Information and Reminders:
Wonderfully Made: Eli Larsen Feb.21-24 Mike Moeller Feb.27-Mar.3
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.
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
February 20: No school, winter break
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
Curriculum
Language Arts
-Reading Strategy:
We will finish reading 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 spend time to exam different characters in this book. We will talk about how the author used descriptions and conversations to show the characters personalities. We will use this book as an example to talk about realistic fictions which will be our next writing genre.
-Writers’ Workshop: We are going to publish our how-to book this week. Next week, we are going to start a new unit about realistic fiction.
Math
-First Grade: We are going to spend time talking about different types of subtraction story problems.
-Second Grade: We will take the unit assessment and move on to the next unit that deals with length and shapes.
Social Studies
This week we are going to use a calendar to distinguish among days, weeks, and months.
Science
-First Grade: We will learn weathers in spring when the weather is warm(probably in March). We will start learning the animal unit in April.
-Second Grade:We will practice presenting our Terracycle PBL and present our final product and talk about things that we have learned to Zhang Laoshi’s first graders.
Bible
We will continue talk about Judges. This week we will learn the birth of Samson, Samson and the Philistines and Samson sins and saves.