Students are doing great getting into the swing of things and figuring out our classroom procedures and schedules. We took this week to continue our Social and Emotional Learning during our Wednesday family meeting. Students learned how positive thoughts often lead to positive feelings and positive actions but negative thoughts tend to lead to negative thoughts and actions. A parent letter came home explaining our second unit that our class will be working through. Attached was a picture of person that helped out with our class activity. This is a great activity to use at home with your child! I gave the following example to students: Situation: Mom or dad asks you to clean your room. Negative Thought: I don't want to do that. It is boring. This leads to a negative feeling: Annoyed, frustrated. Which leads to a negative action: Child talks back to parent and shows disrespect. We then discussed if it is possible to change a negative thought to a positive one. Our class all agreed YES! We then replayed out the same situation changing our initial negative thought to a positive one. Positive Thought: It is my bedroom or mom and dad could use my help. This leads to a positive feeling: Helpful Which leads to a positive action: Child cleans room This is a great strategy use at home. This is something we will be using in the classroom to continue discussion around our thoughts influencing our feelings and actions positively or negatively. I encourage you to help turn your child's negative thoughts around to positive ones! The visual is a great way to help. Math: We started learning about multiplication this week. Students learned how multiplication is repeated addition. Students drew pictures to solve basic multiplication problems. Students are also learning that the first factor in multiplication stands for the number of groups, while the second number stands for the number in each group. For example: 3 x 4 stands for three groups times four objects in each of those groups.
Ask your child: Can you write a multiplication sentence for 2 + 2 + 2 + 2? They should answer with 4 x 2 because there are four groups of two. Reading: We started our first reading unit learning how to make reading the best it could be. Students learned it is important to find a good reading spot, choose books they love, read books like they are gold, and to talk about books! We practiced finding the perfect reading spot and staying there! This group of students sure love to read! I am excited for their enthusiasm they have towards reading!! Ask your child: How does a curmudgeon read? It would be awesome if they could demonstrate it for you using their current reading book! Writing: Students started writing in their journals! They have been eager to share their stories whether they are true or made up! Students practiced building their writing stamina and writing more than they did the day before. Science: Students learned about inherited traits and learned behaviors this week. They should be able to identify between the two of them. We did a few different activities to help us differentiate between the two. Our focus this week was on the traits of people. Our next focus will be on the traits of plants. Ask your child: Is "reading a book" an inherited trait or learned behavior? They should answer with learned behavior. Reminder: -Popcorn Friday is this week!
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Sept. 14th- First Day of Online Learning
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