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Children naturally learn through PLAY and INQUIRY. In the Kindergarten program, the educators use FOUR FRAMES to think about children's learning. The four frames of kindergarten are Contributing and Belonging, Self-Regulation and Well-Being, Literacy and Math Behaviors and Problem Solving and Innovating
Children naturally learn through PLAY and INQUIRY. In the Kindergarten program, the educators use FOUR FRAMES to think about children's learning. The four frames of kindergarten are Contributing and Belonging, Self-Regulation and Well-Being, Literacy and Math Behaviors and Problem Solving and Innovating
(The Kindergarten Program, 2016, p.18)
Contributing and Belonging
Contributing and Belonging
This frame relates to children’s learning and development with respect to:
• their sense of connectedness to others;
• their relationships with others, and their contributions as part of a group, a community, and the natural world;
• their understanding of relationships and community, and of the ways in which people contribute to the world around them.
The learning in this frame also relates to children’s early development of the attributes and attitudes that inform citizenship, through their sense of personal connectedness to various communities.
(The Kindergarten Program 2016)
Self-Regulation and Well-Being
Self-Regulation and Well-Being
This frame relates to children’s learning
and development with respect to:
• their own thinking and feelings, and recognition
of and respect for the thinking and feelings of others;
• regulating their emotions, adapting to distractions,
and assessing consequences of actions in a way
that enables them to engage in learning;
• their physical and mental health and wellness.
What children learn in connection with this frame allows them to focus, to learn, to respect themselves and others, and to promote well-being in themselves and others.
(The Kindergarten Program 2016)
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What is Self-Regulation?
What is Self-Regulation?
Calm, Alert and Happy by Dr Stuart Shanker
Literacy and Math Behaviours
Literacy and Math Behaviours
What children learn in connection with this frame develops their capacity to think critically, to understand and respect many different perspectives, and to process various kinds of information.
This frame relates to children’s learning and development with respect to:
• communicating thoughts and feelings (gestures, physical movements, words, symbols, and representations, materials)
• literacy behaviours: use of language, images, and materials to express and think critically about ideas and emotions (listening, speaking, viewing and representing, and beginning to read and write)
• mathematics behaviours: use of concepts of number and pattern during play and inquiry... and begin to understand mathematical relationships, concepts and skills
• an active engagement in learning and a developing love of learning, which can instil the habit of learning for life.
(The Kindergarten Program 2016)
Problem Solving and Innovating
Problem Solving and Innovating
This frame relates to children’s learning and development with respect to:
• exploring the world through natural curiosity, in ways that engage the mind, the senses, and the body;
• making meaning of their world by asking questions, testing theories, solving problems, and engaging in creative and analytical thinking;
• the innovative ways of thinking about and doing things that arise naturally with an active curiosity, and applying those ideas in relationships with others, with materials, and with the environment.
The learning in this frame supports collaborative problem solving and bringing innovative ideas to relationships with others.
(The Kindergarten Program 2016)
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