Welcome back zquest...again!

we hope youve enjoyed your short holiday break.

weve been busy working in our rooms, at hope
college, and out of school getting ready for our next
6 weeks...trust me, it will fly by! just a few reminders
about the next 6 weeks

*traditional zPS is back in session starting Tuesday, Sept. 2
*bussing (for in-district families) and lunch (for all) begins to be offered once again starting Tuesday, Sept. 2
*NO parking in the front turn-around. Please pick the east or west lot to park when dropping off and picking
up your kiddos!
*You MUST sign in using the computer system in the office when coming to volunteer and/or visit
*kinder kiddos will need to continue to work on eating quickly, as our lunch time is reduced now that everyone
is back to school (30 minutes for lunch and recess)! Please make sure your kids know what they must eat
for lunch and what is a snack.
*Specials begin this week...YAY for our specials teachers!
*please remember to ask if you have any questions; all faculty will be happy to assist you if you are unsure!
*There is an important dates section at the end of the newsletter!
*DONT FORGET our Family Association meeting on Thursday!

Guess who!
Weve asked the teachers some crazy questions. See if you
can guess who is who!


teacher 1 teacher
2
teacher 3 teacher
4
teacher 5 teacher
6
teacher
7
teacher
8
teacher 9 teacher
10
Whats
the#1
most
played
songon
your
iPod?
Let it Go
by Idina
Menzel
Any Tim
McGraw
song
Ho Hey by
the
Lumineers
Shatter
Me by
Lindsey
Stirling
Leave the
Night On
by Sam
Hunt
The
Cave by
Mumford
& Sons
I Drive
Your
Truck
Hometo
wnby
Eric
Church
Happy by
Pharrell
Williams
Take My
Hand by
Shawn
McDonal
d
What
choredo
cooking cleaning
bathtubs
cleaning
the
Cleaning
the
Weeding Washing
dishes
Taking
out the
Washing
Dishes!I
Cleaning
the
Grocery
Shopping

you
absolutely
hate
doing?
bathroom litter
box
trash can'twait
tohavea
dishwas
her
again!!!
bathroom
Ifyou
couldbe
any
fictional
character,
who
wouldyou
choose?
Felicity
or
Samantha,
from the
American
Girl Doll
Collection
Fancy
Nancy
Olaf from
Frozen
Dorothy Cinderella Bond,
James
Bond
Cindy Lou
Who
Tigger Laura
Ingalls
Wilder
Mary
Poppins
Whatis
somethin
gyou
learnedin
thelast
week?
I learned
last week
that in
the iPad's
settings
you can
have it
read the
text to
you after
you
highlight
it; a
whole new
world for
beginning
readers!!
There
are lots
of
activitie
s
offered
at
colleges.
How to
set up my
classroom
phone!
Biotin
can help
your
nails
grow
really
fast!
Where
Dumont
Lake was
America
is losing
the
battle in
creating
creative
people
That
Think
Central
is my
best
friend
now that
I learned
how to
use it!
Ilearned
about
some
awesom
eipad
appsthat
Iwould
liketotry
outwith
our
students!
!!
Im
getting
better at
being
organized!
I learned
many
home
improvem
ent
things
like
staining
cupboard
s,
putting
up trim,
painting,
etc.
Whowas
your
favorite
teacher
whenyou
werein
school?
This is a
tough one
- I had
many good
teachers!!
The one I
keep in
the most
contact
with and
is now a
mentor to
me, is my
2nd grade
teacher
Mrs.
Carlson.
Mr.
Lisker
My high
school
anatomy
teacher,
T. (Yes, he
went by
the letter
T)
My 8th
grade
writing
teacher,
Mr.
Simone.
He was
so cool
and
funny
--I still
remembe
r some
of the
awesome
things
he had
us do in
class.
They
really
worked!
Mrs.
Dekker
Tony
Donk
Miss
Young,
4th
grade
Michael
Costello
"Cos"
My 3rd
grade
teacher
Mrs.
Rosine
I would
have to
say its a
tie
between
my
1st/2nd
grade
teacher,
Miss
Priest,
and my
5th/6th
grade
teacher,
Mrs.
Edwards.
Ifyou
joinedthe
circus,
whatact
wouldyou
liketo
perform?
Hmmm...
probably
some-
thing with
animals :)
Elephants,
Tigers,
and Bears
... oh my!
Working
with
elephant
s
The
elephant
act! (I
would
make sure
the
elephant
was well
taken care
of)
Either
the
tightrop
e walker
or the
trapeze
artist
High
ropes
Lion
Tamer
The
person
who rides
a motor-
cycle
through
burning
hoops!
Acrobatic
s
Nothing
--I dont
like the
circus
Trapeze
(If I
wasnt
scared of
heights
that is)

