This week, we began a new initiative in Kindergarten…Documenters of the Day!
Every day, two children will practice their technology skills and design fluency, as well as their media and information literacy. The development of these skills are in keeping with our North Stars: We own our own learning, and We learn better together.
As it was Tu B’Shevat, we began by looking closely at a tree outside our classroom window (the weather has been a challenge) and implemented Project Zero‘s visible thinking routine in Hebrew:
אני רואה/רואה ,אני חושׁב/חושׁבת ,אני מדמיין/מדמיינת
(I see, I think, I wonder)
We practiced saying the words in Hebrew and then added observations, thoughts and imaginings such as:
the tree has no leaves….אני רואה
it will have buds that look like flowers in April… אני חושׁבת
if the tree is happier in the summer? … אני מדמיין
Part of the documenter of the day’s job to photograph the tree to record how it changes. Stay tuned for our results!
We also had an amazing program with our beloved Shinshinim Liam and Inbar. This week they guided us in a Tu B’Shevat play featuring many fruit and nut bearing trees in Israel.
I can’t way to see who will be your first “Documenter of the Day” and what they will choose to document! I love how you are connecting this initiative to our school’s “North Stars” and to the work being down with our DocuMentors. Could you share the program (and the skills) in a future blog post so other teachers (and schools) can learn from this prototype?
Can’t wait to see what comes next!
@Jon, thank you for your feedback. So far this initiative is a great success and students are now learning how to make time stamps using PicCollage. The post you are waiting for is already in the works…