Feb. 4, 2022

Wacky Hat Day was a SUCCESS!

 

They really dressed up for the photo!

We were ready for the snow!

Having some fun at recess!

WACKY DAYS at Rose Park:

Feb. 9 - Wacky Hair (We are going to be wacky 100 year olds instead!)

Feb. 16 - Wacky Tourist/Tropical Day

Feb. 23 - Wacky Fan Day (Sports team)

100th DAY OF SCHOOL: Wednesday, Feb 9 will be our 100th day of school! WOW! We are looking forward to celebrating 100 days of God's faithfulness together. In celebration, we are encouraging the students to dress like they are 100 years old! (They MAY bring walkers, but we will have to park our walkers throughout the day.) Don't feel like you need to go and buy things....just get creative with this! Here are some ideas from the past few years. Every grade has had SO MUCH fun with it!

 

Valentine's Day Celebration: We are going to celebrate Valentine's Day with a small party on Monday, Feb. 14th. A class list was sent home on Friday. Please make sure that if your child is bringing Valentine's that they bring a card for each student in the class OR for students of the same gender. We will be passing out these invitations in the afternoon and celebrating with some pink lemonade and some fresh fruit. If you would like to donate some fresh fruit for our party, send me an email!

"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 out 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.