Would
youeata
bowlof
crickets
for
$1000?
NO NO Only if
they were
dead!
Maybe
for
$5000
NO! Yes NO
WAY,
not in a
million
years!
Probably,
haha!
Never If they
were
chocolate
covered...
probably
Ifyou
could
haveone
super
power,
what
wouldit
be?
To
transport
myself
from one
place to
another!
To fly To be two
places at
once
To time
travel!
To be
able to
fly
Photo-
graphic
memory
To read
minds
Flying!!!! Speed Time
Travel
Whatis
your
favorite
thingto
eat?
Anything
sweet -
fruit, ice
cream,
candy,
etc.
Pizza Peanut
butter
Cheese Blue-
berries
steak
and
potatoes
Water-
melon
(its not
in season
long
enough!)
Pizzaor
Steak,it's
anear
tie!
Pasta Any type
of fruit
- peaches
are my
favorite

What's
your
favorite
treatfrom
Captain
Sundae?

cookie
dough
flurry

The
Light-
house

Oreo and
cookie
dough
flurry
made with
chocolate
ice cream

Peanut
butter
shipwre
ck

Beach
Bum,

Peanut
Pirate

Captain
Cashew

Reese
Peanut
Butter
Cup
Flurry

Flavor
burst
bubblegum
The
Beach
Bum!

Answers: Teacher 1-Mrs. Foerch, Teacher 2-Mrs. Funk, Teacher 3- Miss Liz,
Teacher 4- Miss Marcy, Teacher 5- Miss JulieAnne, Teacher 6- Mr. Adams,
Teacher 7-Miss Leslie, Teacher 8- Miss Rogers , Teacher 9-Mrs. Villanueva ,
Teacher 10-Mrs. Blohm

ZQuest Staff Goes to College...Hope College...to
TEACH!

We are super excited to have started our
partnership with Hope Colleges Methods
and Curriculum Course this past Friday!
This is the BIGGEST adventure weve been
on so far, where we have the opportunity
to tell our ZQuest story to young adults
who are getting ready to enter the student
teaching world in the next two semesters!
So...off we went to Sue Brondyks class,
and I must say that not only were we
impressed with the excitement that they all
had, but they are even more excited to get
into our classrooms, work with our kids,
partner with the ZQ teachers to learn more

about Project Based Learning and what its like being a teacher right now! Friday, September
5 will be the first visit they make to us. During this visit the kids will be getting to know our
kids and just observing what personalities, learning styles, and teaching styles we have! On
September 8 and September 17, we will step out of the classroom and head to Hope College
again to continue teaching about PBL and helping the upcoming teachers actually plan a PBL
that they will teach to our kids. In between our visits with them, they will be coming and
working with kids at ZQuest, and then launch their PBL lessons on October 13, when we return
from our first break! If you see our Hope friends at school, feel free to introduce yourself,
chat with them, get to know them...who knows, there might be a future ZQuest teacher in the
mix!

Classrooms Updates
K-1
We have been working hard on building our reading stamina during the month of August.
Students have been introduced to workstations such as Read to Self and Reading to Someone
and in September we will be introducing Listening to Reading and Word Work First Grade
students will also be bring home a set of spelling words starting Sept. 2 =) Mrs. Foerch is
teaching Kindergarten Math! Well be starting our Math Expressions Curriculum in September.
Some will start with number and counting routines of numbers 1-10, others will start on finding 5
groups in sets of numbers. Mr. Adams is teaching First Grade Math and will start with finding
number partners and counting to 120 everyday. All K-1 kiddos will start a PBL/ Science unit about
using our senses. We are hoping to included a real-world shopping experience to the Holland
farmers Market (more info coming soon!). Our goal this past month has been to become
independent learners and will we continue to build those skills!

