March 5 Home Communicator – Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, marking the beginning of the season of Lent. As Christians, this is a powerful time of deep reflection and nurturing our faith. There are many things we participate in to do this. As a school, we wanted to provide an opportunity for our students to experience a worship…
DetailsFebruary 26 Home Communicator – Last night leading prayer at dinner, one of my first graders spent half of his prayer praying for one of his first grade friends. His petitions on her behalf had clearly been shared and prayed for in the classroom and had worked their way into his heart and to our dinner table. As…
DetailsFebruary 19 Home Communicator – It is a blessing for me to come to school every day. I believe one of the many strengths of our school is the partnership we have between parents and school and staff. Together we focus on the whole child and all the areas that go along with them – intellectual,…
DetailsFebruary 12 Home Communicator – When people ask how Hudsonville Christian is distinctly living out its mission of “Challenging minds and lives for Christ”, there are so many examples that pop into my head. Take a peek with me at just one way we strive to live out this mission. One of the responsibilities of my job…
DetailsFebruary 5 Home Communicator – Relationship Status It’s February! A month that is often filled with talk of Valentines, candy, flowers, love, and relationships – all of which can be great things. As I was looking at the selection of Valentine’s Day cards at the store, I was struck by the enormous number of card selections! Obviously,…
DetailsJanuary 29 Home Communicator– You may think being halfway through the school year at Hudsonville Christian that we have moved on. But we haven’t. We are still in the same place we were when we started the school year. “Really,” you ask? “All the teaching, testing, nurturing, mentoring, and you are still in the same place…
DetailsJanuary 22 Home Communicator – Someone said to me the other day, “So are you catching your breath a bit as we move into a more quiet time of the year?” I smiled and said that we really don’t have those “slow times” any more! For teachers and students, it’s that time block of the year…
DetailsJanuary 15 Home Communicator – There are many learning experiences at school each and every day. Students collectively learning to clean salmon tanks and checking pH levels intermittently throughout the day. Students learning how to give their brains a break between subject areas. Classroom conversations about the ocean floor, engineering design process, punctuation, etc. Learning about growth through…
DetailsSeptemberfest Arts and Crafts Fair will be held Saturday, September 21, 2019 at the Hudsonville Fair Grounds from 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM.