The learning encompassed by this frame supports collaborative problem solving and bringing innovative ideas to relationships with others.

As children progress through the Kindergarten program they: 

• communicate with others in a variety of ways, for a variety of purposes, in a variety of contexts*

• demonstrate an ability to use problem-solving skills in a variety of social contexts*

• demonstrate an awareness of their own health and well-being*

• demonstrate literacy behaviours that enable beginning readers to make sense of a variety of texts*

• demonstrate literacy behaviours that enable beginning writers to communicate with others*

• use the processes and skills of an inquiry stance (i.e., questioning, planning, predicting, observing, and communicating)

• demonstrate an awareness of the natural and built environment through hands-on investigations, observations, questions, and representations of their findings*

• apply the mathematical processes to support the development of mathematical thinking, to demonstrate understanding, and to communicate thinking and learning in mathematics, while engaged in play-based learning and in other contexts*

• communicate their thoughts and feelings, and their theories and ideas, through various art forms*

• use problem-solving strategies, on their own and with others, when experimenting with the skills, materials, processes, and techniques used in drama, dance, music, and visual arts

• use technological problem-solving skills, on their own and with others, in the process of creating and designing (i.e., questioning, planning, constructing, analyzing, redesigning, and communicating)