Counselor's Corner
March 2024
Counseling Monthly Focus
Learning style refers to the way your child processes and retains new information best. Learning styles are related to our senses and how we engage with material to understand and retain information.
There are four main learning styles: auditory, kinesthetic, tactile, and visual.
Let's break down each of the four learning styles a bit further.
Auditory
Auditory learners learn best through hearing and listening. They can follow oral directions easily and they may enjoy hearing stories read aloud to them, whether by an adult or an audiobook. When reading to themselves, they may prefer to speak the words out loud.
Children who prefer auditory learning can pick up on subtle changes in another person’s tone of voice and they often have a good sense of rhythm or pitch. Auditory learners may show an interest in music from a young age.
Kinesthetic
Kinesthetic learners learn best through doing and moving. Instead of being told how to do a dance step, kinesthetic learners need to get up and do it. This learner uses all five senses—sight, touch, taste, smell, and hearing, they like to use their whole body and can often be found moving or participating in hands-on experiences.
If your child excels at gross motor activities like sports or dance, and can easily repeat body movements, they may be a kinesthetic learner. Kinesthetic learners excel in sports or other physical activities.
Tactile
Tactile learners learn best through handling and manipulating objects and materials. They need to touch to understand. They prefer to move things around or draw them out to fully understand. These kids may have trouble listening in school if there is nothing to put their hands on.
Tactile learners may be gifted artists and enjoy working with clay or building complex structures with blocks. They may also enjoy science experiments or crafting activities, such as weaving or cutting out paper snowflakes.
Kids who tend to gravitate to their Lego sets or always want to touch what they see are likely tactile learners.
Visual
Visual learners learn best through seeing and reading. Written directions or visual images support their learning. Video instructions can be very helpful for visual learners, and they may easily forget oral instructions without visual cues or reminders.
Children who learn visually may have a strong sense of spatial awareness and tend to be good at visualizing information or concepts. These learners often take notes, rewrite words, underline, use different colors and highlighters.
Visual learners may enjoy reading and art. They may enjoy beautifully illustrated picture books or be fascinated by diagrams or maps.
Healthy Kids Tip
Supporting Your Child's Learning Style
Knowing which learning style fits your child best is a great first step in supporting their learning. There are a few ways you can take this further to promote your child's academic success.
Auditory learners may benefit from:
- Engaging in discussions about what they are learning
- Hearing verbal explanations
- Reading and repeating information aloud
- Using mnemonic devices when studying
Kinesthetic learners may benefit from:
- Acting out or role-playing new information
- Going on field trips
- Having freedom of movement whenever possible
- Using movement to study (For example, when teaching the water cycle, a teacher might guide a class of students through a dance with movements that align with each step in the water cycle.)
Tactile learners may benefit from:
- Creating art or doing crafts
- Experimenting with science labs
- Having access to hands-on materials that they can move and manipulate, such as math counters
- Working on building projects
Visual learners may benefit from:
- Drawing information out
- Creating graphic organizers, such as flow charts
- Seeing visual aids, such as diagrams, charts, graphs, and videos
- Using visual organization techniques such as color coding while studying
March - Upcoming Events
*Schedule subject to change without notice
3/1- Self Care Bingo (student activity)
3/8- Make/Decorate your own Journal (student activity)
3/8 - Levi Dickey Movie Night "Trolls Band Together"
3/14- Talent Show "Try Outs" (after school)
3/15- Mindfulness Meditation (student activity)
3/22- Positive Affirmations Bracelets (student activity)
3/29- Spring Break- No School
4/2- School Resumes from Spring Break
MTSS-B Data Update (February 2024)
Monthly Counseling Room Student Sign-Ins:
624 students (recess and lunch)
Friday Activities-
2/1- Kindness Chain - 48 students
2/9- Positive Affirmations - 32 students
2/16- Side-walk art chalk - 50 students
2/23- Yoga- 28 students
Tier 2 Interventions
-Small Groups
34 students participating in Small Group intervention
-CICO (Check-In/Check-Out)
26 students participating in CICO intervention
Tier 3 Interventions
5 students participating in T3 interventions
Attendance
Second Trimester (10/30/23-2/16/2024) - 93.39%
District goal - 96.5%
We have lost our Attendance Trophy for 2nd trimester. Let's work together to bring the Trophy back to Dickey for the 3rd trimester!!!
8.1% of our student population is chronically absent, down from 20.4% at the end of last year.
Less than 8.5% in September
Let's Connect!
Daniela Rodriguez
K-12 Intervention Counselor, MTSS-B
Levi H. Dickey Elementary
Daniela_Rodriguez@chino.k12.ca.us(909) 947-6693