Noticias 2D

Queridos Padres,

¡Feliz Navidad! Merry Christmas!!
What a joy it is for me to celebrate our Everlasting Father’s birth with your children this week! Their excitement, faith and sweet energy are contagious and I am so grateful for each child. I’m also praying that your family enjoys a wonderful, Christ-centered Christmas season together. Blessings to you!

Also, a HUGE thanks to all the generous hands that made it possible to fill the pack and play for the Beacon Ministry. We will be collecting all donations until Friday, December 20. Thanks!

We are reaching the end of our add.a.lingua CASA project; thanks for all your support and help. This week we will focus on giving feedback to each of the students highlighting their achievements.

Thanks for your continued prayers for unity throughout this year! 

Blessings,

Hilda Durán

This Week:
Bible Memory Verse: Luke 2 Due Date: December 18
Bible: We’ll learn about Jesus’ birth and the visit of the three wise men. Thank you for working on the long Luke 2 Bible memory verse at home! 
Literature Selection: ¡Cómo el Grinch robó la Navidad !
Phonics: Grammatical morphemes: los morfemas flexivos (según el tiempo: presente) Students will understand the concept of the present tense and begin to apply the present form appropriately.
Wall Words: estoy, está, vamos, sabe, limpio
Poem: Canción de todos los niños del mundo
Reading: During this week we will continue reviewing most of the reading strategies. We will also expand our vocabulary as we read Christmas- themed books.
Writing: We are finishing our realistic fiction books. During this week we will work on incredible endings, full of emotion, intrigue or happiness, who knows?...our writers are doing an excellent job! We will celebrate our Publishing Party with Maestra VanderPloeg’s second grade classroom.

Math: After weeks of practice, the students are ready to take their test. 
Science: We are having a lot of fun thinking like a scientist. This week we will learn what is matter and how can we classify and describe it based on its properties?

“Housekeeping” Items:
December 17: Middle School Christmas Concert 7:00 p.m. – ZCS Gym 
December 18: Jingle Jogs 11:00-11:30
December 19: All School Chapel - 9:00 a.m.
December 20: Classroom Christmas Party
December 20: Beacon Ministry Due. 
December 20: Publishing Party!
Dec. 23 – Jan. 3 Christmas Vacation

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Queridos Padres,

We have built our Christmas tree with the different names of Jesus as the Light of the world, the True Vine and others. We have also left our gifts at the foot of the tree to all of you. Feel free to stop and see a great job of your child.

Thank you very much for all of your interest in supporting the Beacon Ministry. The children are very excited to fill the pack and play for all those babies who need their beautiful contributions. We will collect them until the last day of school on Friday, December 20 when the Ministry coordinator will come to personally thank the children.

Thank you also for allowing your children to attend and participate in CASA project. We are having a lot of fun especially with the history of the book, deep thoughts about assuming positive intentions, and technology, best part ever! :)

Thanks for your continued prayers for unity throughout this year! 

Blessings,

Hilda Durán

This Week:
Bible Memory Verse: Luke 2 Due Date: December 18
Bible: This week we are going deeper into the story of the birth of Jesus and the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem for the census. Thank you for working on the long Luke 2 Bible memory verse at home!

Reading: This will be a major reading review week. We have compiled so many strategies to use as we improve our comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and vocabulary. This week we will practice when to use them. We will also expand our vocabulary as we read Christmas-themed books. 

Writing: We are adding more events to our stories to add suspense before resolving the problem! It is fun to see how excited these students are about realistic fiction. Ask your child what his/her story is about!
Math: This week we will work finding the perimeter and area of a variety

objects.
Science: We are very excited about Science watching videos of incredible inventions and talking to each other about how could he do something like that? This week we will focus on answering the questions, How do scientists investigate their questions? And How do scientists talk to each other?

“Housekeeping” Items:
December 10: Elementary Christmas Musical- 7:00 p.m. – Community RC 
December 13: No PM Busing
December 17: Middle School Christmas Concert 7:00 p.m. – ZCS Gym 
December 18: Jingle Jogs 11:00-11:30
December 19: All School Chapel - 9:00 a.m. 
December 20: Classroom Christmas Party 
December 20: Beacon Ministry Due.
Dec. 23 – Jan. 3 Christmas Vacation

The community is invited...

Macedonia Baptist Church is putting on a Musical in Spanish and they wanted to be sure our immersion student knew about this great opportunity to experience Spanish in the community. On December 22 at 11:00am they will present Un regalo de amor (A Gift of Love). See the attached invitations for more information.

For your information...

On Tuesday night, Holland Christian came to host a meeting about their immersion programs. Zeeland Public also has some options for our immersion students in high school. Should any parents ask you about high school continuing immersion options, you can share that both Holland Christian and Zeeland Public have Spanish options. Holland Christian is also beginning an Advanced Mandarin program for our Mandarin-speaking graduates.