Mrs. Huizenga’s Blog

Going for the GOLD in reading:

In honor of the upcoming Olympics, we are setting a reading goal for GOLD. Starting on February 12th, for every 30 minutes that a child reads they will color in a flag to place in the hall. Each second & third grade classroom will represent a different country. We will be researching our country, reading many nonfiction pieces about the Olympics, supplementing math activities and having some fun. Our closing ceremony will consist of a competition between 2nd & 3rd grade classrooms on Friday, February 26th. Please support us by reading at home so that we can fill the hall with our flags.

Our class will be competing as China  

Hi Parents,
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Hey Kids,

Do you want to see the Christmas tree that we made for Lt. Johnson?

It really looks great, doesn’t it?  Lt. Johnson says thank you!

This Christmas tree brightens up Lt. Johnson's shelter!

Our Kids’ Hope Director, Nicole Poolman, has offered to organize food collections for families in need.  Nicole will be working with her own church’s food pantry as well as Fair Haven’s Hand 2 Hand backpack program.

If you know of a family within our school that would benefit from this program, please complete this form:  FOOD DONATIONS

All submissions are anonymous.  If you do not know a family to nominate, but would like to help with this program, there is a spot on this form for you to leave your name and contact information.

Thank you for your support.

Mrs. Reagan and Nicole Poolman

It’s official!  Resurrection Life Church has provided us with a snow day for our Holiday Program.  If we have a snow day on Thursday, December 10, our Holiday Program will be canceled.  The program will then be held on Thursday, December 17 at 7 pm.

This contingency plan has been developed to ensure that the projected winter storm MISS our area and allow our program to go on as planned.  However, if the storm does hit our area, our music teachers and students know that all their rehearsal time will still be rewarded the following week.   As theatre veteran Noël Coward once said, “THE SHOW MUST GO ON!”

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Theresa E. Reagan, Principal
Georgetown Elementary School
3909 Baldwin
Hudsonville, MI 49424

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24 Hours remaining for our

BLOG SCAVENGER HUNT!

Our third hunt of the year is designed to introduce silly things teachers do!  Your job is to hunt through all the blogs and find a silly teacher for each of these grades:

1. A prek or kindergarten
   
2. A 1st  grade teacher
   
3. A 2nd grade teacher
4. A 3rd grade teacher
5. A 4th grade teacher
6. A 5th grade teacher
7. A special teacher

ENTER YOUR ANSWERS ON THE ENTRY FORM.

For those of you who have never participated, the rules are simple:

• Search all the Georgetown blogs linked to this site.
• Keep a list of blogs where you found your items.
• When you have found all the items, submit your answers on the SCAVENGER HUNT ENTRY FORM.
• Everyone who enters by December 5 will be included in the school wide drawing.
  
• Student winner receives:  A Barnes & Noble Gift Card.  Winning class (those who have the most students participate in the scavenger hunt) will receive one hour of choice time.
  
• All those that enter will be added to the Reading Counts Drawing (held on December 15)
  

Happy HUNTING!  And…Good Luck!

Hi Parents,

I thought it would be fun for the kids to exchange books at our Holiday Party!  What better gift could there be for such awesome readers?!

So here’s what’s up:     the price range for the book is $3.00- $5.00.

Girls will buy a book for a “Girl”, and Boys will buy a book for a “Boy”

Please wrap the gift and add a gift tag that says… To Boy/From your son’s name, or To Girl/From you daughter’s name.

Please DO NOT add candy or other “trinkets” to the gift.

Please send the gift to school by Wed. Dec. 16th.

I know that times are tough, so please know that I have “extra” books if needed.  Please let me know if I may be of help

If you have questions, please email me

Thanks so much!!

Mindy

My name is Eva J. and the book that I read was Black Beauty by Anna Sewell.  It is a fiction book.  I chose this book because it looked like a good book and my cousins have a bunch of horses on their farm.  My favorite part was when Black Beauty finally found a home.  That was a happy part.  This story is about a horse who got separated from his family and some of his owners are mean and some are nice.  Then he finally finds a home with three girls and a nice man who helped him.  The lesson I learned from this story is even though people treat you bad, you shouldn’t get back at them.

Excellent Book

My name is Carson and the fiction book that I read was Paul Bunyan-My Story by David Harrison.  I chose this book because Paul Bunyan is huge and it looked funny.  My favorite part was when he was a baby he was so huge that his baby buggy was a lumber wagon and he weighed 80 lbs. when he was born.  I also liked when they put green sunglasses on their cow so the cow would think the snow was green grass and would keep eating the snow and they could keep milking all winter.  There are so many funny parts in this book!   (1)