Dear Mom and Dad,

Open your Google Drive at home this weekend and show your parents your Informational Writing Piece.

3 cool facts about our amazing universe are:

-From one side of the Milky-Way to the other side is 100,000 light years.

-If the sun were to explode at 3:12, we would be in heaven at 3:20. it takes eight minutes for the light to travel to the earth.

-Jupiter is the largest planet while Pluto is the smallest planet. (Pluto is called a dwarf planet.)

The betrothal of the Bible times is very important. We studied the marriage of Mary and Joseph. If Joseph broke his betrothal with Mary, it would have been like a divorce.

From,

Cora

Hello, and once again, “Happy Friday”(actually many of you will read this Thursday),

Another short week due to what hopefully was our last snow day! I want to say how much I enjoyed meeting with the parents I saw Tuesday night. It was nice to get to know a few of the parents that I hadn’t had a chance to meet up to this point. I can see why this group of students is so special, incredibly committed parents! Thanks for all you do on the home front.

We are making good headway on the curriculum up to this point in the year. Mr. Hutt and I just switched our math classes. He’ll be focusing on Geometry, while I will be moving into long division with my group. Great time to put in a plug for having the kids practice their times tables daily. It will make their division that much easier to do. It is a real shame when a student does the problem correctly, but gets points off for not having the correct multiplication fact. There are numerous free games on the internet that do a very good job of giving kids practice. Good old fashioned flash cards work well also. 5-10 minutes a day can show great gains in a short amount of time. Only two days of science this week is keeping us still in the beginnings of our unit on the solar system. Good stuff, I really enjoy teaching. I love to point out incredible facts about the beautiful universe our Lord has created for us to enjoy. Mr. Hutt is still covering the French and Indian War. Talk about interesting stuff. I know how much I loved learning about all the wars that have shaped our history. The kid’s informational pieces should be in their final stages. Please give them a once over if you haven’t already done so. They can be found on your child’s google drive. “If” you have a color printer, and “if” it has ink, please consider printing it in color when they are completely finished. I use quotes because I know how many times I have gone to print something, only to find that my cartridges are empty!    🙂   In Bible class we are learning some of the interesting courting and marriage customs that were in place around the time of Christ. As for grammar, cursive, and spelling, we are making our way through the curriculum, but nothing exciting to note!

One of the reasons I am sending this out Thursday is so I can get a couple of reminders out before the weekend. The office would like me to remind you to stop in and get the OPTS(the tuition info for next year) form. Many of you had them at conferences already. They will not send them home with the kids. If you can’t stop in to get them, they will be mailed home mid March.

You may or may have seen a paper about our “coin war” to raise money for our sister school in the Philippines . It was introduced last Friday when I was at the science convention. Tomorrow is the last day of the contest to see what class can come up with the most change in their tubs. We have a decent amount of change, but we also have A LOT of paper currency, which counts as a negative to our total. For some reason, the Spanish immersion teachers have been sending their kids over right and left with cash to “bomb” our tubs. Secretly, I consider this a win because it is more for the school! If you have some spare change the kids can bring in, we would all greatly appreciate it.

Just something to put a bug in your ear, we are tentatively planning on going to the planetarium in Grand Haven on March 25th, and I will be needing drivers. As of now we are going in the morning, and will be back just before lunch. We would leave about 9:15, and return between 11:45 and 12. When we solidify the time and date with the man presenting, I’ll then take names for drivers. Thanks so much. I hope you all have an incredible weekend! Blessings, Paul