UPCOMING EVENTS AND REMINDERS
* Homework has started! Please encourage your child to work through their homework and figure out what places and times work best for them to complete that work. If you would like to see what homework your child as for the week - check out our "Week at a Glance" sheet in our binder.
*Appointments/Pick-Up: Please email the office (pr@hollandchristian.org) and me (cdezwaan@hollandchristian.org) or call the school if your child will be picked up early or arrive late. This helps us to make sure students are where they should be and have them ready for when you arrive to pick them up early.
* A reminder that students have Band and Orchestra on Tuesdays and Fridays. Please help them remember to take their instruments.
* Front doors at Pine Ridge open at 7:50 am. Students will be welcomed into the building at that time.
*Are you looking for a way to volunteer? As a school, we would love to give you the opportunity to volunteer and supervise our class for lunch. You would arrive at 11:40, take students through the hot lunch line, and then supervise the class as they eat lunch. Students would be dismissed to the playground for recess at 12:05. If you are interested in helping, please check our sign up! Thank you!
No trading cards allowed at school, please enjoy those at home.
Community Opportunities
The below list of organizations are not affiliated with Holland Christian Schools but have requested the sharing of these community opportunities
Velo kids biking flier
Curriculum Highlights
BIBLE: We started to talk about Jesus' ministry that started when John the Baptist baptized him. We looked at Jesus' temptations and his first miracle in Cana.
MATH: We continue to review making equivalent fractions, comparing fractions and then converting fractions and mixed numbers. We have also been adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominators.
READING: We continue to work on building our comprehension skills by imagining what happens in the story that the author doesn't write about but implies. We have also been looking at details in our stories and recording the questions that we have.
SCIENCE: We continued exploring water quality this week at Dunton Park. We looked at the sediment in the water (turbidity), temperature, pH levels, and macroinvertebrates (bugs) in the water. We looked closely at our data, compared two pieces of data by graphing our data points, noticed patterns in our data, and asked questions about what we were noticing.
We started to group our wonder questions into similar groups to help organize our thinking.
We also started to think ahead to our research groups for water quality. How do we form these groups? Students were introduced to 4 different skills - a creator, a writer, a researcher, and an observer.
Students did some thinking around what skill they felt they could best bring to a team.
They shared what they could bring to a team and what challenges that skill has for them.
We all bring something different to the team! How do we work together and use the gifts that God has given us?
WRITING: We have chosen our seed idea that we want to invest in and planned our narrative.
OUTDOOR LEARNING SCHEDULE FOR NEXT WEEK
Monday: Hutchins Lake
Tuesday: on campus
Wednesday: Sassafras Ridge in the morning, and Walkathon in the afternoon
Thursday: on campus
Friday: on campus
