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    HWW Parent Letter 19-20

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    This document provides an overview of the transdisciplinary learning approach taken at a school. It discusses the communities and sense of identity and belonging they aim to create. It outlines the key lines of inquiry in areas like how our bodies and minds work, self-awareness, and well-being. It also summarizes the focus areas in reading, writing, data handling, measurement, patterns and functions, math, and literacy. Suggestions are provided for how parents can support learning at home through storytelling, discussions on emotions, self-talk, and connecting actions to their effects on the body. Important dates are also listed.

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    This document provides an overview of the transdisciplinary learning approach taken at a school. It discusses the communities and sense of identity and belonging they aim to create. It outlines the key lines of inquiry in areas like how our bodies and minds work, self-awareness, and well-being. It also summarizes the focus areas in reading, writing, data handling, measurement, patterns and functions, math, and literacy. Suggestions are provided for how parents can support learning at home through storytelling, discussions on emotions, self-talk, and connecting actions to their effects on the body. Important dates are also listed.

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    This document provides an overview of the transdisciplinary learning approach taken at a school. It discusses the communities and sense of identity and belonging they aim to create. It outlines the key lines of inquiry in areas like how our bodies and minds work, self-awareness, and well-being. It also summarizes the focus areas in reading, writing, data handling, measurement, patterns and functions, math, and literacy. Suggestions are provided for how parents can support learning at home through storytelling, discussions on emotions, self-talk, and connecting actions to their effects on the body. Important dates are also listed.

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    Transdisciplinary Learning

    Who We Are Reading


    Workshop
    We are Readers:
    *reading identity
    Communities create a *habits of strong readers (stamina, word
    solving strategies, paying attention to schema)
    sense of purpose, identity, *reading routines
    *talk about self as reader

    and belonging. Writing We are Writers:


    Workshop *identity as a writer
    *writing routines
    *develop independence as a writer
    Lines of Inquiry: *basic mechanics (spaces between words,
    etc.)
    *How our bodies and minds work. (function *talk about self as writer
    and connection)
    *An awareness of self and the choices we Data *collect and record information in a variety of
    can make. (function and connection) Handling graphs
    *make statements about graphs using
    *What contributes to well-being in our mathematical language
    community. (function and connection)
    Measure- *understand the calendar structure
    ment *days of the week vocabulary
    • Well-being
    • Self-awareness *sequence events
    • Mindful
    Unit Vocabulary

    • Mindfulness Pattern & *conservation of numbers


    Function *use and understand mathematical symbols
    • Group Plan
    *find simple more or less rules
    • Community
    (Examples)

    • Values
    • Emotions
    • Self-talk Stand-Alone Learning
    • Brain Hurters
    • Brain Helpers Math: *Knowledge: number identification, forwards
    • Optimism Number and backwards numbers, basic facts
    • Perseverance *Strategy: addition and subtraction
    • Empathy
    • Resilience Literacy *handwriting and fine motor
    • Flexibility *word inquiry

    How you can help at home: Important Dates:


    *Tell your child about times when something was hard for you and what you did to Sept. 2: ECAs begin
    persevere.
    Sept.19: Wai Khru
    *Tell your child about times you’ve made mistakes and what they taught you.
    *Sportscast your child’s physiological responses when experiencing emotions. (“Your Sept. 20: ISE Day (no
    fists are in balls and you are yelling. You are angry because you want the iPad and I school for students)
    won’t let you use it.”) Sept. 23: No classes
    *Become familiar with the Zones of Regulation. Sept. 27: Parent-
    *Tell your child stories from your childhood. With your child, tell stories from your
    Teacher Conferences
    child’s life. (“Let’s tell the story of the time we found a turtle on the beach.”)
    *Discuss the connections between actions and their effects on our bodies. For
    example, eating a healthy breakfast helps our brains to work hard. Getting 10+
    hours of sleep makes it easier to control our impulses and learn.
    *Cook with your child. Children are more likely to try new foods if they have helped
    make them.
    *Practice counting forwards and backwards from a random number between 1
    and 100. (Count on or back for a bit. You don’t have to go all the way to 0 or 100.)
    *Talk about learning in your home language. All of these suggestions can be done
    in your home language.
    *Pre-teach some of the vocabulary from above using your home language.
    *Do you use positive self-talk? Show your child how to do it.

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