The Parts of an Independent Learner

2-3
Our 2-3 friends have jumped right into our first Social Studies PBL, about the history of Zeeland.
The kids are super excited about their field trip to the New Groningen Schoolhouse where they will
have the opportunity to participate in actual lessons from about 130 years ago. Mrs. Funks kids
have been engaged in lots of Science labs learning about how measuring matters. The kids are
having a blast! We have started our Math rotations and kids are getting comfortable moving
from one class to another and working hard in their Math stations. We will be starting our
Guided Reading rotations the first week in September. Our Spelling pretesting is done and we are
looking forward to getting into nice routine come September. We have completed all of our
district assessments and are using that information to start meeting with our kids at their
individual level. We hope that all of our new friends and old friends have felt welcomed and
excited about the wonderful journey that we are embarking on!
4-5
The 4-5 students enjoyed learning about the Scientific Method by conducting a
Gummy Bear Experiment during the month of August. We will use the
information learned and apply it to our science units throughout the year. In
language arts the kids have been working hard on building their reading
stamina. We have currently read continuously for 16 minutes and 32 seconds.
This means that all students are doing real reading with no interruptions. Also
in language arts, all students have created a personal narrative piece that they
will be finalizing the first week in September. In fourth grade math the
students have been working on Place Value and Rounding. In fifth grade math
students have been looking at comparing fractions. It has been a fantastic start
of the school year! We are excited to see continued growth in all students.

6-8
Ihavetosaythatthetransformationinourclassfromlastyeartothisyearremindsmeofthoseawesome
GrowaFriendtoysthatexpandinwater,exceptthatwearethe
GrowaClassroomedition!Wevenearlydoubledinsize!Inadditiontoour
newsizecomeanumberofnewandawesomechangesforus!Our
studentswillbeenjoyingelectiveclassesaswellasmusicclassesat
Creeksidethisyear,plusour8thgraderswillbeearninghighschool
SpanishandPEcredits!Wehavealsobeentheguineapigsforthe
districtsnewiPadbrowsingandmonitoringsoftware.Aswithallnew
things,itsbeentakingsometimetoworkoutthekinksbuteveryonehas
beendoingagreatjobofbeingflexible.Inanefforttoincreasestudent
independenceandcommunicationwithparents,Ivetransferredallofmy
classestoHaikuLearningratherthanInfiniteCampus!Thankyouto
everyonewhocreatedaparentaccountIreallythinkthatthiswillbeagreat
learningandaccountabilitytoolforall!ImtotallylookingforwardtotheconsistencyofSeptember,which
willbringPBLs,camp,insidejokes,andmorelaughsthanasitcom.(Andwewouldnthaveitanyother
way!)

Reminders

IMPORTANT!!!!!Thesiteshouldbeupandworkingcorrectlynow!Thankyoufor
yourpatience!

IFYOUAREPLANNINGTOCHAPERONEorVOLUNTEERinanywayatZeelandQuest...
youMUSTmakesurethatyouhavehadabackgroundcheckonline!Pleasegoto
https://v2ms.zps.org/Login.aspxandcreateanaccount(ifyouhaventalready).Theaccountyoucreateis
goodeachyear,howeveryouMUSTupdateiteveryyear(soputyourusernameandpasswordinasafe
place).

ThisisnecessaryforALLparents,grandparents,aunts,uncles,etc.who
wanttoattendtripsorcomeintovisit!WeCANNOTallowyoudowntoour
hallwithoutthiscompleted!

NEWSECURITYNEWS(ThiswillbeSTRICTLYenforced,sopleasebe
prepared)
Wethinkwehavetheissuesallfixed!Thankyouforyourpatience!
*PLEASEmakesurethatyouareCHECKINGinattheofficeBEFORE
comingdowntotherooms.ThisMUSTbedoneevenifyouareonly
droppingoffalunchorwalkingyourchildtotheirclassinthemorning.In
addition,youMUSTwearyourprintednametagatalltimesinthebuilding,
makingsureitisvisibletoallteachersandfacultyatalltimes.Youwillbe
stoppedifyoudonothaveavisiblenametag!Thesearethingsthatwe
mustdoinordertokeepallofthekidssafe!Thankyouforyourpatience
andforunderstanding!

BoxTopsNews
BoxTopsarecollecteddaily.Eachclassroomhasalocationforthem.
Pleasebesuretocutoutyourboxtopsonthedottedline,placeintoa
baggieorenvelope,seal,andmarkwithyourchildsnamesothatthey
getcreditfortheirboxtops.

CanTabsNews
WewillagaincollectcantabstobedonatedtotheRonaldMcDonaldHousecharity.Thetabsare
weighedandthenmoneyisdonatedtoRonaldMcDonaldHousetohelpsupportfamilieswhoneedto
staytherebecauseofachildsmedicalneeds.