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Assessment Home Connection

Self-assessment is a powerful tool to help you evaluate your learning development.
Use the K-W-L chart below to keep track of your progress.

K What I W What I Want L What I Dear Parents,

As part of our social studies program, your child has been learning about
to Know
Know
Learned
Colombia. Your child learned ways that he or she can identify the main
physical features of the country, its natural resources, and its climate.
You can help your child by supporting our classroom learning.

Here are some things you can do to reinforce the message of this lesson

and our related learning activities.
• Ask your child to tell you about the lesson and what he or she
learned from it.

• Use the internet to review with your child a map of Colombia and
the importance of its location.
• Watch a video about Colombia, its major physical features, and

its importance as a country.
• Show your child different photographs of Colombia to determine
if the photos match his or her ideas about the country. Search

for geographical clues in the photos to have him or her
guess if the photos show the coast, the mountains, or

other regions of Colombia.

Thank you for being a partner with us
Tidbit in the education of your child!

Colombia is the only country in South America that
Research has shown that children with involved parents score
has a coastline on both the Paci c Ocean and the
better than others whose parents don't have a role in their
Caribbean Sea. education process. Help your child stay brilliant!

Caribbean beach in Colombia

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