Congratulations to our 2nd-4th grade participants and winners of the 2024 Spelling Bee! Students are not required to participate in the spelling bee and it takes a lot of work at home preparing for this annual event. The participants for 2024 were: (2nd Grade) Lily Cross, Rorrick Case, Maci Ford, Harris Powers, Eveliina Kainulainen and Zoey Mozader; (3rd Grade) Kayla Oomen, Lukas Soltes-Frick, Kennedi Haight, Hadley Clark, Grace Powers, Alek Acevedo, Wyatt Grondsma, Amelia Skinner, Jane VerVelde, Annabelle Smith, Hadley Swanger, Troy Dickenson and Audrey Hughart; and, (4th Grade) Destiny Acosta, Charlotte Cook, Cyniah Haight, Niko Kainulainen, Maple Prescott, Porter Jaeb and Elsa Vanderstelt! Well done to all of our spellers! The top finisher was Porter Jaeb and the individual grade top three were: (2nd Grade) Zoey Mozader - 3rd, Harris Powers - 2nd and Eveliina Kainulainen - 1st; (3rd Grade) Jane VerVelde - 3rd, Kayla Oomen - 2nd and Hadley Clark - 1st; and, (4th Grade) Cyniah Haight - 3rd, Charlotte Cook - 2nd and Porter Jaeb - 1st! Great Job, spellers!
Ireland Breitner celebrated her signing day today to run cross country and track for Alma College. Ireland is such a great teammate and has worked hard at improving over the many years she has been running as a Pentwater Falcon. We are all so proud and wish her all the best as an Alma College Scot!
Don't forget to attend one of our bond informational meetings with dates/times, as follows: 4/8 - 7:30pm (Weare Township Hall); 4/10 - 6pm (Pentwater Township Office); and, 4/25 - 6pm (Pentwater Park Place). We look forward to answering and clarifying any questions that you may have.
West Shore Community College is pleased to offer Kid's Summer Camps for summer 2024! College for Kids offers free transportation, breakfast and lunch! Scholarships are also available online.
Online registration is now open. You may register for a summer camp as well as applying for scholarships by going to their website at:
https://www.westshore.edu/kids-summer-programming/
Our 3rd and 4th grade students enjoyed a field trip on Tuesday, 4/2, to The Wildlife Center at Legends Ranch. The students had a great time with two guided tours! The Ranch is set up to explore the outdoors as well as the over 3,000 exhibits of indoor wildlife exhibits! Our tour guides helped students using a passport book to understand what animals they were seeing and to hear first-hand on how conservation, wildlife, predator/prey relationships and population controls have benefits. Students had an engaging experience learning about animal characteristics and being able to touch animal furs, bones and antlers. What a great time; thank you to Legends Ranch and their awesome tour staff!
Want to help support Pentwater Varsity Softball and win Amazon Gift Cards? Join us in donating $10 per softball in the Softball Home Run Derby! Fundraiser ends Thursday 4/11 with Home Run Derby on Friday 4/12. See attached flyer for more details on how you can enter!
Our first bond community informational meeting will take place on Tuesday, 4/2/24, at 6:30pm in the school library. Please make plans to attend one of our informational meetings to become informed about the proposed 5/7/24 bond addressing the needs of the school district. Upcoming meeting dates/times are as follows: 4/2 - 6:30pm (School, 600 Park St., Pentwater); 4/8 - 7:30pm (Weare Township Hall, 6506 N. Oceana Dr., Hart); 4/10 - 6pm (Pentwater Township Office, 500 N. Hancock St.); and, 4/25 - 6pm (Pentwater Park Place, 310 N. Rush St.)
District Health Department #10 is partnering with United Way of the Lakeshore in the United Way's Baby Product Drive. A drop off box for donations is located at the health department, 3986 N. Oceana Drive, Hart, with products distributed to families in Oceana County. Stop by during normal business hours to donate!
We are so grateful for all of the community members who came into our elementary classrooms as guest readers. Thank you for sharing the joy of reading with our students for March is Reading Month.
Larry Brown
Katie Kokx
Samantha Hughart
Deb Flood
Patti Skinner
Dr. Vaughn Thurston-Cox
Tiffany Haight
Rick Magrath
Kate Jorissen
Jeff Wrisley
The Closing Ceremonies, for our Olympic themed March is Reading Month, were quite entertaining. Students participated in some fun games. Mr. Barter did a fantastic rhythmic gymnastics routine. Dr. Karaptian demonstrated his brute strength by performing some weightlifting. All the above were fun ways to wrap up a great month of reading and celebrate students who worked diligently to achieve reading goals. Thank you, it was a fantastic March Is Reading Month! Mrs. Gina Voss - Reading Interventionist K-3/Literacy Coach
March 2024 newsletter, have a wonderful spring break!
