And guess what? Daniel walked all the way to the other side of the bridge! Congratulations Daniel! You should be very proud of your commitment to climbing, balancing and the development of you gross motor skills!
This year Daniel has committed himself to becoming a more confident climber and balancer. On our field trip to the Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Adventure Playground he demonstrated his courage and commitment by trying out the rope bridge even though he initially didn't want to.
And guess what? Daniel walked all the way to the other side of the bridge! Congratulations Daniel! You should be very proud of your commitment to climbing, balancing and the development of you gross motor skills!
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Daniel's favourite part of our 'How we organize ourselves' unit of inquiry was our playscape experience in the Multi-Purpose Room.
He decided to include this experience in his portfolio because: "The things are fun. I rolled and bounced and crawled." Through this experience Daniel gained and became more confident with the vocabulary to accurately describe his movements. As emergent writers, we are always taking risks in writing. We are experimenting with sounds and letter formations, as well as pencil grip and different writing tools. As the year continues we are learning to make more and more letter and sound connections to express our ideas through writing. In our journals we do our best to add labels, descriptions, or short stories to our drawings. We also participate in free writing sessions where we write whatever we want for one to two minutes and use the writing centre and class mailbox to communicate through writing during free play.
Here is some of Daniel's journal and free writing work. Daniel confidently takes chances in writing and works hard to record his ideas, using his own knowledge and sound and alphabet charts for support. Daniel has a strong understanding of consonant sounds and is experimenting with vowel sounds now too. We watched a video with Bert and Ernie on the Sesame Street website called 'Guess What's Next'. They made patterns for each other and then had to complete them by guessing what would come next in the repeating sequence. After the video, we played this game in partners in our class with different manipulatives and materials.
Daniel said this game is an example of his best work because "It was fun and we made a pattern and guessed the next part."
During our How the World Works unit of inquiry, our class investigated how shadows work. As part of our inquiries, we asked our buddies to help us trace our shadows at different times during the day. During this activity, Daniel clarified his theories about why shadows change as he observed the sun going behind the clouds and the sun changing position in the sky at different times in the day.
Daniel chose this work for his portfolio because: "I liked tracing the shadow. I liked seeing my shadow." Ms. Alison agrees that our "How do shadows work?" class investigation represents some of Daniel's best work during our How the World Works unit of inquiry. Daniel's ability to form questions and reflect on and revise his theories guided our work as a group and allowed him to play a leadership role in our inquiry. Daniel tell us all about how he has learnt to throw! Near the end of our first unit of inquiry 'Who We Are', we had a chance to "show what we know". We used the 'Draw & Tell app' on our iPads to show the important people in our lives and explain how they have influenced us. Here is Daniel's reflection: Daniel chose this piece for his portfolio because: "I like what I said."
Ms. Alison chose this piece for Daniel's portfolio because it is an example of how Daniel reflected carefully on what is special about himself and his family over the course of our unit. Daniel understands how the things his parents help him with and do with him make him who he is. In a celebration of the International Day of Peace on September 21, Kindergarten 1 shared their ideas of what peace is with the whole school through a song and a video in the assemblies. Daniel thinks peace is . . . playing nicely
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