Dear parents,

We’ve had another great week. For 3rd graders, they’ve worked hard on their MAP assessments. Some of them have to complete the rest of our Reading MAP as we didn’t have time to complete it last week. We hope to get these done on Monday/Tuesday morning… but may need to get into Wednesday as well.

We are excited for our field trip to Walters Gardens on Monday. We are expected to be there from 1:00-2:30. We will be looking at many different plants and finding out about how professionals go about designing for landscaping and flower/vegetable gardens. This will help prepare us nicely for a 3rd grade Math PBL that we expect to begin the week of September 30. We’ll be working to design either for landscaping, a flower garden, or a vegetable garden.  We’ll be using online sources to help us plot out our designs.

Walter’s Garden Attending Parents: Betsy Shafer, Cara Wickstra, Ann Hemmeke, and Dana Moeller, please be in our classroom by 12:30 so that we can go over a few things before we leave around 12:50. If you have to submit a copy of your driver license/proof of insurance, please arrive early so that you can take care of that in the front office on your way in.

Our class is scheduled to have our class pictures taken on Monday, September 30, at 11:30AM. Your child came home with an order form for these in the week of Sep.16 . Please note that school pictures and school yearbook are to be ordered on this form. Please remind your child to take the form back to school on the 30th.

From the office: 

Student Pick-Up/Bus Info. If there is a change in any of the end-of-day normal pick-up/bus riding practices for your students, please communicate that with the front office. 

• Parents should call front office with the message, “Johnny doesn’t need to ride the bus this afternoon.” or “Please have Sara go to Extended Care instead of riding the bus this afternoon.”
• Parents may certainly send the teacher an email with the same information but a call to the office is also important.

Ottawa County Department of Public Health Miles of Smiles (MOS) mobile dental unit is scheduled to be in Holland throughout the 2019-2020 school year. Their mobile dental unit provides free, preventive and restorative dental services for financially-qualifying children.  Unfortunately, MOS will not be visiting ZCS, however, we want you to know that you can schedule your child to be seen on their mobile unit when they locate at a school in the Holland School District or West Ottawa School District.

Curriculum Corner

2nd Grade Math: Unit 1 Addition and Subtraction within 20

• 1. Problems with not enough, extra or hidden information
• 2.More complex compare problems
• 3.Two-step word problems
• 4.Mixed word problems

3rd Grade Math: Unit 1 Multiplication & Division with 0-5, 9 and 10

• Building fluency with 2s and 5s
• Multiply and Divide with 10
• Multiply and Divide with 9

Writing

Last week, we learned three different ways to start a writing. This week, we will experiment different ways to start a composition and choose our favorite one.

Mandarin High Frequency Words to Produce and to recognize:

Students are going to get their fourth set of new words. There will be a test on Thursday for words to produce and to recognize.

Grammar:

Bible:Becoming a Bible Explorer

• Lesson #2: Investigating Bible Content

Bible Memory

Due Friday Sept. 27. Please help your kids practice this memory verse at home as this one is very long. Thank you!

9 How can a young person stay on the path of purity?
    By living according to your word.
¹⁰ I seek you with all my heart;
    do not let me stray from your commands.
¹¹ I have hidden your word in my heart
    that I might not sin against you.
¹² Praise be to you, Lord;
    teach me your decrees.

Psalm 119:9-12

⁹ 少年人用什么洁净自己的行为呢？

就是要遵守你的话。

¹⁰ 我一心寻求你，

求你不要容我偏离你的诫命。

¹¹ 我把你的话藏在心里，

免得我得罪你。

¹² 耶和华啊！你是该受称颂的；

求你把你的律例教导我。

诗篇119:9-12

Reading:

Students are reading with a friend or by himself/herself daily. My aid and I meet with students to read with daily.

Science:

3rd graders are going to start to sort TerraCycle things this week.  Students may bring in accepted waste to be recycled from home. Here is a list of things we accept for TerraCycle at ZCS. TerraCycle Info

Thank God, we’ve got some rain today! We will compare the amount of rain water collected with other groups and talk about what needs improving.

Last week, we had some success and failure in making anemometers. This week, we are going to finish building anemometers and test out a wind’s speed.

We are also going to start learning to use thermometers and measure the temperature outside.

2nd Grade Social Studies:

This week we are going to learn Lesson #4: Comparing Different Kinds of Communities

Rain Gauge Pictures: