{"id":73981,"date":"2020-06-12T12:55:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T16:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=73981"},"modified":"2020-06-12T12:55:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T16:55:16","slug":"i-am-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-1-3\/whats-new\/i-am-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Listening, Viewing and Responding to Texts<\/h5>\n<p>Connecting with characters in things we read and listen to help us to think about our own lives and experiences.<\/p>\n<h2>Families:<\/h2>\n<p>Ask your child to think about what makes them who they are. You might ask, \u201cWhat makes you YOU?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With your child, listen to the book Looking Like Me by Walter Dean Myers and illustrated by Christopher Myers. As you listen together, find out what makes the character in the book who they are.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Story time: Looking Like Me - Kid&#039;s Books Read Aloud\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RjhFmGjbjtY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Below is an example of a poem that I wrote to share some of what makes me who I am. Perhaps your child would like to write a poem to share a little bit about what makes them who they are. Who might they want to share this poem with?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am me.<br \/>\nI am a daughter, a sister,<br \/>\nA wife, a mother.<br \/>\nI am an aunt, a niece,<br \/>\nA granddaughter&#8230;but not a grandmother.<br \/>\nI am a teacher, a friend,<br \/>\nA pianist, a gardner.<br \/>\nI like sunrises and sunsets,<br \/>\nAnd sparkling snow.<br \/>\nI am a singer, a reader,<br \/>\nA daydreamer, too.<br \/>\nI am kind, I am loving,<br \/>\nI am funny and brave.<br \/>\nI am curious, I am strong,<br \/>\nI am me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecting with characters in things we read and listen to help us to think about our own lives and experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72617,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73981","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73981\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}