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Quick Facts

Learning in District #146’s kindergarten classrooms is teacher-facilitated based on the District’s essential skills and learning standards. Thedistrict’skindergarten curriculum: • Is student-centered. • Includes developmentally appropriate activities. • Is engaging for every student. —High interest activities drive curiosity. —Learning is concrete and visible. —Students collaborate with peers. —Includes whole-child experiences to support age- appropriate social growth.

• Teaches real life skills including: —Conflict resolution.

—Turn-taking. —Social skills. —Problem-solving. —Communication and vocabulary.

What does learning look like inDistrict#146 classrooms? • Multi-sensory approaches for learning needs: students utilize their five senses to learn. • Movement and motion support and enhance learning. • Students learn in a context that is meaningful to them. • In the classroom, authentic learning is used to target essential skills: —Example: Retelling by using puppets, action figures, dramatic play, and/or acting out a story. ▪ This activity ties into their writing, vocabulary and communication skills. ▪ It also enables students to plan, work together and produce a product. • Many types and levels of text are used in the kitchen areas, author areas, classroom library, restaurant area, etc. —Provides students access to high-quality vocabulary through listening. —Provides students with appropriate text to learn to read. —Provides an opportunity for students to write about topics of great importance and interest to them.

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