paises que estan cerca, costa rico, Colombia.    oceanos que estan cercala  Pacific oceanos, Atlantic oceanosn.

panama flag cloras es asul, roja, and criatura    es capital

Tell your parents about your service learning project.
we are lerning about jesus and me and brycen are helping mr. huffman
Tell your parents about the Revolutionary Walk!
i am doing bunker hill and we have a walk throw to day

Good Morning,Sending this out Thursday this week so that you get one more day heads up for the things that are coming up next week. First and foremost is to tell you that we will begin taking the Measure of Academic Progress(MAP) assessment next week. I have included information given to us to help our students perform at their best. Please read it and encourage your son or daughter about the importance of giving this their best effort to “show off” what they have learned so far this year.MAP Growth AssessmentsWe’re looking forward to upcoming MAP Growth assessments! MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) assessments in Math, Reading, and Language will help teachers to understand how much students have grown in their learning this year and to know what they’ll be ready to learn in the upcoming school year.We’ll be taking these assessments in the morning during class on the following dates:Wednesday, May 15th, Friday, May 17th, and Wednesday, May 22nd. It’s important that students do their best to show all that they’ve learned this year! We are helping your student by preparing them to know what to expect on the assessment, coaching them on assessment-taking strategies, reminding them that they are capable of doing well, and shaping a structured and supportive classroom environment on those mornings.You can help your student by ensuring that they get proper sleep the evening before an assessment, feeding them a healthy breakfast on each assessment morning, and encouraging them to have a positive attitude and to do their best–this assessment is important, and they are capable!Together, we can support students in doing their best to show how much they have learned this year! There is additional information available at https://www.nwea.org/parent-toolkit/. If you have further questions, please let me know!We are going on a field trip this Monday to Calvin College to watch a chemistry demonstration. I understand this is one of the kid’s favorite field trips that they go on while at ZCS! Should be memorable!! Please have your son or daughter bring a sack lunch with them on Monday. There will not be food or snacks to purchase there. This is the itinerary for Monday’s trip.10:45 – Meet at our 5th grade classroom for final instructions.10:50 – Leave ZCS11:30 – Arrive at Calvin College – Park in Lot 1 or 2 which is to the left of the drive as you enter off of Burton St. Let’s plan on meeting right outside of the Gezon Auditorium so that we can all walk to lunch together.11:40 – Lunch in Knollcrest on Calvin’s Campus (kids bring sack lunch)12:00 – Kids run around outside for a bit.12:10 – Walk back to the Gezon Auditorium for use of bathrooms and for Chemistry Demonstration.12:30 – Chemistry Demonstration begins.1:45 – Chemistry Demonstration ends. Head back to school.2:20 – Arrive back at ZCS – drop off in the front of schoolI know you have already received information about Mr. Hutt’s Revolutionary War walking tour tomorrow afternoon from 2:20 to 3:10, but this is just a reminder if you are planning on coming. In Science we are delving more deeply into the relationships between organisms and the transfer of energy in various food webs. In math, the two classes are working through either measurement conversions(my class) or word problems and solving equations(Mr. Hutt’s class). In Bible class, we are learning about the servant’s heart that Christ had, and how the class can constantly try to be more like Christ in that area. We are also in the early stages of setting up a chance for both of our classes to do a service project with a group nearby ZCS. The kids will tell you about their idea in their Friday blog. In ELA the class is getting close to finishing their first drafts of their personal narrative.Thanks for your prayers and support at home for my concern about the behaviors that I was seeing last week. I have to say that this week has been much better! Please continue to pray and reinforce the positives at home! Hope you have a great weekend! Blessings, Paul

coding is programing  

we study coding so when we grow up and any job we uses with a competer we will need to uses coding.

Give your parents a brief summary of your topic for your personal narrative.
i am doing the time we went to Indianapolis/Indiana
Tell your parents three new facts that you will never forget about our solar system.
there is one stare in are soliersistum
What was your best part about this week?
baseball scrimmage

Hello, and Happy Friday!!

Not to many more of these as we are flying through the year! We are making our way through the curriculum in good order! Mr. Hutt is having the kids researching the various battles and events of the Revolutionary War. They spent yesterday’s lunch describing to me what they were learning. For example, the “Battle of Bunker Hill” was actually fought on Breed’s Hill. Who knew?!  Mr. Hutt is also coming to the end of the math chapter on long division and I am finishing up with measurement and geometry. Both groups will be assessed next week. In ELA, the class is into their second week of working on their Personal Narratives with Mrs. Keyser. They are making great progress on them, and are beginning to write their rough drafts. In my science class, we are bringing the Solar System unit to a close by taking the assessment today. In Bible class, we are finishing up the unit on the early life of Christ. They are learning what it was like to be considered an adult at 12 in Jesus’ time. I think my class is happy to still be considered a kid at 12!

