Brief Post

8th Grade Shadow (New to HC)
Tomorrow our eighth graders will be shadowing a profession of their choice. Emily Scogin is a new student to HC. Her dream is to be a teacher. She will very likely be roaming into your classroom at some point tomorrow. If you see her (she is a tad shy) please help her feel welcome and perhaps even suggest a student for her to sit near and help or observe. I'm grateful she has asked if she can try her teacher legs with us at South Side! :)

Service Learning from PR
On May 1, we will have 22 kids from Pine Ridge visiting with us at South Side as a set of helping hands. If you have a specific job you'd like them to accomplish, we will collect a to-do list for them to accomplish. They will be here at South Side from 1:00-2:00.

Tulip Time

Let's plan on our parade practice right after morning recess on Monday, May 6. By 10:15 we'll line up in parade order, walk to Maranatha parking lot and return. This will help the kids get a little comfortable with walking....that can be a little tricky ;) If you could, please have your students placement mapped out so they know where they stand.

Preschool dismissal can get a little convoluted because of the 11:30 dismissal of the K-2 crowd. Preschool teachers, as we have in the past, please offer to your families to pick up at 11:00 if they choose.

We will get the finer points of Thursday's events soon, but please invite your parents to come and change their child into their costume if they choose. We will eat lunch, perhaps go outside if it's not too hot, I will take the kids in the gym to rest and stay cool before loading the busses. Please remind the parents that they must pick up their child at Kollen Park after the parade. Again, we'll have more details on division and times soon.

Batons
Please let me know if you have a new student or a student who has lost his or her baton, and I'll see to it that you get one.

We’ll be sending these home with students again on the last day, May 31. If you need any of the program information, here is a link again.

Just a quick reminder, if you haven't begun already, anytime now might be a good time to break your students' batons out of the closet, cupboard, or other storage space where you've had them. The last day will be here before you know and chipping off a few a week might be a good pace. Thank you for thoughtfully adding this piece of encouragement and blessing to your students! 

Easter Blessings

Lunch with Jim on April 25
Jim would like to get to know everyone at South Side just a little bit better. He has asked if he can eat lunch with you at our table on Thursday, April 25. There is nothing formal about this. When we sit together and enjoy lunch, it's a good time to connect, share stories and laugh a bit. We will all bring our lunch from home and Marty will pack one for him ;) No need for classroom coverage. Just plan, if you are able, to come to the staff center for lunch on the 25th if you are able!

Class Lists
Oh WOW! We should get a meeting time on the map soon. Will you please start thinking about who to keep together and who might be best kept apart? If you can begin to formulate your rough draft lists for next year, we'll look at talking through these lists the first week or two of May.

Tulip Time
Let's plan on our parade practice right after morning recess on Monday, May 6. By 10:15 we'll line up in parade order, walk to Maranatha parking lot and return. This will help the kids get a little comfortable with walking....that can be a little tricky ;) If you could, please have your students placement mapped out so they know where they stand.

Preschool dismissal can get a little convoluted because of the 11:30 dismissal of the K-2 crowd. Preschool teachers, as we have in the past, please offer to your families to pick up at 11:00 if they choose.

We will get the finer points of Thursday's events soon, but please invite your parents to come and change their child into their costume if they choose. We will eat lunch, perhaps go outside if it's not too hot, I will take the kids in the gym to rest and stay cool before loading the busses. Please remind the parents that they must pick up their child at Kollen Park after the parade. Again, we'll have more details on division and times soon.

Batons

Just a quick reminder, if you haven't begun already, anytime now might be a good time to break your students' batons out of the closet, cupboard, or other storage space where you've had them. The last day will be here before you know and chipping off a few a week might be a good pace. Thank you for thoughtfully adding this piece of encouragement and blessing to your students! 

Please let me know if you have a new student or a student who has lost his or her baton, and I'll see to it that you get one.

We’ll be sending these home with students again on the last day, May 31. If you need any of the program information, here is a link again.

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Spring Things

"Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them." John 13:17

Program Practice April 23
Pick Up at 12:30. We will return to South Side at 2:15. This will impact encore on Tuesday. There will be no encore on Tuesday afternoon until 2:15.

Program on the 23rd. 
Students will arrive at 6:30. Please plan to be in your place in the narthex at 6:25 to meet your first kiddos. It would be wise to make note of this in your classroom blogs.

Baby Shower
Thursday, April 18 over the lunch hour is the BABY SHOWER for Rhea and Jenna! We can't wait to celebrate these new mamas!

Miska's Personal Days
I will be leaving on Wednesday, April 17 for Aunt Amanda's wedding in California. I'm so sorry to miss days at South Side! I feel like the world might fall apart in my absence but, oddly, when I return all will be well. ;) Thank you for carrying on in my absence.

Collaboration Days
Here they come again! Yes, Ron! This means you too! ;)