Communication Skills!

Hello Everyone!

We had a good day today, researching our disease, going to music, playing some more Deal or No Deal to practice fractions and probability, and doing a cool experiment about “patient zero”! Did you find out who patient zero was? Tell me tomorrow if you figure it out! 

A key focus during this unit is COMMUNICATION. As part of the B.C. Curriculum students focus on three areas of lifelong skills called Core Competencies. You can read more information about them here. This year, we will be giving special focus to one-two areas during each of our large units. 

On the poster in our classroom, one of the words we focus on to be a lifelong, successful person and learner is COMMUNICATOR. We have brainstormed what this means, we talked about the “I CAN” statements today under Communication, and we discussed how this skill is used in MACC projects and other things we have done in the past, at school or at home.

Each morning, we have are having a special morning meeting (in addition to class meeting) to talk about core competencies and to get our day going! To practice COMMUNICATION, we did an activity from the book ZOOM, read the book I’m Bored, played the game TELEPHONE, and practiced how to have a conversation. In class, while listening to people read their Human Body Corporation letters, we have talked about active listening. What does active listening look like?

All of these things help us in our daily interactions with peers, adults, and our family. I encourage each of you to talk about COMMUNICATION at home. Do your parents have to be aware of communication skills in their work? How do effective communication skills provide you with new opportunities? How does communication help us get our needs met?

Ms. D