ASPECT: Children develop a sense of self.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN THE LEARNING: Developing recognition of self; co-construction their identities; experiencing growing self confidence, self respect, and ability to take initiative; growing in their capacity to express feelings, concerns and needs; pursuing interests, passions, and strengths; being curious and questioning.

ASPECT: Children develop a sense of other.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Supporting, encouraging, and listening to others; caring for others; experiencing trust and compassion with children and adults; learning constructive ways to negotiate a range of relationships.

ASPECT: Children develop a sense of place.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN THE LEARNING: Negotiating new spaces; identifying, creating, and using personal landmarks; becoming familiar with the sights, sounds, rhythms, and routines of new situations; generating a shared repertoire of narratives and memories; making connections between the centre, home, and broader communities.

ASPECT: Children build respectful and responsive relationships.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Developing cherished as well as casual friendships; forming close relationships with a range of adults; growing in their awareness that their actions contribute to the well-being of others; participating in group initiatives.

ASPECT: Children take responsibility for personal care.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Growing independence in self-care routines; learning about individual differences in self-care practices; helping others with personal care.

ASPECT: Children learn about food and nutrition.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Understanding the relationship between food and their bodies; building confidence to try new foods; exploring a range of cultural practices of eating and sharing food; making decisions about food consumption, preparation, serving, and clean-up routines.

ASPECT: Children explore body and movement.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Participating in a variety of physical activities indoors and out; learning about their body in space; increasing bodily awareness, control strength, agility, and large muscle coordination; increasing fine motor capacities; knowing and stretching physical limits; releasing and restoring energy in outdoor places.

ASPECT: Children develop dispositions for flexible and fluid thinking.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Seeing people, places, and things in new ways; expressing unique and imaginative ideas.

ASPECT: Children Invent symbols and develop systems of representation.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Making up their own words, marks, and movements; negotiating the meaning of symbols with others; developing awareness of the imagined and ordinary worlds they move between as they play.

ASPECT: Children create imaginary scenarios in which to explore new possibilities and take possession of their worlds.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Creating social space and shared narratives; creating alternative systems of power; coping with emotional pressure.

ASPECT: Children learn about the properties of objects.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Playfully exploring and investigating the properties of objects; experimenting with action and reactions, cause, and effect; creating patterns and relationships – sorting and matching, sizing, and ordering, sequencing, and grouping; developing a vocabulary to describe similarities and differences, patterns, and relationships.

ASPECT: Children test their limits.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Testing their powers of observation and sensory discrimination; testing strength, speed, agility, and control over movement.

ASPECT: Children learn to negotiate the complexities of joint undertakings.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Negotiating rules of time, space, and roles; making collective plans and decisions about the directions of play; developing a sense of fair play.

ASPECT: Children learn to employ creative approaches to identifying and working out practical problems.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Developing sustained, shared thinking; raising questions and making hypotheses about how and why things happen; choosing from a range of materials, tools, and languages to investigate, experiment, and make their thinking visible.

ASPECT: Children take pleasure in being on the edge.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Engaging in rough and tumble play; experiencing exhilarating physical release; playing at games of disrupting and restoring order.

ASPECT: Children take pleasure in sharing the joy of laughter.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Making nonsense; clowning and physical humour.

ASPECT: Children form relationships through communicative practices.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Recognizing and responding to human presence and touch; becoming attuned to rhyme, rhythm, pitch, tone, and vibrations; practicing and playing with sounds; initiating and responding to gestural and visual language.

ASPECT: Children learn conventions of their languages.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Growing in their understanding of languages conventions; growing in their understanding of vocabulary; developing confidence in using languages; growing in their understanding of how others use languages; experiencing and developing diverse linguistic repertoires.

ASPECT: Children extend ideas and take actions using language.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Using language to express thoughts, feelings, and ideas; using language to make friends, share information, argue, persuade, clarify, celebrate, instruct, or tell stories.

