Pamela Lo

Some Friday fun from JKA - making ice cream!🍦We wrote out the recipe and measured our ingredients carefully before shaking and freezing our jars of ice cream. #yorklearns #onlinelearning

You know you're teaching kindergarten when your JKs beg to play virtual hide and seek 🤔 Amused and grateful that this student led game continues to be endlessly entertaining for them!

Happy April Fool's from these tricksters in JK! Our April fool's jokes seem to have a common theme.. 🤪 #yorklearns

Exploring “Intersection Allies” @intersectallies by amazing POC authors led to insightful student-led discussions in our JK class. In light of the Black Lives Matter movement and anti-Asian hate crimes, these conversations about allyship and action are so important. @dottirpress

The question of “What’s an ally?” came up in our JK class last week. Here are some thoughts our Ss had about what an ally is, and how we can be an ally ourselves. We noticed there's a difference between just being kind, and sticking up for someone else. #yorklearns #pypchat

@barbreidart Thank you SO much for your inspiration - we loved doing an author study on your books, and watching you explain how to push, pull, and add details to our work with plasticine!! 🙌🏼🤗

Art +science+hands on learning =WOW! #STEM❤️🌱🎨🙌

Continuing our inquiry into animal habitats: These JK scientists explored books about their chosen animal on @epic4kids and recorded their research. Ss used their newfound knowledge to create their animal and its habitat in the style of @barbreidart's illustrations! 🎨#yorklearns

JK is diving into our How The World Works #inquiry into animal habitats and adaptations. Ss explored an art-based provocation today - what do we know about the animals we've chosen? Student research, discussion, and exploration to come. #yorklearns #pypchat #earlyyears

Sharing my doodled takeaways and reflections from a powerful, insightful and emotional PD session with @mskikeojo & @KojoInstitute Kike, thank you for being you, and leaving me with more hope and clarity as we continue to do the work. #yorklearns

I have a message for all the little girls and boys out there who dream of growing up to be superheroes: Superheroes walk among us. They’re teachers, doctors, scientists, vaccine researchers—and you can grow up to be like them too.

Too relatable. Also, the question most asked by my JKs online is, "can I show you my stuffy?"

Here’s what I’ve learned from virtual classroom day 2: if we all had the patience and understanding of a kindergarten teacher, the world would be a much better place

Navigating online learning in a play-based #kindergarten programme has been interesting, to say the least. Along with structured literacy and numeracy blocks, we explored synchronous, independent Learning Areas this morning to great success! #yorklearns #pypchat #remotelearning

What a fun virtual author visit from the fantastic @Ruth_Ohi! 📖 Thank you for sharing your creative process and how you come up with new ideas for your stories. ✏️ Our students loved meeting a "real author" from Toronto! #yorklearns

The beginnings of our How We Express Ourselves inquiry unit on Imagination. Discussing thr question "What do you see in your imagination?", JK Ss are beginning to explore how we use our imagination to form ideas that shape the stories we create. #ibpyp #yorklearns #inquiry

Our morning sign-in: "Do you like being happy or being kind?" JK minds asking the real questions. #yorklearns

@Ms_kHansen @jmedved We're just getting started with Sorting! Here they're collaborating on how to sort with loose parts - colour, shape, size...

@_pamelalo @jmedved So cool! What are your Ss exploring?

Kindergarten is loving our new document cameras - thanks, @jmedved! Students are sharing different observations of loose parts as we begin discussing sorting. Love that all Ss can see the learning too! #yorklearns

Very proud to be a member of the @theyorkschool staff right now. The R.E.D.I committee (Race,Equity,Diversity,Inclusion) update this morning was incredible. I am really excited to action all of their thoughtful suggestions #yorklearns

Starting young ❤️ looking forward to lots of Kindergarten conversations this September about the importance of wearing a mask!