Dear parents,
Thank you so much for your Christmas gifts. It is very thoughtful of you to choose each gift for me. I really appreciate you, and I enjoy them very much. I hope you all had a great Christmas. Happy New Year to all of you!
Information and Reminders:
Wonderfully Made: Gibson Geurink Jan. 9-13 Max Harris Jan.16-20
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.
January Birthday Celebrations:
Owen Wickstra Thursday, January 12
Willem Haveman Friday, January 13
From the Immersion Coordinator
The extra days off from school often bring our students out into the community a little more. If your child has an opportunity to use Spanish or Mandarin outside of school during the holidays, I would love to hear about it. It is stories like these from parents that add value and purpose to the incredible language development that we see in the classroom. I hope everyone has a blessed Christmas!
Greetings Staff and ZCS Mandarin families,
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. Here is the sign up for the event
https://docs.google.com/a/zcs.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8mDUXg0mNZhu1CdVTLQqrTdqgRq-kouDypgduPWizo9uY1w/viewform?c=0&w=1
We hope you can save the date and join us!
Dana Moeller
Carrie Traver
Kristi Van Dyk
First Grade Field Trip: Lollipop Concert, Tuesday Jan. 24 at Zeeland East High School Thank you to Jane Klingenberg, Erin Harris, Meredith Geurink and Dana Moeller for driving the field trip.
Curriculum
Language Arts
-Reading Strategy:
We will continue our read aloud called Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater. Each week we will focus on one or two reading strategies to help us understand plot and settings of this book. This week we will focus on 1 comprehension strategy.
-Chapter-End Stop Signs: Each chapter will have at least one important event. At the end of the chapter, stop and jot about what the most important event is.
-Writers’ Workshop: We are going to learn about nonfiction writing. We will learn to write a how-to book which will teach or instruct people to do things. During the first week, we are going to read a few samples that were written by previous students. We will also going to brainstorm ideas to write our books.
Math
-First Grade: We will spend more time to practice make ten strategy. This is an important strategy of solving additions.
-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 review the economics concepts and have a unit test.
Science
-First Grade: We will use student learning about magnets, sinking and floating, and water to make boats.
-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
This week we will go back to old testament. We will talk about crossing the red sea; the ten commandments and building the tabernacle.