Principal’s Corner Important Dates:

Mid Winter Recess No School

February 19

Science Night February 22

6:00-8:00

PTO General Meeting March 5

4:00

1/2 day of school March 15

Dismissal at 11:52

P/T Conferences March 15

1-4pm & 5-8pm

P/T Conferences March 20

5-8pm

Elizabeth VanderWege Principal Jenine Elzinga Secretary

West Ottawa Pubic Schools

Preparing Students to Be College, Career and Life Ready!

Lakewood Newsletter

2134 W. Lakewood Blvd., Holland, MI 49424

Phone: 616-786-1300 February 16, 2018

Dear Lakewood Families,

I would like to draw your attention to our upcoming Science Night

which will be held next week Thursday evening (February 22) from

6:00-8:00.

Below is a highlight of some of the events for the night.

Student science projects will be on display. Draft plans for

participants should have been turned in by today.

Lakewood’s Tech Club will be demonstrating some fun electronic

experiments.

Students will be able to experiment with Ozobots on loan from

Barnes and Noble.

The Outdoor Discovery Center will be here with their live

Backyard Animal display.

West Ottawa High School’s WO-BOT team will be here

demonstrating some of their robots.

We hope to see your whole family come out that night to check it all

out!

Elizabeth Vander Wege

Principal

Student Council Corner Our next Student Council Dress up

Day is …

Friday, February 23

It’s Tropical Beach

Day!

Dress in your Summer clothes,

sunglasses and hats.

*remember to wear layers; it’s still

cold outside*

It’s Cold and Flu season. Please

remember to call the office if your

child is experiencing flu-like

symptoms (fever, cough, congestion)

and keep them home to make sure

they are fever free and vomit/

diarrhea free for 24 hours without the aid of

medication. It’s also good to remember to practice

proper hand washing. Let’s keep the GERMS away!

School Closings and Delays

Efforts will be made by the district to notify

parents by 6:00 a.m. in the following ways:

phone autom ated m essage

tweet (w hich posts on the distr ict

Facebook page)

local television channel 3,8, 13

Online w zzm 13.com ,

woodtv.com, wwmt.com

radio stations W HTC

Black and White

Spirit Days

Every Friday

Wear your favorite Black and White or

WO apparel to school to show your

School Spirit!

Wishful Thinking!

PTO Newsletter Notes 2/15/18 Upcoming PTO General Meetings 4pm in the library Childcare is provided! March 5 April 23 Lakewood PTO is looking for Board Members for Next Year! Interested in learning more about how you can support your school by serving on the PTO board? Drop us a note at lwpto@westottawa.net , we would love to hear from you! SCIENCE NIGHT!! Thursday, February 22 6:00 – 8:00PM Join us for Science Night! There will be so much to do! Families will have the opportunity to interact with science and technology in this fun-filled evening. Students are invited to present their own projects, please keep an eye out for information coming from teachers. Science Night will feature a wild animal encounter from The Outdoor Discovery Center, Tech Club demonstrations, an Ozobots station, and displays from the WO-BOT Team! If you would like to volunteer to help with this event, please visit our signup page at: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0d4fada62da6ff2-lakewood1 Popcorn Fridays are back! Feb 16 Mar 2 and 16 Apr 13 and 27 May 11 and 25 Come help with Popcorn Fridays! We need at least 2-3 volunteers each time but, the more the merrier! The kids love the popcorn, we love the chance to connect and make new friends. Signup here: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0d4fada62da6ff2-popcorn Mark your Calendars for Upcoming Events! Panera Bread Fundraiser: Feb 27, 4-8pm Come join us! Be sure to bring or show the attached flyer. Lakewood PTO will earn 20% of the sales during this time! A digital or paper copy of the Lakewood Panera flyer must be presented at the time of purchase. We hope to see lots of our families there! March is Reading Month Family Event: March 20 Spring Book Fair: April 16 – 19 Ice Cream Social: April 19 Thank you! Thank you to all who purchased Pencil-grams for Valentine’s Day! We raised over $170 for the Lakewood PTO General Fund. The students LOVED the pencils and messages!

Links from the Lab

By Miss Marco, Technology Instructor

Updates by Grade:

Young Kinders: Are still printing out some word searches with rhyming words so we can do the searches together when they are done.

