Outcome Chart - Ontario - Kindergarten
Belonging and Contributing
Overall Expectations:
Communicate with others in a variety of ways, for a variety of purposes, and in a variety of contexts
Specific Expectations:
1.2 listen and respond to others, both verbally and non-verbally (e.g., using the arts, using signs, using gestures and body language), for a variety of purposes and in a variety of contexts
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Overall Expectations:
Identify and use social skills in play and other contexts
Specific Expectations:
3.1 act and talk with peers and adults by expressing and accepting positive messages
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Overall Expectations:
Demonstrate an ability to use problem-solving skills in a variety of contexts, including social contexts
Specific Expectations:
4.1 use a variety of strategies to solve problems, including problems arising in social situations
MediaSmarts Resources
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co's Adversmarts
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Internet Time Capsule
- Rules of the Game
Overall Expectations:
Demonstrate an understanding of the diversity among individuals and families and within schools and the wider community
Specific Expectations:
5.1 demonstrate respect and consideration for individual differences and alternative points of view
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Overall Expectations:
Communicate their thoughts and feelings, and their theories and ideas, through various art forms
Specific Expectations:
22.1 communicate their ideas about something (e.g., a book, the meaning of a word, an event or an experience, a mathematical pattern, a motion or movement) through music, drama, dance, and/or the visual arts
MediaSmarts Resources
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
Overall Expectations:
Demonstrate a sense of identity and a positive self-image
Specific Expectations:
25.2 identify and talk about their own interests and preferences
25.3 express their thoughts (e.g., about a science discovery, about something they have made) and share experiences (e.g., experiences at home, cultural experiences)
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Overall Expectations:
Recognize bias in ideas and develop the self-confidence to stand up for themselves and others against prejudice and discrimination
Specific Expectations:
27.1 develop strategies for standing up for themselves, and demonstrate the ability to apply behaviours that enhance their personal well-being, comfort, and self-acceptance and the well-being, comfort, and self-acceptance of others
27.2 think critically about fair/unfair and biased behaviour towards both themselves and others, and act with compassion and kindness
27.3 recognize discriminatory and inequitable practices and behaviours and respond appropriately
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Overall Expectations:
Demonstrate an awareness of themselves as dramatists, actors, dancers, artists, and musicians through engagement in the arts
Specific Expectations:
30.1 demonstrate an awareness of personal interests and a sense of accomplishment in drama and dance (e.g., contribute their own ideas to role playing; create their own actions to accompany a song or chant and/or follow actions created by a classmate); in music (e.g., contribute their own ideas to a class song); and in visual arts (e.g., create a sculpture from clay)
30.2 explore a variety of tools, materials, and processes of their own choice (e.g., blocks, puppets, flashlights, streamers, castanets, rhythm sticks, natural and recycled materials) to create drama, dance, music, and visual art forms in familiar and new ways
MediaSmarts Resources
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- Looking at Food Advertising
Self-Regulation and Well-Being
Overall Expectations:
Communicate with others in a variety of ways, for a variety of purposes, and in a variety of context
Specific Expectations:
1.3 use and interpret gestures, tone of voice, and other non-verbal means to communicate and respond (e.g., respond to non-verbal cues from the educator; vary tone of voice when dramatizing; name feelings and recognize how someone else might be feeling)
1.6 use language (verbal and non-verbal communication) to communicate their thinking, to reflect, and to solve problems
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Overall Expectations:
Demonstrate independence, self-regulation, and a willingness to take responsibility in learning and other endeavours
Specific Expectations:
2.4 demonstrate self-control (e.g., be aware of and label their own emotions; accept help to calm down; calm themselves down after being upset) and adapt behaviour to different contexts within the school environment (e.g., follow routines and rules in the classroom, gym, library, playground)
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Overall Expectations:
Identify and use social skills in play and other contexts
Specific Expectations:
3.1 act and talk with peers and adults by expressing and accepting positive messages (e.g., use an appropriate tone of voice and gestures; give compliments; give and accept constructive criticism)
3.3 demonstrate an awareness of ways of making and keeping friends (e.g., sharing, listening, talking, helping, entering into play or joining a group with guidance from the educators)
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Overall Expectations:
Demonstrate an awareness of their own health and well-being
Specific Expectations:
6.1 demonstrate an understanding of the effects of healthy, active living on the mind and body (e.g., choose a balance of active and quiet activities throughout the day; remember to have a snack; drink water when thirsty)
6.2 investigate the benefits of nutritious foods (e.g., nutritious snacks, healthy meals, foods from various cultures) and explore ways of ensuring healthy eating (e.g., choosing nutritious food for meals and snacks, avoiding foods to which they are allergic)
6.4 discuss what action to take when they feel unsafe or uncomfortable, in person or online, and when and how to seek assistance (e.g., acting in response to inappropriate touching; seeking assistance from an adult they know and trust, from 911, or from playground monitors; identifying substances that are harmful to the body; when online, knowing to stop and get help from a parent or trusted adult if they feel unsafe or uncomfortable)
MediaSmarts Resources
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co's Adversmarts
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- So Many Choices!
