Mrs. Brouwer's Kindergarten Class: September 2023

Sunday, September 24, 2023

Book Bags

Every Friday your child will be bringing home books in their take home folder (in homework pouch).

I ask that you work alongside your child with these books daily. I would like all the books in the pouch be returned to school by Friday so I can send home new books.

Here is what you can do with the books:

I READ - YOU READ: this is where you read a sentence and then they read it back to you. Please make sure you encourage them to point to the words as they read them - this helps them with tracking and connecting the word to print.
Once they have mastered the reading have them read it out loud to you or another family member.
Even if they have mastered it - I would like them to continue reading it through the week. This will help solidify sight words and other vocabulary to their memory.
Ask questions about what they read. When we are looking at reading levels it is important to know the words you are reading BUT it is also important to be able to comprehend or connect with what you just read. So, asking follow up questions is a great way to practice remembering the text and connecting it.

Field Trip - Holland Farmers Market

Wednesday, October 4

Time: 9 - 10 AM

I am looking for 2 Guest Helpers to join us this morning. If you are able to help with a small group explore their senses around the farmers market please sign up HERE.

NO SCHOOL - CEA Convention

Wednesday, October 18 - 1/2 Day dismissed at 11:30 PM

Thursday, October 19

Friday, October 20

Due to the CEA (Christian Education Association) Convention for staff, there will be no school on these dates.

Parent Teacher Conferences

Conferences will be held in person (October 16) and virtually (October 18) this year.

Scheduling conferences will be done through Virtual Paragon, which HC has used in the past. Links to the online conference will be provided once you have chosen your conference times for each of your children. If none of the times work for your schedule please reach out to me and we will try to work something out. The Parent/Teacher Conference Schedule is:

Elementary: K-5th
Monday, October 16, from 4:00 – 8:00 pm (IN PERSON)
Wednesday, October 18, from 12 - 4:00 pm (VIRTUALLY)

Making PT Conference Reservations:

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.

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.

Weekly Progress Reports

Here is a short video to give you a little more information on our weekly progress reports.

Take Home Folders

This video will help give you more information on our Take Home Folders. These will go home every Friday and need to be brought back to school by the following Thursday.

Letter Sounds

This video will help you as you work on letter sounds with your Kindergartener. Don't forget to keep practicing these even if they have mastered them all.

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Rose Park Family Fall Festival Invitation

October 27

You are invited to the Rose Park Fall Family Festival,

Link to sign up online is HERE

The invitation your child may have already come home with is below:

Mom's In Prayer

Preschool through fifth grade parents, you are invited to join Moms In Prayer! Every Monday morning at 8:35 in the conference room at the front office, please come as you are and join other parents who are passionate about praying over our children, staff and program! Come casual (workout clothes & messy buns welcome), leave fervent!

Grandparents Day VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

The parent board is looking for treat donations and people to volunteer,

Please make sure to invite your grandparents and grand friends so they can join us!

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Mom"s In Prayer

Thursday, September 7, 2023

Small Toys Needed

Do you have small Happy Meal toys that you no longer need or want to keep?

If you said "YES" - I would love to recycle them for you.

Every Friday our class gets to trade in their pompoms for rewards. PomPom's are earned when SER behavior is shown in the classroom and they are bucket fillers. I would love to add these treasures to our store!

You can bring them to school at any time.

Thank You in advance for your support!

HC Walk - A - Thon

WHEN: September 28

WHERE: Holland Christian Track (located at the Middle School)
TIME: 1-2 PM

We are excited to participate in Holland Christian's Annual Walk A Thon event. This is a great opportunity for our PreK-5th grade students to get outside to walk, run, skip, or hop around for 45 minutes to raise funds for our classrooms and/or building.

Walk-A-Thon envelopes came home in your children's folder on Friday. Please make sure that you return the envelope with your raised funds in your child's folder.

Walk-A-Thon is our only elementary fundraiser for the school year.

We are able to fund our Rose Park Ranch, Playscape, and other initiatives throughout the year for our children thanks to the funds raised through this event!

Your student will be receiving a T-Shirt for this event so please make sure they wear it on that day!!

MAP Testing

The week of September 11 we will be taking our first MAP (measurement of academic progress) testing in both Reading and Math. This is a standard test that is used as one of many tools that help us measure your kindergarteners growth. We will be doing this assessment again in the Winter and then again in the Spring. You will receive your child's summary of all three tests at the end of the school year.

Sunday, September 3, 2023

Cold and Flu Season

Cold and Flu Season is here!

Here are some helpful reminders for you to help keep your Kindergartener and other friends healthy:

* Your Kindergartener needs to be FEVER free for at least 24 hrs. before they return to school and show no additional symptoms of COVID or the Flu.
* If your Kindergartener is running a FEVER - please keep them home.
* If your Kindergartener is having any of the following symptoms please keep them home and contact your doctor:

Vomiting
Diarrhea
Fever (over 100.3)
Extreme fatigue and chills
Loss of taste and/or smell

* Your Kindergartener needs to be free of these symptoms for at least 24 hrs.
* My rule of thumb is, you know your child the best - if you feel that they are off, please keep them home.

If your Kindergartener will not be at school please call or email the office (820.4055) (rp@hollandchristian.org).

Outdoor Learning

Library

Every Thursday afternoon our class will be visiting the school library to borrow TWO books to bring home and share with family. You are welcomed to keep the books for the week or if you would like to bring them back on the next school day you may.

When your kindergartener returns their book to school - they will need to take it out of their backpack and put them on the book shelf outside our classroom door.

If your child forgets to turn their books, they will need to wait to check out any new books until the previous books are returned.