Calendar of Events

Due Now! On-line Registration for Students for this fall!

Please see directions on Page 2 in the newsletter.

*Friday, June 23 Lakeshore School Office Closes

*Monday, August 14 Lakeshore School Office Opens

*Tuesday, September 5 First Day of School School begins at 8:32 a.m.

*Monday, September 11 Geskus Photography here for school pictures!

*Denotes new items on the calendar

Volume XIV Issue 21

3765 N. 168th Ave., Holland, Michigan 49424 Phone: 616.786.1400 Fax: 616.786.1491

West Ottawa Public Schools Preparing Students to Be College, Career and Life Ready!

Lakeshore Newsletter 3765 N. 168th Ave., Holland, MI 49424

Phone: 616-786-1400 June 9, 2017

Mr. Milobinski’s Board of Information

Dear Lakeshore Families,

What a great 2016/201717 school year. I hope everyone had a wonderful year. I feel very honored to be able to spend so much time with all of your children.

Please make sure that Debra has your most current e-mail address as we will be sending out information electronically as often as possible. Please consider following Lakeshore Ele-mentary @LakeshoreWO on twitter. You will be able to see your child’s report card on parent portal. We will not be sending home paper copies. If you are having any difficul-ties with this, please call or email Debra in the office at 786-1400 or postmad@westottawa.net.

Thank you all for a great school year and the incredible amount of parent support here at Lakeshore. With continued parent support, Lakeshore elementary will continue to grow and be a wonderful place of learning for all children.

Sincerely, Jens Milobinski

Sincere Thanks!

Our PTO officers are parent volunteers who work very hard to support the education of our students. A spe-

cial thank you to our PTO Board for the 2016-2017 school year. You are all sincerely appreciated for the countless hours volunteered!

Our PTO Board: Traci Howard, Shona Pentecost, Renee Williams, Eva Marie Gugino, Spring White, Katie Kraker, and Jen Smuda for their commitment and hard work for our school and students!

Kristina Jones and Samantha Spooner, our Volunteer Coordinators, for making sure we have approved volun-teers at each event!

Laurel McCoy and Shona Pentecost for chairing the book fairs and making them such successful events!

Jennifer Solis for coordinating our Teacher Appreciation Dinners! Wonderful!

Katie Kraker for collecting, cutting, organizing and mailing our BoxTops and Spartan receipts!

Joni Lawrence for running our Green Ticket Store! To all of our monthly popcorn poppers! To ALL of our event coordinators! WOW! You do an awe-

some job with all of our events! Thank you to ALL of our parent volunteers for the

countless hours given to make our school such a wonderful place to be! You are all truly appreciated!

Special thanks to PTO President, Traci Howard, who

has spent so many hours and years for students and staff at Lakeshore! You are greatly appreciat-ed and will be missed! Traci leaves our elementary school this June with the graduation of daughter Emerson from 5th grade. We wish you well in the years to come!

We look forward to working with the PTO Board for the 2017-2018 school year: President, Shona Pentecost; Co-Vice Presi-dents, Eva Marie Gugino and Dori Kipker; Co-Secretaries, Spring White and Katie Kraker; and Treasurers, Jennifer Smuda, Maureen Bowyer and Jennifer Foley. Samantha Spooner will be our Volunteer Coordinator.

To our wonderful Lakeshore family -

Thank you for entrusting your children to us this past year!

It has been a blessing!

We wish you a safe, relaxing and enjoyable summer!

We look forward to another great

school year in 2017-2018!

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LAKESHORE WAVES NEWSLETTER!

The next Lakeshore Waves Newsletter will be published on Friday, September 8.

2017/2018 Student Online Registration for All Students

Online registration for the 2017-2018 school year is due. This process must be completed for ALL West Ottawa stu-dents EACH year. Please log onto your Parent Portal account on Infinite Campus,

click on the “Online Registration” tab on the left side of the screen. Be sure to select the 2017/2018 year enrollment under the registration year drop down. In order for us to prepare for next school year, please help us by completing the online reg-istration process by June 1, 2017. Thank you for taking the time to complete this process.

If you do not have a Parent Portal account, please go to the West Ottawa website (www.westottawa.net), select Parent Resources, then Parent Portal and follow the directions. If you need to have your password reset, please contact Debra in the Lakeshore School Office at postmad@westottawa.net or 786-1400. Thank you for your assistance!

