Newsletter May 28-31

Information and Reminders
Animal PBL: This week we will finish researching and prepare a presentation about our chosen animals. If you have big shoe boxes, we would love to have them to make habitats for animals.

Farmer’s Market and Kollen Park: Wednesday, May 29 Rain date: Wednesday, June 5 9:00am-12:45pm We need 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
We recognize that parents have many immersion school options in the area. Thank you for choosing Zeeland Christian! We are blessed by each child who walks these hallways, and it has been a joy to see the growth over the past nine months. As you interact with others in the community, please share your stories of how immersion education at Zeeland Christian has impacted your family. In addition to being able to integrate our Christian faith into all areas of life and learning at ZCS, our school houses the largest and most fully articulated program in the area. It is the only tri-lingual school in the area. We are thankful to employ an incredibly diverse staff with teachers from over 11 countries. We always strive to place high expectations on language use and academic advancement while keeping the well-being of the whole child at the center. And we think we have one of the best parent groups around! Thank you for partnering with us in this and have a blessed summer!

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 will help us with finishing up researching our chosen animals and preparing for the presentation.

Bible
We will learn about the early church: Saul’s conversion; Paul begins his journey; Paul and Silas in prison; Paul in Jerusalem and Paul’s shipwreck.

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.

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