Meeting an Olympian: Yesterday we met an Olympian, Veronica Brenner (Lucas's Aunt). Ms. Brenner gave a fantastic presentation to our class. We got to hold her silver medal that she won in aerials in 2002. As well, she was recently in Pyeong Chang as a coach for the skiing team. She spoke about a really important life lesson - Making mistakes is o.k and expected.
Ms. Brenner taught us how to do a 'full double full'. See if your child remembers the moves.
In pic below: Ms. Brenner is on the left.
Ms. Meghan (Occupational Therapist): Yesterday Ms. Megan reviewed how we have different sizes of problems and how our reactions should match our problem.
For example, a small problem using only affects one or two people, such as losing your pencil and should have a small reaction, where you would calmly say react and look for another pencil. If it was a big problem, then a student may have fallen and broken their arm and several people need to come and help and you will need to go to the hospital and you will have a big reaction, with screaming and pain. This sort of language can be used at home. Here is a video that you can review with your child (we have not seen this in class - an adult will need to read). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck0Hfn5ZHoU
Reading: From the website: readingrockets.org. Here
are some reminders about how important it is to make sure your child is
comprehending the book that they are reading. Please review. Try these
techniques when your child reads their Home Reading Books to you and when you
read books for pleasure at home.
Parents can focus on:
What parents can do to
help at home
· Hold a conversation and discuss
what your child has read. Ask your child probing questions about the book and
connect the events to his or her own life. For example, say "I wonder why
that girl did that?" or "How do you think he felt? Why?" and
"So, what lesson can we learn here?".
· Help your child make
connections between what he or she reads and similar experiences he has felt,
saw in a movie, or read in another book.
· Help your child monitor his
or her understanding. Teach her to continually ask herself whether she
understands what she's reading.
· Help your child go back to
the text to support his or her answers.
· Discuss the meanings of
unknown words, both those he reads and those he hears.
· Read material in short
sections, making sure your child understands each step of the way.
· Discuss what your child has
learned from reading informational text such as a science or social studies
book.
Here is a
video to support parents with ideas on how to check in that your child is comprehending the book that they are reading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HDkqGZc9o0
Science - The 5 Senses
We have begun to learn about the sense of taste. We are learning about the tongue. Ask your child about the taste buds and how different parts of your tongue taste things differently.
Here is a video that you can discuss with your child. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hwOL91cjwM
Ask your child about it.
Here are some great pieces of work showing the parts of the tongue.
Here are some pics from our workout during our Dance Strong in Gym
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