Mandy’s Curriculum Meeting Handouts:
3/3/16 Social Skills with our School Social Worker, Melissa Bowman
Helping your child build on their social skills
2/4/16: Reggio & Project Work at The Co-op School
What we teach and why we feel so strongly about project work.
- Follow an inquiry project of ours from start to finish to understand how we come up with projects, make sure they are viable, plan, meet benchmarks and standards and make them successful overall: Pre-Kindergarten Baby Inquiry Project Case Study
- Supporting article: Inspired by Reggio by NAEYC
- Supporting article: Supporting Project Based Learning by Edutopia
12/17/15: Making Reading/Writing Connections at Home
- Literacy at The Co-op School
- Literacy Newsletter
- Five Finger Test to see if a book is on your child’s reading level
- Comprehension Questions Parents Can Ask while reading with their children
- Wordless Books! with your children
1/7/16: Making Math Connections at Home
- Definition of Math Terms
- The Co-op School’s Mathematical “Grade Expectations”
- Developing a Growth Mindset
- Habits of Mind
- Ways to Support Mathematical Learning and Reasoning at Home
To download any documents stored as Google Docs, go to File → Downloads → (choose .txt, .pdf, .wordx, etc)
Book Bibliography For Families:
Here are some books that have inspired us and support the learning that is happening at The Co-op School:
TEACHING/LEARNING
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- Having of Wonderful Ideas, Eleanor Duckworth
- A Child’s Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play by Vivian Gussin Paley
- Mollie Is Three: Growing Up in School by Vivian Gussin Paley
- You Can’t Say You Can’t Play by Vivian Gussin Paley
- The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action by Cathryn Berger Kaye M.A.,
MATH
- What’s Math Got to Do with It?: How Teachers and Parents Can Transform Mathematics Learning and Inspire Success by Jo Boaler
- Math: Facing an American Phobia, Marilyn Burns
LITERACY
- Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever by Mem Fox
PROJECT WORK/SCIENCE/REGGIO EMILIA
- Bringing Reggio Emilia Home: An Innovative Approach to Early Childhood Education (Early Childhood Education Series) First Edition Edition by Louise Boyd Cadwell and Lella Gandini
- Engaging Children’s Minds: The Project Approach by Lilian G. Katz
- The Hundred Languages of Children, Carolyn Edwards, Leila Gandini, and George Forman
- Tinkerlab: A Hands-On Guide for Little Inventors by Rachelle Doorley
PARENTING
- Childhood Unbound: The Powerful New Parenting Approach That Gives Our 21st Century Kids the Authority, Love, and… By Dr. Ron Taffel Ph.D