May always seems to bring about projects, assessment, and reflection. This week we continued working on aalpa, the language and literacy project, and PBL, the project about animals that we are working on with our 7th grade friends. Your kids are doing an amazing job! As I work through assessing each child I get to reflect on our school year together. I am so proud of each one of your children! I pray they always work “at it with all (their) hearts, as working for the Lord.” Each one of them is doing their very best and should be very proud of themselves!
Important Dates:
- May 29: Memorial Day (no school)
- June 1: PBL Celebration (10:00-11:00)
- June 7: Holland Farmers Market and lunch at Kollen Park
- June 8: Last day of school! Happy summer!
- June 8: No hot lunch or pm busing
Important Announcements:
- Memorial Day Parade: ZCS students K-2nd grade who are interested and available that day are invited to march in the parade in downtown Zeeland! A note went home this week detailing drop off/pick up procedure and time as well as the parade route. If you’d like to take another look at the hand out please click here:. Memorial Day Parade Information-1n8fago I know it’s a bit picky, but please be assured I only do it so that I can be certain your children are safely accounted for! I know families often have other plans and that’s fine! Unless I hear otherwise from you, I will plan on your child marching!
- PBL Celebration: I’ll be sending details home soon, but for now please note that your child will be taking part in a PBL unit about animals in May. On June 1st at 10:00 each child will present his/her project in a group! Please join us for cookies and lemonade in our classroom afterward.
- Farmers Market and Lunch at Kollen Park: On Wednesday, June 7 we’ll be heading to our last kindergarten field trip, the Farmers Market! From there we’ll head to Kollen Park for a picnic lunch. We will not be eating hot lunch that day. We will be back to school about 12:45. “Morning kids” are welcome to stay until then! If you need to pick your child up at the normal 11:50 time, please meet us at Kollen Park. If this causes a problem for your family, please let me know and we’ll figure something out!
Check out how much we’re learning and growing in Christ!
Bible: We continue to talk about Paul. We read about his journeys sharing the Gospel and bringing people to Christ. We continue to review what we know about the Holy Spirit. As immersion students your children have the power to share the Gospel in their second language as well!
We also started learning our new Bible verse, the Great Commission. We are singing it to the tune of “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands.”
Por tanto, vayan y hagan discípulos de todas las naciones, bautizándolos en el nombre del Padre y del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo, enseñándoles a obedecer todo lo que les he mandado a ustedes. Y les aseguro que estaré con ustedes siempre, hasta el fin del mundo. Mateo 28:19-20
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. Matthew 28:19-20
Literacy: This week we learned about the letter Ww. When we made a list of all the W words we know we noticed that most of the words used an uppercase W. We reviewed that this means these words are probably names of people or places. W isn’t a very common letter in Spanish and most of these names come from English. We also learned how to name our preferences by saying I like, Me gusta, and I love, Me encanta.
We are finishing up the final task in the aalpa, the presentational task. Students are writing about living and nonliving things with the support of pictures and a word bank. I am going to attempt to finish this step of the project and meet with students in guided reading groups so that they can have at least 1 take home book next weekend.
- Reading strategy: Inferring
- Read aloud: Franklin dice “te quiero.”
- Vocabulary words
- el regalo (present)
- el globo (balloon)
- la mosca (fly)
- feliz cumpleaños (happy birthday)
- cansado (tired)
- Word wall word: gustar (to like)
- Phrase of the week: Me gusta ____. (I like ____.)
- Letter of the week: Ww
Math: We are learning about “math mountains!” A math mountain is another way to illustrate the parts of a number. The number goes on the peak of the mountain and the parts go on the side where we draw “snowballs” to represent the parts. A note describing this concept went home in red alert folders on Friday.
Exploring God’s World: Our PBL continues to go well! On Friday Maestra Minkus’ class joined us again. We used the internet with teacher and “big kid” supervision to further investigate our animals. At the end of our time together each group came up with an idea they’d like to use to try to share the information they gathered. Next week we’ll talk about who we’d like to share this information with!
Writing Workshop: We continue to work on How-To books. We are focusing on the following words/phrases: first, primero, After, después, and at the end, al final.
Handwriting Without Tears: This week our handwriting went along well with our literacy! We practiced writing the lowercase v and w.
From Our Immersion Coordinator
Join me for an Immersion Parent Round Table Discussion. We will look at a variety of topics of interest to immersion parents (How to provide support at home, how learning to read in Spanish is different than learning in English, How does immersion pedagogy differ from foreign language instruction–particularly in secondary education, etc.) The grade levels are just suggested ranges to don’t feel restricted by them. We’ll meet in the classroom at the back of the media center. Bring your lunch and your questions.
- May 17 at 12:00: Preschool-3rd
- May 18 at 12:00: 4th-8th