Information and Reminders:

Up in Lights: Wesley Elenbaas October 15-19
Please finish and send your child’s package 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, and or share special talents your family members may have been blessed with. Just inform me ahead of time what is your plan.

Parent/teacher conference: October 22 and 23 Please return the questionnaire to me by next Friday. Thanks!

October 24: No school

October 25-26: teacher CEA convention, no school

From the immersion program director
What is the Three-Fold Goal of immersion education?
As an immersion program, we are striving for excellence in three areas. 1) Academic Achievement: We expect our students to learn the same content that is expected of our English-track classrooms. 2) High language proficiency: We strive to have our students speak the language accurately and at an age-appropriate level of proficiency. 3) Cultural Competency: We hope our students will be sensitive to cultural differences and navigate culturally embedded situations with grace and empathy. As a Christian school, we can add that our first and foremost goal is to integrate our faith into all components of our learning and growth at Zeeland Christian.

Curriculum

Language Arts
Daily 5
We have been practicing the first component of Daily 5 since this past week. It is called “read to self”. Each day, we take some time to read in a quiet place and build up our stamina. We learned about 3 ways to read the book, read the picture, read the words and retell the story.

Writers’ Workshop:
We will continue our first unit called “Oral language: Building a Talking Community”. This coming week, we will use drawing to help us tell our stories. The goal of this unit is to invite children to tell stories about themselves and things they know and can do.

Math
Find numbers 1-10: Neighborhood Scene; Relate objects and numbers 6-10

Science
We will learn about the sense of touch.

Bible
Jacob, Esau, and the birthright; Jacob to Haran; Jacob in Haran

We will learn about the fruits of the sprit throughout the year. For the month of October, we will learn about the fruit of joy.

Social Studies
We will start our Project Based Learning (PBL) unit of making a map for grandparents’ day. This coming week, we will discuss how do we help our grandparents get around of the school on grandparents’ day.