Dear parents,
We started our PBL of making cards to sell them to Ditto in order to raise money for Hana Carmen from Grace Community Christian School in the Philippines. We talked about Ditto needs child-made thank you cards for their volunteers, but they could not find them on the market. Therefore, we will serve as producers to solve the problem of scarcity of child-made thank you cards. We hope to get all the cards done this week, and a first grade teacher will send them to Ditto.
After this project, we will continue doing the economic project by turing our classroom into Christmas cards factories and shops so that students will learn the concepts of producers and consumers. During the week of Dec. 12-16, students will work on making cards in their factories. During the week of Dec. 19-23, students will buy cards from other shops. Therefore, each student will need to bring 50 cents by Wednesday, Dec. 21 to buy cards. All the income of selling cards will again goes to the fund of supporting Hana Carmen from Grace Community Christian School in the Philippines.
Just for your information, students do not have to make cards at home. We will make all the cards at school. Thank you!
Information and Reminders:
Wonderfully Made: Jude Allen Dec. 5-9 Andres Duran Dec. 12-16
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.
December 9 No p.m. busing and No hot lunch
December 23 No a.m. or p.m. bussing and No hot lunch
December Birthday Celebrations:
Eli Larsen Thursday December 1
Gibson Geurink Monday December 19
Megan Pyle Wednesday December 21
Thank you so much for encouraging your kids to donate to Ditto. Dana Moeller and Meredith Geurink helped with dropping the donations at Ditto. Thank you both! We will continue of our project of giving. We will collect new hats and mittens
for Hats and Mitten Ministry at His Harvest Stand. Please bring them before December 16. Thank you for those who already brought hats and mittens in.
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-Snap to the next line. Only pause at punctuation.
-Writers’ Workshop: We will talk about different ways to improve our writing: write high frequent words in a snap; write small moment story; and write to make my partner understood.
Math
-First Grade: We will talk about place values. We will count by tens and add 10 to decade numbers; we will also represent teen numbers with drawings and equations.
-Second Grade:We will wrap up our current unit, review 2-digits addition, solving story problems, and money calculation, and also take the unit assessment this week.
Social Studies
We will make cards for Ditto in order to raise tuition for a student from the Philippines. In this PBL, we will tie in the concepts of consumers and producers; needs and wants as well as scarcity.
Science
-First Grade: We will observe the properties of water. Water is tasteless, colorless and odorless. We will also going to observe water as a liquid takes the shape of its container.
-Second Grade:We will take a look at ZCS’s trash this week as part of our study of using resources wisely. We will also discuss problems that we see and start brainstorming possible ideas for our science PBL.
Bible
From this week, we will talk about Christmas stories. This week we will talk about John the Baptist and Mary.