This week’s Star Student is Parker!  Parker has a summer birthday in the wonderful month of July!  She has one sister and 2 dogs!  Parker loves animals and when she grows up, she wants to be a pet store owner!  When Parker smiles, she lights up the whole room!  Her favorite color is orange and she loves Junie B. Jones books.  She likes pepperoni for her favorite food.  Soccer is her favorite sport.  And at school, she is turning into a fantastic writer!  When she gets home after school, she loves to play with her dogs! She is such a good friend, everyone wants to be her partner!

Just in case I don’t see you, Happy Thanksgiving to all of my students’ families!!  I can hardly believe that we are only a week and a half away from Thanksgiving already!!  It was wonderful to meet with all of you for conferences.  I appreciate your support in providing your child with a good education.

Just a few notes to pass on:

Reading Counts ends again on December 11th. This will come fast, so please remind your children to be reading every night!  If they do not come home with a book, please have them read one of their own and bring it to school to take a quiz.

Also, thank you for the time you spend encouraging and helping your child finish their homework packet.  I know that most families are very busy and that’s why I send it home in a packet, so that you can space it out.  Please know that if something goes unfinished, we do catch it here at school and children do give us a little of their time at recess to finish it up.  I do appreciate it when mom and dad do look it over with their children before sending it to school.  And one special note – no homework packet the week of Thanksgiving!!!  No spelling words as well! We will just review what we have learned thus far!

I want you to know how thankful I am to be your child’s teacher!  I have 22 of the sweetest, brightest students on the planet and I am very thankful to teach them each and every day!

Have a great couple of weeks!

Mrs. Q

My name is Chloe P. and the fiction book I read was Chester Raccoon and the Big Bad Bully by Audrey Penn.  I picked this book because I think it’s a good story.  My favorite parts were when Chester’s mom told the story and when the bully wasn’t a bully anymore.  I enjoyed reading this book because it has a lot of details in the pictures and the words.  I like the author and her other books.

My name is Chloe and I  read Hannah Montana Nightmare on Hannah Street by Disney.   This is a fiction book.  I picked this book because I like Hannah Montana.  My favorite parts were when Jackson played volleyball and when Hannah Montana sung for the queen.  I enjoyed reading it because I like Hannah Montana and it was very, very, very fun to read.  This book has eight pages of photos from the television show.

Taylor S. is our Star Student this week!  She is a wonderful second grader who wants to be a doctor to help babies when she grows up!  She has two brothers, Eli and Jackson.  Her favorite color is pink and she loves pizza rolls!  Taylor is a very smart young lady and is a very caring person who helps others.  She does swim meets because she loves swimming as a sport!  Writing is her favorite thing to do in school.  At home, she is eager to get on the computer.  Taylor moved to Hudsonville when she was 2.  Her dad is a teacher at the high school!  If you want to meet someone with a fantastic smile, then Taylor is the one to meet!

This past Friday (11/6), we had our first Writers’ Celebration.  The students and I celebrated the milestones they have already made in writing for the year.  Many gains were celebrated since the beginning of second grade.  Periods and capitals are starting to show up!  Book spelling is becoming more of the norm!  Revision is taking place, as well as, good beginnings and solid endings.  Students are using much more detail and talking more about feelings as opposed to just making a “list” of what happened.  It is really exciting to watch this class BLOOM!!!  Mr. Bowen’s third graders came down to share our exuberance and to offer up suggestions to our eager second graders from his really wise third graders!  :)  It was an awesome celebration!

Just a quick note to SAVE THE DATE for our 2009 Georgetown Holiday program!

You have another opportunity to RSVP for our upcoming December 1st Kids Art Fair! An RSVP form and Art Fair information will be sent home with students this week.

Please note that returning your RSVP to Mrs. Brouwer does NOT mean that you must purchase your child’s framed artwork.  The RSVP just lets the Kids Art Fair people know how many frames to ship to Georgetown for the event.  So please RSVP if you plan to attend and celebrate your child’s creativity, enjoy a fun make-n-take art project, and register for some cool door prizes to be given away during the evening.

Also – Georgetown’s December Kids Art Fair does not take the place of the annual district-wide Student Art Show, which will be held as usual in April 2010.

We hope to see you at Georgetown’s Art Fair on December 1st between 4-7 PM!  Volunteers are still needed to help out – please contact Mrs. Brouwer!

Email:  jbrouwer@hpseagles.net

Phone: 616.797.9797 ext. 22412
Art Blog http://josettebrouwer.edublogs.org

Dear Parents,

Time is running out to let your voices be heard in Lansing.  Our Superintendent, Nicholas Ceglarek, is inviting parents to email, call and/or attend an event in Lansing on November 10.  To find out more, please visit the school blog.

Betsy E. is our Star Student for this week!  She is 7 years old and has 4 sisters!  Her favorite food is Ramen noodles.  Betsy is a dancer.  She takes ballet and performs in a recital in May!  Her favorite color is blue.  Betsy has 3 cats and a dog!  The cats are named China, Boots, Cookie.  The dog is named Sugar.  Betsy is a very smart girl!  Math is her favorite subject.  Betsy has the nicest smile you ever wanted to see!!  She has a great sense of humor too!  If you want a friend that is awesome, meet Betsy!!

Hi Everyone!

Hope you had a chance to check out the Halloween pictures I’ve posted!  If not, just scroll down!

Also, another important article from Mrs. Reagan is posted below.  Our computer program that runs all of the report card information has crashed.  :( I had all of our grades and comments in and ready to go, I just hadn’t printed them!  Hopefully, all of the information will be there when they get it back up and running and I’ll get those report cards home as soon as possible!   We will have conferences next week as scheduled and I do have all of your students’ grades on hard copy.  It just won’t be in report card form.

Reading Counts for the first trimester has ended.  We are now starting all over again with new points.  Some students may have the number of points for their goal heightened.   We will be retesting just after Christmas in order to change levels.  Students are doing a great job!  Our whole class made their goal!  In celebration, they earned a whole hour of fun and free time in the computer lab!

I look forward to meeting with all of you!  We have such a great class!  Thank you for sending me such wonderful children every day!

Mrs. Q