Aloha! HSA testing is over!!! We are celebrating by making this week a very creative one, full of theater, country reports, reading, and just spending time enjoying one another. I’ll be assigning homework that consists of a bit of math (we have the Chapter 11 tests this week), reading, and a science test, but the main focus will be on memorizing scripts and gathering items for simple costumes. Students should just use whatever they can find around the house to create their costumes.
And now for some sad business. This will be my last week teaching at Holualoa this year. My mother was recently diagnosed with aggressive bone cancer and I must leave to help out at home. I hope to return for the next school year, but it is entirely dependant on my mother’s health. I will be sharing this news with the students today. I have secured a wonderful substitute for the last month of school, Ms. Demeter. She will be spending the day with us on Wednesday in order to see how I interact with the class. I know you will be just as supportive of her as you have been with me, and that the class will be in good hands.
I’d like to leave you with a couple of thoughts. First, I am so grateful for the year I’ve had with your keiki. They are a wonderful, inquisitive, thoughtful, kind-hearted group of deep thinkers and feelers. I have enjoyed our many conversations about everything ranging from the definition of love to the ways that color and light are related. Please continue to encourage the creative, curious spirit in your children as they movr on to fourth grade. It will serve them well in life.
Secondly, I’d like to share how much I love the leadership at our school. We were very sad to see Mr. Takiue go, and he will be greatly missed, especially as Mr. Gray will now be filling two roles. I encourage you to do what you can in support of Mr. Gray. He has been a wonderful leader this year, and truly cares about the education and emotional health of every single student on our campus. He makes it a point to visit every classroom every single day, checks in with the teachers, converses with the students, consults the staff, and does what he can to make our job easier and our campus more unified. I look forward to working with him (hopefully) for many more years.
Thank you again for everything that you do and are, and I pray many blessings on the rest of your year. I will miss all of you!
Aloha,
Miss Cook
www.misscooksthirdgrade.weebly.com (You may still contact me here with any questions/concerns/comments.)
And now for some sad business. This will be my last week teaching at Holualoa this year. My mother was recently diagnosed with aggressive bone cancer and I must leave to help out at home. I hope to return for the next school year, but it is entirely dependant on my mother’s health. I will be sharing this news with the students today. I have secured a wonderful substitute for the last month of school, Ms. Demeter. She will be spending the day with us on Wednesday in order to see how I interact with the class. I know you will be just as supportive of her as you have been with me, and that the class will be in good hands.
I’d like to leave you with a couple of thoughts. First, I am so grateful for the year I’ve had with your keiki. They are a wonderful, inquisitive, thoughtful, kind-hearted group of deep thinkers and feelers. I have enjoyed our many conversations about everything ranging from the definition of love to the ways that color and light are related. Please continue to encourage the creative, curious spirit in your children as they movr on to fourth grade. It will serve them well in life.
Secondly, I’d like to share how much I love the leadership at our school. We were very sad to see Mr. Takiue go, and he will be greatly missed, especially as Mr. Gray will now be filling two roles. I encourage you to do what you can in support of Mr. Gray. He has been a wonderful leader this year, and truly cares about the education and emotional health of every single student on our campus. He makes it a point to visit every classroom every single day, checks in with the teachers, converses with the students, consults the staff, and does what he can to make our job easier and our campus more unified. I look forward to working with him (hopefully) for many more years.
Thank you again for everything that you do and are, and I pray many blessings on the rest of your year. I will miss all of you!
Aloha,
Miss Cook
www.misscooksthirdgrade.weebly.com (You may still contact me here with any questions/concerns/comments.)