PTO News!

Thank You!

PTO would like to give a BIG thank you to all of the volunteers throughout the school year. We could not provide the level of support for our teachers, school, and students without YOU! Thank you to all the vol-

unteers who helped send our kids into the summer with one last day of fun and entertainment on Discov-

ery Day. It takes a LOT of help, and you all met the chal-lenge.

Facebook If you have not "liked" Lakeshore PTO's page on Facebook or followed us on Twitter, please consider doing so. Information

and activities are posted throughout the summer. Thank you for a wonderful 2016/17 school year.

Fifth Grade Graduation Congratulations to the fifth grade class on a suc-cessful career at Lakeshore. We KNOW you will do GREAT next year at middle school! Thanks to those who organized the wonderful 5th Grade Graduation Reception, and to 5th grade parents

who donated food and beverages!

Discovery Day Thank you to everyone who volunteered for Dis-covery Day this year! We would not be able to put on programs and events such as this without your help. So a HUGE thank you to everyone who participated; we greatly appreciate it! Spe-cial thanks to Kaarli Riley and Jill Fischer for arranging the volunteer lunch! Many thanks,

also, to the Discovery Day committee, Jen Smuda, Dori Kipker, Spring White and Shona Pentecost for all of their hard work and organization for this very fun event!

Box Tops Congratulations to our latest winner for the Box Tops drawing, second grader, Carter Lawrence! Carter won a $5 gift card to Meijer! Please con-tinue to collect through the summer for next

school year—along with Spartan Store receipts!

2017-2018 School Year Calendar

Dear Parents, as you make plans for the upcoming school year, we want to share with you some of the important dates in our 2017-2018 school calendar. A complete calendar with dates such as parent/teacher conferences will be published once they become availa-ble. September 5 First Day of School November 22, 23 and 24 No School for Thanksgiving December 25—January 3 No School Holiday Recess March 30—April 6 No School Spring Recess June 8 Last Day of School Thank you for giving us the privilege of preparing your child to be college, career, and life ready!

Lakeshore Super Power Students! Each month we celebrate our superpowers…BE the GOOD...ordinary kids doing extraordinary things with Respect, Responsibility, and Ready to Learn. Boldly BEing the GOOD!

May Reward Students

Kindergarten Addison Dobbins and Axel Hernandez-Silva - Mrs. Bauer Dominic Lester and Makayla Funches – Mrs Hyvarinen

Samuel Jansen and William Bowyer – Mrs. Boeve

First Grade Jack Wheelock and Alexis Glennie – Mrs. Merkins Geno Lara and McKinley Spooner — Mrs. Holmes

Irie Berghuis and Naya Brouwer – Mrs. Voet

Second Grade William Vilehamn and Annika Lopez – Mrs. Eidson

Ryan Park and Eva Berkompas – Mrs. Wuerfel Olyviana Salazar and Carson Bosch – Mrs. Rios

Third Grade Sarah Hegel and Christian Rangel – Mr. Follett

Felipe Castillo and Joshua Chapman – Mrs. Keith Lydia Vanderwege and Harper Van Noord – Mr. Wearing

Fourth Grade Mallory Waldron and Jack Kleinbriel – Mrs. Barnes Hayden Colvin and Isabel Gutierrez – Mrs. Alston

Andrew Lehman and Jane Olney - Mrs. Wise

Fifth Grade Brady Dykema and Grace Reynolds – Mr. Dewitt Kiara Herron and Alex Turrubiartes – Mr. Martinez

Owen Crawford and Emerson Howard – Mrs. Peralta

Student pictures are placed on our Super Power Student

Bulletin Board for the month!

Congratulations students!!

Final Report Cards will be available

in your Parent Portal account on Thursday, June 15.

Report cards will not be mailed home.

Gems From The Gym

Wow! I can’t believe the school year is over already! Time really flies when you are hav-ing fun! I hope all my students have really enjoyed their experiences in Physical Well-ness this year. I have certainly enjoyed teaching all of them, and I look forward to seeing my students (healthy and fit) again in the fall.

