KC

As part of our unit of inquiry into Where We Are in Place and Time, KC have partnered up with a Kindergarten class in Canada as part of a project called Kindergarten Around the World. Michelle, our buddy class’s teacher, and I have been emailing each other to plan how the project might unfold. Michelle’s [...]

Through the class blog and twitter account, KC have found friends in other schools around the world. We have got several other Kindergarten classes on our blog roll, and they in turn have added us to their blog roll. Several times a week we check the other blogs and leave comments. We also check our [...]

Today we had a busy day out, full of nature-watching and adventuring. We started by digging sweet potatoes at a near-by potato field. This is a popular Kindergarten experience in Japanese schools at this time of year, and helps children to understand where food comes from and the cycle of the seasons. We had a [...]

Over the last month, teachers and class parents have been exploring ways of involving parents in their children’s learning. We have been delighted to work with parents in many different ways over the last week. Sharing children’s learning Many parents were able to come and spend time in the class-room so the children could show [...]

Throughout the Elementary school, each grade level buddies with another class a few years older or younger. This provides a wonderful opportunity for the children to interact and form relationships with children of a different age, and to make connections with children in different parts of the school.The children in Kindergarten are buddying up with [...]

Last week, school was closed as Typhoon 15 approached. This provided an authentic, connected experience involving children, parents, co-teachers and the ES Curriculum Coordinator. One child emailed me her work and I posted it on the blog. I left a comment and others quicky added their comments. Another child emailed me her work which I [...]

Today there is no school because Typhoon 15 looks like it will pass though Yokohama and Tokyo. It is VERY wet where I live! I wonder what the weather is like where you are? Even though we are all in different places, and not in our classroom, we can use the blog to continue with [...]

Recently some of the children have shown a particular interest in counting larger sets. I was intrigued to see what strategies they would use for counting numbers over 100, and I wanted to see how much they understood about the relationship between ones, tens and hundreds. I told the children that I had noticed that [...]

Over the past weeks, the children have had opportunities to work by themselves and with different partners to explore the new apps that have been installed on the iPads. The children were told that at the end of the exploration time they would be asked to feed back to the whole class, explaining their thoughts [...]