WHAT A RIDE!!!!

We sure had a great time on our LIMO ride!!!  Thank you so much parents for coming to take our pictures!  Hudsonville sure looks great from a limo!  For many of us (including Mrs. Q), it was our first time to ride in one.  It was very fancy inside!  We couldn’t believe that we could all fit inside!  Pizza Ranch was fantastic too!  They served us pizza, breadsticks, and dessert pizza!  YUMMY!  Of course, when we got back, we got to do something special like watch a movie!!!  As one student said, “Mrs. Q!  This was the BEST day ever!!!”

PS.  Parents, if you have any good pictures, could you send them to me?  Thanks!!!

 

2 Q Update! 10/12/12

Hi Everyone!

Wow!  We are off to a great start!  The kids are doing a great job of learning every day!  I have a few things to mention:

Limo Ride and Pizza Party!  This will be this Thursday, Oct. 18th!  The limo will arrive at school around 11:10 a.m.!  Parents are welcome to come and snap a picture or two of us getting in the limo!  We will also post some pictures on the blog too!!  Please have your child dress up a little for this experience as we want to feel special for our limo ride!!  We will be going to Pizza Ranch and having our lunch and then returning back to school.  I will have a special movie for fun that day too!  It’s going to be a fantastic day!!

Reading Counts- We are off to a strong start!  Students are reading every night and taking quizzes!  Great job!  We also have volunteers coming in to help guide the students with their quizzes and make sure that they are getting new books.  Remember, we only have small snatches of time during the day to get our books and if we can’t get down there, your student can always read a book from home, bring it in, take a quiz, and then bring the book back home.

Math- This next week will be taking our Unit 1 Assessment over story problems.  If you notice your student has been coming home with 1’s or 2’s on their morning math sheets, it would be great if you could go over story problems with them.  I have some great math sites here on the blog that your student can go to and also get additional practice.  Just get them to the site (like IXL math), find the addition/subtraction story problem section, and have them practice.

Reading Levels-You may have noticed that your student has come home with Reading Counts books that seem to be at an easy level for your student.  This is because their level for Reading Counts was set at their last level in first grade.  This is to insure success as these kiddos get used to taking Reading Counts quizzes.  This next week, I will be beginning to individually test each student to see how much new progress they have made.  Their new level will be boosted for Reading Counts right after we finish testing!

Have a great week!

Way to Go Ava!!!

Our walkathon money has been counted and the winners have been selected!  Together we raised $14,283.64 for our school.  Congratulations to Ava B. in our room who won a pool party with Mrs. Reagan!!  Listed below are all the winners for this year’s walkathon.  Thank you to everyone for supporting for our class!
Our winners are:
Top 5 earners for pool party:
  • Sheyla Plummer (Huizenga)
  • Eva Burlison (Quigley)
  • Annelise Ham (Van Arkel)
  • Eva Ham (Van Arkel)
  • Alivia Peterson (VanKoevering)
Top earners from each grade for pizza party with Mrs. Reagan:
  • K grade:  Seth Miller  (Iwema)
  • 1st grade:  Isabelle Swiercz  (Taber)
  • 2nd grade: Patrick Jones  (Greenlund)
  • 3rd grade:  Ethan Impens  (Vanderstel)
  • 4th grade: Sophia Vanderkolk  (Kooiker)
  • 5th grade:  Leah Vandenberg (Gort)
Top classroom for Limo ride
  • Mrs. Quigley’s Second Grade Class
Laser Tag Family Fun Package Winner
  • Emma Everts in Mr. Kooiker’s 4th grade class

WE WON!!! WE WON!!!!

WE WON THE LIMO RIDE!!!! WAY TO GO MRS. Q’S CLASS AND PARENTS!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL GENEROSITY!!!!

      

We hoped and hoped it would be us!!!

We all crossed our fingers when Mrs. Reagan made the announcement!

 

 

We waited and waited . . .

Then Mrs. Reagan said, “Mrs. . . . . . . . . . QUIGLEY’S CLASS!!!”

We are sooooo happy!!
THANK YOU!!

Walkathon!!

We would like to announce the classes who are leading the race to the WALK-A-THON LIMO RIDE at the end of each day.  To do so, we will need you to enter your earnings once per day.  Only enter once per day so we can get a fairly accurate indication of the predicted amount per class.

To enter your donation amount each day, go to this link:  LIMO RIDE DONATIONS  Shortened link:  bit.ly/limo-ride

TREK For TECH  Walk-A-Thon:  September 26.  Money Due September 28, 2012.