Dear parents,
We had a great time on Grandparents Day!
A big thank you to Dana Moeller and Kristi Van Dyk for helping out. Here is the link of pictures of Grandparents Day, feel free to download it. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/prxk59203ty0rtt/AACK8GH_ljd2Ye-OfQowlGQ4a?dl=0
Information and Reminders:
Thank you for those who turned in the questionnaire for conference. If you have not done so, please turn it in by this Friday.
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, or share special talents your family members may have been blessed with. Just inform me ahead of time what is your plan.
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
November Birthday Celebrations:
Kayleigh Van Dyk Thursday, November 10
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 any boosters you have.
Greetings Staff and ZCS Mandarin families,
We are eagerly anticipating a great celebration for Chinese New Year. This comes up pretty quickly after the Christmas Break, so we thought we’d give you a little advance notice! We will be celebrating on January 14th from 6:30 – 8:30 (or so) at ZCS. We would love to have you and your families join us for dumpling making (and eating) and good conversation. We also can’t wait to “ring” in the new year with the “bubble wrap fireworks,” which are always a highlight. More details will be coming as the date approaches.
We hope you can save the date and join us!
Dana Moeller
Carrie Traver
Kristi Van Dyk
Curriculum
Language Arts
-Reading Strategy:
Fluency-Use your face, body and voice to bring the story to life.
-Writers’ Workshop: We will start a new unit called Writing for Readers. We are going to use different strategies to make our writing readable and appealing to readers. This week we will exam readable and unreadable writings.
Math
-First Grade: We will review and have a unit test this week. We will also start a new unit about unknown numbers in addition and subtraction. This week we will use math mountains to find unknown totals and partners; practice counting on to find the unknown partner and find different partners for the same total.
-Second Grade:We will continue to learn 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 sort objects by texture(rough and smooth) and flexibility.
-Second Grade:We will finish investigating and describing our rocks this week. We will also learn about minerals and how rocks are made up of materials.
Bible
We will talk about Joseph’s brothers’ first journey to Egypt and Joseph’s brothers’ second journey to Egypt.