Blog Update Mar 10, 2015

I hope you had a great weekend!!

Early Bird Readers: Wish your child spent more time with books? Try Early Bird Readers! The RCS library will be open every Thursday morning from 8:00 to 8:30 a.m. for a mix of supervised quiet reading time and other book-related fun. All students in grades 3-8 and independent readers in grades 1 and 2 are invited. Bring your own book or choose from great titles recommended by the library staff, and earn prizes just by attending! (Please note that this time is dedicated to building a love of reading and is not for studying or doing homework.)

No advance signup is needed—just come join us! We were excited to host 25 Early Bird Readers last Thursday!

March is Reading Month! The library will be sponsoring various activities throughout the month to celebrate reading.

March Madness:  Middle schoolers (5th-8th) will participate in March Madness reading.They’ll be filling out brackets to determine the most popular book.

Mystery Readers:  Elementary students will listen to recorded “Mystery Readers” (teachers who have selected a favorite book to read aloud) and try to guess whose voice they’re listening to. A prize will be awarded to the student whose name is drawn from all students who have filled out a guess sheet. This week’s winner is Thys Segard!

Design Your Own Bookmark: 3rd-5th graders are invited to the library at lunch recess every Friday to make bookmarks to take home.

And of course, we’ll be kicking off the Early Bird Reader program!

Junior Equestrian Team

Does your child competitively show horses? Grand Rapids Christian Area Schools will have a Junior Equestrian Team for this spring for students currently in 6th, 7th, or 8th grade. The meet is scheduled for May 9, 2015 at Barry County Fairgrounds. If this is something your child is interested in, please contact Anna Zokoe before this week Friday  March 13 for more information. azokoe@grcs.org (616) 581-9500.

Environmental Program News for This Week

March 11, Social Studies African Country Project due. Presentations begin Thursday, March 12 for the 6th graders.

The 6th graders will be going to Camp Roger on wednesday afternoon with the 5th grade Environmental Program students.  They will be writing Haiku poems while sitting in the woods.  Haiku poems are a japanese art form.  They are poems of only 3 lines and the 1st line has 5 syllables, the 2nd line has 7 syllables, the last line has 5 syllables.

On Friday the 6th grade environmental students will be going out in the woods at Camp roger and taking down shelters from Mr. Phil’s home school students.  It will be a “Search and Destroy” mission for our students.

Open House

There is an open house tonight, March 10, at Rockford Christian during the Showcase.  Mr. VerMerris and Ms. Barrett will be making a presentation in the Worship Center at 7 p.m. about the Environmental Program. While you’re certainly welcome to come, our target audience is new families who want to learn more about the environmental program; the presentation will be similar to last year. If you want to listen to the presentation from an “incoming 6th grade parent” perspective, feel free to attend. Talk to Mr. Burgess if you have any questions.

Don't forget to keep feeding your recyclable papers to the Paper Gator over by

the bus garage. Monies earned from this easy fundraiser help support the environmental program here at RCS.

Family Time News

Thank you to Mrs. Broersma and the fourth graders for using skits to depict how we can show love to others, using I Corinthians 13. Mr. Kuiper led us in song.

Just a reminder: Family Time is on Mondays at 8:45am – 9:15am.  We would love to see you there.

Coming up this week

Today,  March 10,

RCS Showcase - All school open house and Environmental Program presentation.

6:30pm – 8:00pm

Wed, March 11,

Preschool goes to Camp Roger for the last time.

I’m thankful for your kids and for all your prayers and expressions of support.

Thanks for all that you do for God’s kingdom!

Mr. Dave

Blog Update March 2

did you know it's Dr. Seuss birthday today?  He was  Born on  March 2, 1904 he died at the age of 87

Ski & Board Club

Thank you to Jodi Leja for organizing and running the ski club again this year!

Learning Commons News

Early Bird Readers: Wish your child spent more time with books? Introducing Early Bird Readers! Starting March 5, the RCS library will be open every Thursday morning from 8:00 to 8:30 a.m. for a mix of supervised quiet reading time and other book-related fun. All students in grades 3-8 and independent readers in grades 1 and 2 are invited. Bring your own book or choose from great titles recommended by the library staff, and earn prizes just by attending! (Please note that this time is dedicated to building a love of reading and is not for studying or doing homework.)

No advance signup is needed—just come join us!

March is Reading Month! The library will be sponsoring various activities throughout the month to celebrate reading.

March Madness:  Middle schoolers (5th-8th) will participate in March Madness reading.They’ll be filling out brackets to determine the most popular book.

Mystery Readers:  Elementary students will listen to recorded “Mystery Readers” (teachers who have selected a favorite book to read aloud) and try to guess whose voice they’re listening to. The teachers’ voices will be disguised to make it more challenging to guess.

Design Your Own Bookmark: 3rd-5th graders are invited to the library at lunch recess every Friday to make bookmarks to take home.

