!!

Happy MONDAY eve!!

Good Afternoon!

What a beautiful Sunday.  It is just amazing how seeing some sunshine can make us feel so wonderful inside.

Your children did a wonderful job with their nonfiction projects.  If you are having trouble viewing them, please send a note or email me and I will try to resend them to you.  I can also show them to you at conferences in a few weeks.

BIBLE MEMORY:

I have had a few parents ask me about this so I though that I better clarify.  I am not requiring our child to memorize every bible memory sent home.  Some of them are very long and are causing some great anxiety for some students.  As parents, you can decide to have your child memorize them or not.  I am asking that if your child chooses to not memorize the verse then they need to sit down with a parent and read it together and then talk about what it means in their life.  Then, jot me a note letting me know that you and your child did that and send it back to school for me to record.

Thank you!!  Erin

I am not sure if I attached this to my previous blog so here it is again- from the music teacher.

A Music Note

  Our hymn for the month of February has been We Praise You, O God. The tune to this song was originally a patriotic Dutch song written in the 16th Century. The words were translated into English in 1917 and known today as the Thanksgiving hymn We Gather Together. Using the original melody, Julia C. Cory wrote new words to this tune which is our hymn of the month. This is our sixth hymn of the month that contains the words “praise” or “bless” as a way to worship God inspired by our theme verse of Psalm 103:1.
Third Grade - Due to a special assembly and all the snow days, we were unable to begin recorders as planned. We will hit the ground running with recorders at the beginning of March. In the couple of lessons we did have this month, we continued to learn about musical form. We learned that when we can understand how music is organized, it is easier to learn to play it. For example, Hot Cross Buns has two short parts or phrases to it. If you learn both parts you can put the song together quite easily.
                        
                                                         In His name,
                                                                Shelly Boer