Reminders:

Monday: Please send in clean towels or blankets in a reusable bag. Thank you!

Please double check that your child has extra clothes in back packs. Thank you!

Tuesdays: Please dress your child for outdoor learning, including rain boots.

Tuesday ABC Countdown F Freaky Friday-dress like a teacher!

Thursday ABC Countdown H wear a Hat! Half day!

What We Have Been Learning:

Killian was our friend Up In Lights. We loved hearing about Killian’s favorite things…including Urban Air and Jungle Joe’s.

On our field trip Tuesday we noticed a few things the kids were curious about.

The walk through the woods reminded me how important it is slow down and notice the beauty and wonder of God’s creation.

Bubble Day!

We enjoyed activities with our penpals from Mrs. Arnold’s room.

C for Career Day!

Reminders:

Monday: Please send in clean towels or blankets in a reusable bag. Thank you!

Please double check that your child has extra clothes in back packs. Thank you!

Tuesdays: Please dress your child for outdoor learning, including rain boots.

Spring Field Trip to Hemlock Crossing

When: Tuesday, April 30 Students and teachers will take a bus from Zeeland Christian to Hemlock Crossing. Students will arrive at school as normal. We will leave school at 9:30. Parents may meet us at Hemlock Crossing. We will finish around 11 and travel back to ZCS.

Where: Hemlock Crossing 8115 W Olive Rd, West Olive, MI 49460

Who: The classes of Mrs. Bronsink and Maestra Zondervan

Why: We are exploring nature in the spring, noticing any changes that God is making in our world. We are able to compare and contrast what we noticed during our fall visit.

We are beginning our ABC countdown to summer on April 30! This is meant to be a fun way for us to enjoy the last 26 days of school together. Many days you don’t have to worry about bringing anything. There are a few days that I have added * Those days your child may be asked to bring something or something special. We hope to have fun and continue learning!

April 30 does not have * but I am adding bring a stuffed Animal for A! 

What We Have Been Learning:

Phonics: We continue to review digraphs and vowels. This week we focused on long and short I and words with wh and th.

Writing: We finished our last letter to pen pals. We are looking forward to celebrating our hard with with Mrs. Arnold’s class next week.

Bible: We are learning Matthew 7:7-8. Here is a song to help. We continue to read parables and learn lessons through the stories Jesus told.

Math: We continue to learn about teen numbers. We learned that when objects are lined up neatly or in 5 frames and 10 frames, it makes estimating the amount of objects easier. We learned about estimation!

We had fun reading with flashlights!

Exploring the pond with Mrs. Bosch.

Reminders:

Monday: Please send in clean towels or blankets in a reusable bag. Thank you!

Please double check that your child has extra clothes in back packs. Thank you!

Tuesdays: Please dress your child for outdoor learning, including rain boots.

Spring Field Trip to Hemlock Crossing

When: Tuesday, April 30 Students and teachers will take a bus from Zeeland Christian to Hemlock Crossing. Students will arrive at school as normal. We will leave school at 9:30. Parents may meet us at Hemlock Crossing. We will finish around 11 and travel back to ZCS. 

Where: Hemlock Crossing 8115 W Olive Rd, West Olive, MI 49460

Who: The classes of Mrs. Bronsink and Maestra Zondervan

Why: We are exploring nature in the spring, noticing any changes that God is making in our world. We are able to compare and contrast what we noticed during our fall visit.

What We Have Been Learning:

We are focused on vowels right now in Phonics. We are learning about long and short vowel sounds. We have reviewed a and e so far.

Phonemic Awareness: I have seen so much growth in the students hearing blends and digraphs. They are making connections in reading and writing as well!

Bible: We are taking a look back at parables…reading how Jesus taught through stories.

Writing: We have pen pals! Friends from our classroom and Mrs. Arnold’s classroom have written us letters. We were able to write a letter back. Writing these sentences takes a lot of work. I am so proud of the kids!

Math: We are in a new math unit and we are beginning to look at teen numbers. We are noticing that teens are ten plus a few more. We are learning how to count on from ten.

Vanessa was our friend up in lights. We love Vanessa’s sweet smiles and learned about many of the things she loves. We enjoyed seeing her favorite unicorn toy and singing her favorite song-just like her dad does on their church’s praise team!

Reminders:

Monday: Please send in clean towels or blankets in a reusable bag. Thank you!

Please double check that your child has extra clothes in back packs. Thank you!

Tuesday: Mrs. Bronsink is not here, a guest teacher will be teaching.

Wednesday: All school Chapel at 9:10

Friday: Author Visit for elementary

Our Week:

Urijah was our friend up in lights! We love Urijah’s love for animals, especially stuffies and his dog, Sterling.

We had beautiful weather Tuesday for Nature Rich Learning. Mrs. Bosch read a book about Easter with the illustrations made from rocks. Our students were able to recreate the story with rocks and other natural elements.

We enjoyed partner work in Math this week. We were working on partners that make ten and reviewing story problems.

We voted for extra recess when we had some really nice weather!

Reminders:

March 29-April 5 Spring Break

What We Have Been Learning:

Bible: We finished our Easter timeline this week. It is amazing to think of every single event from Palm Sunday until Easter. We tried to recognize the many emotions that were felt during the time, the worry, the sadness and then the joy of the resurrection. What an honor to celebrate the amazing gift!

Math: We are recognizing how we can show addition with different tools-like connecting cubes and two color counters and write the math expression with numbers.

