Mindfulness, Math, and Mallards

Our family meeting focus this week has been to exhibit mindfulness.  Ask your child how being mindful can help them deal with stress, ignore false alarms to the amygdala, be a better community member, and be more adventurous!  Check out these young mallards participating in a mindfulness sort!

We have also rounded off our study of graphs and line plots (for now) and have begun talking about the four forms of place value.  Can you child tell you about those four forms for three, four, five, and six digit numbers? (standard form, word form, model form, and expanded form)  We’ve added in quite a few place values this week, so it’ll take plenty of practice before it’s “easy!”

Do you know how to predict?  We certainly do!  We have learned that predicting is not just guessing what will happen next in a story or text, but it’s also about having evidence or proof from the pictures, text, or personal connections to make a smart prediction.  We have also talked about how predictions may not come true, even though we have proof, so then we have to revise our prediction!  Ask your child to tell you about all the books we predicted with this week.

Lastly, have you seen the Mallard on campus?  We will have the chance to name him this year.  What kind of creative names can you come up with?

Your children are such wonderful little people, and I’m thrilled to spend seven hours a day with them!