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Learning in Kindergarten

 

Characteristics of a Learning Situation in Kindergarten:

  • Comes from the interest/concern /need of a child (appropriate to child development)
  • Respects the play context of the kindergarten classroom
  • Promotes exploration, inquiry, problem based learning
  • Linked to the attitudes, behaviours, strategies, process and product(s)
  • Respects the Kindergarten mandate.
  • Respects the transdisciplinary nature of the Preschool Education Program
  • Encourages the child to be active(kinaesthetic sensory), reflective and metacognitive
  • Provides different avenues for children to demonstrate the same learning goal (not necessarily concrete measures)
  • Purposeful and meaningful for the child with respect to the contexts of the development of the competencies.
  • Is process driven
  • Respects the global nature of the competency(ies) being targeted.
  • Respects the child’s proximal zone of development.

Shared Learning and Evaluation Situations

How do Colours Express Your Feelings?

A LES created by Natalie Losier and Christiane Karamanoukian
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Inquiry : HOW DO COLOURS EXPRESS YOUR FEELINGS?
Complex Task: To create a painting using colours to express your feelings.
Targeted Competencies:

  • C2 To affirm his/her personality
  • C5 To construct his/her understanding of the world

Skills, concepts, or knowledge the students will need in order to carry out the task:

  • Learn about the different kinds of feelings
  • Learn about the primary colours and secondary colours
  • Learn about cool and warm colours
  • Learn how artists use colours to express feelings or a mood .
Do we Need Robots or do Robots Need Us?

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A LES created by Christiane Dufour

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Inquiry: DO WE NEED ROBOTS OR DO ROBOTS NEED US?
Complex task: Build and program a WeDo Lego Robot
Targeted Competencies:

  • C4 To communicate using the resources of language
  • C5 To construct his/her understanding of the world
  • C6 To complete and activity or project

Skills, concepts, or knowledges the students will need in ordre to carry out the task:

  • Science and technology: they will learn what is required for mechanical parts to move together and to act on each other
  • Language: they will learn how to build a model by reading and following a plan (Visual reading)
  • Language: they will apply writing strategies to create a visual program.
  • Mathematics: they will learn to sort and organise, to measure and count, to recognise and name shapes, to measure objects using a variety of strategies.
  • Learn to construct a program that does what they imagine it should do (and therefore to problem solve when it doesn’t)

 More resources, videos and support available in the Robotics in K section of the site.

* All graphic organisers
* Game Console
* Robot-Not Robot  Images
* Robot-Not Robot Signs
* Programming Pictos
* Programming Pictos (Large)
* Plans to build the robots
* Programming challenges 

Support videos

* Contexts for learning
* Links to QEP
* Prepare to read Plans
* Instruct a Robot
 
We Can and WeDo: Robotics in Kindergarten 

 A Canvas for Planning a Learning Situation  that includes the use of WeDo Lego Robotics materials. Created by a team of consultants and teachers  
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Implementation time: 4th term
Timeline: 4 weeks
Competencies Targeted

  • Competency 6: to complete a task or project
  • Competency 4: to use the resources of language
  • Other competencies can be targeted depending on the details of the LES you create.

AIMS OF THE LEARNING SITUATION

  • To expose students to working in teams
  • To encourage following step by step procedures
  • To expose children to child friendly technology
  • To develop problem solving techniques
  • To expose children to creating image-based story lines
  • To have students construct and program their own robots