Dear parents,

On Monday, our principle Mr. McAboy had a special meeting with all the kindergartners at the Media Center. He talked about the Bible is the word of God, and we should try to see everything through the biblical lens. He also mentioned that each kindergartener will have a Bible to use in the classroom. At the end of the meeting, each student received a bookmark with this year’s theme to put in our Bible, and our bookmark is in Mandarin!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Information and Reminders:

Field Trip: Thursday, September 28 DeGraaf Nature Center at 9:30am. We will spend most of the time outside. Please dress your child for the weather and have your child wear outdoor shoes. We will leave school at 8:55. Thank you to Abby Allen, Betsy Shafer and Ben Wickstra for driving the field trip. Please bring all the boosters you have.

Picture Day: Our school picture day is Tuesday, October 3 Please mark this date on your calendar.

October 6: No PM bus, No hot lunch

October 19-20: teacher CEA convention, no school

From the immersion program director
The Tulipanes Latino Art and Film Festival will be celebrated in Holland September 21-24. If you are interested in engaging your children in the Latina culture of Holland, check out this link for more information. http://laup.org/2017/03/24/tulipanes/

Curriculum

Language Arts
Reading:
We will learn three ways to read a book: read the picture, read the words and retell story

Word Work:
basic strokes; Chinese number 1-10

Math
We will introduce adding and subtracting. We will continue learning attributes of triangle, circle and square.

Science
We will make popcorn and use our five senses to investigate the popcorn. We will also use hand lens to observe the natural world.

Bible
Noah’s obedience; in the Art and a new start.
We will learn about the fruits of the sprit throughout the year. For the next few weeks, we will learn about the fruit of love.