Information and Reminders
Animal PBL: This week we will do research about our chosen animals. There will be a presentation for you on June 3 at 2:30. Please mark this date on your calendar.
Memorial Day Parade: May 27 Thank you to Kristi Van Dyk and one of the Timmers for marching with us this year.
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!
From the Immersion Director
Looking for an opportunity for you or your child to use your language outside of school? Check out this website: https://fluentfind.net Fluent Find is a company that helps to organize language learning/practice events through activities with native speakers. There will be a dumpling making cooking class offered in Muskegon that will be taught entirely in Chinese on May 25. It is for any level of fluency. Check it out here!
Curriculum
Language Arts
Reading Strategies—notice features of non-fiction books
Writers’ Workshop:
We will use our writing time to go with our PBL. We will write about the animal we are researching.
Math
More practice with addition and subtraction.
Science
Sixth graders from the Mandarin program helped us typed the questions and then we will find the answers by using books, iPads and computers with their help this week.
Bible
We will learn about the early church: Peter escapes from prison; Philip and the Ethiopian
We will learn about the fruits of the sprit throughout the year. For the month of May, we will learn about the fruit of self-control.