Red Note, April 19, 2024
Hello HLA Families!
So much to know, please read below.
BHC Healthy at Home - A Healthy Breakfast makes for a Healthy Student!
April’s Building Healthy Communities nutrition lesson is all about “Healthy Breakfast.” Students will learn why breakfast is an important meal and what a healthy breakfast should consist of. Your child’s ability to learn and succeed in the classroom improves when he or she has eaten breakfast. Help encourage your child to eat at least 3 different food groups at breakfast! Plan ahead and find healthy foods that make a quick breakfast for mornings on-the-go! Check out BHC’s parent tip sheets featuring Healthy Breakfast
March Attendance Data + Important Reminders
Part of being Listos para aprender (ready to learn) includes regular attendance. Too many absences lead to missed academic time that negatively impacts student learning. Students are considered chronically absent when they have missed 10% or more of their enrolled school days (approximately 2 or more days per month). Both unexcused AND excused absences are factored into chronic absenteeism percentages to account for overall missed learning time. The chart below shows our school-wide rates of chronic absenteeism each week. Please try to schedule appointments during breaks or after school hours whenever possible and encourage your children to wash their hands and cover their coughs to prevent sickness. Please reach out if there are any barriers to attendance that we can help address.
March Classroom Attendance Winner
Congratulations to Maestra Hernandez’s class for winning our January attendance incentive with 96% attendance! Thank you, Quality Car Wash and Tim Horton’s, for sponsoring March’s positive behavior and attendance celebrations! If your organization would like to sponsor an attendance or positive behavior incentive this year, please reach out to our OCSN Coordinator Ashley Golin at agolin@hollandpublicschools.org.
Medicaid Information Fair - April 23 and 27 at Community Action House
Community Action House in Holland is hosting a free Medicaid information fair on April 23 (4-7pm) and April 27 (10am-1pm). Priority Health and Blue Cross Complete representatives will be available to answer any of your health insurance or Medicaid questions. See here for more information.
- 3-5th Talent Show, Thursday, April 25
- 4th grade Market Day, Thursday, April 25
- 1/2 day, Friday, April 26
- 3-5th grade Spring Concert, Tuesday, May 7
- 1/2 day, Thursday, May 9
- Book Fair, Tuesday-Friday, May 14-17
- 5th Grade- Chicago Trip, Wednesday, May 22
- End of Year Family Glow Party, Friday, May 24
- 5th grade Graduation, Wednesday, May 29
- Field Day, Friday, May 31
Staff Appreciation Week | Join Us
HLA families, as we celebrate the hard work and dedication of our incredible staff, we invite you to join us in showing appreciation for their efforts. Your support means the world to us!
Please take a moment to sign up to contribute to our staff appreciation efforts and make a difference in recognizing those who make our HLA community thrive. Click here to participate! ¡Muchas gracias!
Summer Programming Applications Now Open | HOPE College
- CASA: Program Dates: June 17- August 1 (Monday-Thursday). No CASA, July 1-4
- For students currently in/just completed Grades 1-5
- Drop Off: 8:30
- Pick Up: 12:45
- Click here to apply
- Step Up: Program Dates: June 17-August 1 (Monday- Thursday). No Step Up, July 1-4
- For students currently in/just completed Grades 6-8
- Drop Off: 8:30
- Pick Up: 12:45
- Click here to apply
- Neuroscience Camp- Bilingual camp:
Explore the power of the brain! Have you ever wanted to record your own brain activity or dissect a real brain? Have you ever been curious about how our brain controls our movements our how our senses work? Would you like to investigate how the nervous system develops and controls swimming in fish? If so, this camp is for you! Come explore these topics and many more as we unpack the power of our minds! This is a bilingual camp that will be offered in English and Spanish.
Registrants of this camp attend free of charge thanks to funding from an NSF grant. Transportation and lunch are also included at no cost for all registrants.
- Program Dates: June 17-June 20
- Drop off: 1pm
- Pick up: 4:30pm
- For students currently in/just completed Grades 6-9
- For more information, please contact sciencecamp@hope.edu or 616-395-7628
LAUP Soccer | Recreational Soccer Tournament Invitation
4 vs. 4 , Boys aged 8 to 10 years and girls up to 11 years. Click here for more details.