Writing: We continue to work on stretching out words as we try to write them. This week we drew and wrote our hopes for spring break.

Phonemic Awareness: We are continuing to work on listening to blends. This can be tricky!

On Monday we had a Burn Bright celebration which was a puppet show!

We love our secret readers!

We celebrated Tinsley UP IN LIGHTS! We love Tinsley’s smiles and excitement for her friends and school. She loves to share her ideas with her friends.

Amazing job dressing up as book characters!!!

We enjoyed a special secret reader, Tinsley’s grandma, Mrs. Walters!

Our helpers of the day choose an exercise or movement for us to do while we count the days of school. This fun stretch kept us going as we counted by tens to 130 then continued until 132 days of school!

Reminders:

Monday, March 25 – Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day WEAR GREEN!

Tuesday, March 26 – Autism Awareness Day (celebrated internationally on 4/2/24) WEAR BLUE!

Tuesday, March 26 – Mrs. Bronsink is out of the building for a Language Arts meeting. Mrs. Hamilton will be the substitute teacher.

Wednesday, March 27 – Your Choice! Wear a specific color, shirt, bracelet, etc. to bring awareness to something you or your family are passionate about related to a specific diagnosis or disability. We can use this as an opportunity to learn more about what makes us all unique!

We had a chilly walk during Nature Rich Learning. We stopped at a few churches and areas to read a book that led us through the emotions shown in the Easter story.

What a blessing to celebrate Hudson on World Down Syndrome day! He is extra special to us!

Reminders:

Please send in clean towels in a bag on Monday.

Please keep an eye on this ever changing weather 🙂 We make sure kids wear a jacket when the weather is below 40 degrees. If it is sunny and above 40, we allow long sleeve shirts and no coats as an option.

March Secret Reader Sign Up

March 22 Wear pajamas to school (kindergarten only)

March 21 All School Chapel 9:10am

March 22 Half Day of School

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

March 29-April 5 Spring Break

What We Have Been Learning

Sifa was our friend Up In Lights! We enjoyed hearing books from his mom and dad this week. We learned about Sifa’s years in Kenya and his favorite things.

The class was able to explore fallen branches on school property during Nature Rich Learning.

We continue to love our Secret Readers!

Building with 7 pattern blocks during Math. We learned we can make many different things with 7 blocks and there are many ways to add to get 7.

We were going to write How to Build a Snowman and decided to practice building again with play-doh 🙂

This week we began reading the Easter Story. Beginning with the triumphal entry and Jesus teaching us how to serve others when He washed the disciples’ feet. We were sad that Judas was already making a plan to betray Jesus.

Reminders:

Please send in clean towels in a bag on Monday.

Please keep an eye on this ever changing weather 🙂 We make sure kids wear a jacket when the weather is below 40 degrees. If it is sunny and above 40, we allow long sleeve shirts and no coats as an option.

March Secret Reader Sign Up

March 15 Bring a favorite book to school (kindergarten only)

March 22 Wear pajamas to school (kindergarten only)

March 21 All School Chapel 9:10am

March 22 Half Day of School

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

March 29-April 5 Spring Break

What We Have Been Learning

Writing Workshop: We began our unit on how to instruction writing by writing how to blow bubbles. We first had to make sure we knew what to do 🙂

Math: The class is doing such a great job show math expressions with drawings and using two color counters. We are writing expressions such as 5+4 or 9-6.

Phonics: We worked on cvc words and understanding we could change the first letter to make a whole new word.

Phonemic Awareness: We are listening to th, ch and sh sounds in words.

We have loved listening to our mystery readers! I was even able to be a reader for Mrs. Arnold’s class.

During Nature Rich Learning we explored motion.

Sam was our friend Up In Lights this week! We love learning about our friends and we all learned that Sam was not born in Michigan. We did not know he lived in North Carolina! Sam, thanks for bringing lots of excitement to our learning.

We loved listening to an author read her book! Peanut Butter Pie helps us remember Pause, Breath Pray. This was an excellent book in helping us calm our bodies when we feel worried. It just so happened we had a tornado drill during the read. This worked well in keeping us calm during this practice.

Reminders:

Please send in clean towels in a bag on Monday.

Please keep an eye on this ever changing weather 🙂 We make sure kids wear a jacket when the weather is below 40 degrees. If it is sunny and above 40, we allow long sleeve shirts and no coats as an option.

March Secret Reader Sign Up

March 8 Author Visit

March 21 All School Chapel 9:10am

March 22 Half Day of School

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

March 29-April 5 Spring Break

What We Have Been Learning:

Daily 5: We have been adding books and word activities to reading groups. It is wonderful working with these growing readers. The kids also chose new books for their book boxes. I love to see them so excited about new books! They immediately sit down and start reading them.

Phonics: We are meeting new word families. The class is doing a great job understanding that word families have the same middle and ending. This week we were surprised how many words we made with et.

Word Wall Words: This week we added on. 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 beginning our new writing unit: How to instructions. To get us warmed up, students worked with a partner to put 3 piece puzzles together. We practiced using the words first, next and last when describing our puzzle. This will help us get ready to write out 3 step instructions.

This week we celebrated Oliver Up In Lights. We loved listening to Oliver’s favorite Elephant and Piggie book and hearing where Oliver and his family have traveled.

The class took holding up their signs very seriously as we cheered for the unified basketball team on Friday!

Reminders:

Please send in clean towels and towel bags on Monday.