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Newsletter 24: Week of March 18
categories: newsletters 2017-2018
I feel like March is flying by! I know it’s been and continues to be a busy few weeks so I want to thank you for sticking with us and supporting us in the amazing ways you do. I couldn’t do my job without you and partnering with families like yours makes my job worth doing!
Some of our highlights from this week included: hot crayon during purposeful play, hat day on Friday, and celebrating our Spanish proficiency with an art project.
Important Dates
Wednesday, March 21: Wacky Wednesday (Dress in mismatched or wacky clothes/hair)
Friday, March 23: Bring a flashlight (We will “camp out and read.”)
March 28: All school chapel 9:00- everyone is welcome!
March 30-April 7: Spring break 🙂
Reminders
- March is Reading Month: There are lots of fun activities planned for us by our 2nd grade teachers! Please see the dates above and let me know if you have any questions!
- Field Trips: A few more people signed up to join us at the market! We are still looking for a couple more drivers (ideally 2-3) for the Farmers Market on June 6. The market is usually quite busy so I prefer to have smaller groups. We will be gone for a full morning, but will be back by 12:45. If you’re interested please sign up here. Thank you!
- Hope College Science Camp: This summer Hope is offering a variety of camps. If you’re interested please check out the options here.
Curriculum
Bible: This week we wrapped up our unit on miracles. Some of the miracles we learned about are: Jesus healing the blind man, Jesus walking on water, Jesus calming the storm, Jesus feeding the 5,000, the great catch of fish when the fishermen placed the net on the other side of the boat, and Jesus changing the water to wine. Next week we’ll begin learning about Easter and the events leading up to Jesus’ death on the cross and resurrection.
Miracles Bible Verse: Pidan, y se les dará; busquen, y encontrarán; llamen, y se les abrirá. Mateo 7:7
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7
Literacy: We continued learning about verb conjugations. This time we focused on third person plural. In English this would be the pronoun “they.” In Spanish we say “ellos,” “ellas.” The same conjugation is used for the second person plural, “ustedes.”
- Reading strategy: Visualizing
- Read aloud: El Diente de Franklin
- Vocabulary words
- el diente (tooth)
- la hada (fairy)
- la almohada (pillow)
- la dentista (dentist)
- la moneda (coin)
- Word wall word: este (this) yo (I)
- Phrase of the week: Yo voy a ____. I’m going to ____.
- Letter of the week: Yy
Math: Our math time this week was spent working on a practice worksheet to reinforce several important skills including: finding groups of 5 in bigger numbers, adding, and subtracting. We also learned to identify two sets of object as equal or not equal and how to look for parts inside a bigger number.
Writing Workshop: We continue to explore books with Small Moments. Right now most kindergarteners are writing about Visser Farms or jumping on the trampoline at For the Kidz Gymnastics. We continue to work on visualizing our story, then touching the pages and telling the story, and finally writing the story.
Exploring God’s World: We continue to talk about living things. This week your child identified and colored the living things in a coloring page.
Up in Lights: Stella was Up in Lights this week! She invited her parents, younger brother, and baby sister. She was very excited to show us part of her collection of Boxcar Children books! Stella LOVES reading! She even brought a bookmark for each friend in our class. Thank you, Stella! We love you!
From the Immersion Coordinator, Jodi Pierce
Where can I learn more about immersion education?
In addition to add.a.lingua’s parent site and blog which many of you have joined (http://addalingua.com/parent)