The Lunar New Year is a very special holiday in China (and in many Asian countries). As part of our children’s education, we want to help them recognize the cultural significance of this holiday. We’ve worked hard to provide some fun opportunities that are coming up as part of your child’s regular school day.

On January 24th (the last day before the actual Lunar New Year), all of our Mandarin students will have a morning celebration. They will spend time with International Students from Holland Christian in their classrooms; they will walk over to City on a Hill to play games (as a whole program). They will hear a presentation from the Chinese International Students about what the holiday looks and feels like at home. We will conclude our time with a lunch together before walking back to Zeeland Christian.

*** If your child enjoys Chinese food (dumplings, rice, noodles, etc) he/she can skip bringing a lunch this day – food will be provided. If you anticipate that your child would feel more comfortable (or have possible allergies) with a home lunch, then please send that along. We won’t be able to accommodate hot lunch that day.

We look forward to celebrating with your children!

TerraCycle

Here is a detailed list of everything we accept to TerraCycle at ZCS. Please look it over carefully, as the program changes a bit each year and even during the year.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HGFofovT_xYoLFC0LgxxffbdIG4jDZLW/view?ts=5dd85401

2nd Grade Math:

3rd Grade Math: Unit 3 Measurement, Time, and Graphs

• Tell Time

We have finished the part on units of volume and weight. I encourage you to help your kids take notice of liquid volume and anything’s weight. For example, when drinking a beverage, ask your kid to take notice of the volume label (e.g.  400 ml) on the bottle. When buying bananas, have your kids check the weight (e.g. 2 pounds).

Your kids should be practicing math facts at home during the week. They can do https://es.xtramath.org/#/home/index  or  https://www.timestables.com/       Also, there are numerous fun computer games for practicing. I’ve put some on my blog under “Resources”.

Mandarin High Frequency Words to Produce and to recognize:

Because of the short week and New Year Celebration on Friday, students will not learn a new set of words to recognize. We will review words that we have learned before, and learn a new set of words to produce. There will be a test for words to produce on Friday.

Pinyin:

Able to recognize “j”, “k”.

Grammar:

We will continue to talk about measure markers and the order of measure markers and nouns.

Unit 5: Abraham

• God Hears Hagar and Ishmael

During our devotion time, we are learning a new song called Thank You For Choosing Me 谢谢你拣选我. Here is a link to this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4FDL1eMI_8

Bible Memory

We will give another week for this Bible Memory. New due date: Friday, January 24. If possible, please help your kids practice Bible memory at home. Thank you!!

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

1 Peter 2:9

然而你们是蒙拣选的族类，是君尊的祭司，是圣洁的国民，是属　神的子民，为要叫你们宣扬那召你们出黑暗入奇妙光明者的美德。

彼得前书 2:9

Reading:

I will read aloud Nate the Great and the Snowy Trail.

Science:

New Unit: Let’s Move it! : Force and Motion

Activity 1 investigation question: What causes objects to move?

Students are going to explore the interactions of different balls, and record some cause-and-effect relationships that we have observed.

2nd Grade Social Studies:

Unit 3: How do Citizens Live Together?

Lesson #8: What is the Pledge of Allegiance and Why is it Important?