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The Four Frames and Pedagogical Documentation
Area(s) of Focus: kindergarten, technologyDivision(s): PrimaryLevel(s): KindergartenResource(s) Available:Our purpose was to utilize the electronic portfolio (SESAME) to make the children’s demonstration of learning visible and meaningful. This tool would also be used as a parent communication and aid in the writing of the Communication of Learning.
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Making Learning Visible – Pedagogical Documentation Full-Day Kindergarten
Area(s) of Focus: kindergarten, revised curriculumDivision(s): PrimaryLevel(s): KindergartenResource(s) Available:This project aims to explore how documenting children’s learning can help to develop a community of learners that aims to increase student engagement, promote collaboration, and improve learning outcomes.
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Bringing Douglas Clements’ Math Learning Trajectories to Life Part 2B
Level(s): Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6Resource(s) Available:We dug deeply into the Spatial Thinking chapter of Clements’ book, Learning and Teaching Early Math. We broke up the trajectory even further in order to make it even easier for teachers to use to help move their students through their math thinking.
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Math Inquiry Across the Strands
This inquiry addresses geometry, number sense, measurement in a social studies context. Our initial inquiry was the creation of a Winter Math Festival. The second inquiry was an investigation of societies around the world (historic and modern).
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Reading Non-Fiction Texts in Social Studies
For this project, we developed lessons which integrate Grade 4, 5 and 6 social studies with the language curriculum. We used the fiction and nonfiction Reading Signposts by Beers and Probst to read social studies texts for deeper understanding.
