Highlights from our week…

I praise God for another great week of  Kindergarten! One of the biggest highlights for me this week was Grandparents Day. We’ve been talking lots in Bible about God being a covenant, faithful God. His faithfulness throughout the generations was clear as Kindergarteners, parents, and grandparents worked and played together Friday morning. Thank you for all of you for the parts you played in making that day so enjoyable! Thank you all for the donations of supplies, that prayers, the Gifts of Being Grand coordination, and to Christina, Doreen, Livie, Teresa, and Mindy for spending your morning with us.

This week the kids also made great progress in their Spanish pom poms jar! Each time Kindergarteners use Spanish unprompted, they earn a pom pom for the jar. When the jar is full we will celebrate! I anticipate the jar filling up this week! Soon after that, we will bump up the Spanish output expectation again. Your kids are making amazing progress! Please continue to encourage them and lift us all up in your prayers!

Important Dates.

• November 9 & 10: No PM bussing and no hot lunch
• November 10: Picture Retakes
• November 11: No AM or PM bussing and no hot lunch
• November 21 & 22: conferences
• November 22: picture trade & friendship fruit salad

Important Information

• Conference Questionnaire – Take a moment and fill out the google form sent to you last week by e-mail. This will help me better plan our conference together. Please complete by Friday, Nov. 18th.  Click here to complete the form. Thanks!
• Conference Sign Up – Conference sign up is underway.  Please sign up for a 15 minute conference with me. Refer to the email I sent out earlier for sign up information as well as the password. Please let me know if you need this information again.
• Thanksgiving –
  • Picture Trading –  We will be learning about trading in honor of the pilgrims and Indians during Thanksgiving. Please send in 20 wallet or 4X6 size photos of just your child. We will trade on Tuesday the 22nd. You are welcome to use a combination of wallets (maybe from school pictures) and 4×6 prints. If you watch websites like Snapfish or Shutterfly, they often have 1 cent print options.
  • Friendship fruit salad – On Tuesday the 24th, we will celebrate friendship by creating a fruit salad. Please send in 1 cup of chopped/prepared fruit for our salad. More details to come!
• If there are any more Gifts of Being Grand pages out there, please turn them in to me as soon as you are able. I will add them to your child’s spiritual journal, a collection of pieces gathered throughout your child’s years at ZCS.
  

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Check out how much we’re learning and growing in Christ!

Bible: This week we learned about Joseph! We learned about his family, his dreams, and his journey to Egypt. This week we will learn how God continued to take care of him while he was in Egypt. We also began our Bible verse for November. To practice with your child, please check out the video under the “Bible Verses” tab.

Literacy: This week we added Word Work to our Daily 5 choices! For the first time, Kindergarteners were also able to choose which center they wanted to do that day.

In grammar this week we learned how to change articles to match the number of nouns we are talking about. For example, el amigo means 1 friend and los amigos means more than 1 friend.

• Reading strategy: Making connections
• Word wall word: el papá (dad)
• Read aloud: Así Vamos a Escuela (review)
• Vocabulary Words:
  • disfrutar (to enjoy)
  • techos (roofs)
  • las zancadas (steps)
  • la campiña (countryside) *Some of our Kindergarten friends made connections between this word and where they live!
  • el titubeo (hesitation)
  • apurados (rushed, hurried)
  • los patines (skates)
• Phrase of the week: ¿Qué es eso?  (What’s that?)
• Letter of the week: Pp

Math: This week we reviewed and took our first math test! I am so proud of the kids for their hard work and can’t wait to show you the culmination of their hard work this unit! I will have their math tests for you at our conference.

Writing Workshop: This week we continued to draw out our stories and label the pictures. I am encouraging the kids to remember that wherever they are is exactly where they are supposed to be. Our goal is to listen for and write the initial sound of each word.

Play: We continue to enjoy playing vet, restaurant, and build cruise ships. This week we also started making Thanksgiving cards. On Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons we practiced some math centers and on Thursday afternoon the kids helped me prepare our classroom for Grandparents Day. They loved taking part in this process!

From the immersion coordinator, Jodi Pierce…

Add.a.lingua has lauched a new resource for immersion parents and you will want to check it out! Please visit addalingua.com and scroll down to the box that invites parents to learn more. After registering, you will find brief yet excellent information regarding immersion education.

Thank you, again, for the important part you play in helping our school days go smoothly! I am so proud of the hard work your kids are putting in every day! They have grown so much and it is a blessing to get to be a small part of it!