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December 9, 2019
Emmanuel - God with Us
It seems everywhere we go at this time of year, Christmas carols are
playing. To drive to appointments or to shop for groceries to the strains
of "Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel" seems out of place. But on
second thought, no, actually, it's quite appropriate.
As Christ-followers, we believe that God created and is sustaining
everything in all creation. In the large decisions of life, and in the
nitty-gritty of the daily routines, we understand "God with us".
Matthew, in his Gospel, stresses the fulfilment of the prophecies of the
Old Testament and begins and ends the book (see Matthew 28:20) with
promises that God is with us. Emmanuel - One of the most comforting of all the names and titles of Jesus. God with us.
Emmanuel indicates Jesus' role, bringing God's presence to man. God is gracious to His people by sending the
Messiah. When our sins made it impossible for us to come to Him, God took the outrageous step of coming to us, of
making Himself susceptible to sorrow, familiar with temptation, and vulnerable to sin and pain and the messiness of
(Source: blueletterbible.org, faithgateway.com)life, in order to cancel sin's claim. Take comfort. God is with us.
C. Verbeek, Principal
Tuesday - Stephen B., Gr.1
Thursday - Hailey T., Gr.1
Sunday - Kole M., JK
FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
Pizza Fundraiser: We have the opportunity to order fresh, locally made pizzas, which are great to have on hand in
your freezer for the Christmas break. These pizzas are thin crust, 60% whole wheat, no salt, no MSG, no grease or
preservatives in the crust. They offer a large selection and they are very good! WCS will have a return of 20% on our
pizza sales! There is a pdf copy of the order form attached to today's parent link and paper copies will come home as
well. Please return your order forms to the school, accompanied with payment, by tomorrow, Tuesday, December 10.
We are only able to accept cash, cheque or debit payments. Orders without payment will not be placed, cheques can be
payable to Woodstock Christian School. Orders will be available for pickup on Wednesday, December 18 between 3 -
3:45 pm. Please make arrangements to pick up your pizzas during that time frame. If you have any questions, please
contact Cora Kroondijk @ (519) 449-3708 or [email protected].
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Scholastic: PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE. Scholastic
is due tomorrow Tuesday December 10 (NOT Dec. 12 as
stamped on flyers). Sorry for any confusion. Thank you for
your continued support in the scholastic program.
Electives: In February 2020, Woodstock Christian School
hopes to offer electives to our junior and senior students. If
you have any ideas for electives, or are considering leading
an elective please email [email protected]
with your ideas by Thursday, December 12, 2019.
From the WCS Library: Book Fair 2019 was very
successful, thanks to you! We are so pleased that clear profits
amounted to $660.00 for our library. We will get this amount
back in books for our students to enjoy and read. Thank-you
so much for supporting the Book Fair! Thanks to Cindy
Armstrong and Ann Shiekoff, our vendors, who brought
great material to sell. Mrs. Dieleman, WCS Librarian.
WCS School Life Team Christmas Celebration: School
Life invites students and staff to dress in Christmas colours
and festive clothing on Friday December 20 . Wear red,th
green, silver, gold clothing, festive hats and scarves, or ugly
Christmas sweaters! Thank you for your participation, WCS
School Life Team.
&WCS fifth through eighth grade actors will be presenting these
two Christmas dramas which will take place on:
December 11 at 9:30 a.m. (Matinee),th
December 12 at 6:30 p.m. (Evening) & th
December 13 at 1:30 p.m. (Christmas Tea Matinee).th
Rehearsals are taking place now and excitement is building!
Plan to join us for one of the showings.
Be sure to invite your grandparents or grandfriends to the Christmas Tea!
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Skating: Our first grade through eighth grade students will be going skating on Friday, December 20 and you are invited toth
join us! For insurance purposes, there are additional guidelines for 'on ice' participation that we must honour. Everyone - meaning
all students and all adults - must wear helmets (bicycle, hockey, other), gloves/mittens and skates while on the ice. Boots,
strollers, helmetless heads, and gloveless hands will not be permitted on the ice. Our buses will transport the students. The first
group of students - grade 1 to grade 4 - will skate from 1:15pm - 2:05pm. The second group of students - grades 5 through 8 -
will skate from 2:15pm to 3:05pm. We look forward to seeing you there.
Christmas Break: Our Christmas break is approaching quickly! Thank you parents for entrusting your children to us at WCS,
and for all of your love and support for WCS throughout 2019. We would love for you to join us this week for one of our
Christmas Drama performances, and, next week, for skating and our Christmas Chapel (led by our KG classes). The Christmas
break is from December 23-January 3. School re-opens on Monday, January 6, 2020.
Student Support - Mrs. Bulthuis: Thank you for all the
warm birthday wishes last Friday! A huge thank you to my
room parent, Mrs. Bigham, for spoiling all the groups with
delicious cupcakes! This week, we are gearing up for our
Christmas program. As the student body will be watching the
performances Wednesday morning, the grade one literacy
group will update their book bags on Thursday this week.
Wednesday - return book bags (gr. 2 and 3)
Thursday - return book bags (gr. 1)
Friday - spelling test (gr. 1, 2, 4 7)
J.K. - Mrs. Westerveld: Welcome to a new week! Thanks
to Mrs. Buruma who assisted us when our Gingerbread Man
escaped last week! Please have your costumes ready and at
school for Tuesday. Thanks to Mr. Perea Melendez and
family who are helping create some of our costumes. For
show and share please show your costume and talk about how
you got it ready. Have a great week.
Tuesday - Have costumes at school
Wednesday - Library
Friday - perform at Christmas Tea
- show and share
S.K.1 - Miss Body: Welcome to a new week. An exciting
week of performances showcasing the amazing talents of our
students.
