Life Together

God is good. All of the time. Look at all these eager faces. Even on our little ones! We prayed for these little hearts and, while they may not have comprehended all that was going on around them, they certainly got a glimpse of the sheer size of what "Life Together" at Holland Christian looks like and sounds like. Beautiful! Have you viewed the smugmug photo album? It fuels my heart and soul to see the faces of the children, both big and small, that we are asked to live into and share God for this school year.

Closing Convocation 
Our HC closing convocation is scheduled for Wednesday, May 18. It is on the Google calendar, but also worth taking note as we make our plans this year.

Staff Meeting
As we did last year, we will hold our staff meetings during the lunch hour of the second Thursday of each month. This meeting will take place on Thursday, September 10.

Agenda Thus Far:

• Grandparents Day
• Love and Logic
• Makers Space
• HC Story Guide/Blogs
• Parent Feedback Survey

EpiPen Training
Hendrina will give us the refresher course on how to administer medication to a child using an epipen if the need were ever to arise. This training will take place on Thursday, September 10 in the afternoon. She was not available over the lunch hour.

Swimming Schedule
Our 5-day kindergarten, first and second grade classes will begin swimming lessons on Monday, September 14. Lessons will follow for the week of the 14th and the week of the 21st. Swimming lessons will be cancelled on Friday, Sept. 18. Pick up/Drop off times will be as follows:

8:38 a.m.-9:42 a.m. Second grade
9:28 a.m.-10:32 a.m. First grade
10:18 a.m.-11:22 a.m. Kindergarten

Discovery Assessment
Our first and second grade classes will need to take the Discovery Assessment (A) between the weeks of September 14-September 25. We will assess the students in reading and in math. As we did last year, we will be utilizing iPads for this assessment.

DIBELS
September 17 a team of teachers will be assessing our kindergarteners using DIBELS. This is an agreement HC has made with Ottawa County. That data will not impact your teaching/instruction, however, you may certainly have access to your kids' scores if you would like.

School Pictures
All school photos will be taken in the Makers Space room. Each staff member must have a photo taken for the yearbook as well.

Thursday
ALL present preschool classes and Junior Kindergarten students
Mrs. Becksfort and Mrs. Johnson's students

All Staff photo taken at front door at 11:55 (Jenna and Sarah have a learning lab at PR to scoot off to so please try to buzz to the front doors on time. You may need to ask a volunteer to watch your class in order to make it in time for our picture together).

Friday
**Swimming lessons will be cancelled on Friday, the 18th due to school photos**
Mrs. Strikwerda's class
All first grade
All second grade

Drills
Thursday, September 10 we will have a tornado drill at 1:40 and lead into recess.

Parking on South End
Our wonderful grounds-keeping crew has requested that we keep our cars off the grass along the staff parking lot. They are not able to mow the lawn under our cars. Shoot!