And of course, we’ll be kicking off the Early Bird Reader program!

Junior Equestrian Team

Does your child competitively show horses? Grand Rapids Christian Area Schools will have a Junior Equestrian Team for this spring for students currently in 6th, 7th, or 8th grade. The meet is scheduled for May 9, 2015 at Barry County Fairgrounds. If this is something your child is interested in, please contact Anna Zokoe before March 13 for more information. azokoe@grcs.org (616) 581-9500.

Environmental Program News for This Week

Don't forget to keep feeding your recyclable papers to the Paper Gator over by

the bus garage. Monies earned from this easy fundraiser help support the environmental program here at RCS.

Family Time News

Thank you Ms. Wierenga and the first graders for sharing a great book with the K-4 students and teaching us about prayer.

Just a reminder Family Time is on Mondays at 8:45am – 9:15am.  We would love to see you there.

Coming up this week

Tues, March 3

Parent-Teacher Conferences

4pm – 8pm

Fri, March 6

 GRCS Annual Meeting, at RCS,  6pm – 9pm

I’m thankful for your kids and for all your prayers and expressions of support.

Thanks for all that you do for God’s kingdom!

Mr. Dave

Blog Update Tuesday, February 16, 2015

I hope you had a good weekend and a great Valentine's Day.

Projects to Share:

If your student at Rockford Christian School would like to make a project at home to share, I will take a photo of it and I will put it on the RCS monitors.  The other choice is for you to take the picture and send it to me at DWorst@grcs.org. Please make all projects Valentine-related.

Or a Valentine message for your student to put up on RCS monitors!

Parent-Teacher Conferences (February 26 & March 3)

Watch for your Parent-Teacher Conference schedule to come home at the end of this week. Once again our 8th graders will be providing childcare services during conferences. Your donations will help support their 8th grade class trip to Mackinac in May.

Regional Spelling Bee

8th Graders Isaac Rop and Jillian Evink did well in last Tuesday’s Regional Spelling Bee held at Legacy Christian School.

Learning Commons

The noon recess game of the month is Apples to Apples, fifth and sixth graders on Thursdays, seventh and eighth graders on Fridays. We’re also working on a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle. Two have already been completed! Parents, if you would like to donate a jigsaw puzzle, it would be welcome!

Middle schoolers are always welcome to spend recesses in the library to read books or magazines, work on the current jigsaw puzzle, play quiet games, or do homework.

Cinco de Mayo

The third graders will be going to the Cinco de Mayo restaurant in Rockford on Wednesday, February 18.  They are excited to practice their Spanish and to interview our mesero (waiter) in Spanish with Señora DeVries

The Environmental Classroom program News for This Week

AuSable le despite the cold weather.  With temperatures hovering in the single digits, absolutely none of the students were complaining.  They went about their work (and recreation) with enthusiasm and diligence

Today the students were given all the information about their African Country Project which will be due on March 11.

Family Time News

Thanks to Mrs. Burgess and the 2nd Graders for leading our worship in K – 4th Family Time.  Ask your student about today’s Family Time.  Just a reminder Family Time is on Mondays at 8:45am – 9:15am.  We would love to see you there. There will be no Family Time on February 23, due to the No School for Mid-winter Break.

Coming up this week

February 16 – 20

February 16 & 17

No RPS bussing; parent drop-off & pick-up; GRCS buses regular schedule.

Tue, February 17

2nd Grade goes to Camp Roger AM

Wed, February 18

Spanish Immersion And 3rd goes to Camp Roger

AM

1st Grade goes to Camp Roger (Weds

PM

Attention all 8th Graders - Save the Date! Another 8th grade scheduling night will be offered

6:30pm

Thu, February 19,

Kindergarten goes to Camp Roger

February 20-23

No School, Mid-winter Break

If you would like to see more dates in February, go to the top of this page and click on the link.

I’m thankful for your kids and for all your prayers and expressions of support.

Thanks for all that you do for God’s kingdom!

Mr. Dave

Blog Update Tuesday, February 9, 2015

We saw 8 deer running across the lake yesterday morning!

100 Day Challenge

As part of our 100 Day, we were challenged to bring in 100 coin collections to be donated to Kiva, a non-profit organization that provides micro-loans to individuals around the world to help alleviate poverty. These loans are paid back eventually by the individual receiving them. Once you get the money back, you can put it towards another project. This year, we were able to raise $250 from our 100 coin collections! We will be donating this money to Julia’s Group. They live in Kenya, Africa. This money will go towards a water chlorine system for their community, which will give access to clean water for people in their area. Here is more of their story if you’re interested:  

http://www.kiva.org/lend/833776

Thank you for your generosity! A little goes a long way!

New Blog Feature: RCS Calendar

Click on the link above to go to my blog. Click the link to the RCS Calendar. The calendar will display with events and important dates.

I put all the remaining Camp Roger dates on the RCS Calendar.