ASPECT: Children explore a variety of sign systems.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Becoming familiar with the sign systems of language, music, math, art, and drama; engaging in multiple forms of representation; transforming knowledge from one mode to another.

ASPECT: Children engage in multimodal meaning making.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Engaging with the symbols and practices of language (foregrounding the language, tools, and practices of print); engaging with the symbols and practices of music (foregrounding the language, tools, and practices of music); engaging with the symbols and practices of math (foregrounding the language, tools, and practices of math); engaging with the symbols and practices of art (foregrounding the language, tools, and practices of art); engaging with the symbols and practices of drama (foregrounding the language, tools, and practices of drama).

ASPECT: Children co-construct a range of literate identities.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Creating texts, reflective if family, local, and global literacies; learning various local literacy practices within a range of communities; learning the uniqueness and similarities of their family’s literacies and those of others.

ASPECT: Children engage critically in the literacy practices of popular culture.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Transporting and transforming the literacies of popular culture from home into the centre; exploring various identities and characters embedded in popular culture; growing in their capacity to ask critical questions about stereotypes represented in popular culture.

ASPECT: Children use the literacy tools of digital technologies.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Representing their experiences with technologies in everyday life; accessing and using digital technologies.

ASPECT: Children appreciate their own distinctiveness and that of others.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Learning about their cultural heritages and those of other families in the centre and broader society; becoming knowledgeable and confident in their various identities, including cultural, physical, racial, spiritual, linguistic, gender, social, and economic.

ASPECT: Children engage in practices that respect diversity.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Forming positive, inclusive relationships with all children; learning about differences, including cultural, racial, physical, gender, spiritual, linguistic, social, and economic; learning about and engaging with communities representative of New Brunswick society (First Nations, English and French, Established immigrant families, and new Canadians); learning about, and participating in, projects that help others – locally and globally.

ASPECT: Children raise questions and act to change inequitable practices that exclude or discriminate.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Recognizing and challenging inequitable practices and situations; negotiating equitable solutions to problems that arise from differences, including cultural, racial, spiritual, physical, linguistic, developmental, gender, social, and economic; standing up for themselves and others in a fair manner.

ASPECT: Children learn to be responsible and responsive members of the community.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Showing sympathy and empathy for others; giving help, comfort and encouragement, and valuing others’ contributions; respecting the materials, equipment and spaces shared with others.

ASPECT: Children practice democratic decision-making, making choices in matters that affect them.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Beginning to understand their rights and responsibilities, and those of others; voicing their preferences and opinions, and developing an awareness of others’ points of view; questioning, co-constructing, and reworking rules and procedures.

ASPECT: Children practice fairness and social justice.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Voicing and negotiating their understandings of fairness and unfairness; identifying issues and becoming socially active in their local communities.

ASPECT: Children develop a sense of wonder and appreciation for the natural world.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Bringing all their senses to exploring nature – plants, animals, people, landscapes, weather, and habitat; taking pleasure in natural beauty; connecting to and respecting the natural world.

ASPECT: Children learn to recognize and record patterns and relationships in nature.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Noticing regularity, repetition, and changes in nature; learning to systematically observe, name, and record natural phenomena; raising questions about changes, connections and causes and undertaking first-hand investigations.

ASPECT: Children develop a sense of appreciation for human creativity and innovation.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Bringing all their senses to exploring the constructed world; learning to appreciate beauty, creativity and innovation in art, architecture, and technologies; exploring the mechanical advantage of tools and machinery; designing and evaluating technological solutions.

ASPECT: Children learn about natural resource development and manufacturing.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Making connections between raw materials and finished products; developing an appreciation for the work of others; learning that different approaches to resource development and production have different impacts.

ASPECT: Children learn environmentally and socially responsible practices.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN LEARNING: Reducing consumption; reusing and recycling; participating in the care of plants and domestic animals, and stewardship of local plant, insect, and animal life; participating in local restoration and regeneration projects.