Highlights from our week…
Friday morning was our field trip to For the Kidz Gymnastics! THANK YOU to the wonderful moms who gave up their morning to spend time jumping, running, and playing with our class! The kids spent time in 5 different centers: an obstacle course, a foam pit, a bounce house, trampolines, and a rope swing into another foam pit. I bet your kids slept well last night! 🙂
Important Dates
- February 13: 100th Day of School! (information below)
- February 14: Valentine’s Celebration (information below)
- February 20: President’s Day Break- No school
Important Announcements
- Quarters for Wayne: Kindergarteners will work together to help raise money for our sponsor student in the Philippines by earning quarters throughout the month of February. You may collect quarters directly on the sheet with tape or in a separate Ziploc bag. If you need to view the sheet again, please click here.
- 100th Day Celebration: We will celebrate the 100th day of school on February 13th. We will have a special 100th day snack. If you signed up to bring ingredients please bring them no later than Friday, February 10. We will also dress up like we are 100 years old! This is 100% optional, but we thought it may be exciting for the middle of February. Some ideas include baby powder in your hair to make it gray, glasses, suspenders, a long skirt and sweater, or a cane. Google “kids dressing up like they are 100” for some more ideas. ?
- Valentine’s Day Celebration: We will celebrate Valentine’s Day on February 14th. We will have a small party and exchange valentines. You are welcome to start shopping/creating valentines for each classmate. Please note:
- We have 20 children in our class.
- Please do NOT write a classmates name in the “to” space. Just have your child sign their name in the “from” space. Names are too complicated for the limited time we have to pass out valentines.
Check out how much we’re learning and growing in Christ!
Bible: This week we finished our unit on Jesus’ Ministry. We learned about the Samaritan woman Jesus met at the well and we learned about Mary and Martha. We learned that Jesus wanted to spend time with Martha just as he wants to spend time with us. We followed up our reading and discussion by spending some quiet time journaling, praying, and listening to Jesus. We decided this is a practice we’d like to try more at school!
Literacy:
- Reading strategy: Visualizing
- Read aloud: El ratoncito, la fresa roja y madura, y el gran oso hambriento
- Vocabulary words
- fresa (strawberr)
- madura (ripe)
- la planta (plant)
- el oso (bear
- el ratón (rat)
- Word wall word: quiero (I want)
- Phrase of the week: Tengo __ años ___. (I’m ___ years old.)
- Letter of the week: Qq
Math: In math this week we practiced dividing bigger numbers into two smaller parts. For example, 3 and 3, 4 and 2, 5 and 1, and 6 and 0 are some of the parts of 6. We also practiced visualizing addition and subtraction problems as we saw them illustrated.
Writing Workshop: This week we explored pattern books with surprise endings. A surprise ending means that the author chose not to follow the pattern on the last page of the book. On Thursday I challenged the kids to write a surprise ending in one of their pattern books.
Handwriting Without Tears: We went back to numbers and practiced 1, 2, and 3. It was fun to combine this knowledge with what we are learning about teen numbers. Kindergartners are working on a book all about writing numbers 10-20.
Play: This is a highlight of our day for the kids and the teacher. 🙂 I love being silly during playtime with your children! This week we added a sensory bin of marshmallows to our purposeful play. The kids spent a lot of time building different structures with marshmallows and toothpicks. Nothing like getting a bit sticky while practicing our engineering skills!
Sophia and Lily built a church with their marshmallows and toothpicks.
Lydia built a park with her marshmallows and toothpicks.
Pierson and Eli are playing in an “I’m finished, now what?” center.
Up in Lights: Clive was up in lights this week! His mom, dad, and younger brother visited our class and shared many wonderful things that make Clive so special. Clive’s generosity, gentle spirit, and love for others struck me during his presentation. He brought in some playdough and tastes of two of his favorite foods for each one of his kindergarten friends. Thanks Kopas family!
Afternoons:
- Monday: art, rest, read aloud, recess, snack, play
- Tuesday: rest, math centers, recess, snack, play
- Wednesday: rest, math centers, recess, snack, play
- Thursday: rest, math centers, recess, snack, play
- Friday: rest, cards for a kindergarten friend, recess, snack, Kindergarten singing
From the immersion coordinator: Do you know what the threefold goal of immersion education at ZCS is? We aim to advance the students’ academic achievement, cultural competency, and insist on high level performance in the target language. We are privileged to do this all within the Christian environment of ZCS. If anyone you know would like to tour our program to see immersion education in action, feel free to connect with Jodi Pierce, the Language Immersion Programs Coordinator at jpierce@zcs.org.