February 23, 2024 | Pastor’s Breakfast and All School Chapel *Kindergarten and First Graders will help lead a few songs before the speaker. English Kindergarten class will be standing in front of the West side of the parent section.

Friday, March 1: half day

Book Character Dress-Up Day: Thursday, Mar. 28,2024- Plan and prepare a costume to resemble the character as closely as possible.

What We Have Been Learning:

Math: We have been working on addition and subtraction with in 10. This week we have also learned about math stories (story problems). This is a great way to have fun with math at home! Your children are doing very well creating and solving math stories.

Phonemic Awareness: I am so excited to hear the kids participating and doing well segmenting words and hearing sounds. There has been so much growth in the last few weeks.

Word Wall Words: This week we added to. Please continue to review reading and writing: a, at, and, am, come, go, here, I, is, look, like, me, my, see, the, this, to, up, we.

Writing Workshop: We are wrapping up our unit on pattern books and before we move toward “how to” instructions we are spending a little time working on simple sentences. We are really focused on spacing between words and handwriting.

Bible: We continue to read about miracles and Jesus’ ministry on earth. A highlight was reading about Jesus allowing children to come see him.

Daily 5: Our small group time has been focused on working on reading skills. We are working on sounding out words by slowly sounding our a word. We are also building the practice of rereading a sentence after we figured out the word.

Lexi was our friend Up In Lights last week! I was not good at pictures last week, but we all enjoyed seeing Lexi’s and listening to her favorite book about an Easter egg hunt 🙂 Lexi you are a great friend in our classroom!

• February 12, 2024 | No Busing
• February 13, 2024 | No Busing
• February 14: Valentine’s Day-We will have the class pass out Valentines. You do not need to write the names of everyone in the class, you may write to: a friend from: your child’s nameThis is great name writing practice. We have 22 students in the classroom. You may choose from home made or store bought valentines. We are encouraging students to spread God’s love by showing kindness.
• February 16-19, 2024 | No School // Winter Break
• February 23, 2024 | Pastor’s Breakfast and All School Chapel *Kindergarten and First Graders will help lead a few songs before the speaker. English Kindergarten class will be standing in front of the West side of the parent section.

What We Have Been Learning:

Math: This week we worked on addition using two color counters to keep track of our counting.

Literacy: We are learning a new center, using pictures as clues to sound out CVC words. We are working so hard on letter sounds and putting those together to write and spell words. I continue to see growth!

Bible: We love reading about miracles! This week we read about Jesus calming the storm, raising Jairus’ daughter from the dead and feeding the five thousand.

We enjoyed celebrating our friend Ivy-Up In Lights! She loves her family, cheeseburgers and her dog, Fozzie. We enjoyed listening to one of Ivy’s favorite books! We love you Ivy!

• February 9-100th day! In our kindergarten classroom, we will celebrate that we are 100 days brighter! Please try to have your child wear something bright! (yellow, any neon color, white, etc) We will have fun with some 100 themed activities and add a little glow to our day 🙂  (Many classrooms are wearing red for Lunar New Year, but we have talked with our friends in Immersion and they understand that Kindergarten will dress for 100th day. We will talk about Lunar New Year 🙂
• 新年快乐–Happy New Year! Join us for our Lunar New Year Celebration! 
  On Friday, February 9, more than 1.5 billion people will begin their two week celebration of the Lunar New Year. The Mandarin staff, students and families are excited to celebrate as well. The community is invited to join the celebration on Friday, February 9 at the Holland Fish and Game Club from 5:30-8:00pm. It will be an open house-style celebration with Chinese food for purchase, cultural crafts and activities, a traditional Dragon Dance and more!
•  February 10, 2024  6:00 pm – 800 pm | Snow Fest // 6-8 PM on the Sledding Hill *more information in the ZCS blue note
• February 12, 2024 | No Busing
• February 13, 2024 | No Busing
• February 14: Valentine’s Day-We will have the class pass out Valentines. You do not need to write the names of everyone in the class, you may write to: a friend from: your child’s name This is great name writing practice. We have 22 students in the classroom. You may choose from home made or store bought valentines. We are encouraging students to spread God’s love by showing kindness.
• February 16, 2024 | No School // Winter Break
• February 23, 2024 | Pastor’s Breakfast *invitations sent home Friday and Monday All School Chapel *Kindergarten and First Graders will help lead a few songs before the speaker. English Kindergarten class will be standing in front of the West side of the parent section.

What We Have Been Learning:

Hudson was our friend UP IN LIGHTS! We saw Hudson’s love for music and danced to one of his favorite school songs (House of Lord). We also learned that Hudson enjoys riding horses and loves cars. We love you Hudson!