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Full Time Kindergarten

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Our program has been approved by the Ministry of Education to offer fulltime kindergarten beginning in the 2010-2011 learning year.

In SelfDesign we tend to do things differently, and thus we have been working to create a fulltime program for kindergartners that reflects our philosophy of the continuance of elements like play, exploration, and a nurturing family environment during a child's formative years. As a result, we are offering a unique program for you for 2010-2011, and we wanted to give you an idea of what it will be.

As a parent of a kindergarten-age child, you will be involved in two parts of the fulltime learning program:

1. Every two weeks you will write an Observing for Learning that focuses on your child's activities and how he or she is experiencing them, with your Learning Consultant (LC) responding with support and resources.

2. During the alternating weeks you will participate in an online workshop , "A SelfDesigning Path," created by River Meyer (our SDLC Family Liaison), that is an orientation to fundamental ideas about relationships that characterize the SelfDesign philosophy. The workshop has been created in short sections, easily done in your own time on your own schedule, one for every other week. It's not just text but also has rich imagery, video and audio clips, and journaling tasks that ask for your personal reflection.
The writing you do for the journaling tasks will be included instead of an O4L for that week, and your LC (who will also be doing the workshop) will converse with you regarding the entries.

Below are included 2 short samples from 2 sections of the SelfDesigning Path workshop....we hope they will pique your interest!

 

Samples from the SelfDesigning Path on-line workshop.