{"id":998,"date":"2020-06-15T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/se-asiacenter.org\/?p=998"},"modified":"2020-06-15T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T23:18:00","slug":"breaking-down-big-words-and-current-events-3rd-4th-and-5th-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/se-asiacenter.org\/index.php\/2020\/06\/15\/breaking-down-big-words-and-current-events-3rd-4th-and-5th-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Down Big Words and Current Events | 3rd 4th and 5th Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hxPNeK3-9qs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this\u00a0lesson Ms. Fei\u00a0helps children better understand\u00a0important terms like\u00a0&#8220;systemic racism,&#8221; &#8220;police brutality&#8221; and &#8220;injustice&#8221; that are very much part of current events and which they might be hearing in the news and in conversations around them.<\/p>\n<p>Her\u00a0approach is to help children break down the words by searching for the root words within, presenting these\u00a0terms in a way that third to fifth graders should be able to comprehend.<\/p>\n<p>These terms can be highly charged so it is important for\u00a0parents to\u00a0realize that this is a starting point for\u00a0having a more in-depth discussion with your child about your own personal\u00a0position and to what extend your family is affected by various social conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Children are encouraged to draw a picture, write a poem, or write an essay about what they think they know about the current social unrest and how they feel about it. Also check the dictionary to get a better understanding of words that you do not know.<\/p>\n<p>The Bridge International School&#8217;s bridge building philosophy is predicated on promoting peace and finding commonality rather than stressing differences between groups of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this\u00a0lesson Ms. Fei\u00a0helps children better understand\u00a0important terms like\u00a0&#8220;systemic racism,&#8221; &#8220;police brutality&#8221; and &#8220;injustice&#8221; that are very much part of current events and which they might be hearing in the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/se-asiacenter.org\/index.php\/2020\/06\/15\/breaking-down-big-words-and-current-events-3rd-4th-and-5th-grade\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[364,365,366,362,361,367,363],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-online-learning-for-children","tag-3rd","tag-4th","tag-5th","tag-big-words","tag-current-events","tag-grade","tag-root-words"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/se-asiacenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/current-events-big-words.jpg?fit=636%2C437&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/se-asiacenter.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/se-asiacenter.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/se-asiacenter.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/se-asiacenter.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/se-asiacenter.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/se-asiacenter.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/se-asiacenter.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/se-asiacenter.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/se-asiacenter.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/se-asiacenter.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/se-asiacenter.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}