Oh boy! Rest well this weekend, friends. Report card assessing and reporting is behind us. Next up is the parent/teacher conference marathon. I'll be praying wisdom, joy and energy over each of you! It's a looooong three-school-day week. I pray God blesses each of you with health and stamina to make it all week! Enjoy your weekend!
Friends, you are such a blessing to me. My desk is full of LOVE this afternoon. I feel very sheepish accepting these kindnesses because equally I should be offering YOU treats and cards and yummies! You are such a blessing in my life and we do this good work of loving God's kids together! Thank you for your kindness, your joy and your support day in and day out! I appreciate the grace you give me! I appreciate your friendship! I LOVE and am so grateful to God that I get to do life with each of you! THANK YOU!
Online report cards
Our report cards will be made available to parents online today! No more printing and packing and hoping they survive the trip home!
During your parent/teacher conversations next week, if you have a few conversation into which you could work in a gracious question, might you be willing to help collect a bit of data? We certainly NEED these report cards to be accessed and read by parents! That's the point!!! I'm not confident that a google survey will provide us with the most accurate feedback. If you could work in the question graciously, "the report cards were offered digitally this year. We're just taking a moment during conferences to collect your feedback. Were you able to access the information about your child's progress? If so, WONDERFUL and thank you!" ...feel free to move right along with your conference. If not, could they BRIEFLY share why and the response met with a good deal of compassionate understanding. Please don't let this grow into a full conversation. The point of conferences is each child's growth and development as well as the celebration of our partnership! But this face-to-face meeting is our best chance to gather data on the effectiveness of our reporting tool in an online format. If you could tally the responses, I'll collect this after your meetings from you, please, and we'll make the determination if this mode of communication if effective for our parents! Thank you!
Please ask me questions or email if this too much. I'll find a different way to connect with families and gather this data!
Back Door Open at Night
Whoopsie Daisy! Earlier this week we have a wonderful staff member come to school in the evening and discovered the back door still propped wide open. This was likely from afternoon recess. We're learning, friends! Lots of grace and truth! If you are afternoon recess yellowvest, would you please make sure one person is ALWAYS the door locker? We like to button up Rose Park well each night.
Parent/Teacher Conferences
This is an oldie but goodie. Our conversations are truly celebrations of the gift of each child's life! Please begin with each parent in prayer of thanksgiving, celebrate the joy they bring to your classroom environment and share a tidbit that parents could support from home if that would be helpful for the child's growth. Here is a graphic with a few suggestions as you navigate the conference time togehree:
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Traditionally our elementary students have participated in the community swim program offered graciously by the Holland Aquatic Center. This year, as we do not know what the year will entail regarding loss of instructional time due to illness and potential quarantines, we will not be using school instructional time to participate in the swimming lessons. The Holland Aquatic Center offers swim lessons for young children which we do endorse and feel is important to the safety of our young ones who live in close proximity to bodies of water. We will reexamine this offering in the future.
Miska Rynsburger
Erin Wyma
Dinah Pereira
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