Animal tracks, snowflakes, outdoor learning, snowmen, and hibernation are interests that children revisit year after year each winter. In an effort to support learning in literacy and music and movement, our team introduces shared poems and songs that we sing with the children each day for one week. We also send a copy home for… Read More Winter Poems on Google Slides
We have enjoyed providing families with keepsake Christmas gifts each year and this year is no different. We came across these adorable gnomes from 100 Things to Do and thought that we’d put our own spin on it; rustic, natural, and Christmassy. We purchased a 2″X8″X8′ piece of spruce for about $13 from our local hardware… Read More Rustic Christmas Gnomes
The natural beauty of autumn leaves and fall harvests continue to impact our early learners as we explore, create, and imagine outdoors in our forest and school garden. As a way to integrate children’s fascinations with all that comes with autumn our team has co-created some intentional learning explorations that also connect to our student’s developing… Read More Autumn Play and Learning Invitations
As a cooler wind blows and autumn leaves blanket the forest floor we’ve been settling into fall in Kinderland. We’ve been harvesting from our school garden and even had a Thanksgiving Feast put on by our amazing parent school council. We offer many learning opportunities in our class that are reggio-inspired, but when it comes… Read More Thanksgiving and Fall Rustic Art Keepsakes
This past year we’ve challenged ourselves to thinking about how kindergarten prep coverage can be responsive to student learning and well-being with considerations like the flow of the day, interests and inquiries, documentation, and the Ontario Kindergarten Curriculum. Our prep teacher coverage was assigned phys-ed for 40 minutes everyday and an extra 40 minutes at… Read More Responsive Prep Teacher in Kindergarten
Our team continues to learn about supporting student’s spatial sense and this post includes 10 new spatial reasoning invitations with printables. Our previous post on spatial reasoning and thinking called, 10 Playful Spatial Reasoning Provocations, can be viewed here. The Ontario Kindergarten Curriculum affirms the importance of expanding children’s spatial sense as it can in turn develop… Read More 10 Playful Spatial Reasoning Provocations Part 2
Flowers, gardens, tadpoles, insects, and caterpillars are interests that children revisit year after year each spring. In an effort to support learning in literacy and music and movement, our team introduces shared poems and songs that we sing with the children each day for one week. We also send a copy home for families to… Read More Spring Poems on Google Slides
Our team has previously shared how we document children’s learning with tools like Seesaw and Google Forms. However, the tool we’re sharing in this post is about what we document with regards to noticing and naming the learning. It’s a compilation of “I can” statements in the form of Learning Goals in Kindergarten which correlates to the 2016… Read More Documenting with Learning Goals in Kindergarten
These rustic birch tree snowmen were a joy support our littles in making. Our class spend lots of time outdoors and in the forest. These snowmen are truly a reflection of our kindergarten experience. Each child selected their materials and made choices based on their preferences and creativity. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed seeing the children’s eyes… Read More Rustic Birch Tree Snowmen
Our early years team saw these amazing no-sew gnomes on Fabric Art DIY and just had to offer these as an invitation for our early learners. We asked families to donate old socks, mittens, buttons, and ribbons. The donations poured in thanks to our supportive families. The process involved children scooping rice into the bottoms… Read More Christmas Gnomes
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