Grand Rapids Symphony Concert!
We have been awarded the partnership with the Grand Rapids Symphony this year as an Artist in Residence school. Our links for the first concert are LIVE today! Please access them here. You may view the concert by navigating to this link. I've been informed the concert link is live until October 20! When prompted our passcode is GRSPeterRabbit2020
Picture Retakes
...is Wednesday, October 28, 8:30AM.
PBIS Staff Survey
ALL staff please complete this survey by yesterday 😅😆Wednesday, October 14.
PBIS Student Survey for 3rd-5th grade
Please ask your students to complete this survey by yesterday Wednesday, October 14.
Placemats
The activities coordinator at Rest Haven shared some sorrowful news with us. The residents at Rest Haven are struggling with feelings of isolation due to COVID restrictions. Actually, their death rate has increased significantly and she believes this is in part due to the emotional toll of no visitors. She has asked if students could decorate their placemats for a bit of cheer and love during mealtime. I hope you approve that I said "YES! We can help!" There is a box of paper placemats in the office. If your class has time, could you please grab a few placemats and ask your kids to decorate them with bright colors and love-filled text? Please bring them back to the office by next Wednesday, Oct 21, and I will deliver them to her. Thank you!
I, like you, am in prayer that the COVID era would move into the pages of our history books and robust LIFE and CHILDREN will return to our hallways and classrooms! More details will be forthcoming but we're asking for two 'save the dates' for preparing for next year. An hour in the evening on November 17 and one more hour in the evening on January 12. Two dates is a stretch. I acknowledge that. I'm hoping we'll consider it a trade for no programs, skating parties....the typical evening events have gone by the wayside. Perhaps we'll be able to welcome even more families if we are able to hold two dates. We'll also need to control the crowd size so one night simply won't accommodate the traditional number of families interested in school here at Rose Park. So, please mark your calendar for November 17 and January 12. More details forthcoming!
Good morning! I hope your year is off to a great start! I know navigating a pandemic is not something anyone expected to tackle in their lifetime! My name is Sydney Del Valle and I’m the Program Intern for Kids’ Food Basket. I wanted to reach out today to see if you would be interested in participating in any activities we have going on this month for Kids’ Food Basket. One major activity going on right now is our Brown Bag Decorating. The month of October at Kids’ Food Basket is focused on collecting decorated brown bags that are the “touch of love” we send out to all students receiving meals from us. Our goal this year is to collect 100,000 decorated bags by October 23rd! If interested, we could do a zoom call where we can read a book, discuss helping your community, and talk about decorating brown bags for us. Of course this isn’t necessary for participating, but I wanted to offer it in case anyone was interested. Ideally, we would love if you could donate the bags you are going to decorate for us, but if this isn’t an option, I can try to get some for you. We typically ask for the slightly larger bags, usually considered 6 or 8 pound bags, which can be purchased at places like Gordon Food Service.
Another opportunity for students to support their local community is through a food drive to help support the Ottawa and Allegan Kids’ Food Basket. We have a wishlist food drive where individuals could just purchase the items on the list and after a set amount of time, you could either deliver them to the Ottawa+Allegan Kids’ Food Basket location, or we could schedule a time to pick those items up.
Christmas Around The World
Thank you for listening to the cross-cultural learning experience proposal that will help our children understand that Jesus was sent to this world to be born, live, die and rise again for ALL children. All around the world. Here is the sign up in which you can indicate the country your class will become 'experts' in. As you know through our conversation, this will become a building-wide jigsaw learning activity. Please feel free to sign up for any country you like. If you see that another teacher has selected the country you would like to research, no sweat! We LOVE duplications because we KNOW the learning and experience will be unique! You pick the country you would like to lead your students in. Please "publish" your learning in ANY mode you would like in the hallway near your door. We will enjoy walking and touring the results of each classroom's learning in December!
Let's consider our two dates. Please feel free to push back on these dates
- Research date: Monday, November 23
- Christmas Around the World date: Wednesday, December 9
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Rose Park Families,
An area of focus for this school year is reflecting on and perhaps improving our process for communicating behavior expectations to students throughout our school community. Our desire is to always come alongside parents, teachers, and students to help our children grow into people of God. One of the central components of this initiative focuses on working to recognize and acknowledge positive student behavior. We have a team of teachers from across grade levels creating a school-wide system for teaching and addressing behavior in our students.
At this point, we would love to have your input about the overall "climate" of our school community. The survey should take 5-10 minutes to complete. Please share freely as responses are confidential.
Thank you for your input as we work to build and reinforce positive social skills and behaviors in students.
It’s a joy to partner with you,
Miska Rynsburger
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