FRIDAY, October 4

How Great Thou Art! Thursday was such a special day! There are no words to describe the glimpse of heaven that we all received when the children, grandparents, parents, and friends sang together, "Then I shall bow with humble adoration, And then proclaim, my God, how great Thou art. Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee." Thank you for a great day....I went home thanking God for the love of grandparents and family friends. I watched as they different generations sat together and read through books. It was very obvious that all these special friends hold big places in the hearts of our students.

Take a peek at our pictures from special day with grandparents and friends!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FaWjrrg8z6CSZHhAk30kcu87t-L2V6Am?usp=sharing

Take a peek at our pictures from our DeGraaf Nature Center Field Trip

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16SMeV10L-KBvumA9XiViWR4ahOrixyIg?usp=sharing

As for our week, our daily schedule is set and we are digging into our multiple units.
Science: Learning about organism with Mrs. VanderZwaag
Reading: Choosing books with strong characters and analyzing those characters' emotions and actions
Writing: Beginning our realistic fiction writing unit
Math: Learning different place value methods to help solve single digit times double digit problems.
Bible: Learning about Samuel and how God calls Samuel to be his messenger

Sharing our personal narratives with our 4th grade classmates.

What came home today:
- Misc. work from the week

Homework Folders:
On Monday, the students will need to bring their Homework folders back to school. At the end of the day, the folders will include...
- Spelling Words - Practice sorting the words throughout the week. Test on Friday
- Math Homework - In 2 minutes, accomplish as many facts as you can (Due Mon.)
- Math Facts Minutes - Goal to accomplish 50 minutes, using the math links on the blog or playing math fact war (Due Mon.)
- Reading Minutes - Goal to read 150 minutes (Due Mon.)

THINK! ENERGY: DUE TUESDAY!
On Tuesday, your child came home with a THINK! ENERGY Take Action Kit.  This kit will ask you and your child to work on some energy related changes in your home.  There is a Student Guide included in the kit that will walk you through everything you can do with your kit.  Additionally, there was a white Home Energy Worksheet.  That worksheet is homework and will be due back to school by Tuesday, October 8.  (I do not need the Family Activity Guide book back.)  That gives you a couple weeks to read through and work through the guide and complete the experiments and installations provided.  Please note, if you are not interested in installing everything in the kit, you do not have to!  The white home energy sheet simply asks if you installed the products or not.  We still get credit toward the grant for the rest of the work you do, even if you do not install everything.

Lunch Helpers:
I am in need of some lunch helpers on Wednesday. Please use this link to sign up. I appreciate your volunteering SO MUCH!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0a49aaa828a6fa7-wednesday 

Parent Teacher Conferences - SIGN UP INFORMATION:  

Just an update that P/T Conferences will be on Monday, October 21 and Tuesday, October 22 from 4-8.
To make Parent/Teacher Conference reservations follow these steps:

- Go to HC Virtual Paragon - our conference reservation system.“Holland Christian’s Master Password” is gohc (all lowercase).

- Login with an account you created previously or create an account by clicking the “Create New User Name” button.

- Once logged in select "Making reservations."

- Select all of the teachers with whom you want conferences, by clicking the box next to each teacher's name. Be sure you have the correct teacher in the correct building since many of our teachers work in more than one building.

- Scroll to the bottom to click “Continue.”

- Reserve the times you want by clicking the box in the available time slots. The number of time slots you sign up for vary by grade level:

- Elementary; K-5th grade  – 15 minute reservations with teacher.  Conferences in art, PE, and music have 5 minute reservations.

- Press “SAVE/DONE” button when you are finished making all of your reservations.

- In the next window associate each reservation with a specific student by clicking “Edit.”

- You have now reserved your conferences!  If you have difficulty, you can

email vp_support@hollandchristian.org or you can call your school's office for assistance.

Important Dates: 

Oct. 7 (Mon): Math Homework Due

                       Math Minutes Due

                       Reading Minutes Due

                       Return Homework Folders

Oct. 8 (Tues): Library Books Due

                      Energy Worksheet DUE                   

Oct. 4 (Fri): Spelling Test

Oct. 21 (Mon) & 22 (Tues): Parent-Teacher Conference (4-8pm)
Oct. 23 (Wed): 1/2 day of school
Oct. 24 & 25 (Thurs & Fri): NO SCHOOL