Hope you have a great weekend celebrating our Savior Jesus’ death and resurrection!
Information and Reminders
Continuous Enrollment forms are now PAST DUE. Please make sure you have completed the following for enrollment for the 2019-2020 school year. If you have not completed, please complete as soon as possible.
OPTS (One Page Tuition Form): This is the white form with your tuition numbers on. You would have either picked-up from the office or would have received in the mail from us. Please sign and return.
Gold Transportation Forms: These would have come with your OPTS. Please sign and return.
Continuous Enrollment Form: This is an online form that you would have received in an email on or around March 4th. Please complete this Continuous Enrollment Form.
Kids size scissors are needed: Our class needs a few pair of scissors, we have lost a few during the year. If you like to donate a couple, we’d love to have them. Thanks!
Critter Barn: Friday May 3 We will leave school at 9:10 in the morning.
LUNCH— Each child will need a lunch, snack and drink from home. To make lunch the easiest we can, it would be helpful if you sent your child’s lunch and snack in a sack that can be thrown away. Keeping track of lunch boxes could be tricky. We will have a large cooler or bag to keep the lunches in so please label your child’s lunch. Please pack a juice box or plastic water bottle for a drink.
CLOTHING—The Critter Barn does not cancel for rain so please dress your child appropriately. I would suggest either boots or old shoes and clothes that could get a little dirty. We will spend time both indoors and outdoors.
HUIZENGA PARK(instead of Lawrence Park)—Weather permitting, we will spend some time at Huizenga park right in Zeeland. We will be back to school by 3:15 in time for the bus and pick up.
I would like to have one more driver for this field trip. Please sign up at https://docs.google.com/document/d/11N2ysK2h3OIJDNf15RIGihGLSXfauwVq4a3vCbyUyEY/edit
Thanks to Paul Pyle and Kristi Van Dyk for driving the field trip. Drivers, please bring a cooler to put the kids’ lunch and snack in(each of you will take about 4-5 kids’ lunch and snack) and bring all the boosters you have. Thanks!
May Birthday Celebrations:
Wesley Elenbaas Thursday, May 2
Farmer’s Market and Kollen Park: Wednesday, May 29 Rain date: Wednesday, June 5 9:00am-12:45pm This is our last field trip. Each kid needs to bring their own sack lunch and drink. We will begin the day following a map of Holland Farmer’s Market and helping the children decide what to buy. We will go to Kollen Park to have lunch and play after the market. We will be back to school around 12:45. I am looking for more drivers for this field trip. Please sign up at https://docs.google.com/document/d/11N2ysK2h3OIJDNf15RIGihGLSXfauwVq4a3vCbyUyEY/edit Drivers, please bring a cooler to put the kids’ lunch in and bring all the boosters you have. Thanks!
Mandarin camp 2019
1st-5th Grade($40)
August 12-15 from 9:30-11:30
Through fun innovative methods, children will successfully start to speak, read, and write the language. For children who are fluent, our camp provides them the opportunity to use the language everyday while enjoying all the fun activities.
A step by step Chinese calligraphy class, Chinese jump rope, kung fu, arts & crafts, story time, sports, culture, and so much more, all in Mandarin!
Your child will have a great time while being exposed to Mandarin 2 hours/day, 4 days/week. The easiest and fastest way for your child to learn and retain this important language before school starts!
Here is the link: https://expanded.regfox.com/zcs-expanded-summer-camps
From the Immersion Director
With the weather warming up and summer just around the corner, parents often ask about the summer months. Here is a link to an excellent blog from add.a.lingua which addresses many of the questions that immersion parents have in regards to summer linguistic and academic growth. Check it out at: add.a.lingua blog post
Curriculum
Language Arts
Reading Strategies—If you don’t know, you can guess about what’s happening, about the feelings, about what someone might be saying. Just make a guess that makes sense with the title, the picture, and what’s happened so far.
Writers’ Workshop:
We will talk about how to think more details to add to our small moments stories.
Math
We will study math problems and scenes with teen numbers.
Science
We will observe the seeds growth for the next couple of weeks.
Bible
We will learn about Jesus’s parables: Good Samaritan; Friend at midnight; great banquet and lost sheep and lost coin.
We will learn about the fruits of the sprit throughout the year. For the month of April, we will learn about the fruit of gentleness.
Social Studies
We will focus on science for the next couple months.