Information and Reminders:

Up in Lights: Evelyn Osborn Jan.28-Feb.1  Ewan Major Feb.4-8

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.  

February Birthday Celebrations:

Maddie Van Dyk    Thursday, February 14

Caleb Grant         Wednesday, February 20

   

Chinese New Year Celebration: Tuesday, Feb. 5

100th Day Celebration: Wednesday, Feb. 13

Valentines Day Celebration: We will exchange Valentines to celebrate Valentines’ Day on Thursday, Feb.14. Here is the class list if you like to put name on each valentine. 

Wesley Elenbaas 安学廉

Caleb Grant郭扬子

Elizabeth Grant 郭凯莹

James Haveman 贺俊仁

Silas Huynh黄勇赞

Elliott Joliat周颂恩

Charlotte Joliat周婉荣

Ewan Major 梅毅文

Louis Oldenbroek欧勇豪

Evelyn Osborn欧熹彤

James Pyle彭建基

Gabriel(Kai) Timmer谭凯瑞

Madeleine Van Dyk 范凯玫

Selah Wire王悦琴

From the immersion director

Do students in immersion classrooms just need to learn twice as much as those children in an English classroom? In immersion education, we often will refer to transferable and non-transferable skills. These terms refer to academic skills that either naturally transfer from one language to the next or that do not naturally transfer between languages. Immersion education works because the vast majority of what our children learn falls into the transferable skill category! Research definitively defends the fact that children are able to take the learning in one language and apply it to the next. However, as immersion teachers, we are aware that not everything transfers naturally; these non-transferable skills (such as a silent ‘e’ at the end of an English word, the rule that we always capitalize the letter ‘I’, etc.) are the focus of our linguistics skills taught during our English instruction time (social studies in 3rd-5th grade).

Curriculum

Language Arts

Reading Strategies: Read the tones correctly for each character. 

Writers’ Workshop:

We will brainstorm ideas of pattern books. Next week we will continue writing pattern books. 

Math

We will learn about the concept of subtraction. 

Science

We will learn about earth has less land and more waters. 

Bible 

We will learn about Gideon’s stories: gathering an army; strange weapons. Then we will learn about Samson’s birth and sin

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

Social Studies

We will focus on science for the next couple months.