This past Friday, the 5th grade put on the Chapel for the school, and things went very well. Mr. Hutt did a great job of reading the story If you were not able to attend, you can go to the school’s Facebook page and look at the videos and watch it.

I would like to thank all those who volunteered to drive to Calvin College on May 13th. We are set with enough to get us there! Thanks also to those who volunteered to purchase the consumables for our next science unit.

A bit short this week, but I am not short with good feelings about how this year is drawing to a close! I once again am reminded how fortunate(Blessed) I am to have found my way to Zeeland  Christian! Or, more likely, our Lord found my way here. I pray you all have a great weekend! In His name, Paul

Tell your parents one thing about my daughter Megan. 
she likes to right  and she read the harry potter books 10 times
Tell your parents about the video we showed for Chapel this morning! 
  it was funny  because they had bad grammar and it told the the good friday story 

Good Friday to you all,

As you reflect on this week, and the joyous good news of Sunday, know that we have been discussing and praying about God’s Blessings, and the knowledge that our Faith was founded on this weekend just over 2,000 years ago. This morning, the 5th grade teachers were in charge of the Chapel presentation. While the Easter story was being told, pictures drawn by your sons and daughters, was displayed on the screen. It was very powerful to see the pictures corresponding to the story as it was read.  The kids also had a chance to meet my daughter Megan this morning. She is an accountant for Lowell Light and Power, and they are closed on Good Friday. Megan said she thoroughly enjoyed meeting the kids, and could easily see why I enjoy teaching here as much as I do! Your kids made her feel very welcome!

Classwork has been going well in all areas. In Bible, we were preparing for the Chapel presentation, and continuing on with Christ’s early life. Once again, I would like to put in a reminder to have the kids practice their spelling words and Bible memory verse at home during the week. In ELA, Mrs. Keyser has been prepping the kids for their narrative writing pieces. Thanks to the parents that shared a memory with this last week’s assignment! Mr. Hutt is continuing with all the different applications of long division. Next week though he’ll be focusing on division with decimals and distinguishing between multiplication and division. In social studies they will be studying the differences between the British and Colonial armies.

In my math class, I am finishing up with the various applications involving volume of rectangular prisms, and composite figures. In science, we are getting close to finishing up our unit on the solar system, specifically the earth’s relationship with the sun in regards to the seasons.

I have had one parent volunteer for the field trip to Calvin College on May 13th to see the chemistry demonstration. I could still use 2-3 more. We will be leaving about 9:30, and will return about 2:30.  Thanks in advance!

I also want to put in a plug for my summer class that I will be leading the week of June 17th. I will be teaching a beginner’s golf class to those interested. We’ll meet MWF for 90 minutes. During that time, I will teach the fundamentals of driving, chipping, and putting. I will also give them a dose of golf etiquette. We will culminate on Friday by spending the 90 minutes playing a few holes on the Winding Creek course. I am not sure where this is advertised, but I heard there were only a few signees as of this week. I will take up to 15 kids. My brother in law, and possibly my son will be helping me out. It should be a great way to see if this is something your son or daughter wants to pursue as a hobby, or even a high school sport!

I hope and pray that this weekend is an incredible Blessing to you and your family as we all celebrate Easter!

Very sincerely, Paul Keyser

Open your Google Drive at home this weekend and show your parents your Informational Writing Piece.

Tell your parents 3 fascinating facts about our incredible universe.
urnis and neptun is going to talk like 2 houndred years

Explain to your parents some of the courting/marriage rituals from Christ’s time(try to use the word “betrothed” or “betrothal”). that you fother has to puich you wif

Hello, and once again, “Happy Friday”(actually many of you will read this Thursday),

Another short week due to what hopefully was our last snow day! I want to say how much I enjoyed meeting with the parents I saw Tuesday night. It was nice to get to know a few of the parents that I hadn’t had a chance to meet up to this point. I can see why this group of students is so special, incredibly committed parents! Thanks for all you do on the home front.

We are making good headway on the curriculum up to this point in the year. Mr. Hutt and I just switched our math classes. He’ll be focusing on Geometry, while I will be moving into long division with my group. Great time to put in a plug for having the kids practice their times tables daily. It will make their division that much easier to do. It is a real shame when a student does the problem correctly, but gets points off for not having the correct multiplication fact. There are numerous free games on the internet that do a very good job of giving kids practice. Good old fashioned flash cards work well also. 5-10 minutes a day can show great gains in a short amount of time. Only two days of science this week is keeping us still in the beginnings of our unit on the solar system. Good stuff, I really enjoy teaching. I love to point out incredible facts about the beautiful universe our Lord has created for us to enjoy. Mr. Hutt is still covering the French and Indian War. Talk about interesting stuff. I know how much I loved learning about all the wars that have shaped our history. The kid’s informational pieces should be in their final stages. Please give them a once over if you haven’t already done so. They can be found on your child’s google drive. “If” you have a color printer, and “if” it has ink, please consider printing it in color when they are completely finished. I use quotes because I know how many times I have gone to print something, only to find that my cartridges are empty!    🙂   In Bible class we are learning some of the interesting courting and marriage customs that were in place around the time of Christ. As for grammar, cursive, and spelling, we are making our way through the curriculum, but nothing exciting to note!

