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

GOOD MORNING!!

I don't know about you all, but I am ready to enjoy the SPRING season of God's creation.  Hopefully we will not have any other snow days so we can really get back into the groove!!

Unfortunately, last week I came down with the stomach bug that has been going around our classroom and I was at home sick for two days.  Your students however did such an amazing job with being respectful to the guest teachers that they had.  I will be bringing them a special treat on Monday for their efforts as it can be very hard for them when their routine has been broken.  THEY ROCKED!!!

They also made me some of the sweetest GET WELL cards ever.  They have such tender hearts!!  You have done such a great job as parents raising them up with empathy--that brings such glory to the LORD.

Hopefully this next week we can really dig into our reading and writing projects, start to conquer subtraction and get some BIG TIME science in.

Have a wonderful weekend enjoying your family!


Erin

Wow!! This weekend went by very quickly.  It was filled with exciting sporting events.  My family and I went to the TWO HEARTS, ONE CAUSE basketball game against Hamilton which was wonderful to see as so many people came out to support the fight against cancer.

Then on Saturday we had such an amazing game against Holland Public.  My hearts was beating so hard that when the game was finally over, I felt like I had run a marathon.  Sorry to Jon and Jacob as they sat right in front of me and they had to listen to all my cheering in their ears.

This week is Valentine's.  We will be focusing on LOVE!!!  Gods love for us as well as our love for others.

Please have your child bring in their filled out Valentines by Friday morning because we will be passing them out that morning and then opening them in the afternoon.

Also, here is the link to sign up to bring something in for our sundae bar--we still have some slots left.

w.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C49ACAB29A4F85-valentines

Here are some pictures of our field trip to DeGraaf-thank you to Jackson's, Sophia's and Stella's mom for helping out.

We had to put all 3 3rd grades together and then split them up into two groups so you might see some other students in these pictures as well.

 SCIENCE LESSON
Taking rocks apart to get to
the minerals.

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!