Message from Teacher Lisa!
Hello families and friends! Welcome to this week’s Learning Resource! I hope you and your families are doing well and doing your best to stay as safe as possible. While we continue to work on plans to reopen, please feel free to contact me with any questions,
Also in this newsletter, you’ll find a few links that may be helpful to you this week. Let me know how they’ve helped you!
– Teacher Lisa (206)480-7230, lisap@nhwa.org
Useful Links:
Visiting a library in Seattle? Here’s some updates! https://www.spl.org/hours-and-locations/road-to-reopening
It can be hard dealing with all the stress we may feel as we start to reopen and head back to school. SPS has a resource here about anxiety and some resources to help: https://www.seattleschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Anxiety-Education-for-Caregivers.pdf
Our four progam-wide expectations are Be Compassionate, Be Curious, Be A Community and Be Courageous. This week we will focus on how children can Be A Community.
We are A Community when we:
- Are kind to one another
- Take care of one another
- Embrace our differences and cultures
- Share what we know and care about
- Solve problems together
In this week’s learning resource, you’ll find an activity related to this week’s expectation. Let us know how it went!
Social Emotional
Be A Community: Happy In Our Skin – This week we are going to be learning about how we can teach your child to be a community. The book, “Happy in Our Skin” paints a picture of a world that recognizes the value of diversity and accepting people, especially those who may be different from us. After listening to this book talk to your child about the people they saw in the book and how they were similar or different from themselves. Talk with them about your culture and other cultures that are in our community and how even though we are different we are kind and help each other. Ask me for the password….
Math / Science
Home Video (Science)
Click the link here and watch “Rosie Rabbit’s Radish” and think about what it takes to grow a vegetable or other plant- what do you need? Your child can draw a picture of what kinds of plants they would like to take care of one day. If you have your own plants or a garden at home, you can even show your child how to take care of them! Ask me for the password…
Language / Literacy
Letter Scavenger Hunt
What you will need:
Paper, scissors, and pen or pre-made alphabet cards
Cut out pieces of paper and write letters on them (or use pre-made alphabet cards). If your child is just starting to learn the alphabet, start with using only a few letters from their first name. Start the activity by showing them the alphabet cards you will be hiding. You can say the letter and letter sounds together. Afterwards, hide them in safe spaces where your child can explore and find them. When you have hidden all of the letters, ask your child to find them. As they collect the letters, say the letter and letter sounds again together.
Math / Science
Weather Activity
Go outside together and look at the sky. Is it sunny, cloudy, rainy, or snowy? Ask if your child feels hot, warm, or cold. Is it windy? You can draw a picture together of how the day looks.
If you are able, you can watch this song about weather before you go out!
Math / Science
Learning through sensory, scooping, and pouring
Homemade Sand:
4 cups dried, used coffee grounds
2 cups cornmeal
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
- Dry the grounds in the sun or in your oven on low heat. Make sure the grounds are extremely dry-otherwise they’ll mold. Stir all ingredients together and there you go!
- Provide funnels, scoops, wooden spoons for hours of mixing, stirring, and pouring fun. Empty bowls and small containers are great for dumping and filling.
Social Emotional
An Activity to remind your child that she or he is special
Collect markers, glue, scissors, and paper or poster board, pictures from magazines, printed out, or drawn by your child. Use whatever is available to you. You can also use pictures you have taken, if you are able to do so.
Ask your child to draw in different areas of the paper their favorite:
Foods
Colors
Toys
Activity
Sport