Below are 10 fun ways to keep your kids active this summer: 1. Create a fitness circuit outside using colored chalk, sports balls, hula hoops, and/or other toys. The entire family can join in on the fun. Chalk the stations on the driveway or use markers for each circuit in the backyard. Ideas on stations:

· Any equipment you already have (basketball hoop, nets, trampoline, playground) · Hopscotch (coordination) · Jump roping (endurance) · Jumping jacks (basic skills) · Burpees (total body burnout)

2. Use hula hoops to craft fun workouts for kids. Families are encouraged to use both new and broken hoops for activi-ties. A new hula hoop is great for its original purpose, play-ing ball toss, and leap frog. While, a broken hoop can be used as a jump rope or as limbo stick.

3. Initiate a fun, innovative game with your kids. Ask them to go around the house and choose one item that they could turn into a fitness activity. We enjoy using a broom for jumping games or limbo, practicing bridges off the couch, yoga on the floor, tying a rope on a sturdy tree branch for rope climbing, jumping through tires, or simply creating an imaginative game of jumping over the lava.

4. Organize relay races with your family and friends. Instead of just running, try different types of cardiovascular exercises, such as jumping, hopping, skipping, shuffles, and bear crawls.

5. Construct your own treasure hunt inside and outside for your kids. Every time they find a clue, have them do a fit ness exercise in order to move onto the next clue. At the end, give them a prize that will continue encourage them to stay active.

6. Create a game using the hose. Have your kids jump over the water or go under the stream for limbo to keep them cool in the summer heat and still moving.

7. Ride a bike together as a family. Sometimes, keeping kids active can be much simpler than we anticipate.

8. Try a playground workout for kids of all ages. Do these exercises with them!

· Monkey bars- go across as many times as you can without a break · Swings- pumping legs sitting upright · Pull-ups on handle bars · Push-ups on the ground · Step ups on the end of the slide (lower to the ground for kids) · Climbing up and down the stairs or roped steps · Hanging crunches

9. Take a nature scavenger hunt walk near your house or go hiking together. Decide on types of leaves, plants, animals, and rocks that you will be looking for during your walk. Learn about nature together while exercising.

10. Choose a charity kids 5K and start a couch to 5K training program with the kids. This is great for learning how to set goals and achieve results as a team.

Have a great summer, everyone!

Mrs. Scholten, Physical Wellness Specialist

Technology Talk! Hello! I want to thank all of our Lakeshore families for sharing your kiddos with me this year! I am so thankful for the students and families I have the privilege of working with each week! Lakeshore truly is a family!

Please encourage your child to do lots of reading this sum-mer! Also, use learning sites to practice important skills! It’s a fun, productive way to stay ready for the next school year! Visit my website for lots of links to math, reading, typing (and many more) sites! (https://sites.google.com/a/westottawa.net/tech-time/)

I hope you all have a fun, safe, and healthy summer! Mrs. O’Brien, Technology Specialist

Mrs. Machiela’s Classroom

Please visit my website to see all the latest information happening in the Spanish Classroom! There are also activities, quizzes and links to practice Spanish!

https://www.quia.com/pages/msannaspanish.html

Mrs. Machiela, Spanish Specialist

Congratulations to the 2017 Fitness Gram Award Winners!

3rd Grade Emma Hower: Mile Run Grace Sanders: Pacer Avari Ploeg: Curl-Ups Carli Oudemolen-Valero: Sit and Reach Lydia Vanderwege: Flexed Arm Hang

Christian Morales: Sit and Reach Easton Serrano: Curl-Ups Nathan McCoy: Tied Pacer

Griffin Dobb: Tied Pacer, Flexed Arm Hang, Mile Run Harper Van Noord: Tied Pacer

4th Grade Jane Olney: Flexed Arm Hang

Danika Denhof: Pacer, Mile Run Addison Alston: Tied Sit and Reach

Mallory Waldron: Tied Sit and Reach Kayla Jones: Curl-Ups

Andrew Lehman: Pacer, Mile Run Vincent Uildriks: Sit and Reach

Logan Parent: Curl-Ups Logan Hill: Flexed Arm Hang

5th Grade Michael Van Dyke: Curl-Ups

Samuel Durey: Flexed Arm Hang Luke Diethart: Sit and Reach

Nathan Riley: Mile Run, Pacer Elle Wheelock: Flexed Arm Hang, Curl-Ups

Sarai Garcia: Sit and Reach Megan Blake: Mile Run, Pacer

Way to go, everyone! – Mrs. Scholten

Summer Reading Program

The Herrick District Library’s Summer Reading Pro-gram information was sent home this past week! Make sure to check out the summer story times, and the many activities scheduled! Have fun reading!