Let's try AGAIN!!!

PJ Day will be THURSDAY, JAN. 30 for Pine Ridge and South Side.


See you all tomorrow!!!

Mrs. Wyma

REMINDER:
   Wednesday, January 29th is PJ Day at school!!!

That should help make getting up a little easier tomorrow!!!

Also, Friday, January 31 is 4th Grade Market day. If you would like, you can send a few dollars with your child to school as we will take some time to go through and do a little shopping.

  Good Morning 3rd Grade Families

I decided to not update the classroom newsletter due to the fact that much of our week last week was finishing some assessments needed for the final grades on report cards.

Speaking of report cards, I hope that you have all found your way through the system and were able to see your child's report card.  If not, here is the information again on how to do that.

On Friday, January 17, Holland Christian sent out an email with information about how to connect to the electronic report card that will be available January 24.  The email contained directions for creating a PowerSchool account and connecting your child to your account.  According to our records you still need to create a PowerSchool account and/or connect your PowerSchool account to your child.  If you have done this already please ignore the rest of this email.  If you did not receive this email please check your Spam folder for an email sent on January 17, around noon.

1.  Video Tutorial - http://bit.ly/1dFRPQT

2.  Student information: 

      (if you need this, please e-mail Dan Vos and he can get that for you)

If you have any questions contact Dan Vos at dvos@hollandchristian.org.  

We were also scheduled to lead chapel on Friday morning and I am not sure if or when we will make that up.  I will let you know after I figure that out.  I know the kids will be disappointed so I will try to reschedule for some other time.

I am including some pictures of learning in our classroom.  One thing I have realized is that I also never downloaded our last students sharing their all about me bag so I am also including those as well.

Ella, Kayla, and Ryan sharing their "All About Me Bag"

These are pictures of us working through our nonfiction reading unit.  The kids love it as it is highly motivational when they get to have so much choice in the topics they are reading about.  

This reading unit will equip your child with how to read nonfiction with POWER.  They are learning multiple strategies for how to read nonfiction which is so important as this is the type of reading that they will need to be successful with throughout their lives.

Identifying text features

Activating prior knowledge

Making Predictions

 Partner Collaboration

Partnerships Sharing

 Identifying Main Idea

and Supporting Details

Enjoy your Sunday!  

   

Good Evening Parents:

I wanted you to all know that our class is doing chapel Friday the 24th from 10:20-10:45.  A few kids have speaking parts but everyone will be seen on an imovie saying a little something.

We would love to have you join us.

Happy Sunday Parents:

What a lovely winter weekend.  Excellent job to the girls 7th and 8th grade swim team in their final conference meet of the season!  It is exciting to watch their progress.

We have a final week before Christmas break and we will be really focusing on the "reason for the season".

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For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, 
and the government will be on his shoulders.

And he will be called
    Wonderful Counselor, 
     Mighty God,
    Everlasting Father,
     Prince of Peace.
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Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end.
He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom,establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever.


The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.

ISAIAH 9:6-7

Thank you all for your kind words and prayers concerning my father-in-law.  He has been moved to Freedom Village to recover from his infection and pneumonia.  He is doing very well.  Hopefully he can get back to his apartment within a few weeks.

I have updated my classroom newsletter.

Have a wonderful night!!

Erin

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and a restful long weekend.

Sorry that I did not update my blog/newsletter sooner but we unfortunately have been in and out of the hospital since Wednesday night with my father-in-law.  He developed a bad staph infection in his leg and has many other health issues which have complicated things a bit.  

We are his caregivers so it has been important for us to be there as much as possible.  Fortunately, it happened over our time off of work so I did not have to miss any classroom time.  I always recognize things like this as part of God's perfect plan.  Both my husband and I were able to be there without having to worry about work.  That was a HUGE BLESSING!!

With that said, I did not update my classroom newsletter.  I will just tell you that with the shortened week and swimming, most of what we did was to focus on what we are thankful for.  We also did spend some significant time talking about the first Thanksgiving and the life of Squanto who was a Christian Native American. 

I am so thankful for EVERYTHING: ...the good things...the frustrating things...the sad things...EVERYTHING---- as I know that each thing has been allowed for me to experience to help create the person that God wants me to be.

I am looking forward to seeing my little cherubs in the morning!!  

Erin