Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Adrienne Clarkson
Elementary School
Agenda
Introductions
Welcome from ACES School Council
School Information
Extended Day Program
Early Learning Team
Full Day Learning Program
Starting School
Transportation
Frequently Asked Questions
Classroom visits
School Information
Our Students:
School Information
Our Programs:
triple track school
Regular, Early French Immersion (SK
entry) Middle French Immersion- (grade 4
entry)
Daily Schedule 8:30 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.
10:30-11:30 nutrition break/recess
1:15-1:45 snack/ indoor recess
Brenda Fick-Kahler
613-823-2200
stoneway@childrensvillage.on.ca
Registration packages are due May 29th
JK TEAM
Jennifer Fraser
JK/SK TEAM
Barb Clarke
JK/SK TEAM
Catherine Maulsby
Kelley Weatherhead
www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/kindergarten.htm
Curriculum Expectations
Social and Personal Development
e.g. use a variety of simple strategies to
solve social problems
Language
e.g. use language to talk about their
thinking, to reflect, and to solve problems
begin to use reading strategies to
make sense of unfamiliar texts in print
Curriculum Expectations
Mathematics
e.g. begin to use information to estimate the
number in a small set
investigate addition and subtraction in
everyday activities
Science and Technology
e.g. sort and classify groups of living and non
living things in their own way
Curriculum Expectations
Health and Physical Activity
e.g. practise and discuss appropriate
personal hygiene
discuss what makes them happy and
unhappy, and why
begin to demonstrate control of large
muscles with and without equipment
Yoga
Curriculum Expectations
The Arts
e.g. dramatize rhymes, stories, legends and
folktales from various cultures, including their
own
explore a variety of tools, materials,
and processes of their own choice to create
visual art forms in familiar and new ways
Play-based Learning
Neural pathways in childrens brains are
influenced and advanced in their development
through exploration, thinking skills,
problem solving, and language expression that
occur during play. Research also demonstrates
that play-based learning programs lead to
greater social, emotional and
academic success.
(Adapted from McCain, Mustard & Shanker, 2007)
Starting School
Transportation
Ottawa Student Transit Authority (O.S.T.A)
oversees all home to school transportation
for eligible students of the local school
boards (OCDSB and OCSB)
In Kindergarten, students living .8 kms
from school qualify for busing (the
distance increases to 1.6 kms in gr. 1).
Transportation Contd
Transportation Contd
Our Yard
Sign In/Entry
Opening Circle
Play Time
Nutrition Break
Gym
Library
Reading Buddies
dressing
toileting
managing lunch and snack
Thank You
This presentation will be available on our
school website.
You will receive your Kindergarten
Package in the mail by early July