🌟 Exciting Announcement! 🌟 Introducing Ashley Lubera, the star of this week's Pentwater Staff Spotlight! 🌟 Get ready for a series of amazing features shining a light on the incredible talents within our team. 🦅 Stay tuned for more! 🚀 #PentwaterSpotlight #TeamHighlight 🌟👏💜💛💜💛
Congratulations to our March 2024 JH/HS Students of the Month: Meya Case (7th Grade); Kyle Oomen (8th Grade); Sophie Harker-Vangunst (10th Grade); and, Mandi Sayles (11th Grade) Well done, students!
🏀🎉 The Pentwater Varsity Boys Basketball Team 🏆 made a splash at the West Michigan D League All-Conference meeting last night! Finishing 2nd in the conference with a stellar 15-3 record, our Falcons secured 5 bids, voted upon by all the conference coaches. A round of applause for our outstanding players who took home honors! 👏🏼
🌟 Congratulations to:
Trey Johnson: 🥇 1st Team All-Conference (Junior Shooting Guard)
Mikey Carlson: 🥇 1st Team All-Conference (Junior Center and Forward)
Jonny Arnouts: 🥈 2nd Team All-Conference (Junior Point Guard)
Will Werkema Grondsma: 🏅 All-Conference Honorable Mention (Junior, Forward and Guard)
What an incredible season, Falcons! Keep soaring high! 🏀🔥 #PentwaterFalcons #WestMichiganDLeague #BasketballExcellence
Congratulations to our elementary students of the month for March 2024, pictured with Assistant Principal Craig Barter! Yvette Kokx (KG); Porter Rinehart (1st grade); Rorrick Case (2nd grade); Kayla Oomen (3rd grade); Evie Bouye (4th grade); Oliver Nugent (5th grade); and, Xaria Davis (6th grade)! Well done!
Your Pentwater Public Schools' Bands have been very busy during the month of March!
On Wednesday, March 5, Professor Ted Malt from West Shore Community College visited Pentwater schools to clinic the high school band before our performance at district band festival. On Thursday, March 6, the high school concert band traveled to Manistee for our MSBOA District 1 Band Festival performance where we received an overall ‘excellent’ rating from all 3 judges!
On Wednesday, March 13, Professor Malt, once again, worked with our high school jazz band musicians in preparation for our concert on March 14. At our concert, all three upper level ensembles, 7/8 band, Jazz and HS concert bands performed for our third concert of the school year. Inspiring performances by all of our bands!
Lastly, on Tuesday, March 19, six high school band students were nominated and traveled back to Manistee High School for the MSBOA District 1 All Star Band where they experienced a day of fun working on four brand new concert pieces which culminated in a performance that evening with 94 other high school band students throughout our District 1 region.
Thank you, Professor Malt, for sharing your expertise with us and thank you, band members, for all of your continuous hard work; it is reflected in your performances and we are incredibly proud of all of you!
On Saturday, March 16, students across the State of Michigan performed instrumental solos at the MSBOA state level solo and ensemble. These students are eligible to participate at this higher level if he/she received a ‘superior 1’ rating at the district level. Abie VanDuinen, one of our Pentwater High School trombone players, was one of five students from Pentwater who received a '1' rating at district solo and ensemble. He performed his solo, “Sonata in F Minor”, by Georg Telemann. Abie received a near perfect score of 95 earning him another ‘Superior 1’ rating at the state level! Additionally, he was nominated as an ‘outstanding soloist’ by his judge which is an extremely high honor. He was one of only eight trombone players in the entire State of Michigan to be nominated for this honor. Congratulations, Abie!
We want to also thank community member Diane Larson for dedicating her time as the piano accompanist throughout this whole process and helping out with our band program and students. We couldn’t have done this without her and we are incredibly appreciative of her continued support in aiding our band program/s with her talent.
The fitness room availability during spring break are as follows:
Thursday, 3/21: 6am - 5pm
Friday, 3/22: 6am - 12pm
Monday, 3/25, thru Friday, 3/29: 6am - 12pm
Thank you!
It was a great day for a Book Swap at Pentwater Elementary! 186 books were chosen by excited readers. Happy reading!!!
This Community is Awesome!! Love how we all come together to create such a fun experience! The Pentwater PTCO carnival was such a success due to the many hands of volunteers & staff. Thank You & can’t Wait to see what fun we can create next!! (Parent-Teacher-Community Organization (PTCO))
