New Brunswick - Explore Your World K to 2

Strand: Literacies and Communications

Big Idea: Literate Identities

Skill Descriptor:

Demonstrate being a reader, writer, and communicator in multiple languages.

Achievement Indicators:

Attempt to integrate new words into communicative opportunities with others.

Engage with a variety of media and/or text in multiple languages.

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Skill Descriptor:

Use digital technologies to learn and communicate.

Achievement Indicators:

Use technology to explore multiple languages

View or create imagery, artwork, and messages in multiple languages.

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Strand: Well-Being

Big Idea: Emotional Health and Positive Identities

Skill Descriptor:

Explore activities that foster enjoyment and well-being.

Achievement Indicators:

Play

Engage in child-led activities (e.g., games, make-believe, role-playing, building, etc.)

Explore curiosities

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Skill Descriptor:

Recognize that feelings and emotions can impact well-being, relationships, and the way we engage with others.

Achievement Indicators:

Identify emotions that can influence actions and reactions.

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Big Idea: Physical Health and Active Participation

Skill Descriptor:

Analyze personal safety and healthy practices.

Achievement Indicators:

Define personal safety

Discuss healthy practices

Identify safe spaces, people, and behaviours

Use strategies that contribute to a healthy lifestyle

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Skill Descriptor:

Apply behaviours and practices that promote safety.

Achievement Indicators:

Demonstrate safe behaviours and practices.

Use practices that contribute to a safe and caring environment.

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Strand: Play and Playfulness

Big Idea: Imagination and Creativity

Skill Descriptor:

Practice using flexible and fluid thinking in new and familiar situations.

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Skill Descriptor:

Examine new activities, interests, and possibilities.

Achievement Indicators:

Create games, activities, and multiple opportunities to interact with others and the environment.

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Big Idea: Exploration and problem solving

Skill Descriptor:

Negotiate, compromise, and work together

Achievement Indicators:

Demonstrate an increased willingness to reflect on alternate perspectives and conflicting points of views.

Use creativity and innovation in interactions, play, and problem solving.

Use conflict resolution strategies to work together and problem solve.

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Skill Descriptor:

Gather evidence to create and answer questions.

Achievement Indicators:

Investigate and collect information to create and answer questions.

Invent approaches to solving practical problems.

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Big Idea: Play and inquiry

Skill Descriptor:

Engage in activities that introduce elements of risk, novelty, and the unknown.

Achievement Indicators:

Participate in guided and free explorations to observe and answer questions around objects and activities that are new and familiar.

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Skill Descriptor:

Interact with others to share interest, enjoyments, or new information.

Achievement Indicators:

Ask questions of each other, tinker, wonder, and prompt new play

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Strand: Diversity and Social Responsibility

Big Idea: Inclusiveness and Equity

Skill Descriptor:

Act to change inequitable practices.

Achievement Indicators:

Explain what it means to be fair/unfair

Explore different perspectives of what it means to be fair

Demonstrate a willingness to promote fairness

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Big Idea: Democratic Practices

Skill Descriptor:

Act as responsible and responsive community members.

Achievement Indicators:

Demonstrate respect toward your community and your environment

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Skill Descriptor:

Participate in decision making processes.

Achievement Indicators:

Demonstrate an increased willingness to investigate and reflect when making a decision