Georgetown Elementary Physical Education Blog

Happy hunting!

The P.E. C.A.R.E.S. Food drive will be ending on Wednesday, November 18.  The food this year will be going to the Water of Life Church for their food pantry.  Thanks for all your help in this cause so far and remember to bring in your canned goods by Wednesday.  Also if you know a family that could benefit from the food drive, please call Nicole Poolman, from Water of Life Church at 667-9348.

The November athletes of the month are Kent D. in Miss. Burmeister’s class and Brad S.

To learn more about athletes of the month and  the October Athletes, click here OCTOBER AOM

Brad S.                                      Congrats guys!!!

Enjoy this slideshow of highlights from the Turkey Trot!

Every month in PE the students have a chance to get their name drawn out for Athlete of the Month.  Each day Mrs. Nienhuis and Mrs. Van Koevering hand out slips to students who are great listeners or who helped someone else in class or just go above and beyond doing a good job in PE.  The students then fill out their name, grade, and classroom teacher and put their slip in a box.  The 2 students that get their name drawn out get an Award signed by Mrs. Reagan and their PE teacher and also an All about Me sheet to fill out and post in the gym.  The 2 Athletes of the month for October were Jason O. and Javier C.

P.E. C.A.R.E.S. (collecting and regiving essential supplies)

Once again the Hudsonville Elementary P.E. and students will be collecting non-perishable food items and giving them to a local food pantry.  Students can start bringing in items on Nov. 6 and we will collect until Nov.18.  The class that brings in the most items will receive a PE CARES t-shirt and a special bowling field trip with their physical education teacher.  Let’s join together and show how much we will DARE TO CARE for our community!!

We had a great turn out last week at the Turkey Trot. It was great weather and we had around 900 participants for the race. Here are our winners from Georgetown:
PreK – Elise Conkel 1st place Ellise Crowley 2nd place 2nd gr.- Kayla Wolma 3rd place Nathan Conkel 2nd place and Jake Martinez 3rd place
3rd gr. – Mrs. VanKoevering’s son T.J. 1st place
4th gr.- Dylan Lame 3rd Place
5th gr.- Jack Mandryk 1st place
H.S. and Adult Bonnie Van Kampen 3rd place, Will Ellermets and Mike Maleski 2nd place
Congratulations to everyone who ran, you did a terrific job! We want to thank all of our volunteers and sponsors. This year we had Dr. Estefan from Lakeshore Chiropractic donate 2 free massages to the 1st place Adult male and female runner, thank you so much.

Mrs. VanKoevering’s photo is a picture of her daughter and herself with a soccer ball.  Mrs. VanKoevering likes to coach her childrens recreational sports teams.  This fall I am coaching my oldest daughter  MeKenna’s soccer team.  We are having a great year so far!!  This is a picture of Mrs. Nienhuis reading outside on a hot summer day.  One of my favorite hobbies in the summer is to grab a good book and go outside to read.  I LOVE it!!  Happy hunting.

Taraynn and I are busy starting the year with teaching and working on Turkey Trot.  Right now we are looking for sponsors for the 2009 Turkey Trot Race.  To be a sponsor, we are asking for $150.00.  In return you will get your business name/logo on the back of about 1100 t-shirts and your business name announced the day of the race over the sound system.  Some businesses also choose to do fliers/coupons that we put in all the race bags.  This a great way to promote your business and help out a great Hudsonville School  event.  If you have any more questions or would like to be a sponsor,  please contact us at Georgetown Elementary 797-9797 ext. 22422 or email at mvankoev@hpseagles.net, tnienhui@hpseagles.net.  Thanks for your support

For Mrs. VanKoevering’s  family fun, we went to the Holland Fair and watched our son, T.J. do the motorcross race.  We all had a great time!  All of our kids love to dirt bike, but only T.J. wanted to race.  We go to the race with a bunch of friends, hang out together and grill out.  Mrs. Nienhuis went with her family camping at Brower Park.  Although it was a very cold and rainy weekend, we still went fishing, tubing and had lots of camp fires.   Happy Hunting