Kindergarteners: Are creating number books that go up to 12.

1st

Grade: Is learning about Internet Safety:

I Keep Safe (my personal information)

I Keep Away (from strangers and websites I don ’t know)

I Keep Telling (an adult about Cyber Bullies or anything that makes me

uncomfortable on the Internet)

2nd

Grade: Is learning about the same 3 “Keeps” as 1st Grade.

3rd Grade: Is learning some basic coding skills in Scratch Jr.

4th

Grade: Is finishing up some Ozobot communities that were created as a group project and require the use of coding.

5th

Grade: Is starting a group presentation project about Digital Citizenship.

Congratulations to the following Lakewood students that had their artwork chosen for the Michigan Arts Education Association Region 9 Art show held at

the Grand Rapids Art Museum!

Artwork will be on display at the GRAM until Feb. 23rd. You can view this show during their open hours in the Educational Center located in the

basement at the GRAM . If you see these students around school, be sure to congratulate them!

Jordan Phommavong

Ariana Murphy

Amelie Ochmanek

Happy February Everybody!

We just wrapped up our tumbling unit and now we are going to hit tons of sports skills hard

for the month of February. Our goal is to increase our kid’s skill level...which will in turn

increase their confidence, enjoyment of the sport, and even their fitness level. I would love

to fill the Macatawa Bay Middle School teams with kids from Lakewood in a few years.

Have you been doing any winter cleaning lately? If you have and are clearing out any

slightly used, non marking gym shoes then I would love to take them. We use them for kids

who forget to bring them in or simply can’t afford them. If I ever get too many, I donate them

to other schools. It’s a win for all! Stay warm and do your very best to keep your kids

moving in this cold time of year. I hope you have a great winter break.

Spring is coming...I think!

Mr. de

PS. We may do a tiny bit of square dancing

too this month. I am sure you will be hearing

about this!

Art News The art room is exploding with creativity! To know what awesome things are

happening in the art room please visit my art news website at

woartmakesyousmart.weebly.com

Don’t forget! ART Makes you SMART!

-Miss TenBarge

Music Notes from Mr. Loughrin

On Tuesday, February 27st, Lakewood 5th graders will have the wonderful

opportunity to attend a special concert by the Grand Rapids Symphony

Orchestra. This is an annual event exclusively for 5th grade students, as they

prepare to transition to the middle school music program. This concert is free

and the Grand Rapids Symphony comes to Holland to perform for 5th graders

along the lakeshore. The event is held at Central Wesleyan Church in Holland.

We are very excited to give our students the opportunity to hear a professional

orchestra and to make connections to the some of the music, musical

instruments and music concepts we have studied in music class. 5th graders

just completed a piece of art with Ms. TenBarge depicting a scene from the

stories represented in the Music work: Scheherazade by Nicolai Rimsky-

Korsakov, a late-romantic period Russian composer. Photos of student artwork

has been sent to the Grand Rapids Symphony who will then select from student

work from around the area to be shown on big screens during the performance.

For any Lakewood students interested in learning more about instruments of the orchestra, here is one of my favorite websites with lots of games and activities about instruments of the orchestra. Log onto: www.sfskids.com (San Francisco Symphony Kids website).

SPANISH SPOTLIGHT WITH SEÑORA DILLON

Third grade students are hard at work learning Spanish numbers 0-60. We will have a test on numbers in a

few weeks. I encourage kids to practice at home. There are some great resources online. Here are two

websites that offer fun games for Spanish numbers:

https://www.quia.com/jg/65552.html

https://rockalingua.com/games/numbers

Fifth grade students are spending time in the computer lab

researching a Spanish speaking country of Central America and

Caribbean. Students are busy gathering all of their information

and soon will share what they have learned with the rest of the

class. Stay tuned for some cool facts about these fascinating

countries!

SPANISH SPOTLIGHT WITH SEÑORA DILLON

First graders have been learning jobs in the community vocabulary. Some of the words we’ve

learned are maestra (teacher), cocinero (chef), and bombero (firefighter). We are practicing

these new words with games, stories, and a fun song to the tune of “Farmer in the Dell”!

Don’t forget to check out my website. There are fun online resources for practicing Spanish at home:

https://senoradillon.weebly.com/