Kindergarten News!

The K-2 AIG program is designed to help students develop higher order thinking skills. 

Students are introduced to Dudley the Detective, Yolanda the Yarnspinner, Isabel the Inventor, Max the Magician, Sybil the Scientist,and Jordan the Judge. Each character represents a higher order thinking skill used in his or her job. Each character guides students series of activities to introduce and reinforce their type of thinking. 

In the first nine weeks, students met Isabel the Inventor (Divergent Thinking).  She helps us to use our imagination to see ordinary things in new ways.

Below you will see our "Brainfocals!"  When use these special glasses to help us see ordinary things in new ways!

  

After reading Not a Stick, by Antoinette Portis, students used their imagination to brainstorm new uses for this everyday object.

 a swingset

 a unicorn

a  straw

the letter "e" for Edwin

Students also turned ordinary bubbles into extraordinary creations and used polygons to devise an invention that could move and help people.  Be sure to ask your child about the Isabel the Inventor projects we are working on in class! 

To learn more about the K-2 nurturing program, visit the BC AIG web site here. :-)