One of the reasons I am sending this out Thursday is so I can get a couple of reminders out before the weekend. The office would like me to remind you to stop in and get the OPTS(the tuition info for next year) form. Many of you had them at conferences already. They will not send them home with the kids. If you can’t stop in to get them, they will be mailed home mid March.

You may or may have seen a paper about our “coin war” to raise money for our sister school in the Philippines . It was introduced last Friday when I was at the science convention. Tomorrow is the last day of the contest to see what class can come up with the most change in their tubs. We have a decent amount of change, but we also have A LOT of paper currency, which counts as a negative to our total. For some reason, the Spanish immersion teachers have been sending their kids over right and left with cash to “bomb” our tubs. Secretly, I consider this a win because it is more for the school! If you have some spare change the kids can bring in, we would all greatly appreciate it.

Just something to put a bug in your ear, we are tentatively planning on going to the planetarium in Grand Haven on March 25th, and I will be needing drivers. As of now we are going in the morning, and will be back just before lunch. We would leave about 9:15, and return between 11:45 and 12. When we solidify the time and date with the man presenting, I’ll then take names for drivers. Thanks so much. I hope you all have an in

Hello and Happy Friday!
Tell your parents about your SS presentation.
we hade to mack suff about Massachusetts and are man foces was uninploed peopel

Tell your parents about your field trip to hear the Grand Rapids Symphony
we went to the sifeny and my faveret parert was we will rock you
What was your favorite part of the week, besides the above two topics.
sines

Hello and Happy Friday!

It’s been a pretty busy week here for the “Kids of Keyser’s Klassroom”! We seemed to have packed in quite a bit into 4 days. The kids worked diligently preparing for their social studies marketing presentations during their free time this week. They were very relieved when they finished them yesterday. From all reports, it seems that most of them went extremely well(at least that is what they told me). I wasn’t able to sit in on any of them, but I did get the chance to talk to most of the groups as they prepared for their presentations, and they were very interesting! I am sure Mr. Hutt breathed a sigh of relief when they finished them yesterday! In our Bible class, we are finished with the Return to Judah, and are going to delve into the early life of Christ starting Monday. After looking over the curriculum, I feel it should be very interesting for the kids, and will lead to some in-depth discussions!  In Science we are completing the Ch-Changes unit on matter and its properties, and will be starting a unit about our solar system, aptly entitled “To Infinity and Beyond”. This should also prove to be an interesting unit, that truly illustrates the incredible universe that our Lord created. We are continuing on with the many applications of long division in my class, and Mr. Hutt is in the midst of the unit on multiplication. Mrs. Keyser and I have been helping the class put their finishing touches on their informational writing pieces. Most of them are coming along extremely well. If they hesitate to show you, it may be because they are not as far along as they should be. I know they are not able to bring their laptops home, but you can have them email it to you, or they can log in to their Google account from home and you can view it from there.

The 5th grade were all treated to the incredible abilities of the Grand Rapids Symphony on Tuesday. It was an interactive experience for them as the conductor involved the audience(5th graders from the greater Holland area) throughout. They played about a half dozen pieces that ranged from Rossini’s William Tell Overture, to Beethoven’s 5th! That was one the kids all recognized.

Yesterday, the class spent some time with their preschool buddies. Once again, a thank you to Lisa Klamer for allowing us to come down and spend some time with her precious little ones! Our kids helped them put together something from various materials that might normally end up in the garbage(cereal boxes, toilet paper tubes, egg cartons, etc). They pooled their creative juices to make robots, cars, fire trucks, butterflies, animals, and houses to name just a few. The time flew by, and the kids are already looking forward to their next opportunity to go visit their little buddies!

Lastly,  I have been reading the book, “Snow Treasure”, and I have received permission to show them the movie of the same name. It is G rated, and there is a good summary of the content on the website, “Rotten Tomatoes” if you have any concerns. I will be sending home a permission slip today for you to give them the okay to watch it. I plan on showing it before Wednesday of next week, so please look for the form if they don’t bring it to your attention.

All in all, a busy, but very enjoyable week here for your sons and daughters! Have a incredible weekend! Paul Keyser