Newsletter Jan. 16-20

Information and Reminders:

Wonderfully Made: Max Harris Jan.16-20 Nehemiah Heinz Jan.24-27
Please finish and send your child’s timeline the week before your child’s special week. During your child’s special week, it is a wonderful opportunity to have lunch with your child, bring in pets, or share special talents your family members may have been blessed with. Just inform me ahead of time what is your plan.

Second Grade Field Trip: Grand Haven Water Treatment Plant, Tuesday Jan.17 9:00-11:30am.
Thank you to Kristi and Joanna for driving the field trip!

First Grade Field Trip: Lollipop Concert, Tuesday Jan. 24 at Zeeland East High School Thank you to Jane Klingenberg, Erin Harris, Meredith Geurink and Kristi Van Dyk for driving the field trip. Chaperons, please be at school by 9:00am. The concert starts at 9:30. Thank you!

Chinese New Year Field Trip: Friday, Jan. 27. NorthPointe Christian School We will leave around 8:50 in the morning and come back to school before lunch recess. Each student will bring to bring a sack lunch, there will not be time to get hot lunch.

Delta Math Screener: Our class will be taking the Delta Math Screener sometime next week. We use this short, computer based assessment to see if there are any math standards that students are not meeting benchmark. As a result, short-term intervention groups will be created to help students succeed in standards that they are struggling with. 

Valentines Day: To celebrate Valentines Day, we are going to exchanging valentines on Tuesday, February 14. Please prepare a valentine for each classmate. Here is the class list.
First Grade
Jude Allen 安建华
Andres Duran杜传恩
Gibson Geurink 高欣诺
Maxwell Harris 胡卓仁
Nehemiah Heinz何浩然
Tyler Israels殷天乐
Kendal Klingenberg柯瑜玟
Elijah Larsen刘佳卫
Michael Moeller莫志勇
Megan Pyle彭欣怡
Penelope Sprick宋恩慧
Benjamin Van Dyk范凯力
Owen Wickstra韦少勇

Second Grade
Ben Brower 白昱晨
Lily Delcalzo 邓纯美
Aiden Douma 杜爱德
Willem Haveman何伟明
Andrew Pyle彭毅祥
Kayleigh Van Dyk范凯洁

February Birthday Celebrations:

Nehemiah Heinz Friday, February 3
Aiden Douma Monday, February 6
Tyler Israels Tuesday, February 14
Andrew Pyle Wednesday, February 15
Lily Delcalzo Wednesday, February 22

Curriculum
Language Arts
-Reading Strategy:
We will continue the read aloud called Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater. Each week we will focus on one or two reading strategies to help us understand plot and settings of this book. This week we will focus on 1 comprehension strategy.
-Ask questions: When we read, we stop and ask questions why…? Then we will see if these questions have been answered as we read.

-Writers’ Workshop: We brainstormed our how-to books ideas. This week, we will start making our first draft of how-to books by listing all the needed materials on the first page, and list each step of what to do on each page for the readers.

Math
-First Grade: We are also going to represent 2-digit numbers with cards and drawings.

-Second Grade:We will wrap up our current unit, review 2-digits addition, solving story problems, and money calculation, and also take the unit assessment this week.

Social Studies
We will talk about how people modify or adapt to the environment.

Science
-First Grade: We will review and have a unit test.
-Second Grade:We will take a look at ZCS’s trash this week as part of our study of using resources wisely. We will also discuss problems that we see and start brainstorming possible ideas for our science PBL.

Bible
We will talk about spies in the land, wilderness wanderings and death of Moses.

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