One Big Bunch of God's Kids!

What a joy to watch all the colors come onto the athletic field initially as separate colors and then, as the drummers marched off, all of the bright colors exploded into one big joyful mess of God's happy children! Another beautiful illustration of Life Together! Thank you for holding hands, encouraging kids, laughing with parents and cooling our kids. We are so blessed by our supportive Holland Christian community. God is GOOD and we are entrusted to continue doing His good work.

WZZM
AKA Channel "13" news would like to film our little peeps for their salute which will air at the close of their broadcasts. They will film each class beginning at 10:00 on Tuesday, September 29. I don't have a good feel for how long this will take so we may have to make a few alterations to recess times. I'll cover duty on the playground. I'm SORRY 3-day K classes that this is on Tuesday. They only ever record 5 classes and had asked for Tuesday, September 29 :( We'll film who we have here and Amanda's class will divide into their encore class groups.

Assessment Day
In order to help with running records and assessments we will hold our assessment day on Thursday, October 1 from 8:30-11:30. Lia, Danielle, Michelle and I will man the crowd.

Report Cards
Report Cards will be printed and go home on Thursday, October 15 for 3-day K. Friday, October 16 for the rest of the crowd. Please have your grades entered in gradebook by Thursday, October 15 at 8:00. We'll fire up the printers.

Conference Times
Elementary parent/teacher conference times will be 4:00-8:00 on Tuesday, October 20 and 1:00-5:00 on Wednesday, October 21.

Grandparents' Day
Please plan to practice with the full stage on Wednesday, September 30 from 8:30-9:00. I'll get music and the program to you shortly-ish. Because we will need to park cars on the playground, we will move recess up to 9:45-10:00 on Thursday, October 8. Todd will open the gates at 10:00 and start letting cars in. Invitations will go home in Friday Folders. 3-day K, yours went home today!

Staff Meeting
Due to Grandparents Day, our next staff meeting has been moved to Thursday, October 15.

Pastors' Breakfast
Poor recess. We keep shuffling it around. To accommodate the pastors' breakfast schedule on the 7th we will be moving recess on Wednesday, October 7 to 9:50-10:10. Pastors may be visiting your rooms between 10:10-10:30. This might be a good time for snack and story as spontaneous interruptions will be doable with a story rather than a heavy duty exam.

Monday's PD
Breakfast will begin at 7:30 on main street. Learning Lab discussion and training will be in the auditorium beginning at 8:00. Lunch will be at 11:00. We'll kick off our first TNT at 12:00 and be dismissed by 3:00. Should be a good bunch of learning that day!