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.

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 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*

• demonstrate an understanding and critical awareness of a variety of written materials that are read by and with their educators

• demonstrate an understanding and critical awareness of media texts

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

• demonstrate an understanding of numbers, using concrete materials to explore and investigate counting, quantity, and number relationships

• measure, using non-standard units of the same size, and compare objects, materials, and spaces in terms of their length, mass, capacity, area, and temperature, and explore ways of measuring the passage of time, through inquiry and play-based learning

• describe, sort, classify, build, and compare two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional figures, and describe the location and movement of objects through investigation

• recognize, explore, describe, and compare patterns, and extend, translate, and create them, using the core of a pattern and predicting what comes next

• collect, organize, display, and interpret data to solve problems and to communicate information, and explore the concept of probability in everyday contexts

• 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*

• express responses to a variety of forms of drama, dance, music, visual arts from various cultures

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