Core Competency Self-Assessments

Hello again my wonderful families!

As we near the end of the school year, we are beginning to think about our time in kindergarten together and reflect on what we have done and ourselves as learners. I am going to need families’ help with an important step in our year-end reporting process!

We are required by the Ministry of Education to do a Self-Assessment on Core Competencies in our final term (you can find information about what they are here: https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/competencies). We don’t necessarily use core competency language with kindergarten students, but we do practice them all the time. You may recognize them from our term overviews.

They fall into three main categories:

Communication
Thinking
Personal and Social

I am asking families to speak with their child and ask them “What kind of learner are you?” We touched on this a little bit in our class meeting this week.

Are you a good communicator? Can you share your ideas to your friends? Can you work well and share ideas when you play and explore? Are you a good listener? (Communication)
Are you a good thinker? Can you ask good questions and explore different things? Can you think creatively and come up with new ideas? (Thinking)
Are you a kind and confident friend? Can you notice your feelings and work to calm your body when needed? Do you like to help others? (Personal and Social)

I have a list of books that we have read in class already that you can read with your child again to help prompt them to talk about these different skills. You can choose to read one book that fits with the theme they choose, or you can read all of them! Rereading familiar books is always fun.

Once they have read the book, have them reflect on the main character – what kind of person is the character? Are they creative, kind, clever, curious? What do you do that is similar to that character?

Record a short video of them talking about themselves and what kind of learner they think they are. Have them reflect on what they do at school or at home that shows it! Upload your video to their Fresh Grade page so that I can see it.

Thank you for your help and support!

-Ms.Osiris

Here is our book list by topic:

Collaboration – Knit Together (available through a video I uploaded to Fresh Grade)
Thinking – Rosie Revere, Engineer and Ada Twist, Scientist (available on Epic!)
Personal and Social – Red, A Crayon’s Story and Super Manny Stands Up (available on YouTube here https://youtu.be/R8Z3GunXOz4 and here https://youtu.be/_pH9dIur4Ps)

There is a great bonus book for Personal and Social that I found, although we haven’t read it before! If you want, you can check out The Buddy Bench on Epic!)