Developmental Domains: Social, Cognitive, Communication / Language

Overall Expectations:
Mathematics NS1: Demonstrate an understanding of numbers, using concrete materials to explore and investigate counting, quantity, and number relationships; Mathematics M2: Measure and compare length, mass, capacity, area, and temperature of objects/materials, and the passage of time, using non-standard and standard units, through free exploration, focused exploration, and guided activity; Science & Technology 1: Demonstrate an awareness of the natural and built environment through hands-on investigations, observations, questions, and representations of their findings; Science & Technology 2: Conduct simple investigations through free exploration, focused exploration, and guided activity, using inquiry skills (questioning, planning, predicting, observing, communicating);

Specific Expectations

Making Connections: Ways in Which Children Might Demonstrate Their Learning

Making Connections: Early Learning-Kindergarten Team's Intentional Interactions

As children progress through the Full-Day Early Learning-Kindergarten program, they: NS1.3 begin to make use of one-to-one correspondence in counting objects and matching groups of objects NS1.12 investigate addition and subtraction in everyday activities through the use of manipulatives, visual models, or oral exploration

Saying: "There are 4 sunflower petals so I need 4 seeds." Doing: Student has 3 beans and 2 sunflowers seeds in addition sentence and puts five in the total section

Respond: EL-K Team notices that a child is counting the same petal twice so helps by putting their hand where the child begins so they know when to stop counting Challenge: "What if we took one of the beans away how many would we have left?" Extend: Encourage student to make longer addition sentences with many different seeds

M2.2

demonstrate, through investigation, an awareness of

Saying: "Maybe I can use the blocks to measure

Respond: "I see you are using a measuring tape, can

non-standard measuring devices and standard measuring devices and strategies for using them

how tall my bean plant is today" Doing: One student uses a measuring tape and holds it at the soil and asks another to hold it at the top of the plant and read the number.

I help you read the number on the top" Challenge "What else could we use to measure our bean plant?" Extend Put out other materials to use as nonstandard measuring devices. "How will we know which plant is the tallest?" Respond: "What do you think plants need to grow nice and tall?" Challenge: "Do you think we can help the plant that is falling over? How?" Extend: Grow other types of plants to determine if they follow the same life cycle.

1.1

ask questions about and describe some natural occurrences, using their own observations and representations make predictions and observations before and during investigations communicate results and findings from individual and group

2.2

Saying: "Maybe the plant goes to sleep in the winter?" "Look the plants in the cupboard aren't growing anymore." "The plant without water is falling over" Doing: One child brings the plants in the cupboard back to the table beside the window Representing: One student measures the height of the plants and another records it in their tchart

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