Demonstrating Literacy and Mathematics Behaviours
Overall Expectations:
Communicate with others in a variety of ways, for a variety of purposes, and in a variety of contexts
Specific Expectations:
1.2 listen and respond to others, both verbally and non-verbally (e.g., using the arts, using signs, using gestures and body language), for a variety of purposes (e.g., to exchange ideas, express feelings, offer opinions) and in a variety of contexts
1.3 use and interpret gestures, tone of voice, and other non-verbal means to communicate and respond
1.4 sustain interactions in different contexts (e.g., with materials, with other children, with adults)
1.5 use language (verbal and non-verbal communication) in various contexts to connect new experiences with what they already know
1.6 use language (verbal and non-verbal communication) to communicate their thinking, to reflect, and to solve problems
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Overall Expectations:
Demonstrate an understanding and critical awareness of media texts
Specific Expectations:
12.1 respond critically to animated works (e.g., cartoons in which animals talk, movies in which animals go to school)
12.2 communicate their ideas, verbally and non-verbally, about a variety of media materials
MediaSmarts Resources
- Break the Fake: What's in the Frame?
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Internet Time Capsule
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
Problem Solving and Innovating
Overall Expectations:
Communicate with others in a variety of ways, for a variety of purposes, and in a variety of contexts
Specific Expectations:
1.2 listen and respond to others, both verbally and non-verbally, for a variety of purposes and in a variety of contexts
1.4 sustain interactions in different contexts
1.5 use language (verbal and non-verbal communication) in various contexts to connect new experiences with what they already know
1.6 use language (verbal and non-verbal communication) to communicate their thinking, to reflect, and to solve problem
1.9 describe personal experiences, using vocabulary and details appropriate to the situation
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Overall Expectations:
Demonstrate an awareness of their own health and well-being
Specific Expectations:
6.1 demonstrate an understanding of the effects of healthy, active living on the mind and body
6.2 investigate the benefits of nutritious foods (e.g., nutritious snacks, healthy meals, foods from various cultures) and explore ways of ensuring healthy eating
6.4 discuss what action to take when they feel unsafe or uncomfortable, in person or online, and when and how to seek assistance (e.g., acting in response to inappropriate touching; seeking assistance from an adult they know and trust, from 911, or from playground monitors; identifying substances that are harmful to the body; when online, knowing to stop and get help from a parent or trusted adult if they feel unsafe or uncomfortable)
6.5 discuss and demonstrate in play what makes them happy and unhappy, and why
MediaSmarts Resources
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Co-Co's Adversmarts
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- Rules of the Game
- So Many Choices!
Overall Expectations:
Demonstrate literacy behaviours that enable beginning readers to make sense of a variety of texts
Specific Expectations:
9.1 use reading behaviours to make sense of familiar and unfamiliar texts in print
10.2 demonstrate an awareness that text can convey ideas or messages
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Overall Expectations:
Use the processes and skills of an inquiry stance (i.e., questioning, planning, predicting, observing, and communicating)
Specific Expectations:
13.1 state problems and pose questions in different contexts and for different reasons
13.4 communicate results and findings from individual and group investigations (e.g., explain and/or show how they made their structure; state simple conclusions from an experiment; record ideas using pictures, numbers, and labels)
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Overall Expectations:
Use technological problem-solving skills, on their own and with others, in the process of creating and designing (i.e., questioning, planning, constructing, analysing, redesigning, and communicating)
Specific Expectations:
24.1 identify practices that maximize safety and lessen the risk of injury, including the risk of concussion, for themselves and others, and demonstrate an understanding of the importance of these practices
24.2 state problems and pose questions as part of the process of creating and designing
24.3 make predictions and observations as part of the process of creating and designing
24.5 communicate and record results and findings either individually or in groups (e.g., explain and/or show how they made their structure; record ideas using pictures, words, numbers on labels, or in charts)