Dear parents,
THANK YOU VERY MUCH for your wonderful birthday gifts this past Friday! Special thank-you to Abby who made this celebration so thoughtful and warm! Thank you very much! It’s my great honor to play such a big role in your kids’ life for around nine months. I pray that God will lead and help me to be a more Christ-like loving servant in the classroom to leave a good impact on your kids. I also ask for your prayers for God’s presence and leading as we interact and learn together everyday. Thank you very much!
This Thursday (Oct. 17) noon, I need to attend a meeting. I’m looking for a parent volunteer to look after the kids during their lunch time. He/She will need to be in the classroom from 11:55-12:20. If you are willing to volunteer, please email me. Thank you very much in advance!
This Tuesday afternoon I need to leave at 3:15 for a doctor appointment. Eva Xu will be in the classroom when I leave and supervise the kids until all are picked up.
I’ve attached some fun pictures from this past week at the bottom.
Announcement:
Gift & Magazine Sale
Our annual gift and magazine sale has begun! All orders must be turned in by Tuesday, October 22. *PARENT PRIZE* Sell 12 items and receive a FREE roll of wrapping paper (automatically added to your order) Email jschafer@zcs.org if you have any questions.
Parent/Guardian Teacher Conferences
Semco Energy
Unless you opted out, your child should have come home with your home kit. By Wednesday, October 16, please fill out the Home Energy Worksheet that came home. Please let me know if you need another copy, OR you can go online here http://ThinkEnergy.org/semco to fill it out and use our class code. If you choose to do it online, please let me know and I will email you our class ID number. If students return the sheet, they each get a color-changing pencil, and our classroom receives $100 for supplies. Thanks for your support!
Important Field Trip Parent Driver/Chaperone Information
Please make sure you check in the front office using the security sign-in system BEFORE the day of the field trip. We need a background check on all field trip drivers/chaperones before the day of the field trip.
- If you have already signed-in the front office this school year, they are all set.
- If you haven’t already signed-in this year, you must sign-in PRIOR to the day of the field trip so we can run the background check before you go on the field trip.
Tuesday Lunch Helper: Betsy Shafer
Thank you for helping out in the classroom!
Featured Friend:
If your kid is the featured friend for that week, please have him/her bring in pictures on Mondays. They may bring in up to 6 pictures, but please bring in one picture of him/her in the past, one recent picture and one picture of his/her family.
Week of October 14: Matt Moeller
Week of October 21: Chelsea Pyle
Field Trip Driver Sign-up
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0f45acaf2aa1fd0-2nd3rd
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. TerraCycle Info
Upcoming events:
October 17 ZCS Prospective Family Open House – 7:00-8:00 p.m.
October 21-22 Parent/Guardian/Teacher Conferences (Y5-8) – Evening – School in session. Please take a look at THIS LETTER for more details of what you need to know and how to sign up to meet with us.
October 23-25: NO School CEA Conference and Professional Development
October 29 Family Groups 1:00-1:40 p.m
November 1: Y5 – 8th-grade Grandparents/Grandfriends Day, 9-Noon. Chapel at 9 AM
November 7: NO PM Busing
November 7: Picture Retake Day
November 8: NO AM or PM Busing
Please notice: There was a date change for the 3rd-4th grade musical. It will now take place on December 10.
Curriculum Corner
2nd Grade Math:
- Explore 2-Digit Addition
- Addition with sum over 100
- Addition Method
- Buy with pennies and dimes
3rd Grade Math: Unit 1 Multiplication & Division with 0-5, 9 and 10
- Multiplication and Area
- Multiply and Divide with 4
- Use the Strategy Cards
Writing
This week, we are going to learn how to break a story into paragraphs and the norms when starting a new paragraph. We are also going to start to build our personal dictionaries.
Mandarin High Frequency Words to Produce and to recognize:
Students are going to get a new set of words. There will be a test on Friday for words to produce and to recognize.
Pinyin:
Able to recognize “o” and “e”.
Grammar:
- Some characters attach to the end of adjectives to make nouns: 学 ‐ ology，家‐ ist
- Phrases that describe nouns like “who speaks Chinese” or that show possession “her son,” always come BEFORE the head noun in a sentence.
- We use 小 before a noun to show affection to people younger than we are or to show that something is small.
- We need to use 的 to show an object belongs to someone. 我(I)+的= my, 你(you) + 的=your
Bible:
Unit 3: In the Beginning
- In the Beginning God…
- Creation: Days 1-3
- Creation: Days 4-5
During our devotion time, we are learning a new song called Listen Quietly. Here is a link to this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvhflHtVUC4
Bible Memory
Please help your kids practice Bible Memory at home.
Due date: Tuesday, October 22.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:27
于是，神照着自己的形象创造人；就是照着神的形象创造了他；他所创造的有男有女。
创世纪1:27
Reading:
I’m reading a series of a Japanese author’s book to the kids. His name is Miyanishi. This series is about a truck called Xiaohong and his friend delivering goods. I have read them some of the series. Students love those books. I look forward to having fun reading with them again this week.
Science:
We will continue to use the patterns found in the graphical representations to predict weather. Also, we are going to investigate how location of a temperature monitoring system affects the accuracy of the data collected.
2nd Grade Social Studies:
Unit 2: Where is my community and what is it like
Lesson #2: Where is Our Community?
Fun Photos:
