PD Deets and More

Chapel on the 23rd

Devon Scott is teaching us during our chapel time this week Wednesday. He is not available in the afternoon (hopefully you recall this conversation posed long ago?) So we ARE holding chapel this week Wednesday at 8:30. We should be done and ready to carry on with the day by 8:50! We're grateful to learn from Mr. Scott! 

PD on 21st

K-5 You will need to bring two things with you Monday…
Unit of study that includes standards, learning targets, a sequence of instruction and assessments (bringing a MAISA Unit might be really easy for this but the choice is totally yours). 

Agenda for the Day

• 7:30 a.m. coffee and breakfast food available
• 8:00 a.m. Welcome and Inclusion with prayer and songs of praise (gathered in the HS auditorium) 
• 8:15 a.m. Faith integration and critical content connections to Depth of Knowledge (DOK)
• 9:00 a.m  Becky Bush with relevance and rigor (DOK)
• 10:30 a.m. Departments and Grade Level work applying relevance and rigor to a unit of study (at various locations in the HS)
• Elementary can meet as grade levels groups even though you might not all be working on the same unit… any space where you see fit on main street or in any open HS classrooms. I will walk around to find you once the work session gets started.
• Lunch provided
• 12:30 p.m. Report out Angie's Classroom for our work! 
• 3:00 p.m. Adjourn

2/22/2022 

Just a reminder, we have such a spread of ages throughout our building that we decided not to do anything corporately. It certainly is a fun date to celebrate, however! If you can connect timelines, dates, place value, patterns or a tutu to the day, feel free to make it a memorable celebration of God's faithfulness in our lives century after century! 

Spring Program

Details are starting to come together. Our Preschool-5th spring program will take place with ALL elementary students at Central Wesleyan. April 21 in the evening will be our program.  We are finalizing details to be shared with you ASAP! 

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Early Valentine's Day! Good thing we squeaked 100s day in just in time! Rest well and stay safe today, friends. I pray you breathe deep and slowly the love of our Father in Heaven today. We are surrounded in beauty in the natural world. I believe this is again a reminder from our Father that God's mercies are renewed every day. Enjoy the long weekend. I pray each of you are gifted with pockets of unexpected peace and rest today. Happy Valentine's Day! May we radiant the love of God to those we are blessed to serve as the Body of Christ! 

P/T Conferences

....3/28 and 3/30 from 4:00-8:00. More details will be available soon. 

Angie and Emily, please copy and paste this in your classroom communications:

TULIP TIME CHOICES

In 2018, Tulip Time reframed their mission statement to read “Mission Statement: To celebrate Holland’s tulips, Dutch heritage and community.” To better align ourselves with their mission statement as well as with the goals here at Holland Christian, our Forest School students will be given two options for dressing up and walking in the 2022 Kinderparade. More details will be forthcoming as we get closer to Tulip Time but we want you to be aware of the options well in advance of the Tulip Time season. Our students have the option of walking in either our new “tulip” section of the parade or our “Dutch heritage” section. The whole of our two groups walking together will be a celebration of our “community.”

• If your 1st-4th grade student chooses to opt into the “tulip” section of our parade, your child will design and construct his or her own tulip to carry and then dress as a gardener based around our “Rooted” t-shirt. This gardener costume might include gardening boots and gloves, overalls, a wide-brimmed hat, etc. Anything you have handy at home that helps your child look like a busy gardener tilling the tulips will fit the part perfectly!

• Students who opt into the “Dutch heritage” portion of our student body will wear their own Dutch costume and carry parade props.

Please complete this form to indicate your preference for your child in our Tulip Time parade by Friday, February 25. We will keep you apprised of our parade details as we march toward springtime. 

Light Reading

Just a few notes and calendar fun as we look out over the next few weeks and months!  

Chapel in February

...has a few changes. 

2/9 will be a virtual chapel led by me to be played in classrooms. 

2/23 will led by Devon. Our new 2:30 time conflicts with his teaching schedule. Could we please go BACK to our 8:35 time so Devon can lead us in learning/praise & worship? 

