Important Dates:
Here I will always include important dates coming up.
- September 4: 1st day of hot lunch and busing.
- September 21: No pm bussing or hot lunch
- September 28: Teacher Inservice – No School
- October 17: Field trip to DeGraaf Nature Center
Reminders
In this section of our newsletter you will see announcements and reminders.
- If you haven’t already done so, please turn in our class permission slip and activity fee. If you have multiple kids at ZCS you may write 1 check. Please turn in the permission slip to me and the activity fee to the office.
- Please make sure to take home and check the alerta roja (red alert) every day. There won’t always be something to go home each day, but I do encourage your family to find a routine that helps you remember to check the folder daily.
- Please feel free to send a water bottle to school with your child. Busy learning brains need lots of water! 🙂
- Hot lunch begins Tuesday. Please review the lunch options, A or B, with your child the night before. I will read through them again and help your child sign up for the right thing in the morning.
- Notes about dismissal:
- Busing begins Tuesday. I will do my very best to make sure each child gets where he/she needs to be on time!
- At 3:30 dismissal, I will say goodbye to the kids waiting for their parents before I walk the bus riders outside. If you’re picking up at school and would like to leave with your child before I get back from the buses, you may. If you have a question for me please feel free to stick around. I wish I could be in 2 places at once!
- At 11:50 dismissal, please do not leave unless I see you. You’ve all been very helpful in checking in with me before leaving with your child and the kids have done a good job of waiting instead of running out to you. 🙂
Curriculum
In this section I’ll share some of the curriculum we worked on over the past week.
The first day of school we read about Chester, the raccoon, and his first day of school. Chester left a note for us at the back of the book and we searched for him around the school. Our scavenger hunt led us to many different classrooms where we met our specials teachers. Chester wasn’t in our room, but he left a special stuffed animal for us to remember him by.
Each morning we start our day doing devotions. This week we talked a lot about names. We learned the name Jesus means Savior. We talked about God’s plan to send his son to die on the cross to save us from our sins. I told the kids that God thinks names are very important and that we’d try to make names important in our classroom too. Incidentally, I explained that I don’t change their names to Spanish and I’d like them to use my name, Maestra Izenbaard, instead of just “maestra.”
The kids created their first page of My Book of Friends and included Jesus’ name on the first page! He is the very best friend we could ask for- always there for us and ready to listen.
We started our first Bible unit on God’s Creation. We learned the first day God created light- day, and darkness- night. The second day He created the sky and the sea.
We learned there are three ways to read a book: read the pictures, read the words, and retell the story. We practiced using these three strategies as we read Un Beso en Mi Mano, The Kissing Hand.