Hi room 5 families! We can't believe October has come and gone. Read on below to see what we have been exploring in room 5 and for ways families can support their child through discussion at home. In Fundations Ms. Addy is helping us learn about the letters s, d, e and r. We've learned all of the short vowels and are practicing on recognizing them in texts and hearing them in words that we want to write. At home parents can ask, "Readers scan the sentence to see if there are words and letters that they recognize. Do you see the letter ____?" "What sound does that letter make?" "Do you see any other words that begin with _____?" "Writer listen to the sounds the they want to write? Let's say the word you want to write slowly and stretch it out. What sounds do you hear that you know?" In October we celebrated Fall Festival at our school and Dia de Los Muertos. Gary's abuela is a vegan chef and partnered with Ms. Tasi to teach the class about sugar skulls to celebrate Dia de Los Muertos. Here we adding the final touches to our sugar skulls. We also had a special reading done by Ms. Diana (Amelie and Diego's mama) to learn about Dia de Los Muertos and what is done to celebrate the day and why. Parents can ask, "What does Dia de Los Muertos celebrate?" "What type of flower is used to celebrate?""Who does the day celebrate?" As a part of our project, we are learning about our emotions and how they can affect us and others. Ms. Jill, our school occupational therapist, stopped by to teach us about the Zones of Regulation and to help us create one of many clam down tools, a squishy ball. The Zones of Regulation is a way to group emotions and help students become aware of their current feeling and how it affects them and their body. For example, a student might say "I'm in the blue zone." Often times for young students feelings are hard to put an exact label on it so the zones help them identity what they are feeling and from there we talk about what it could be that they are feeling and what they need to move forward. As we all know feelings don't differentiate time and place, and sometimes feelings bubble up and erupt! When these moments happen parents can use the language students often hear at school, "For example, I notice you're upset, what zone is your body in?" From there parent and child can talk about what is making them feel like they are in a particular zone and what solutions they can do to move out of a particular zone and into a different one. In writer's workshop we are writers who can teach others through our words! We are exploring how our writen words can help someone learn to do something or teach them something new. Here we are writing our first shared book together. We are writing a How To Make Lemonade book from a shared experience we had at the beginning of the week. Kindergarteners are experts at many things inside and outside of school. At home students can write how to books on every day things that they are in charge of at home. It can be from a how to on putting away the trash to something like how to make brownies! Parents can help support students with this part of the journey in their writing by asking, "I notice you are writing a story on making _____. What are the steps to doing it?" "What pictures would help a reader know what materials to use and how to use it?"
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