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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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Using Technology to Enhance Communication and Critical-Thinking Skills in Kindergarten
Identifying various open-ended/content-creation iPad apps that enhance and develop students’ oral communication and critical-thinking skills at the kindergarten level. Students use these apps to document their learning and show their thinking.
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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.).
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Teaching Talk: Integrating Oral Language Development in Early Learning Kindergarten
Focusing on the integration of explicit oral language instruction, with a focus on phonological awareness, into all aspects of the ELK program (routines, large and small group activities, individual instruction, and technology use).
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The Four Frames and Pedagogical Documentation
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.