Information and Reminders:
Wonderfully Made: Willem Haveman Nov.7-11 Andrew Pyle Nov.14-18
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.
November Birthday Celebrations:
Kayleigh Van Dyk Thursday, November 10
November 4: Grandparents’ Day No hot lunch
November 9 & 10: No PM busing or hot lunch
November 10: Picture Retake
November 11: No AM/PM Busing or Hot Lunch
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.
First Grade Field Trip: Grand Rapids Children’s Museum Tuesday, Nov. 22 Students are not going to have time for hot lunch, please prepare a sack lunch for your child. Chaperons please come at 11:55am, we will leave school at 12:00pm. Thank you to Kristi Van Dyk, Dana Moeller, Cara Wickstra and Erin Harris for driving the field trip! Please bring the boosters you have.
Classroom Helpers: Thank you for those who helped with me. I would like more help for the coming months. New dates have been added, you can find the sign up here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LYJ2G_uUq5_8k06QON-6Z7qmLh57zftjz64P_i-pESM/edit
Curriculum
Language Arts
-Reading Strategy:
Fluency-Use your voice to sound like the character(feelings and tone), pay attention to quotation marks. Sound like a storyteller when the character stops talking.
-Writers’ Workshop: Students are busy with publishing their writing. They hope to get it done before Grandparents Day.
Math
-First Grade: We will relate addition with subtraction. Each equation can be written into four different equations. We will also talk about vertical form of equation.
-Second Grade:We will take unit 1 assessment this week and start learning more about place value, numbers to 200, and ways to represent numbers using base ten blocks, number names, expanded forms, etc.
Social Studies
We will continue talking 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 start our second science unit this week – Earth and Me, which is tied to the Terracyling Project and focusses on using resources wisely. We will start by learning different kinds of rocks and think about what rocks really are. **Students will need to bring a rock (or two) from home for class on Thursday. Thanks!
Bible
We will talk about Joseph’s time in Egypt. Joseph the slave, Joseph the prisoner and Pharaoh’s dreams.