Nilde's Kindergarten class

Monday, September 7, 2009

Community helpers unit

One of our lines of inquiry is we all living in a community and having roles and responsibilities towards it. Vincezo, came to our classroom to explain to us what he exactly does in our school community. We talked about our own classroom essential agreements and we got to know a bit more our neighborhood (we've done a community map).
We became more general now, by inquiring who really helps us in our community. The traffic Instructor is one. The children have done their own lollipop signs and we went out to practicing crossing the road. It was fun!

Our first unit of inquiry: Helping Hands (Community Helpers). It's all about doctors, police officers, dentists, firefighters and teachers. We've started off by pre-assessing the children's knowledge about this theme (hands wreath). Then we've made a human graph (what do I want to be when I grow graph). After this, the role play took place. They love playing doctors!

Our first weeks of school went on like this...

On the first weeks of school, our children had time to play and talk, and get acquainted and talk, and get familiar with new rules and talk... It was nice to see them talking all the time! They missed each other... Our new members were well welcome and they all already feel very settled in.

Sunday, September 6, 2009

A new school year...

Hello everybody!

I am so glad to start a new school year, with new smiling faces. This is the group of children whom I'll be working, learning and having fun with this year!
I am sure together we'll make this a great experience for everyone!
I hope you, parents, enjoy this space and participate vividly on it. It's my present for all of you...

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

End of school year 2008/2009

It has been an interesting year!
I will continue this blog, however. New kids, new year... new challenges!
See you all back in August 2009!

(For my beloved children: you'll always stay in my heart! I'm so proud of you!!)

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Field Trip: the Zoological Museum - end

In the museum: where do these animals come from?
At the end, a group picture!

Field Trip: the Zoological Museum - more

Kids in the museum: hearing the different sounds the mini beasts make.

Field Trip: the Zoological Museum

Interesting! Kids could have a close look at little bugs and "big ones". Fun to go to... A nice tip for parents too!

Art on Mini-beasts

The children have created their own funny mini-beast. Very creative ... They have also painted ladybugs on rocks... They're sitting outside our door. Take a look!

The unit of inquiry and maths

As normal, we always try to integrate the inquiry into the main subjects of study. When learning 2D shapes, for example, the children have created a beehive (with hexagons) and sorted the shapes by curved and straight lines. We have also (on data handling) seen what is every body's favorite mini-beast.

Mother's Day

On Mother's day, we chose to present the mums with something to do with our unit of inquiry: a ladybug paper's holder. Really nice...

Another Bug Hunt

The Bug Hunt continues... this time we went to the duck pond near the school. This mini-beasts are very difficult to catch...

Monday, May 4, 2009

The Learner Profile within this unit

We aim that the kids will become more:

Inquirers

Caring

Knowledgeable

Bug Hunt - part 2

The search continues...

Bug Hunt

Very exciting: our first bug hunt! We are hopping to find butterflies, caterpillars and ladybugs. We found spiders, ants, slugs, snails, beetles and flies. They were all on our science table. At the end of the day, some children took these "new friends" home. Others, I had to let them go.