Thursday, December 3rd, 2020, Volume 15 Issue 69
Supporting for Online Learning
Susan Lorow, Vice Principal
Many parents have asked how to support my child during online learning. Here are some suggestions from some top researchers in the field. 1. Struggle: It’s okay to allow your child to struggle. In fact, productive struggle is good for their brains and their learning. Please do not do the work for your child or tell them the answers. You can provide hints as your child practices, but please understand that struggle is part of the learning experience. If your child struggles too much, let the teacher know and we’ll schedule some additional small-group time. We know that you want to help but telling them the answers actually robs them of the learning experience. 2. Privacy: Step away from your child’s learning environment on a regular basis and allow your child to be wrong, to make mistakes, to take risks. Errors are opportunities to learn and the teacher needs to know which errors your child makes so that they can design appropriate lessons. 3. Read: Reading volume is highly related to overall achievement. Reading a lot builds background knowledge and vocabulary. Effective schools have students read about ninety minutes per day. Make sure that your child is reading a lot to allow the instruction to stick. 4. Practice: Practice does not make perfect, but it does make permanent. If you have time to help your child, allocate time to support their practice. The teacher will assign practice. The goal is not to just “get it done” but rather to apply what you have learned to these tasks. In fact, children need to overlearn at the beginning so that they can do things automatically. 5. Talk: Try not to ask your child what they did today during school and instead focus on what they learned. Ask your child, “Did you ask an interesting question today?” Talk about the learning and encourage your child to teach what they learned to members of the family. You might even record these teach-back sessions for the teacher to see what your child remembered. 6. Know: When the teacher talks about what the class is learning, try to take note and bring it up later. For example, if the class is focused on ending punctuation, ask your child to notice the punctuation on common items such as the cereal box. If the class is learning about fractions, have the child help measure using cups that have to be combined to get the right amount. Do you have an extra set of plastic measuring cups? Turn these into bath toys and talk to your child about how many ¼ cups it takes to make 1 cup. 7. Know: At TM we are using TEAMS for live classes and Seesaw for asynchronous learning activities. Learn about the system used so that you can assist your child.
“The Seattle Public Library’s Global Reading Challenge for 4th and 5th graders is back for the 2020-2021 school year, and this time, it’s all virtual! Students can choose to work in a team of 4-7 members to compete in the annual trivia competition, or they can choose to work solo on the new art reflection challenge. SPL has chosen 7 excellent titles for this year’s challenge. You can check them out from our school library or find eBook versions from the Seattle Public Library. 4th and 5th graders can also check Seesaw for author talks, book resources, and study materials!”
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Calendar
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– TUESDAY, DEC. 8TH 6:30pm FTME Board Meeting All are welcome ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– WEDNESDAY, DEC. 9TH 6:00pm - 7:00pm BFASG Schoolwide Enrichment Night ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– FRIDAY, DEC. 18TH 1 hour early dismissal (2 PM) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– MONDAY, DEC. 21st - MONDAY, JAN. 4th No school, winter break ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– TUESDAY, JAN. 12th 6:00pm FTME Board Meeting All are welcome –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Volunteer
Opportunities
Volunteering for our school definitely looks different this year! Please let us know if you would like to help by emailing our substitute admin secretary Cherese Williams at cnwilliams@seattleschools.org. Here are a few ways we could really use parent support:
Social Supervision – Even though we cannot have students together in person, we know that our students really value time to interact with other students outside the regular classroom setting. Consider hosting a lunch time hangout with a small group of students to give them an informal place to talk to others. In a virtual setting, we must have at least 2 adults together with our students for everyone’s safety.
Tech support – Are you tech savvy? Can you be on call to help troubleshoot tech problems for parents helping their children for one or more hours per week at a set time? If so, let us know your availability.
Deliveries – Some of our families find it difficult to come to school to pick up supplies and books that teachers are trying to get to them. If you are willing to help deliver these materials to our families’ porches, please let us know. As little as 1 hour per week will really help us out!
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