Tuesday - Library
- Scholastic Due
Wednesday - Christmas Drama performances 9:30 am
Thursday - Christmas Drama performances 6:30
Friday - Christmas Tea
S.K.2 - Mrs. Poort: This week our helper is Desmond. This
week we are continuing to finish our Christmas craft with our
buddies. Continue to practice sounds books at home. Show
and share this week is bring something blue or red. Sight
words: red, blue; sounds: w, ng.
Tuesday - Library
- show and share
Wednesday - Matinee
- baking
Friday - Christmas Tea
Grade 1 - Mrs. VanderPloeg: Welcome to a new week! It is
performance week at WCS! Check your emails for an update
about what is happening in Grade 1.
Monday - Phys. Ed
Tuesday - Library
- Happy Birthday to Stephen!
Wednesday - Show&Share: Alissa & Josiah & Keziah
Thursday - Phys. Ed
- Happy Birthday to Hailey!
Friday - Spelling Test
- Christmas Tea (Primary Choir performance)
Grade 2 - Mrs. Horinga: Welcome to another week. This
week we are spending time reading and reflecting on the
Christmas story. Our spelling focus this week is th, sh, wh, ch
digraphs (combination of two or more letters that make one
sound). We have a trip to the Woodstock Museum next week
Tuesday from 12:45 - 3:00 if you would like to come along
please send me an e-mail.
Wednesday - Library
Friday - Seniors Tea: singing with primary choir
Grade 3 - Mr. G. Hiemstra: This week hopes to be a
regular week for us except for listening to the senior students'
plays and having the Christmas tea on Friday. Next week we
have skating. If your child doesn't have skates, please look for
a pair between now and then.
Friday - Spelling Test
Grade 4A - Mrs. VanAndel: Welcome to a new week grade
4! Keep reading your December book!
Tuesday - bring gym clothes
Wednesday - watch Christmas plays
- library: return books
Thursday - bring gym clothes
Friday - spelling test
- memory work: 1 Samuel 3:9,10
- singing at Grandparent Tea
Grade 4B - Mrs. Hickey: Welcome to a new week. The
junior choir will be singing at the Christmas Tea on Friday.
Wear the purple WCS shirt. Keep reading for December's AR
test. Don't forget to practice spelling words and x tables.
Tuesday - Phys. Ed. (gym strip)
Wednesday - Christmas Drama performance @ 9:30 am
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- Library
Thursday - Phys. Ed (gym strip)
Friday - Mem. Work: 1 Samuel 3: 9-10
- Spelling Test: Lesson 13
- Christmas Tea (wear WCS purple shirt)
Grade 5 - Mr. A. Hiemstra: Welcome to the 2 last weeknd
of school before the Christmas holidays! Students have been
excited when learning about genre and the elements of a story
during each of our language arts classes because the
knowledge gained will help us write a stellar story. We will
eventually make this story into a movie. We have picked our
genre: mystery. This movie will be played for many to see, as
a fund-raiser event, and we hope it will generate many
donations for Lagosette Christian School in Haiti! More
details to be sent home after the Christmas break.
Monday - Gym clothes for P.E. class: WCS shirt and
WCS shorts
Wednesday - Music: bring recorder
Thursday - Music: bring recorder
Friday - Gym clothes for P.E. class: WCS shirt and
WCS shorts
- Spelling: Workbook Lesson 14 + Test
- Memory Work: Matthew 28:18-20
- Science Quiz: see highlighted notes
Grade 6 - Mrs. Dam: We pray for safety and success for our
triple ball players at today's tournament. Also, we eagerly
anticipate our drama performances later this week!
Thursday - Memory Work: The Lord's Prayer based on
Matthew 6:9-13 plus the following as the
closing: "For yours is the kingdom, and the
power, and the glory, for ever. Amen."
Language: - We are writing a mystery story. Planning
sheets and rubrics were given to students today.
- Mystery novel "Hidden door" poster is due on
the 18 . Students should be working on theirth
final draft at this point in time.
- Spelling test #10 is on Wednesday. This will
be our last one until the new year.
- We are continuing with our study of "My Side
of the Mountain". Students should be finished
reading to ch. 16 "Trouble begins" by the end of
this week.
Math: - Geometry test will be on Friday December 13.
Review sheets will go home tomorrow. Students
need to be able to name, measure, and draw
angles, triangles, and quadrilaterals.
- We continue working on our "Tiny House"
project. Our goal is to be finished before the
Christmas break.
- Our next unit will be on divisibility and prime
numbers.
Creation Studies: Congratulations to our gr.6 Junior
Astronauts! They have completed a challenging
coding task and have successfully sent messages
to the International Space Station! They will
receive certificates indicating the date, time and
ISS location when their messages are used. We
continue to pray that we will be selected to host
a Canadian Astronaut at the end of the program!
Grade 7 - Mrs. Racicot: Please refer daily to Google
Classroom for grade 7 homework, assignments and tests.
Grade 8 - Mr. Schaafsma: Thank-you to Mrs. Branderhorst
for joining us on our walk to Caressant Care on Friday, we
appreciate your help! This week we are looking forward to
the WCS Christmas productions on Wednesday morning,
Thursday evening and Friday afternoon. This Friday the grade
8 class is hosting our Senior Friends for the Christmas Tea,
please bring your purple shirts to school. Be sure to check the
Google Classroom for any assignments or homework.
CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS:
December 9 Triple Ball Tournament
11 Christmas Drama Matinee - 9:30 a.m.
12 Christmas Drama Evening - 6:30 p.m.
13 Christmas Tea & Drama - 1:30 p.m.
17 Board Meeting
18 Prayer Group - 8:30 a.m.
Pizza Lunch
20 Christmas Chapel - 8:30 a.m.
Skating
23 - Jan.3 Christmas Break*
January 6 New Year’s Chapel