2/9 is Hundreds Day for anyone who is counting! Nothing required on this day but certainly fun to be grateful for! 

Tuesday, 2/22/2022 is another unique day for students who are learning place value, number patterns and God's faithfulness generation after generation after generation after generation.....that's a lot of generations! Nothing required but unique in the lives of these students! 

P/T Conferences

....3/28 and 3/30 from 4:00-8:00

Please copy and paste in your blog if you are first through fourth grade (really just Angie and Emily but it's nice for you to see what grades this impacts through our district):

TULIP TIME CHOICES

In 2018, Tulip Time reframed their mission statement to read “Mission Statement: To celebrate Holland’s tulips, Dutch heritage and community.” To better align ourselves with their mission statement as well as with the goals here at Holland Christian, our Rose Park and Forest School students will be given two options for dressing up and walking in the the 2022 Kinderparade. More details will be forthcoming as we get closer to Tulip Time, but we want you to be aware of the options well in advance of the Tulip Time season: Our students from Rose Park and Forest School will be given the option of walking in either our new “tulip” section of the parade or our “Dutch heritage” section. The whole of our two groups walking together will be a celebration of our “community.”

• If your 1st or 2nd grade Forest student chooses to opt into the “tulip” section of our parade, your child will design and construct his or her own tulip to carry and then dress as a gardener based around our “Rooted” t-shirt. This gardener costume might include gardening boots and gloves, overalls, a wide-brimmed hat, etc. Anything you have handy at home that helps your child look like a busy gardener tilling the tulips will fit the part perfectly!
• Students who opt into the “Dutch heritage” portion of our student body will wear their own Dutch costume and carry fun parade props.

All of our students from Rose Park and Forest School will be walking together as one big community in the aforementioned subsets. More details about logistics, costumes and timing will be coming soon. Don’t hesitate to email Miska with questions or wonderings at mrynsburger@hollandchristian.org.

Choosing JOY!

THANK YOU for modeling JOY! Even when our hearts hurt at times, our health fails or our toes are ready to crack off from cold, I still see persistent smiles and creative JOY radiating from you with our children! Thank you for working together and choosing JOY! 

Assessments and report cards are behind us! Celebrate good times, C'mon! Well done, friends! Let's go sailing into semester two with full steam in advancing student learning! 

I just have a few dates for your scheduling:

Tuesday, February 1 is enrollment for our newest members of the Rose Park family in preschool and kindergarten! All in the same day! Please join me in praying over these families in the midst of making BIG decisions! We're eager and grateful to continue serving God with a robust student population at HC! 

Monday, February 21 is our staff PD day. Please plan on attending this day of learning if you are a teacher or teacher assistant! 

Semester Two Has Arrived

We are approaching enrollment season. There are many families in prayer and discernment over their child's educational partner. Let's keep families in our prayers for God's guidance in finding their child's home-away-from-home! February 1 in enrollment day. As information is available, I will share results with you! 

Semester 2 Begins! 

...on January 18

MAP Test Window

...is extended until January 28

The Subs are Coming! The Subs are Coming! 

Please bring a device and plan to meet in the admin boardroom. Ron and Mackenzie, your meeting will be in the conference room of the middle school office. 

100th Day of School

...is February 8th

January Tidbits

MLK Day is Monday

We do not have school on Monday (Hoping you're already aware of this??? 😀) Monday is a very special day particularly for people responsible for shaping the lives, hearts and passions of the next generation. We have no explicit requirements for MLK Day, but please bear this transformative learning in mind as we celebrate the growth toward achieving Dr. King's dream and an awareness for the improvements we have yet to grow into as a nation and people serving ALL of God's Kingdom. 

Assessments

We're in the window of NWEA/MAP, Delta and Running Records. Talk with me, please, if you need help or assistance to get it all done. Fweew! It's a LOT, friends, but also SO encouraging to see this growth in our learners! Your hard work is paying off!!! God is growing our children faithfully! 

Report Cards

Will go live on Friday, January 21st at 3:00! 

Data Meetings

The week of January 31 is our week to review and talk about each learner. 

• Please invite me to a time that suits your grade level team's calendar. 
• Please input the instructional reading level for students previously in the yellow or red. Over achievers feel free to input greens but not required ;) 

Black History Month

As you are crafting your plans for February, please keep in mind/heart an eye for your authors, illustrators, historical heroes, characters of study, scientists, etc. We tell a story by the resources and people we highlight. 

2/22/22

Do you have a tutu handy? Let's think about some fun, creative ways to help the students acknowledge the uniqueness of Tuesday, 2/22/22 is coming up and VERY unique in the lives of our children who are studying number sense, place value, patterns and calendar! Let's make it memorable! 

Summer Work

AJ Westendorp from Escape Ministries is looking to build his summer team. Is God calling you to this work over the summer months? Here are the details and contact info: 

Mid-Winter Wind Up

Well, that was a short week! I don't have many details to add to our recent blog post other than a few end-of-semester dates and assessments to keep on our radar:

Monday, January 10-Friday, January 21: Winter MAP testing window

Friday, January 14: End of our first semester

Friday, January 21: Digital report cards will go live with a power announcement

Week of January 24: Mid-year running record assessments reported on data sheets and data meetings commence 

Discovery Day

On Tuesday, January 18 we have families scheduled throughout the day to tour and see our Forest in action. Keep on keeping on when you see me staring at you with guests. We're trying this approach to our January Discovery Day rather than the evening presentation. I'm open to your feedback afterward! 

Chapel times

We've had some staffing adjustments in our kindergarten classes. Due to this, we're going to try an experiment. Would you be willing to rework our chapel time on our scheduledWednesdays? Can we try for 2:30-3:00ish rather than 8:30? This will allow for five full days of academic support for our littlest learners. Here is our chapel schedule for the rest of the year. 

Collaboration Days

Black History Month

It feels a little funny to start thinking of planning and resources for learning in February, but it IS a new year and February will be here before we know it. Black History Month is an important time for our children to learn familiarity and respect for ALL people, races and tongues, as God calls us to love like He loves. Part of celebrating ALL people is learning about others' stories. This includes the celebrations and the struggles. Here is a small library of books with online links to read-alouds so you can familiarize yourselves with some suggested titles for your learners. Please tap me if you have questions or wonderings about resources for the learning you have planned in your class during this month or any month truly! 

Tulip Time

I know! WHAAAT?!?! A lot has had to change but Tulip Time is still in May...RIGHT?!? Yes....rest assured Tulip Time has undergone a few changes but it's still in May. This note will be going out to families in our January Blog. We'll talk about what this means for our 1st-4th classes and how we'll care for our little parade celebrities during this special event! 

Tulip Time Choices

In 2018, Tulip Time reframed their mission statement to read “Mission Statement: To celebrate Holland’s tulips, Dutch heritage and community.” To better align ourselves with their mission statement as well as with the goals here at Holland Christian our Rose Park and Forest School students will be given two options for dressing up and walking in the the 2022 Kinderparade. More details will be forthcoming as we get closer to Tulip Time but we want you to be aware of the options well in advance of the Tulip Time season. Our students from Rose Park and Forest School will be given the option of walking in either our new “tulip” section of the parade or our “Dutch heritage” section. The whole of our two groups walking together will be a celebration of our “community”.

• If your first through fourth grade student chooses to opt into the “tulip” section of our parade, your child will design and construct his or her own tulip to carry and then dress as a gardener based around our "Rooted" t-shirt. This gardener costume might include gardening boots and gloves, overalls, a wide-brimmed hat, etc. Anything you have handy at home that helps your child look like a busy gardener tilling the tulips will fit the part perfectly!
• Students who opt into the “Dutch heritage” portion of our student body will wear their own dutch costume and carry the parade props our students have carried in the past.

All of our students from Rose Park and Forest School will be walking together as one big community in the aforementioned subsets. More details about logistics, costumes and timing will be coming soon. Don’t hesitate to email Miska with questions or wonderings at mrynsburger@hollandchristian.org