21-25 January

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¡Queridos Padres!

How can we help our friend Danny in the Philippines attend Grace Community School? The cost to pay tuition is so high, his family needs help.   The next couple of weeks,  through Project Based Learning  (PBL) we will raise money for Danny’s tuition.

As part of this project, we will meet with an expert who already is doing this type of work.  Mrs. Lisa Timmer came from Ditto this past week and helped us understand the role Ditto plays in helping support our tuition here at ZCS.  After her talk, we will brainstorm ways we can raise money.  This will take the form of a product we agree to sell.  

Throughout these next couple of weeks, in teams, we will brainstorm, give our opinions, listen to others and collaborate as we turn this into reality.  We will present our ideas to each other, evaluate our decisions, and revise out thinking if needed. 

Stay tuned to emails from the class as we communicate to you what we have decided to produce and sell. 

Please pray that God takes this project and helps not only learn the academic part but that the joy of serving our Great God becomes alive in their hearts.

There is an offer in Scholastic!!! If your order is $25.00 or more, you get a FREE book pick up to $5.00. SHOP SHOP SHOP (Use our classroom code NGXVK)

Also, on Friday, January 25th an alternate lunch menu will be offered for our students due to family groups sledding.

Menu for 1/25/19
A:  Ham and Cheese Sub
B:  Soy butter & jam sandwich

Grace & Peace;

Maestra Ruiz

If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions; please do not hesitate to contact me.

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Announcements

* Upcoming Events…

January 21
No School (Preschool-8th) – Teacher In-Service

January 22
Second Semester Begins

January 24
 All School Chapel – 9:00 a.m.

From the immersion director
Do students in immersion classrooms just need to learn twice as much as those children in an English classroom? In immersion education, we often will refer to transferable and non-transferable skills. These terms refer to academic skills that either naturally transfers from one language to the next or that do not naturally transfer between languages. Immersion education works because the vast majority of what our children learn falls into the transferable skill category! Research definitively defends the fact that children are able to take the learning in one language and apply it to the next. However, as immersion teachers, we are aware that not everything transfers naturally; these non-transferable skills (such as a silent ‘e’ at the end of an English word, the rule that we always capitalize the letter ‘I’, etc.) are the focus of our linguistics skills taught during our English instruction time (social studies in 3rd-5th grade).
Book it!
The Pizza Hut Book It reading calendar will be sent soon! Check your child’s communication folders. The program runs from October thru March.

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Curriculum

Bible:

– Unit 6: Moisés 

Easter
The red sea
The Ten Commandments
Building the Tabernacle
Spies on Earth
The desert
Death of Moses

– Bible Verse Memory

Exodus 15:2

El Señor es mi fuerza y mi cántico; él es mi salvación.
Él es mi Dios, y lo alabaré; es el Dios de mi padre, y lo enalteceré.

Math:

– Unit 4  Place Value Concepts 

Review and assessment

Science:

Weather Watchers

Social Studies:

Unit 2: How Do We Get What We Need or Want?

Lesson 5: Trade
Lesson 6: Money

Grammar:

Language Art U4W2

  • Grammar -> Adjectivos (largos)
  • Syllable-> “r” fuerte, “rr” (no es letro sino fonerma) y “r” suave
  • Culture and language communicate: … a manos llenas.
  • Poem: En un barco de madera 
  • Mentor text: El mitón
  • Vocabulary: el mitón, las patas, la garra, la lana, el brazo, tejer, el golpe, el juguetón
  • Word wall words: el uso, el ojo, son, alredeor, el río

Reading:

Books and book-bags were sent home! Please, keep encouraging your child to read at home daily.
Strategies:

Accuracy

*Look carefully at letters and words. Make sure what you see is what you say
*Read each word carefully from beginning to end
*Blend the sounds, stretch and re-read
*Say known words quickly
Comprehension
*Check for understanding
*Use prior knowledge to connect with the text
*Make pictures or mental images, visualize
*Ask questions
Fluency
*Practice common sight words and high-frequency words
*Read phrases, not word by word
*Make your reading sound like talking
*Use a character’s voice

Books and book-bags should return to school on Tuesday.

There is a $5.00 fee that needs to be paid for books and or book-bags that are not returned or found.

Writing:

Realistic Fiction

Environment and characters

Where does my story happen?
How is my character called?
What does my character like?
What does not my character like?

Issue

What is the problem?

Solution

How is the problem solved?

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Volunteers

Lunchtime duty 11:55 – 12:20 pm

A wonderfully made celebration will be from 12:45 – 1:15

January 24 -> Wyatt’s wonderfully made/ Half B-day celebration

January 31 -> Stella’s wonderfully made/ Half B-day celebration

Thanks for reading it until the end! 

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