Dear parents,
I had a great week with your kids! By today, I am glad to see many of them are able to understand the routine words like drink water, go to the bathroom, line up etc. without me showing the pictures/gestures. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Information and Reminders:
Pick up time: Thank you so much for picking up your child between 3:20pm to 3:25pm. This makes sure the kids who do not ride the bus won’t be unattended.
No School: Friday, September 28 teacher in-service
School Picture: Our picture day is Tuesday, October 2
Field Trip: Wednesday October, 17 DeGraaf Nature Center at 9:30am. We will leave school at 9:00am. Thank you to Melissa Wire for driving the field trip! We will need 3 more drivers. If you like to come, please sign up here https://docs.google.com/document/d/11N2ysK2h3OIJDNf15RIGihGLSXfauwVq4a3vCbyUyEY/edit
If you like to drive for field trips, please take pictures of your vehicle insurance and valid driver’s license and email them to Carrie in the office. Her email address is cpapay@zcs.org
Worship songs: We will learn a worship song in Mandarin each month. You can find the video on my blog under worship songs.
From the immersion program director
Welcome to another year of immersion at Zeeland Christian! It is always exciting to see our students jump back into their language use after the summers months. I will use this space to educate you and keep you updated on immersion education at ZCS. There are many different approaches to dual language and immersion education in the United States and beyond. It is my goal that you will feel confident in our approach to education and that you will understand what makes the immersion classroom at ZCS unique.
For this week, I want to celebrate the idea that Zeeland Christian is a tri-lingual christian school. With two English classrooms, two Spanish classrooms, and one Mandarin classroom at each grade level K-5, all of our students benefit from the presence of multiple languages and cultures. Our Mandarin program is now through 7th grade and our first class of Spanish students graduated from high school last year. All of our students (K-8) study Spanish in some capacity, and all of our immersion students are learning Mandarin at some level. The diversity in culture and language is a blessing to all of us at ZCS!
Curriculum
Language Arts
We will be working on recognizing days of the week and months.
We will continue learning basic strokes in Chinese and Chinese numbers.
We will introduce basic shapes.
Math
We will learn count to 10; We will also learn to recognize Chinese numbers 1-10.
Science
We will learn about classifying objects in different ways by using our sight: sizes, colors and shapes.
Bible
Sin enters the world; 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.