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on January 05, 2013

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Portfolios in Kindergarten: learning stories

For many years we have heard the same story from our parents, "My child does not tell anything about school."/ "I wish my child can tell me more about his day". Our Kindergarten team decided to change the way we reflect on learning. We decided to reflect after every unit of inquiry (we have 4 units in K) not through report cards but with help of portfolios. We did use portfolios on the day of student led conferences, however it was only happening once a year. We think that it is important for parents to hear a learning story from a child rather than teachers. And it should happen often. What did we change? We decided to have an individual portfolio for every child (A3 folder) where a teacher collected child's learning story. We create a template with essential elements that we agree on first at out grade level meetings. According to PYP, we, as a team, build our unit together. We decide on central idea, inquiry lines, teacher questions, assessments (pre-ass

Playing with Photos

After taking pictures of my students I cut them in halves We put halves together We really enjoyed putting different halves together!

Habitats for Animals (summative assessment)

Today was a big day at school. We finished our unit ' Animals Kingdom ' and we were assessing how and what our student learned. We ask our students to choose any animal they like and create a habitat for it. It was great to see them busy... making a place for a cat Within two hours my students came out with LOTS of brilliant ideas... One student made a home for fish and a jelly fish Another made a home just for a jelly fish One girl in my classroom loves birds very much, so she made a home for a bird. She also put some rice into an egg box and she thought that her bird would need some water and she cut apiece of blue fabric to show water. One boy decided to make a kitten by using play dough and a photo of a real cat. a habitat for a whale shark a savana for a giraffe a home for a dog... this rabbit has a place to live! And he has a carrot to eat! Great Job, Starfish!

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