Multilingual Family
Learning
Week of October 12–23, 2026
Unit 1, Topic 4: Art & Resilience
Hello, Bear Valley MultiLingual Families!
Each week in our English Language Development (ELD) classes, students explore articles, learn new vocabulary, and practice expressing their ideas through reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
I would love to invite you to be part of that learning!
This Week's Learning: Art and Resilience
Our Essential Question: How can art be used as a tool for resilience?
This week, students explored how individuals and communities demonstrate resilience through challenges and how art can help people express their experiences.
Key Content Understandings
Art can help people to recover from difficulties in their lives.
There are physical, spiritual, and emotional benefits to engaging with art.
Artistic expression impacts both the artist and the audience.
Art impacts individuals and their ability to be resilient on a daily basis.
Read Together
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We invite you to explore the articles students studied in class.
Article 1: Relieve Stress and Anxiety by Creating Art (Newsela)
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Article 2: Feeling Artsy? Here's How Making Art Helps Your Brain (NPR)
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Words and Language We're Learning
Students practiced using content vocabulary, specific verbs, language of explanation, and language of cause and effect.
Try This Together: Ask your student to teach you three words from this week's vocabulary chart. Then, use the words together to explain how an artistic activity can help someone respond to a challenge.
Our Classroom Visuals
Here are some of the visuals students used to develop their understanding of resilience and academic language.
Ask your student to explain what these graphics mean and how they helped them understand this week's learning.
Think and Talk Together
These are the supporting questions students explored in class:
What are some of the ways in which individuals or groups of people have to be resilient?
How can art help to heal the mind, body, and spirit?
How does art help you or your community to thrive?
Encourage your student to share their answers with you and explain their thinking.
Your Home Language Matters!
You are welcome to read, discuss, and answer these questions in the language your family feels most comfortable using.
Speaking, reading, and thinking in your home language helps strengthen the skills students use as they learn English.
Family Connection: Share Your Story!
Every family has stories, experiences, and knowledge worth sharing.
This Week's Family Connection Question:
Can you share a time when you or someone in your family demonstrated resilience? What challenge did you face, and what helped you overcome it?
We would love to hear from you! Google FORMS LINK
Simply reply to this email to share your family's thoughts, experiences, or stories. You may respond in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, or your preferred language.
With your permission, we may share some family perspectives with our class so students can learn from the experiences of our Bear Valley community.
Participation is always optional.
Thank you for supporting your student's learning and for sharing the knowledge, languages, and experiences that make our Bear Valley community special!
Miss Light
English Language Development Teacher
Bear Valley Middle School