Dear parents,
Thank you so much for your active participation for the drawing game! Your kids are such good teachers, and you are such good students. I have received lots of good audios and fun videos. To tell you one important truth, your kids’ word recognition test scores are very high this week. I think this game contributes to the high scores. Please keep up this fun game with your kids.
Your kids will be coming home with a paper copy of their report card on Tuesday. We would like to encourage you to take some time to look them over. The format of the report is new. Therefore, please do not hesitate to let us know if you have any questions as you look it over.
Announcement:
Body Safety Lesson for 3rd graders
The Children’s Advocacy Center will be making a presentation to individual third grade classes on November 14. Please read the following letter for parents about the visit. Informed Consent Letter K- 4 ZEELAND
His Harvest Stand
In this time of giving, ZCS is going to bless His Harvest Stand, a local food pantry, with cereal and peanut butter. Encourage your child to choose a favorite box of cereal or jar of peanut butter at the store, and bring it to school by Tuesday, Nov. 26. A table will be set up in the front hallway for dropoff or have your child bring it to their classroom. Please help us fill the shelves of His Harvest Stand! Thank you for blessing others in our community!
Tuesday Lunch Helper for November 12: Melanie Lamer
Tuesday Lunch Helper for November 19: Melanie Lamer
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 November 11: Easton Chapman
Week of November 18: William Elenbaas
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:
November 12: Report cards go home
November 14: Zeeland Christian School Legacy Event at Holland Civic Center 6 PM
November 26 All School Chapel – 9:00 a.m.
November 27-29 Thanksgiving Vacation
December 10: 3rd/4th grade Christmas Musical @ Community Reformed Church *DATE CHANGE*
December 17: Middle School Christmas Concert
Curriculum Corner
2nd Grade Math:Unit 3 Length and shapes
3rd Grade Math: Unit 2 Multiplication & Division with 6s,7s,8s and Multiply with Multiplies of 10
- Multiply and Divide with 6
- Solve Area Word Problems
- Multiply and Divide with 8
Reader’s Theatre and Writing
The kids have been working hard on reading the script fluently. Lots of them can even recite their scripts! This week, students are going to draw some pictures for their reader’s theatre background. Afterwards, we are going to record it and publish it!
Again, here is the English script one_potato__two_potato and the Mandarin script 读者剧场-一个土豆，两个土豆
Students are going to continue writing their own follow-up stories for One Potato, Two Potato.
Whole story audio:
Narrator 1:
Narrator 2:
Narrator 3:
Narrator 4:
Narrator 5:
Mr. O’ Grady:
Mrs. O’ Grady:
One missed line for narrator 3:
Mandarin High Frequency Words to Produce and to recognize:
Students will learn a new set of words. I will send out homework sheets on Monday. There will be a test on Friday for words to produce and to recognize.
Here is this week’s quizlet for flashcard words. The last two words are only for 3rd graders. If 2nd graders are interested, go ahead and give it a try. https://quizlet.com/_7h8zie
Please see below to find how to use this quizlet.
How to use the quizlet? Don’t use the flashcards on the top. Instead, go under and go to the “Terms in the set”. For each word, your kid should first say out the pronunciation and think of its meaning by him/herself. Then, click the sound button on the right. It will read the word in Chinese and the English definition. I want to make this available to everyone. So if somehow you cannot access the feature that I’ve mentioned, please let me know.
Pinyin:
Able to recognize “ai”, “ei” “ui”
Grammar:
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可 ke combined with some verbs become part of the word and form idiomatic expressions
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过 tells us that an action has occurred before and helps us explain that something already happened or was experienced in the past.
Bible:
Unit 4: The Fall to Babel: Need for a Savior
- Noah builds the ark
- flood and promise
- Tower of Babel
During our devotion time, we are learning a song called Fruit of the Spirit 圣灵的果子. Here is a link to this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvhflHtVUC4
Bible Memory
We will give one more week for this memory verse, since it is hard. Due date: Friday, Nov. 15.
“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease”
Genesis 8:22
大地尚存之日，播种、收割，寒暑、冬夏、白昼和黑夜必然循环不息。
创世纪8:22
Reading:
I will continue to read aloud Miyanishi’s dinosaur series.
Science:
Because of the reader’s theatre activity, we will give science a pause for this week.
2nd Grade Social Studies:
Unit 2: Where is my community and what is it like
Lesson #7: Comparing Our Community to Another Community
Lesson #8: Consequences of Changing the Environment in a Community