My September break is long finished and soon it will be
reporting time for me as well as for those of you in the classroom back home. I
thought it was time to post something about my little tykes- pre-kindergarten
1. Children around the world at this age
are all the same in two ways-they have their own personality and are wonderful
with mild variances of wonderful. I have a sweet looking group-just check out
those faces below!!
They are starting to
know the school routines and showing their different levels of capabilities.
The puddle of tears produced by some of them in the morning has almost completely
stopped.
I have a full-time teacher assistant ‘Miss Rebecca’ and
fourteen students. The pre-kindergarten program leans towards the Reggio Emilia
inspired philosophy (educational importance of community and inquiry) and the
six team members plan collaboratively.
Thanks to Stacey and Sarah from LRCSSD I had a bank of ideas
to get started with. My sister, Helene has also been busy pinning ideas for me
on Pinterest. The emphasis in the
classrooms is the play development area which includes reducing the adult
footprint in the classroom. For example all of teacher desks were to be given
up and replaced with a student desk or a pod.
Many of the students are dropped off by parents around 8:15
and we gather them from the outdoor classroom at 8:25. Some students come with
a helper ‘care giver’ or by way of the school bus. We proceed in and basically
the day is composed of circle time, center time, snacks, story time/music,
lunch, rest time, two outdoor play times (recesses) , table activities with
3:05 as dismissal. Some of the days we have gym, budddy activities, Mandarin lessons, library, and
special projects. It is a very busy day!!
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