Feb. 14

"Ms. Snoeyink, we match! Can you take a picture?"

Sometimes you need noise canceling heads phones at lunch. 
Helps you tune out the "world" at lunch!

100 Days in 3rd grade!

They had me laughing with their creativity throughout the day. What a fun way to celebrate how far we have made it through the school year.

What are we learning?

Math: Finished up our lesson of telling time and elapsed time
Writing: Beginning to edit our persuasive essay
Reading: Learning how information books have different text structures
Social Studies: Learning about the economy of Michigan and what is an economist
Bible: Learning about the life of Moses and how God is was with him through his whole life.

WACKY DAYS at Rose Park:

Feb. 16 - Wacky Tourist/Tropical Day

Feb. 23 - Wacky Fan Day (Sports team)

"HANDS and FEET of JESUS" Field Trips: This month, the students and I are going to learn about how people made a change in our city, state, and in our country. These changes allowed for all of God's children to be treated fairly, respected, and loved deeply. Instead of just talking about it, I want to take the students out into our community and see people in our community who are being the "hands and feet of Jesus" in our community.

1st Field Trip (Feb. 15) - We will head to City on a Hill in Zeeland. We will be visiting an organization called Mosaic. Mosaic is a non-profit that helps out families in our community who foster or in the process of adopting. The organization provides families with kids clothes, toys, baby food, classes, and resources that they may need as a new child enters into their care. 

As a bonus... we will first stop at Zeeland Christian to go sledding and eat our packed lunch there.

2nd Field Trip - (Feb. 23) - We will also visit Hand2Hand Organization in Jension. This organization provides food, meals, and other essential products for kids in our community. We will visit for an hour and learn who they help in our community and why they are making a change in our community.

3rd Field Trip...TBD

GRAND RAPIDS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: On Monday, March 7, we will headed out on another field trip! We are headed to the GR Children's Museum with our kindergarten friends. We will leave school around 8:30 and return to school after eating lunch. Your child will need a packed lunch to eat at the museum. Parent/s are welcome to join us. We are asking any volunteers to pay $10 for admission and meet us at the museum (50 kiddos on the bus...will be a bit much). Please let me know if you would like to join us on the trip. We would love to have you join us!

TULIP TIME: Tulip Time Festival is thrilled to announce that Kinder and Middel Dutch Dance are happening this year! Practices Kinder (3rd-5th graders) and Middel (6th-8th graders) Dutch Dancers are invited to Join the Dance. Registrations are open now until February 12, 2022. Any student from the greater Holland area in grades three through eight are welcome, no previous experience needed to dance as a Kinder or Middel Dancer. Sign up is simple, choose which ever practice time and location works best for your family’s schedule, then register using the link.

Kinder registration link: https://tuliptime.com/getinvolved/dutch-dance/kinder-dutch-dance/group-registration 

Middel registration link: https://tuliptime.com/getinvolved/dutch-dance/middel-dutch-dancers/middel-dutch-dance-registration

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 through 4th grade Rose Park 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.