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Let’s Go Out and Play
Area(s) of Focus: kindergartenDivision(s): PrimaryLevel(s): Kindergarten, Grade 1Resource(s) Available:To engage our kindergarten students in regular outdoor learning opportunities through monthly trips to our Board’s Outdoor Education Centre and to implement the new kindergarten curriculum through the lens of the natural environment.
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Building Mathematical Trajectories in the Early Years
Kindergarten teams utilized A. Lawson’s Developmental Continuum to examine strategies that children progress through as they develop mathematical understanding. Educators collaborated to lead learning in chapters of the resource What to Look For.
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Coding in Kindergarten and its Impact on Mathematical and Literacy Development
The Coding in Kindergarten project highlights the importance of developmentally appropriate coding opportunities for our youngest learners in order to foster their spatial reasoning, estimation, numeracy, oral literacy and problem-solving skills.
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Guided Math Through Math Workshop
Area(s) of Focus: kindergarten, mathDivision(s): PrimaryLevel(s): Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3Resource(s) Available:The goal of the inquiry was to identify where students are in their developmental understanding of mathematics and implement various instructional strategies to assist students in moving their thinking forward through guided practice.
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Exploring Spatial Reasoning in Full-Day Kindergarten
Educator teams from two full-day kindergarten classrooms and an Instructional resource teacher for mathematics explored the implementation of spatial reasoning tasks from the Taking Shape resource (Moss, J., et al.).
