Information and Reminders:
Wonderfully Made: Aiden Douma Oct.24-28 Willem Haveman Nov.7-11
Please finish and send your child’s timeline the week before your child’s special week. During your child’s special week, it is a wonderful opportunity to have lunch with your child, bring in pets, and or share special talents your family members may have been blessed with. Just inform me ahead of time what is your plan.
October Birthday Celebrations:
Andres Duran Wednesday, October 19
Mike Moeller Thursday, October 27
November Birthday Celebrations:
Kayleigh Van Dyk Thursday, November 10
• Are you new to immersion education?
• Have you watched your older children advance through the immersion program but have questions about this approach to education?
• Are you wondering what is expected of you as an immersion parent?
You are invited to learn more about immersion education and meet the coordinator of the language immersion programs. This will be an informal round table discussion time for parents to learn and ask questions about immersion education. Please consider reserving one of the following times to attend: October 24 at 9:00am, October 24 at 7:00 pm We will meet in the media center classroom (the back corner of the library).
1st-4th Grade Concert: Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 7pm at Community Reformed Church
1st to 4th Mandarin students are going to sing How Great Thou Art at concert, you can help your kids to practice this song at home by going to my blog. The song is under Worship Songs.
November 4: Grandparents’ Day
November 9 & 10: No PM busing or hot lunch
November 10: Picture Retake
November 11: No AM/PM Busing or Hot Lunch
Curriculum
Language Arts
-Reading Strategy:
Comprehension—Retell the important parts of a story. This week we will focus on summarizing what’s most essential. The summary should include enough information to make sense to someone who hasn’t read the story before. At the same time, instead of telling details, students are going to say it by using simple sentences. We are going to choose five most important events in a story, and tell it across our five fingers.
-Writers’ Workshop: We will talk about editing. Most students have finished their revision. We will talk about editing especially punctuations. We hope to publish our writing early next week.
Math
-First Grade: We will talk about subtraction. We will learn how to both use pictures and equations to represent subtraction.
-Second Grade:We will continue to work on solving problems with not enough, extra, or hidden information. We will also learn how to solve more complex story problems that involve comparison, two-steps, and mixed word.
Social Studies
For next two weeks, we will talk about human and physical characteristics of places as well as ways in which people modify and adapt to the environment.
Science
-First Grade: We will start a new unit called Sorting Things Out while we are waiting for the winter and learn about weathers in winter. In the new unit, students are going to sort things into categories. We will learn words to describe the property of things as well as states of matter. In our first lesson, students are going to use senses to sort common objects based on similarities.
-Second Grade:We will complete our Organisms have Character unit, take a short assessment about things that we have learned, and move on to the next unit – Earth and Me. We will also start to talk more about our Teracycle PBL.
Bible
We will talk about Jacob escapes from Laban; Jacob’s homecoming and unit review. Then we will start Joseph’s story. This week we will talk about Joseph’s dream and Joseph is sold.