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What is Coming Up!-Week of 12/11

Miscellaneous-

  • Fifth-grade classes will sell candy canes to help raise money for their end of year activities. The cost for each candy cane is $1.00 and they will be delivered the same day they are ordered. Sale ends December 15th.
  • December 14, Holiday Program at Fair Haven Church. Ask your child if they are in the “happy/love winter” group for one song. If they are they should bring a hat, earmuffs, head warmer or scarves with them to the holiday program that night.  They will use them during the performance and bring them home after the program.

Our performance will be at 7:30. Click here for Holiday Program Details

  • School Wide Pajama Day on Friday, December 15.
  • Our classroom holiday party will be on Thursday, Dec. 21. from 9:15-10:30.
  • Classroom Gift Exchange-For our gift exchange, we would like each child to bring in a small treat for each child in their class. Some ideas might be a pencil, candy cane, eraser, or other small items. Please make sure the item is wrapped, if it is food. We also would like each child to bring in a box wrapped in wrapping paper. The box needs to be able to be opened without unwrapping it. So, either wrap the lid separately or choose a box with flaps that can open and close. The kids will be putting the items they brought to share in each other’s boxes. We have 26 students in our class.

Writing- Drafting our Person Expertise nonfiction writing.

Reading- Informational Reading.

Spelling- Week #15; This week’s study feature is Long A Vowel.  (a_e, ai, and ay)

Math- Unit #3- We are wrapping up our third unit by focusing on Time and Graphs. Remember have your child practice Moby Max Fact Fluency for 5 minutes Monday-Thursday!

Social Studies- The Early History of Michigan 

Christmas Program News

For the first time ever, we are going to have audience participation for our final song this year!  The students are very excited to share this experience with you, however, in order to be ready to join in on the fun, we are asking families to download this free jingle bell playing app PRIOR to the holiday program on their phones if you will be attending the 3rd-5th grade performance.  THANKS!!

iJingle Bells (John Slater) is available on iPhone

https://itunes.apple.com/cy/app/ijingle-bells/id483608543?mt=8



Christmas Jingle Bells (Bytza Entertainmet) is available for Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=luculus.jinglebell

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Reminders

Classroom Reminders:

  • Any remaining balance for fifth grade activities is due tomorrow Tuesday, December 1
  • Watch for Holiday Breakfast volunteer information to post tomorrow.
  • Santa Gift Shop will be the week of December 7.  Watch for Friday’s blog post for details.
  • Candy Canes are available to purchase to support 5th grade end of year events.  Cost: $1.00/Candy Cane.

Dear Parents,

I hope you have all enjoyed your Thanksgiving break! We are right back to business; only 14 school days remain until winter break, and many fun and exciting activities and events will be packed into those 15 days including our holiday program (details below), candy cane sale, holiday gifts shop, and many more. Please watch our classroom blog closely as there will be many important details and reminders coming in the next few weeks.

~Mrs. Burdis
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FYI Holiday Program Details:

The big program is coming tomorrow Tuesday evening, Dec. 1st!  Details of our K-5 holiday program are below.

Where is the church?

Address: 2900 Baldwin Street  Hudsonville, MI 49426;  Fair Haven Ministries is located down the road from Georgetown Elementary at the corner of Baldwin Street and 28th Ave.

What time do students need to be at the church? 15 MINUTES PRIOR TO THE PROGRAM

  • 5th graders arrive at 7:30 pm; Performance at 7:45. Please do NOT arrive earlier.

Where does my child need to go when they get to the church?

  •  Family Life Center

How long will the program be? 

  • About 30 minutes
Can we save seats prior to the program?

No. The only reserved seats will be for the directors, videographer, and teachers.

  • There is AMPLE seating so we want you to know that you will have a WONDERFUL SEAT no matter where you are seated.
  • Please be respectful and courteous to other families as you make your way into the sanctuary and during the performance.
  • WCET TV will be taping and televising the program so that families who are unable to attend can still see it.  If you do not want your child to be shown on WCET TV, do not attend the program.   Notify your child’s teacher and Mrs. Bretz/Mrs. VanRiijs that your child will be staying home rather than participating.

 

Happy Thanksgiving

Indians and PilgrimsI hope everyone has a Happy & Blessed Thanksgiving.  I look forward to hearing from your children about all the wonderful memories they will create from this year’s Thanksgiving holiday.    

Updates for the week of December 1.

  • Next week brings a lot of excitement with our annual Holiday Program.  This year our program will be Tuesday, December 2. Here is a link with detailed information. Georgetown Elementary Holiday Program. 
  • When you drop your child off, please take your child’s coat.  Children will be released to you from the stage. 
  • Our class is scheduled to shop on Wednesday, December 3 for the Holiday Gift shop.  Information and envelopes went home on Tuesday.  
  • Due to the unexpected snow days we delayed our research for our informational writing. We will begin next week and will be done with the library books by the end of the week.  
  • Spelling Test for week 11 will be Wednesday, Dec. 3

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