Swimming & A Hunt at Home

• Tomorrow (Wednesday) we will begin our first round of swimming. Please help your child remember to bring his/her swim bag with the appropriate materials (found in the letter sent home last week). Here is some information on the swimming program and what it entails:
  
  Swimming Program Goals:
  
  
  • For every child to have fun, play and learn introductory swimming skills
  • To introduce how to stay safe in, on, and around the water.
  • To understand and gain competency in floating, gliding and sinking.
  • To develop submersion and breathing control.
  • To investigate and develop arm and leg action in, on and under the water.
  • Introduce and develop Stroke Technique for the free style / backstroke / breaststroke / butterfly
  
  
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• We are learning about patterns in class and want to make a pattern wall. Please encourage your child to find things from home that have patterns on them that you would allow him to bring to school (please no more than 5 per child). We would like to keep these for several weeks and hang in our classroom, but know they will be returned. Please label all items so they can be returned to the appropriate families by applying a piece of tape with your child's name.
  
  As your child searches for and locates patterns in your home, ask guiding questions to develop further understanding of this math concept. Some sample questions are:
  
  • What is the name of this pattern? (i.e. AB, AAB)
  • What sense do you have to use to know this is a pattern? (i.e. A color pattern would use the sense of sight; A texture pattern would use the sense of touch AND sight.)
  • If you added to this pattern, what would come next? (i.e. If the pattern is a stripped pattern of red, white, red, white, your child would identify red as the next color.)
    
  **If your child finds a pattern on something that is too large, heavy, or fragile to bring to class, encourage her to take a picture of the object and email it to our class email:  kgm@aisdhaka.org. We will post these pictures in our class and even on our blog!! (Of course she will need your help with this. :)