Projects to Share:

If your student at Rockford Christian School would like to make a project at home to share, I will take a photo of it and I will put it on the RCS monitors.  The other choice is for you to take the picture and send it to me at DWorst@grcs.org. Please make all projects Valentine-related.

Or a Valentine message for your student to put up on RCS monitors!

Learning Commons News

NWEA MAPS testing began on Wednesday, January 21 and will continue with make-ups through February 13. Please make sure your students are well-rested and have a good breakfast before coming to school on their testing dates. Also, please try to avoid scheduled absences during the MAPS testing window.

Spelling Bee

Congratulations to 8th graders Isaac Rop (1st place) and Jillian Evink (2nd place), as well as 4th grader Ally Groenenboom (3rd place), for their stellar spelling in the RCS Spelling Bee back on January 16. They were the top 3 finishers out of 55 participants.

They will be participating in the Regional Bee at Legacy Christian Middle School on February 10 at 4:00 pm.

The Environmental Classroom program News for This Week

6th Grade Environmental students will be going to AuSable Institute of Environmental Studies (Kalkaska) for three days beginning on Wednesday morning.  A total of 27, 8 parents, and teachers will be heading up to the north woods of Michigan.  While at the institute, the students will be learning about water quality and winter survival.  The will be getting home around 3:00 on Friday.  Please pray for safety and that God will reveal His wondrous creation to the students.

While the 6th graders will be up north, the 5th graders will be making daily trips to Camp Roger.  Under the tutelage of Mr. Phil Warners, the students will be learning about God's creation in a variety of ways.

Please keep both of these groups of students in your prayers this week!!!

Family Time News

We had a great time of praise (and some dancing!)...thanks to Nate Glasper for leading our worship! Ask your student about today’s Family Time.

Coming up this week

February 9-15

February 10

Spelling Regional Bee at Legacy Christian Middle School on February 10 at 4:00 pm.

February 11-13

6th Grade to AuSable Institute

5th Grade to Camp Roger all three days

If you would like to see more dates in February go to the top of this page click on the link

I’m thankful for your kids and for all your prayers and expressions of support.

Thanks for all that you do for God’s kingdom!

Mr. Dave

Blog Update February 3, 2015

New Blog Feature: RCS Calendar

Click on the link above to go to my blog. Click the link to the RCS Calendar. The calendar will displayed with events and important dates.

Projects to Share:

If your student at Rockford Christian School would like to make a project at home to share, I will take a photo of it and I will put it on the RCS monitors.  The other choice is for you to take the picture and send it to me at DWorst@grcs.org. Please make all projects Valentine-related.

Please be sure to wash your hands, and keep your kids home if they are sick.

100 Day Challenge

100's Day is this Friday, February 6. It is also PJ Day for K-3 students! We are challenging students to bring in a 100 coin collection on 100 Day. Bring 100 pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters or a combination of coins.

Coins can go a long way! The money that we raise will finance a micro-loan for people living on less than $1 a day through Kiva. Kiva is an organization that provides a safe, efficient, and easy way to fund a micro-loan, chart progress, and be repaid. The great thing about Kiva is that once the loan is repaid, you can choose to use the same donation to fund another micro-loan and change another life

Parent Teacher Conference Sign-up Forms

They are going to be sent home today.

They are due back on this Friday, February 6.

Ski & Board Club

They will meet every Tuesday (through the end of February) at Cannonsburg 5:00-8:00 pm.  Look for our school's sign and free Gatorade.  Any questions please contact Jodi Leja.

Learning Commons News

NWEA MAPS testing began on Wednesday, January 21 and will continue for the next few weeks. Please make sure your students are well-rested and have a good breakfast before coming to school on their testing dates. Also, please try to avoid scheduled absences during the MAPS testing window.

6th Grade Environmental Classroom News for This Week

Each fifth and sixth grader received a very nice hooded sweatshirt. The logo was designed by Ms. Barrett’s brother, Scott.

February at a Glance

  

February 3

PTO sponsored event - Chris McKenna, 7:00-8:00 p.m.

3rd, 6th, 7th MAPS Tests

February 4

1st, 2nd, 6th MAPS Tests

February 6

100's Day

2nd Grade MAPS Test

Parent Teacher Conference Sign-up Forms due today!

8th Grade Play, 7:00 p.m.

Make-up MAPS Tests

February 10

Spelling Bee

Regional Bee at Legacy Christian Middle School on February 10 at 4:00 pm

February 11-13

6th Grade to AuSable Institute

February 16 & 17

No RPS busing; parent drop-off & pick-up; GRCS buses regular schedule

February 20-23

No School, Mid-winter Break

February 26

Parent-Teacher Conferences (4:00-8:00 p.m.)

March 3

Parent-Teacher Conferences (4:00-8:00 p.m.)  

I’m thankful for your kids and for all your prayers and expressions of support.

Thanks for all that you do for God’s kingdom!

Mr. Dave